Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 455
straw from the thrasher serves as fuel for the engine, whichis made witli a fire-box expressly designed as a straw-lnirner. This use of engines in harvest-ing, where farming is done on a large scale, the ground level and affording good footing forthe engine-wheels under the influence of a steadily… … Fig. 52.—Thrashing, cleaning, and separating harvester. Headers are sometimes employed in fields of small size in localities where straw is notvaluable for sale. No binding mechanism is used in this mode of harvesting. The Buck-eye harvester, for example, is adapted for use either as a header or…
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