A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk
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Ah- there was an eccentric on the back and you had different- different sieves for wheat or, ah, rye or oats or- and you put them in there and, ah, they- this took all the weeds out of, ah, the, ah- the, ah, grain. Then of course they got the big threshing mill and they cleaned the grain and, ah, first they were steam power, then they were diesel and, ah, then today we have the combine. They cut the grain and thresh it and, ah, bag it and- all in one process. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Speaker: We'd have the s-- we'd have the threshing mill and all the straw and then they unchaffed it out in there. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But, ah, we didn't- the- the place above- above the cattle for the- for the mow. But now the hay, somebody called them- I forget what you called them. Lofts. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Interviewer: When you- when you grew the oats, what ah- what- after- after you'd cut it, what would you do? Speaker: Well, it went into stooks and then we had to get a threshing mill and thresh it. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Stooped them 'til they dried out well, and then we u-- they usually drew them in, stored them in the barn 'til the threshing mill came. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Tell me, ah, how the threshing mill worked and what happened there. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
Interviewer: Mm-hm. Tell me, ah, how the threshing mill worked and what happened there. Speaker: Well, the threshing mill, it took about ah, fifteen, twelve-fifteen, we usually had quite a few men, sometimes seventeen or eighteen, because Dad neighboured with quite a few other farmers around, and he didn't want to be scarce of help. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
, then there was feeding the mill the sheaves, and ah, carrying the grain to the granary. And I think that covers most of them. [0:20:35.1 ] Interviewer: Mm-hm. What, ah, what ah mode of power ran the um- Speaker: It was a steam engine we had most of the time, while we had the threshing mill. It was heated wood and um put in the engine and then the water warmed or boiled and the steam ran the engine. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Some of the crew would be special. Speaker: Look after- Yes. Usually the man, whoever owned the threshing mill, had the two. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Ploughing-Match in Lanark County in um, two-thousand-and-three about five miles across country from here and we had sixteen live tractors over there. Fifteen of them would be what you'd call collectors and the other one was for a demonstration they wanted one. And we took a threshing-mill over which my dad custom threshed for about forty years. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Well, all the antique machinery was in motion, like it was working and Kevin had a- a nineteen-fourteen threshing mill that ah he had bought at ah ... Up at Calebogie, on the other road. |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
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Speaker: And then, ah, in September you had the threshing mill. That was the best life of us. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Mommy made, ah, pies and cakes and- 'cause we all- like all these people came when we were threshing the- Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: The grain, eh? |
A power-driven machine for separating grain or other seed from the straw or husk |
