Trashing Machine

[gibbo]

Charles Pratt and his header. Not sure what date the pic was taken but the patient for it was 1903

Title
Application for registration of patent by Charles Pacey Pratt titled - Improvements in thrashing machines
Contents date range 1903 - 1903

 

[DaveHam9]

The person in the seat is the counterbalance. Don't think the ladder is part of the patent. :2fun:

 

[davelambert271]

So you climb up the ladder with your bag. Pick some apples until the weight swings the ladder down for you to put the apples into the wagon. As the apples go in your weight reduces allowing the ladder to return to the upright position so you can pick some more apples. No? ah well........

dave

 

[gibbo]

:2fun::2fun::2fun: I just noticed i titled it with trashing instead of thrashing Thats twice today i made a error with a title

 

[DaveHam9]

Three strikes and off you go to you know where... :2fun:

 

[gibbo]

Three strikes and off you go to you know where... :2fun:

:2fun::2fun: Havent been in there for a bit neither.

 

[Guy]

I think the header cuts the ears or heads off the standing corn the heads are then pulled down the conveyer into the winnower which separates the corn from the chaff.
Cheers
Guy

 

[leefer]

Great picture,is it your photo Gibbo because i am sure a local museum would be interested in a copy of it....local to wherre he lived that is.

 

[gibbo]

Hi Guy,
Im not sure about corn, i know alot in the family grew wheat tho some might have farmed other produce at some stage. Maybe it worked the same way with wheat


Lee it isnt my photo i just printed it off:biggrin: my aunt and a couple of others have put a book together on the Pratt family and had it printed, i had a glance through the copy mum has and its interesting reading and quiet a few family pics in it as well, my aunt is going to send me a copy of it.

 

[Guy]

Yes here in the UK we often use corn as a generic term for cereal corps rather than simple maize.
Cheers
Guy

 

[gibbo]

Yes here in the UK we often use corn as a generic term for cereal corps rather than simple maize.
Cheers
Guy

Well there you go i learnt something today about the corn been a generic term for cereal crops in the UK:biggrin: Wonder if anyone over here uses the term like the UK does To me corn is corn and wheat is wheat etc:2fun::2fun: Thanks Guy.

 

[leefer]

Yes here in the UK we often use corn as a generic term for cereal corps rather than simple maize.
Cheers
Guy

Or indeed cereal crops:biggrin:

 

[Guy]

Or indeed cereal crops:biggrin:

Indeed redf) :biggrin:
Cheers
Guy

 

[leefer]

Thought it could have been a new regiment Guy...the Cereal Corps with Captain Barley and Sargeant Wheat