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3

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3

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General Description

Wood and metal thesher parts with some leather straps and fibre rope

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Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Crop handling

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Manufacturer

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MACDONALD MACPHERSON

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Stratford

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1869-1927

Canada

Macdonald MacPherson & Co. was formed in Stratford, Ontario between 1869 and 1875. The "Standard" thresher was its first product; beginning in 1884, it began production of the "Decker," a thresher with improved grain-separation technology. By the 1890s the company was known as the Macdonald Manufacturing Company and was also producing horse powers. In 1905, it began manufacturing steam traction engines under licence and by 1905 steam traction engines, also known as "Deckers."

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Technical

Wheeled threshing machines were first introduced in the 1860s. Replacing stationary ground threshers, they further mechanized grain harvesting and increased the amount of grain a farmer could process in a day. The Macdonald MacPherson "Standard" thresher is an apron-style thresher, which were common before vibrating decks were adopted in the 1880s. The "Standard" also features a straw stacker, an adjustable conveyor that deposited the waste straw in a pile at the machine's rear. The "Standard" was replaced by the "Decker" in 1885, which replaced canvas aprons with vibrating wood decks to improve grain and straw separation. Threshers of all-wood construction, such as this one were replaced in the early 20th century with threshers of all-steel construction; through the mid-20th century, wheeled threshers were replaced by combine harvesters, which merged reaping and threshing operations in one self-propelled machine.

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