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View from WSW showing open horse mill
SC 648814
Description View from WSW showing open horse mill
Date 1965
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 648814
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Remains of horse engine, Gartrenich, Stirling The threshing machine was invented in 1787 by Andrew Meikle, and was quickly taken up by farmers throughout Scotland. Wind, water and horse power were all used to drive these machines. Early horse engines were wooden, and built in houses. Later ones, made of iron, were often in the open. This shows the engine looking along the arm to which a tractor was latterly attached, to drive round and thus power the threshing mill and an oat bruiser in the barn out of site to the left. The drive shaft runs under the stone slabs to the left. In 1965 this engine was still occasionally used. The threshing machine was of the early type, without integral fanners to remove chaff. A separate hand-driven machine performed this function. The steading was abandoned soon after this photograph was taken. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/65/9/15
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/648814
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