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The harvest is safely gathered in – comfortably A steam driven threshing machine (right) - all cogs and driving belts, was a common sight in our fields in the 1940’s, and will invoke memories in our older readers of reaping and binding and stacking of stooks prior to the business of threshing.As our this picture shows, it took at least five farm workers to gather in the grain. Compare all this with this modern giant above, with its 8.3 litre fuel efficient engine which reaps, threshes, chops the straw and spreads the chaff evenly over the stubble, all controlled by one operator sitting in a spacious and comfortable cab. This article originally appeared in the November 1999 issue of Now & Then Magazine |