Detail of drive engine and cooling-water tank used to power fixed barn threshing machine See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 5

Description Detail of drive engine and cooling-water tank used to power fixed barn threshing machine See MS/744/102/1, 2, 3, item 5

Date 17/8/1995

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number C 61104

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 738274

Scope and Content Drive engine and cooling water tank, Shinness Steading, Highland Shinness Steading was built on the huge Sutherland estate which, by 1873, comprised almost 1.3m acres, more than 90% of the county. Shinness was originally a sheep farm, but between 1872 and 1877, the land was drained to create four new arable farms and in 1882 new buildings were erected at Shinness itself. This is a detail of the drive engine and cooling water tank used to power the fixed barn threshing machine. The drive engine is a single-cylinder, diesel-powered, water-cooled, hand-started, vertical type made by R A Lister & Co Ltd of Dursley, England. The motor and cooling tank are mounted in the corner of the ground-floor level of the threshing barn, in line with the threshing machine above. The engine drum pulley was 0.27m in diameter and 0.13m wide. The engine operated at a speed of 518rpm (revs per minute). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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