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<blockquote data-quote="MattR" data-source="post: 7739889" data-attributes="member: 19950"><p>Just out of interest really -</p><p></p><p>A recent conversation got me wondering about how much labour was involved harvest/threshing etc pre-mechanisation. I've heard a man could cut around an acre a day with a scythe, is that about right? If so this was obviously only the start - I'm guessing some of the other jobs (binding sheaves, threshing etc) were probably even more time-consuming.</p><p></p><p>Is the following an accurate list of the work involved in a pre-industrial harvest, and if so is anyone able to put a figure on how many man-hours, per ton or acre or whatever, each step would have taken?</p><p></p><p>Reaping (scythe)</p><p>Binding sheaves</p><p>Shocking</p><p>Pitching/loading/carting sheaves</p><p>Building ricks</p><p>Threshing (by flail)</p><p>Winnowing etc</p><p></p><p>Then say in the early c20th, with binders and threshing machines, I guess it would have been (?):</p><p></p><p>Cutting with binder</p><p>Shocking</p><p>Loading/carting sheaves</p><p>Building ricks</p><p>Threshing (machine- team of how many, 8 ish?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MattR, post: 7739889, member: 19950"] Just out of interest really - A recent conversation got me wondering about how much labour was involved harvest/threshing etc pre-mechanisation. I've heard a man could cut around an acre a day with a scythe, is that about right? If so this was obviously only the start - I'm guessing some of the other jobs (binding sheaves, threshing etc) were probably even more time-consuming. Is the following an accurate list of the work involved in a pre-industrial harvest, and if so is anyone able to put a figure on how many man-hours, per ton or acre or whatever, each step would have taken? Reaping (scythe) Binding sheaves Shocking Pitching/loading/carting sheaves Building ricks Threshing (by flail) Winnowing etc Then say in the early c20th, with binders and threshing machines, I guess it would have been (?): Cutting with binder Shocking Loading/carting sheaves Building ricks Threshing (machine- team of how many, 8 ish?) [/QUOTE]
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