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A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that separates grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.
Magdalena Smith Villaruz (born 1934) is an entrepreneur and inventor from the Philippines.Originally a rice farmer, [1] she went on to help agricultural technology by creating the turtle hand tractor and other inventions.
An addition that can be built to make a thresher more efficient is to make it pedal-powered. This adds two more parts: A seat for the pedalling operator; Pedals that are attached to the crank with a chain and sprocket. The pedal-powered thresher developed by the Maya Pedal Project provides a good example of a built-in pedal system to a thresher ...
IH McCormick 141 self-propelled Harvester-Thresher c. 1954–57, shown in thresher mode, with harvester dismounted For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff ...
An animal-powered thresher. Threshing or thrashing is the process of loosening the edible part of grain (or other crop) from the straw to which it is attached. It is the step in grain preparation after reaping. Threshing does not remove the bran from the grain. [1]
Thresher may refer to: Threshing machine (or thresher), a device that first separates the head of a stalk of grain from the straw, and then further separates the kernel from the rest of the head: Pedal powered thresher, a low-tech threshing machine that is operated using pedals. Thresher shark, a type of shark with a distinctly scythe-shaped tail
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Dhenki, Dhiki, Dhinki (Nepali: ढिकी; pronounced), dheki or dhenki (Bangla: ঢেঁকি, Assamese: ঢেঁকী, Hindi: ढेंकि) is an old style rice mill or husk lever [1] found in Nepal, Bangladesh and Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Odisha. [2] [3] It is usually made of hard wood. It has a fulcrum supporting a ...