Roadside Revelations

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November 2004
Scott Garvey 
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This thresher is a Hart-Cooper. It's owned by a local automotive and agricultural museum. The museum used the thresher for revenue by renting it out as a backdrop for an advertisement. No one from the museum has come by to pull it home yet.

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Parked just on the edge of Horest Schmidt's acreage near Moosomin, Saskatchewan, another example of these solid, old machines exist. Horest purchased the old Case thresher at an auction near his home. This machine is in remarkably good condition. It's just one of several antique farm machines this collector has acquired over the years. Although threshing machines are harder to come by as time passes, they continue to show up at farm auctions on occasion.

This past June, a McCormick-Deering threshing machine - complete with a full set of drive belts - was auctioned near Wawota, Saskatchewan. The thresher was also in remarkably good condition, but even the most intact of these machines has a limited market today. This one only sold for $42.

The quality of North American workmanship in the early 20th century is apparent in each and every threshing machine that still remains in remarkably good condition today. It's important that when threshers are found alongside roads and pastures that they are saved and restored for posterity, not left by the wayside for cheap billboard supports or left to rust and rot.

Hopefully, collectors and enthusiasts will continue to search out and care for these old relics of the threshing days. With good care, these machines will still be around for many more generations to participate in local fairs and old-iron shows, showing new and old generations alike what farm life was like at the turn of the century.

- Contact antique farm equipment collector Scott Garvey at P.O. Box 452, Moosomin, SAS, Canada S0G 3N0.



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