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Irish songwriter John Duggan [6] immortalised the threshing machine in the song "The Old Thrashing Mill". [7] The song has been recorded by Foster and Allen and Brendan Shine . On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction (Rounder Select, 2000), there is a bawdy Irish folk song called "The Thrashing Machine" sung by tinker Annie O'Neil, as ...
In 1890, the Case Company expanded to South America, opening a factory in Argentina. In 1891, the company's founder died. By this time the Case company produced portable steam engines to power the threshing machines, and later went into the steam traction engine business. By the start of the 20th century, Case was the most prolific North ...
In 1801 a Joseph Burrell was found to be advertising "Chaff Engines, Drill Rolls and Drill Machines", items of agricultural equipment, from his foundry on Kings Street Thetford. By 1805 Joseph had joined with his two brothers James and William and were advertising Threshing Machines for sale. In 1817 Charles Burrell was born.
The drive belt: used to transfer power from a portable engine to a threshing machine. These engines were used extensively in rural North America to aid in threshing, in which the owner/operator of a threshing machine or threshing rig would travel from farmstead to farmstead threshing grain. Oats were a common item to be threshed, but wheat and ...
The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works ...
~Fishkill Landing Machine Co. Frick & Co. Gaar Scott & Co. Geiser Manufacturing, makers of the Peerless line of steam tractors, later bought out by Emerson-Brantingham ~George W. Morris ~George Page & Co. George White & Sons Co. Ltd., London and Brandon, Canada. Greyhound, Banting Mfg. Co. Groton, Charles Perrige & Co. ~Hagerstown Steam Engine ...
Richard Hornsby & Sons grew into a major manufacturer of agricultural machinery at their Spittle Gate Works. [citation needed] The firm went on to produce steam engines used to drive threshing machines, and other equipment such as traction engines: their portable steam engine was one of their most important products and the market leader.
Twin City tractors were built by the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company until 1929 when it merged with the Moline Implement Company of Illinois and the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company of Hopkins, Minnesota. Twin City tractors were dark gray in color, and had a logo much like the "TC" that the Minnesota Twins baseball club uses.