threshing oats near Lime Springs IA 653A7054
I've posted photos of the oats harvest here in Howard County in the past couple weeks and here's the culmination of that process - threshing time. From right to left: a gasoline engine that turns a big belt that powers the threshing machine; the oats bundles being unloaded from a horse-drawn wagon that brought them in from the field where they'd been stored in the shocks; the big gray threshing machine that sorts the grain from the chaff; the oats is going into the wood wagon mostly hidden behind the threshing machine; the long gray tube carrying the chaff to a stationary baling machine that makes small square bales; the bales being loaded up on wagons and ready to be carried back to the barn. My Grandpa Reis threshed oats this same way only three miles away and I helped to throw bundles off the wagon and into the threshing machine just like you see here but a half-century ago so this was life as I knew it growing up. Grandpa farmed with tractors rather than horses starting in the 1940s though.
threshing oats near Lime Springs IA 653A7054
I've posted photos of the oats harvest here in Howard County in the past couple weeks and here's the culmination of that process - threshing time. From right to left: a gasoline engine that turns a big belt that powers the threshing machine; the oats bundles being unloaded from a horse-drawn wagon that brought them in from the field where they'd been stored in the shocks; the big gray threshing machine that sorts the grain from the chaff; the oats is going into the wood wagon mostly hidden behind the threshing machine; the long gray tube carrying the chaff to a stationary baling machine that makes small square bales; the bales being loaded up on wagons and ready to be carried back to the barn. My Grandpa Reis threshed oats this same way only three miles away and I helped to throw bundles off the wagon and into the threshing machine just like you see here but a half-century ago so this was life as I knew it growing up. Grandpa farmed with tractors rather than horses starting in the 1940s though.