For 80-plus years, from 1870 until the last production threshing machine by a major farm equipment rolled off the line in 1956 or so, harvesting was done like this.

MANKATO -- After pitching oats into a restored 1936 John Deere thresher in the muggy heat, Doug Hager climbed down from the hay wagon and wiped away the sweat running from under his cap. "This is ...

Threshing was always a much-anticipated and exciting time for everyone, but eventually threshing machines were replaced with combines. My dad's last year of threshing was 1953. We still have the M.

The money, which will be combined with matching funds of $72,697, will be used to clean, stabilize, and conserve a threshing machine that was used by […] Skip to content. All Sections.