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Massey Sawyer Threshing
Machine
This restored Massey Sawyer Threshing machine,
or separator, is in quite good condition and is stored out of the
rain. Our long term plans include a farm style shed building to
protect all the machinery on the site but for now we need to make
our choices.
As with the steam baler the thresher is a stationary
machine run by a steam engine. Teams and wagons would bring the
grain sheaves to the thresher and it would be fed by hand. Coming
out the grain would be bagged and loaded onto another wagon for
movement to storage.
The thresher operates by a whole series of shaking
tables that first separate the grain from the grain stem and leaves.
Then successive shaking tables slowly elimate the finer chaf. Most
of these threshing machines were also set up with two grain spouts.
The one would take off the larger sized kernels, a higher grade
of feed or wheat, and after smaller chaf was removed there would
be a spout for the smaller sized kernels.
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