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[John Hall]

That thresher makes for a fine looking yard ornament! Neat that its a 
family machine as well. Too bad its not running, you could try your hand 
at threshing canola with it!  The large pulley close to waist high in 
the photo is very similar to one we sawed off of a junk Nichols and 
Shepard to replace one that had gotten broken on dads. Dad's machine was 
headed in from the last batch to thresh and the hitch pin broke, slipped 
out or something. Anyway the machine rolled backwards into a road ditch 
and laid over on its side. The owner never fixed it and bought a combine 
the next year. Believe it or not no sheet metal was damaged but one 
large pulley was broken and an adjustment bracket was broken. We welded 
the bracket up and the guy we bought the thresher from let us rob the 
pulley off the junk machine.

John Hall

On 12/11/2016 3:08 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> I have both my grandfather's threshers here still. A Nichols and 
> Shepherd Red River Special
> and a Huber. Neither of them have ever seen the inside of a shed in my 
> lifetime, or probably
> since new. The wood is rough on some parts but that galvanized steel 
> just lasts forever.
> I doubt I'll ever use them but I'll never send them for scrap iron 
> either.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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