Photo: Grandfather-in-law, Franz Strumberger standing inside his threshing machine c.1932 in Selci, Dakowacki.
means threshing machine. North American farmers use
'combines' which pick up the mowed -- or standing grain
as they drive through the fields. The self-propelled
combines remove the grain kernels, wheat, barley, oats,
canola, beans, clover and flax and leave the straw as
they drive through the fields. The straw is later baled
and used as bedding for livestock and sometimes fodder
The threshing machines were heavy iron machines
that were stationary during threshing. They had to be
pulled either by horses or tractor to move to a
different location (the next farmer's Treplatz =
Anne Dreer (ex-farmer)
On the occasion of the
completion of the threshing work the workers went singing through
the village pulling their threshing machine decorated with flowers.
There was no special harvest festival. The cold midday meal in the
vineyard tasted excellent. The effect of the many grapes and cider
first comes later. Instead of the former stomping on the grapes
(Treten (Trippeln), today these are ground and pressed.
~ Dr. Viktor Pratscher, Translated
by Brad Schwebler
Thresher / Drescher – Owner of a
by Nehlich Walter
Threshing Machine Photo,
Taken in Knees, Banat by Rudy Jobba
Threshing Machine - Obresch,
Threshing Party in
Threshing in Kruschevlje-Kruschiwl Yugoslavia with Bauer (Farmer ) Matthias Hutflus and his workers.
~ Joseph Hutflus