Thrashing-time near Sardis, Ohio – The Thrashing Rig
The John Deer Tractor owned
by Dale Riggenbach in the left foreground was the source of power for the
thrashing machine. The long belt
delivered the power from a belt-drive on the side of the tractor to the
thrasher. The location of the rig
relative to the barn suggests that the sheaves of grain that were being
thrashed may have been stored in the barn and fed to the thrasher from inside
the barn. A tubular spout (likely an
auger) to the left of the men at the left side of the picture delivered the
thrashed grain where it was bagged. The
larger tubular spout running from the end of the thrasher, up and to the left
into a window in the barn, blew the straw from the process into the barn.
This photo taken were taken at the Homer Jones farm on Calico Ridge, Jackson Twp. Summer 1952
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