I am looking for plans to build a threshing machine. Can anyone help? I want to build it to 1/3 original scale

Answer 1

I assume you are talking about the huge iron wheeled threshing machines that were commonly used in the harvesting of grain as late as the early 1940's. In northwestern Ohio, my grandfather had his grain harvested by a "team of threshers", who brought their threshing machine to his farm as late as 1939. As a kid, my grandfather took me to see an operating threshing machine at a steam powered tractor show in Montpelier, Ohio in the late 1950's. I will never forget the beast. It was powered using a wide leather belt running from an iron flywheel (state of the art PTO of the time) on the side of a steam powered tractor to another smaller "flywheel" on the threshing machine. I distinctly remember my grandfather explaining the difficulty of setting the two machines up so that the belt would true and not slip off of the wheels. Enough of the trip down memory lane.

A Yahoo search for "threshing machine plans" (include the quotation marks in the Yahoo search box) turns up 4 results. None of them produces a source of actual plans, and all refer to others looking for the same thing. A Yahoo search for "threshing machines" yields 63,700 results. I looked at the first two pages of results, and nothing jumped out at me. You could do the same search explore for yourself. You may very well turn up the information you seek.

Good luck with your project.

Answer 2

Despite the hype as well as being indisposed of traveling at the speed of life within the speed of time at light speed,one if observant will realize that time can actually be changed in several observable ways.Time can be slowed,quickened,bent,and removed.You may be interested in a machine that will keep you young and healthy for 150 years long before you will need a replacement organ or brain failure.Yes this IS possible with the linear Optic conjugate mirror technological features of time reversal phenomena that is open for research today.Look for it and you will be the ones to present it.My hand just points the way.If you really want to witness the misery our ancestors whose life expectancy was 25-35yrs then it to can be done,biologically,and observationally,but not with the tools presently at hand.Yes you can be 25 at 90 and for some reason the early Dr.Andre Priore' experiments were mostly effective on female animals.That was in the 1970's.

Answer 3

Try a magazine called IRON AGE from Stiegel Publishing in Lancaster county in PA. They have many published articles on things of our past.