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Creation Date
1905
Description
The combined reaper and thresher, also known as a combine harvester, is drawn by twenty horses over a wheat field in order to harvest the crops and isolate the grain seeds inside, a task that previously required two separate pieces of equipment. The machine’s movement cuts down the wheat with the reaper’s sickles then moves it to the thresher’s cylinder to beat the seeds out of the grain. Typically, wheat bundles require time to dry out before hulls of grain can be removed, but the dry climate during harvest season in the state of Washington causes the wheat to immediately ready for threshing, even before it is cut down.
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Keywords
reaper, thresher, combined reaper and thresher, combine, wheat, farming, wheat harvest, harvest
