Threshing Day

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Uploaded by on Dec 15, 2007

Acton Scott Working Farm Museum held its annual threshing day on 27 October 2007. This film shows 'farm workers' on the top of a hay cart forking sheaves of corn onto a Marshall Threshing Box. This threshing box was built by Marshall & Sons Ltd of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England in 1941. It was one of a batch of 1000 ordered by the War Agriculture Committee and was restored at Acton Scott during 1987/88.
The machine separates grain from chaff and straw. It is powered by a flat-belt drive from a Fowler steam engine hired for the purpose. Such engines were a common sight in England in the 1940's and early 1950's, one of the more common applications being their use as road rollers.

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