This McCormick Deering Thresher was produced between 1923 and 1947, and was used to make farming much easier than previously. A lot of people were put out of work due to machines like this, but you can't stop progress! You are looking for a small magnetic holder. The Thresher is on private property, but the owners have given us permission to place it on this awesome piece of machinery from our history.
The container is a small magnetic key holder, somewhere on this large piece of machinery, bring a pencil. Alberta was built on farming and agriculture. Once upon a time, horses, oxen and even people would pull plows to dig up the hard earth to plant food for themselves and the animals they relied on to help them. Once the grain had ripened, barring wildfires, hail, killing winds and insects, gangs of men would go out into the fields with long, sharp, heavy scythes and cut the grain by hand, women and children would then bind and stack the grain to dry, once the grain had dried, it ws then transported to a barn and stacked nearby to be threshed. Threshing is the process of loosening the edible part of the grain from the scaly, inedible chaff that surrounds it. Threshing may be done by beating the grain with a flail on a threshing floor or by letting hroses or oxen walk in circles on the grain on a hard surface. Hand threshing was hard work with a bushel of grain taking about an hour to produce. After threshing the grain then had to be winnowed which separates the grain from the chaff, winnowing could be as simple as tossing the grain into the air and catching it again, letting the wind blow the chaff away. Industrialization made farming much, much easier, the plowing was done by mechanized plows, during harvest time, a tractor would drag the thresher through the fields, combining the threshing and the winnowing in one step, allowing farmers the time to produce much, much more grain to help feed not only their immediate families, but also to help feed hungry people all over the world.