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- Port Huron Steam Traction Engine, "Longfellow," 1916 - The late 19th to early 20th centuries saw huge steam engines like this used for threshing grain. They could move over the roads under their own power. Individual farmers generally did not own such machines. Rather, men made a business of moving from farm to farm, threshing grain during harvest time. Joseph Freund of Westphalia, Michigan, bought this machine in 1917 and used it to power a Port Huron "Rusher" thresher-separator in Clinton and Ionia Counties, Michigan.
- December 22, 1916
- Collections - Artifact
Port Huron Steam Traction Engine, "Longfellow," 1916
The late 19th to early 20th centuries saw huge steam engines like this used for threshing grain. They could move over the roads under their own power. Individual farmers generally did not own such machines. Rather, men made a business of moving from farm to farm, threshing grain during harvest time. Joseph Freund of Westphalia, Michigan, bought this machine in 1917 and used it to power a Port Huron "Rusher" thresher-separator in Clinton and Ionia Counties, Michigan.
- Porcupine Thresher, circa 1820 - This conical "porcupine" thresher beat the grain with the blunt wooden pegs as it was pulled around in a circle on a barn's threshing floor. The small end of the thresher was attached to a pivot, and the horse pulled the large end. It was used by Dutch and German farmers in the Mohawk Valley west of Albany, New York.
- circa 1820
- Collections - Artifact
Porcupine Thresher, circa 1820
This conical "porcupine" thresher beat the grain with the blunt wooden pegs as it was pulled around in a circle on a barn's threshing floor. The small end of the thresher was attached to a pivot, and the horse pulled the large end. It was used by Dutch and German farmers in the Mohawk Valley west of Albany, New York.
- Flail, circa 1850 - Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.
- circa 1850
- Collections - Artifact
Flail, circa 1850
Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.
- "The Great Minneapolis Line: The Whole Season without a Hitch," 1917 -
- 1917
- Collections - Artifact
"The Great Minneapolis Line: The Whole Season without a Hitch," 1917
- "Case Machinery," 1918 -
- 1918
- Collections - Artifact
"Case Machinery," 1918
- Reprint of "Case Threshing Machinery," 1915 -
- 1915
- Collections - Artifact
Reprint of "Case Threshing Machinery," 1915
- Flail -
- Collections - Artifact
Flail
- "The Great Minneapolis Line," 1915 -
- 1915
- Collections - Artifact
"The Great Minneapolis Line," 1915
- Flail, circa 1850 - Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.
- circa 1850
- Collections - Artifact
Flail, circa 1850
Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.
- Flail, circa 1860 - Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.
- circa 1860
- Collections - Artifact
Flail, circa 1860
Farmers have used flails to thresh grain for thousands of years. This heavy, wooden club attached with a leather thong to a long handle was swung repeatedly against the harvested grain. This action separated the grains from the stalk. By the mid-1800s, innovative Americans began to patent mechanized threshing machines which replaced this laborious task.