[Gristmillers] A 'horse' power.

[Jeff Smith]

The steam show at Kinzer's, PA has an awesome video called "Harvest" that I bought a few years ago and it shows harvesting from about the 1950's back to cutting by hand.  They have a 4 horse machine and a single horse power to thresh with, and they also make a bail of hay with a hay press that is a cable pulled with a horse.  I took our small children there to see the stuff operate in 2004 and liked it so well we went back again in 2005 and still would if they would not have changed the dates for the schools to start to try an avoid the hurricanes.

Jeff Smith

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Ken Christison <christison at coastalnet.com> wrote:

> From: Ken Christison <christison at coastalnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gristmillers] Wanted---A 'horse' power.
> To: gristmillers at gristmillers.com
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 9:34 AM
> For those unfamiliar with horse powers, here is a section
> from Wendel's Encyclopedia
> of American Farm Implements and Antiques.  This is from
> Google books
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dJlJAM_hJD0C&pg=PA277&dq=wendel+horse+powers#PPA278,M1
> 
> This book is an invaluable source for anyone even slightly
> interested in old farm machinery.
> My copy is falling apart from heavy use.  Perhaps the newer
> version has sturdier bindings;-)
> 
> Take care.
> 
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