Scar Steading: Detail of grain bruiser. Digital image of D 3374
SC 738813
Description Scar Steading: Detail of grain bruiser. Digital image of D 3374
Date 10/8/1996
Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey
Catalogue Number SC 738813
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of D 3374
Scope and Content Detail of grain bruiser, Scar Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands Scar is a coastal farm on the island of Sanday in Orkney. Large, commercially productive farms like this were created in Orkney after agricultural improvement had swept away old methods of subsistence farming. Although Graemeshall on Mainland Orkney was being improved in the 1820s, these improvements did not reach this part of Orkney until the mid-19th century, rather later than the rest of Scotland. This shows the grain bruiser in the threshing barn where there was also a fixed barn threshing machine and a vertical, two-cylinder diesel engine made by Listers of Dursley, England. The grain bruiser has a cast iron frame and a feed hopper made of sheet metal. The timber mountings for the old millstones also remain. In 1782-3 the crops failed on Sanday which could have meant starvation for many. John Traill, who factored his brother's estate on Sanday, imported corn, meal and pease from Leith which he supplied to the islanders at cost. He even gave grain on credit to those who could not pay until the crisis was over. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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