Horse-Drawn & Self-Powered Threshing Machines
Bert Aikman>UIS Collection A's>UIS Collection, Segment 1
- FARM EQUIPMENT
- Threshing machine would come by in late August & thresh shocks of wheat. Roy & Frank Baker ran threshing crew. Then Bert went in with neighbors to buy threshing machine (formed a co-op). Discusses horse & steam-powered threshing machine. Discusses existence of threshing crew territories & later organization of co-ops. Describes importance of maintenance of threshing machine & separator. First steam-engine Bert saw was hauled by 4 horses. Notes Sullivan brothers bought a self-powered thresher - "Wasn't that something!"
