Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day agoWe did two things first:
First we made a (simple) machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level (scythe).
Second we made a (complex) machine that is self-propelling.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m gonna guess there was an intermediate step where we put mechanical scythes on horses or something
oatscoop@midwest.social 17 hours ago
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Of course, yes, there was. But it was extremely brief in the grand scheme of things.
farm-equipment.com/…/4269-timeline-of-ag-equipmen…
1830’s the first mechanical (horse drawn) harvester comes out, and by the 1860’s steam powered tractors were being introduced.