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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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
A pair of articulated 4 wheel drives were produced as the A4T 1400 and A4T 1600, both available in LP or Diesel versions. Unique to these tractors was the fact they were developed and brought to production in about 8 months time. They were also found wearing Oliver colors carrying 2455 and 2655 respevtively with the same options.
Harvesting, threshing and curing broomcorn has to be done in small batches, and that takes people, not machines, to do. Those people often were migrant workers who would harvest broomcorn in Mexico.
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.
~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 ...