Back in Time - Threshing
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| close up of an abandoned threshing machine |
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| abandoned threshing machine |
Many of you may not know the purpose of this large machine, but it was the predecessor of the modern combine. The crew who worked with the thresher was large, and it was a dusty/dirty physical job.
Mom told me that Dad travelled for a couple of years with a threshing crew before they were married.
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| an old family photo of a thresher at work. separating the grain from the straw |
Interesting
ReplyDeleteMy brother in law and sister had a very large farm, and they had an old thresher! wow! Thank you for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteFarming is still hard, dirty, physical work, but it ain't nothing like what it was "back in the day".
ReplyDeleteOur family had a dairy herd. There was ALWAYS something to do that involved muck, mud, or worse. Thankfully, that was just summertime work for me. My parents lived in the suburbs in the winter. I literally got farmed out in the summertime to help my grandparents and uncle.
There is a big annual Threshing event held in Madison SD every summer, using the old antique machinery and techniques. It draws a really big crowd. It's held at the historic Prairie Village. So interesting to see that huge machinery and the crews working.
ReplyDeleteDirty and tiring work! I love seeing the pictures of old equipment.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I recall the noise it made coming down our driveway and the dust and noises of that day! My Mom cooked lots of food too!
ReplyDeleteAmazing glimpse of the past. My grands used to travel to pick fruit in central NY in the 1930's--there were lots of hard work required but they didn't look down on hard work like people do today...
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing. What a piece of history that is. I just treated myself to the set of Little House books that I loved so much as a kid. What they had to do to survive makes what we are going through now look like a picnic. I need a dose of that to put and end my Covid pity party.
ReplyDeleteI remember the saying in our family was that Grandma cooked like a threshing crew was coming whenever just a few of us visited! She was an amazing cook and taught me a lot. I always enjoyed her stories of cooking on the farm for the big crews of (mostly) men and how much they ate. Those were the days of real, true neighborliness. I think it's still there in rural areas where people still help each other out. Thanks for the reminder of these memories.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
Having never been around a farm I can't say that I've ever seen a threshing machine. I'm glad we have farmers who feed America.
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