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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017610
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017610
This open platform, one of two such horse-gangs in Conisby township and characteristic of many small farms throughout Scotland, was complete with drive mechanism and threshing-mill in working condition at the date of survey in 1980. It stands adjacent to a small barn at the lower (SE) end of a linear range comprising house and steading. Part of the dwelling is covered with rush thatch bedded on heather divots, but the barn itself is roofed with corrugated iron. This horse-powered equipment was introduced in 1910, superseding the traditional practice of threshing with flails. The platform measures 30 ft (9.14m) in diameter overall; the underground drive-shaft, hub, gearing and harness-bar (swing-tree) are of all-iron construction, and the spur-wheel measures 3 ft 6 in (1.07m) in diameter.
Information from ‘Monuments of Industry: An Illustrated Historical Record’, (1986).
