These pieces of old farm machinery are in the car park of a pub in rural Kent, UK. One of them was made by Weeks & Sons in Maidstone. The area was historically important for fruit and hop growing, but I wondered if anyone could recognise what they might have been used for?
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I asked my husband who grew up on a farm. He looked at the pics and the first one is an old cultivator. Second, some of it is missing but he thought it was part of a belt powered piece of equipment, where the wide wheel was for the belt and the smaller wheel moved whatever was being powered, such as a water pump or a thrasher used for grain. The last picture is of a piece of equipment called a gleaner, used for removing the hulls of the grain.
The top part makes me think it was used for some kind of sorting.
This farm equipment forum in the UK may be able to help:
thefarmingforum.co.uk/
Does the pub own the parking lot?
Do they own this equipment?
If so, have you asked anyone if they have information about the pieces or where they originally came from?
Do you have any local museums that have antique/vintage farming equipment?
You could also try some of the older farm/feed stores or even some of the local farm equipment repair shops.
I feel sure there are local farmers who will know something about one or more of these pieces.
There is a great community on reddit:
r/FarmEquipment - Reddit for all types of new or used farm related tolls and equipment
Maybe they can help you
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