Steinauer, Nebraska
Western Nebraska steam enthusiasts turned out in force for the
fourth annual old-fashioned threshing bee on the Leonard Woznick
farm near here.
An oat field on Mr. Woznick’s farm was turned into an arena
for two ancient separators and old-time steam engines to thresh the
Perched on top of one of the separators was Granville Hardley,
80, of Pollock, Mo., who ran the threshing rig 50 years ago.
Taking a stint at pitching bundles into the separator was Dave
Martin of Kearney, Republican candidate for Fourth District
Congressman. He got in a few licks before the Aultman-Taylor rig
broke down.
Mr. Martin spelled George Burton of Bayard in the hayrack.
Mr. Woznick has a 1916 Wood Brothers steam engine. Doug Reetz of
Potter, threshing bee president, has a rare ‘return flue’
New Huber.
‘This old machinery is really unpredictable,’ commented
Mr. Reetz after the 1875 Aultman-Taylor and the New Huber had to be
sidelined.
Cecil Rodgers of Northport owns the threshing machine. Floyd
Woznick, secretary of the Threshing Bee Association, said nearly a
thousand attended.
Twenty pre-1930 automobiles were on hand.
