Scar Steading; View of threshing machine. Digital image of D 3371 CN

Description Scar Steading; View of threshing machine. Digital image of D 3371 CN

Date 10/8/1996

Collection Scottish Farm Buildings Survey

Catalogue Number SC 738883

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 3371 CN

Scope and Content Threshing machine, Scar Farm, Sanday, Orkney Islands Scar is a coastal farm on the island of Sanday in Orkney. Large, commercially productive farms such as this were created after agricultural improvement swept away old methods of subsistence farming. Improvement began in Orkney in the mid-19th century and Scar was one of the farms that led the movement locally. This shows the threshing machine, housed in the threshing barn. It is a high-speed machine made by Crightons of Turriff in the 1950s. It has been painted pink and edged in red and has a bucket elevator which takes the grain to the grain dresser in the roof space above. The first successful threshing mill in Scotland was patented in 1786 by Andrew Meikle. By 1823 there were two on the island of Sanday. 50 years later, James Scarth, a factor and prominent agricultural improver, had installed a fixed steam engine for threshing at Scar. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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