[rurallife] Re: A little puzzle from New Zealand
- From: "Pete Andrews" <latok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rurallife@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:44:12 -0000
Hi Chris
Hope the holiday is going well.
As to the machine, Youtube has the answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRkSViKhUw
It's an American Keck and Gonnerman Thresher from the late 1940s.
cheers
Pete
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From: "shepheard" <shepheard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:39 AM
To: <rurallife@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [rurallife] A little puzzle from New Zealand
Dear all,
Anybody got any idea what this is?
Yesterday we visited a sheep station on Lake Wakitipu called Warren
Peak opposite Queenstown.
Now as far as I can tell it's always been a sheep station but sat on
the beach alongside the steamer wharf is this machine. It appears to be
a threshing drum but...
Why would you need a threshing drum on a sheep station? The maker's
transfer is very faded but I could see that it was made in America.
Strangely it has an all galvanised sheet metal body and some very large
pipework which is not normal for a threshing drum.
I have more photographs which may help when we get back but in the
meantime can anybody confirm the machine's use?
We've also found a museum of sock machines! There are over 50 vintage
machines in the collection plus they actually make new ones - I think we
will be alright if we need spares (or even instructions) for ours.
Today we visited the Lakes District Museum at Arrowtown and found
within a Codd bottle filler similar to ours - only the second I've seen.
Also there they spell the word "waggon" with two "g"s like we do. I
tried to find out if it was a local spelling to Southland but they
weren't able to tell me though they did admit that, like us, they had
visitors telling them they'd made spelling mistakes in their
interpretation!
See you all soon,
Chris
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