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<blockquote data-quote="Tonym" data-source="post: 7288963" data-attributes="member: 394"><p>Both my father and uncle used to go around contract threashing before, during and after the 2nd World War. They had two Foster threashing boxes one with a Class low density baler and one with a Lorant which was a French copy of the Claas. They used Massey Harris tractors, a 201 and a 203 with winches which came over on lease lend during the war. The tractors were identical except one had a Chrysler 6cyl. engine and the other a Continental both running on TVO..</p><p></p><p>I remember as a young child going with my father to the local railway station to pick up a self feeder for one of the threashers. Up until then the man that fed the sheaves of corn stood over a hole with the drum spinning below. The self feeders had a rotating canvas that fed the drum and stopped the feeder falling in!</p><p></p><p>My other uncle used to work for Massey Harris and after the war went round the country building up the first Massey Harris 21 combines that came over from Canada in crates. He then rebuild a combime that had been in a fire and started contracting with it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>d</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonym, post: 7288963, member: 394"] Both my father and uncle used to go around contract threashing before, during and after the 2nd World War. They had two Foster threashing boxes one with a Class low density baler and one with a Lorant which was a French copy of the Claas. They used Massey Harris tractors, a 201 and a 203 with winches which came over on lease lend during the war. The tractors were identical except one had a Chrysler 6cyl. engine and the other a Continental both running on TVO.. I remember as a young child going with my father to the local railway station to pick up a self feeder for one of the threashers. Up until then the man that fed the sheaves of corn stood over a hole with the drum spinning below. The self feeders had a rotating canvas that fed the drum and stopped the feeder falling in! My other uncle used to work for Massey Harris and after the war went round the country building up the first Massey Harris 21 combines that came over from Canada in crates. He then rebuild a combime that had been in a fire and started contracting with it. d [/QUOTE]
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