A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk
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it took forever to p-- it seems to plough a field of fourteen or fifteen acres. And w-- when you ah- hear the little hummingbird. And when you ah harvested the crop, it was cut with a binder and it was put in stooks in the field and you had a threshing machine. Then you put the s-- sheaves on the wagon and you haul 'em into the barn and- and then you had a big threshing-bee and the neighbours came and you threshed the grain |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
| Example | Meaning |
Um, everything was fixed, made do, he had the oldest working binder that I ever knew. He had a neig-- Well, the neighbour had a threshing machine that worked as good as any I ever saw before or since and they still used it until I was probably sixteen, seventeen years old? They were still using it. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
Um, yeah, I've had the threshing machine, I worked the threshing machine, throwing the sheaves. Worked- did all the farm work, same as he did, worked, helped him ploughed and-so-on, all summer long. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
| Example | Meaning |
All the neighbourhood men there for lunch and she'd have to put on this big spread for lunch and, of course, um, she always had to have pies and the men raved about her pies and her- her cooking, but, ah, yeah, it was- it- the one farmer had the threshing machine and he would bring it over and then all the other farmers would come with their wagons and- and- tractors and- and we'd go out to the fields and throw on all the stooks of grain and bring them back and throw them into the threshing. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
| Example | Meaning |
No, it- no, it run the thresh machine. There's a pulley on it and you attach that to the pulley on the threshing machine and pulley on that and you attach the- the belt, the big long, it's a hundred foot belt so it would be like fifty, sixty feet away from the thresh machine |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
There's a pulley on it and you attach that to the pulley on the threshing machine and pulley on that and you attach the- the belt, the big long, it's a hundred foot belt so it would be like fifty, sixty feet away from the thresh machine |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
| Example | Meaning |
And this- and this- it was the steam. Into threshing machine and this ran the threshing machine. Speaker 13: It went around all the farms. They went- they had threshing- threshing beams that all the farmers around the- local farmers all cam |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
