I found this the other day while exploring a rural property we recently purchased. The area is in the Lee River/Lac Du Bonnet municipality in Manitoba, Canada. We were told by the former owner that part of the property at one time was used for farming. They had not explored much of the 10 acres over the years so I knew there may be things left in the forest by the original homesteaders. I have absolutely no knowledge with farm equipment, past or present.
It's a large machine and the photo that shows the dark metal "forks" is only part of that piece of the machine. These forks are on a long piece of metal, at least 3 feet in length and laid flat on frame of some sort. It is hard to really provide anything more specific as the machine is sunk into the ground quite a bit and is covered in leafs, dirt and branches. I didn't have the amount of time I wished to really investigate this find as there had been reports of bears roaming and I had gone into the bush unprepared should I encounter any wildlife. Any help would be much appreciated.
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It looks like a sort of threshing machine. One photo shows the triangle-shaped cutting "teeth" that would obviously cut down the plants. Another photo shows the threshing part, that would beat down the plants to the ground after the teeth cut the stems/stalks. It is quite old, seeing those large all metal wheels. It would have been pulled by draught animals or a tractor, with another person sitting in the seat to control the machine.
This is called a binder. It cut a standing crop and tied it in small bundles
The operator drove the horses, usually four or five, and made adjustments as needed.
On the right side the bundles fell into a cradle made of metal times. The operator would trip the cradle and the bundles would slide off. Generally three or four. Most binder tables were seven to eight feet .
It is a binder. Used to cut grain and tie it into bundles, which were piled into shocks to dry. Then gathered and hauled by wagon to a Threshing machine.
I see three types of antique machinery , of what I can tell, it looks like a Hay cutter/cultivator, tractor and grader. Most of this looks like a tractor pieces with machinery attachments.
I see the chain, pullies, and cutting blades from the pictures you have supplied for us. There is also a seat where the person sat to run the machine. These types of old machines were used to turn the soil and cultivate the land before planting. The chain that you see in one of them would rotate the blades so that it would dig deep into the soil and turn the land and clean the land so the farmer could plant his crops during spring.
It looks like a combine that would have been used to harvest wheat, oats and small grain.
Your pictures are good but it would have been nice to see a picture of the complete machine; maybe standing several feet away as it is difficult to get a grasp of the machine when we only see 'pieces'.
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