Binder by Earl Misanchuk

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25-SEP-2004	© Earl Misanchuk, M4 Multimedia

Binder

Before combine harvesters became widespread in the middle of the last century,
machines called binders were used to cut and gather grain into sheaves.
The sheaves were then stacked by hand into stooks to allow them to dry before threshing.

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Olympus E-10
1/320s f/4.8 at 22.0mm iso80 hide exif

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Date/Time	25-Sep-2004 14:41:23
Make	Olympus
Model	E-10
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Focal Length	22 mm
Exposure Time	1/320 sec
Aperture	f/4.8
ISO Equivalent	80
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Earl Misanchuk		12-Jan-2012 17:33
Thanx for your comments, RC. Sheaves were actually more commonly called bundles around here as well, but the teepee-like stacks we called stooks, and what you describe as shocking we called stooking. Like you, we called it a threshing machine. Please see http://www.pbase.com/m4/image/128850613 and others before and after it for examples of threshing.

RC		12-Jan-2012 17:02
We called the 'sheaves' bundles, and 'shocked' the bundles into tepee-like stacks to pick up with team and hayrack to take to the 'threshing machine' (which was called a 'separator' in other areas of the country). I still have the remnants of an old binder and a threshing machine out back. R

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