General Information

Serial #

368168

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

STEEL WHEELS; WOODEN FRAME & BODY; WOODEN AXLES; TIN COVERS & STRAW PIPE; CAST IRON PULLEYS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

430.0 cm

Width

200.0 cm

Height

265.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Crop handling

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

FORANO

Country

Canada

State/Province

Québec

City

Plessisville

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Quebec

Period

1937-55

Canada

This thresher was used on a small farm in Cantley, Quebec, north of Ottawa, between 1937 and 1955. The La Fonderie de Plessisville was incorporated in 1882 and changed its name in 1941 to Forano Ltee, and in 1978 to Forano, Inc. The company was dissolved in 1987. http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?ID=321

Function

Threshers separate or "thresh" grain from the head. They also separate grain kernels from the straw and chaff, cleaning the grain. Threshers were first developed in Europe in the late 18th century and mechanized the separation of grain, which was previously done by hand with tools such as flails. The first threshing machines were stationary: powered by hand or treadmill, they increased the amount of grain a farmer could separate in a day. Wheeled threshing machines began to replace stationary threshers in the 1860s and further mechanized grain harvesting. Threshers were initially built of wood and powered by horse-powered windlasses; they were later built of steel and powered by steam traction engines and gas tractors. Threshers were in turn replaced through the twentieth century by combine harvesters, which merged harvesting and threshing operations in one machine.

Technical

This thresher bears serial # 368168. It is a small thresher of wooden construction, made well after most firms had switched to building metal threshing machines.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

PATENT INFORMATION PRESSED INTO WOOD - BOTH SIDES & PAINTED BLACK

Missing

SOME BELTS From CA of 07/22/1997 by Tony Missio: Undetermined

Finish

PAINTEDCHIPPED & FADED (WAS DARK RED); SOME EVIDENCE OF WHITE PAINT

Decoration

N/A