Combine harvester
A combine harvester, also called a combine, is a machine that harvests crops. Its name comes from doing three separate parts of harvesting crops at once:
- reaping: cutting and collecting crops when they are ready for harvesting,
- threshing: separating the parts of a crop that can be eaten by people from the parts that can't.
- winnowing: removing the already separated parts of the crop that can't be eaten by people, the chaff, while keeping the part that can be eaten, the grain.
Far fewer people work in farming as a result of the combine harvester.[1]
Combine Harvester Media
Harvesting oats with a Sampo Rosenlew SR2050 harvester
Combine by LELY, production year 1970, its later trade name was Lely-Dechentreiter
Case harvester, 20+ mule team
Case IH Axial-Flow combine
A New Holland TX68 with grain platform attached
A John Deere Titan series combine unloading corn
We were hearing a sound like a plane and couldn't figure out where the plane was. Finally one of us spotted a yellow plane flying in the area of the grain elevator!
A Massey Ferguson combine fitted with the hillside leveling option
Straw walkers as used in a coventional threshing system, in a Claas Matador Gigant
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References
- ↑ Constable, George; Somerville, Bob (2003). A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed Our Lives, Chapter 7, Agricultural Mechanization. Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press. ISBN 0-309-08908-5.