Posted by The Dukester on July 31, 2016 at 10:29:44 from (204.106.241.43):
In Reply to: Old Thrashing Machine posted by john athey on July 31, 2016 at 08:16:29:
Yeah, there used to be a Birdsall clover huller in our family. Grand-dad was a custom operator of harvesting machinery in the 1900-1950 era, having a Avery thresher, Rosenthal corn husker, Rumely silo filler, Birdsall clover huller, and a Frick portable sawmill. Through the years he used a Model F Rumely, a 24 Horsepower Port Huron steam traction engine and a 30-60 Rumely Model S for power to run these various machines.. In my younger years I worked with all these outfits until they became obsolete. Clover hulling (threshing) was a dirty job, usually it was the second cutting of various legumes that was cut with a sickle mower/windrower then hand bunched and left a couple to five days to dry in the field then brought to the huller on flat rack wagons and hulled. If you got over 5 bushels of clean clover or alfalfa seed off 10 acres it was considered worthwhile to do this back in those days.
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