Threshing Around
Mar 4, 2014 21:59:31 #
Looking more like some medieval war-wagon than a farm implement off a Kansas prairie, this old threshing machine surely seen its share of action. This is a 1937 Case thresher that was used around the St Paul, Kansas area for many years threshing wheat, oats, barley and flax. It was finally replaced by the more practical combine. This relic of yesterday can be seen on display at The Osage Mission-Neosho County Museum located in St. Paul, Kansas.
This is a 3 shot tone-mapped HDR image. The sky was replaced by the original -2ev sky then processed with a high pass filter in GIMP.
btw...I really don't know anything about medieval war-wagons...just sayin'!
© KD Shots 2014
This is a 3 shot tone-mapped HDR image. The sky was replaced by the original -2ev sky then processed with a high pass filter in GIMP.
btw...I really don't know anything about medieval war-wagons...just sayin'!
© KD Shots 2014
Mar 4, 2014 22:22:49 #
Mar 4, 2014 22:47:20 #
James56 wrote:
Wonderful old relic, love what you did with it...great PP.
Thanks James, its always fun taking pictures of these old machines.
Mar 5, 2014 00:17:55 #
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Mar 5, 2014 12:13:59 #
planepics wrote:
Looks like a mechanical dog :)
it does...them some weird looking things for sure.
Mar 5, 2014 16:29:45 #
wrr wrote:
Looking more like some medieval war-wagon than a f... (show quote)
Good effort. Intriguing. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Mar 9, 2014 09:15:00 #
Wow. Brings back memories. My grandparents lived in Oklahoma and in 1959 I spent a whole summer with them. I was thirteen. Spending a summer with them did not mean lazing around and doing nothing all summer long. When there was work to be done, everyone in the family had to help.
They raised Spanish peanuts. When the peanuts were ready to harvest, they were turned out with a potato plow to dry (the peanut grows under the ground), they were then raked into piles around the field. The thresher was move close to a cluster of piles and men took pitch forks and threw the peanut vines into the receiving end of the thresher. We had to hold burlap bags under the discharge chute till they filled up. Then someone took heavy string and a sack needle (large curved needle) and sewed the top shut.
Hard work, but great memories. When meal time came, nobody whined that they didn't like the food. They ate like ravenous wolves and at night you didn't sit up all night playing video games. Of course there were none of those back then. For many families, not even a TV set. And believe me, your sleep was sweet.
Almost forgot. Great pic!
They raised Spanish peanuts. When the peanuts were ready to harvest, they were turned out with a potato plow to dry (the peanut grows under the ground), they were then raked into piles around the field. The thresher was move close to a cluster of piles and men took pitch forks and threw the peanut vines into the receiving end of the thresher. We had to hold burlap bags under the discharge chute till they filled up. Then someone took heavy string and a sack needle (large curved needle) and sewed the top shut.
Hard work, but great memories. When meal time came, nobody whined that they didn't like the food. They ate like ravenous wolves and at night you didn't sit up all night playing video games. Of course there were none of those back then. For many families, not even a TV set. And believe me, your sleep was sweet.
Almost forgot. Great pic!
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