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Porcupine Thresher, circa 1820
Unknown1795/1840
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
This conical "porcupine" thresher beat the grain with the blunt wooden pegs as it was pulled around in a circle on a barn's threshing floor. The small end of the thresher was attached to a pivot, and the horse pulled the large end. It was used by Dutch and German farmers in the Mohawk Valley west of Albany, New York.
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- Title: Porcupine Thresher, circa 1820
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: 1795/1840
- Location: United States, New York, Mohawk Valley
- Subject Keywords: Harvesting, Farming, Threshing machines
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=144404
- Object Name: Threshing machine
- Object ID: 00.3.16419
- Image ID: THF95492
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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