This weekend at Howell Farm is the Fall Festival, at which wheat threshing is always one of the main attractions. Today all the farmers are getting ready, including checking over the equipment.
Farmer Rob showed me a worn canvas ban that was replaced on the wheat thresher. By the looks of it, the band has seen a lot of revolutions in its day.
At different times, the wheat thresher will be powered by two nineteenth-century forms of power: animal power and steam. The draft horses will pull a mechanical gear, which powers a flywheel. And a steam engine will burn coal to produce steam, turning its own flywheel.
Farmer Rob showed me a worn canvas ban that was replaced on the wheat thresher. By the looks of it, the band has seen a lot of revolutions in its day.
At different times, the wheat thresher will be powered by two nineteenth-century forms of power: animal power and steam. The draft horses will pull a mechanical gear, which powers a flywheel. And a steam engine will burn coal to produce steam, turning its own flywheel.
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