Title

Threshing Rig

Creation Date

1890 – 1900

Description

THRESHING RIG: 16 horse power Advance Traction engine and a 32" cylinder "Minnesota Chief' grain threshernote absence of power and feeder attachment. This outfit was owned by Emil, Herman and Carl Peterson [aka "Korpaas"] August and Emil Ternquist, Ole Salquist and Peder Engebretson6 Swedes and 1 Norwegian. This partnership may have been organized in the early 1880's starting with a horse seep as power, replaced later by a "Little Giant" return flue chain drive steam traction engine, but the Little Giant could not develop enough power to pull the Minnesota Chief from place to place, so it was replaced by the 16 HP Advance shown on, photo. Later a self feeder was added, the work done by Emil Peterson, who must have a skilled carpenter, as the feeder required considerable mortising to fit it securely to the thresher. Later a swinging Straw stacker was added which could raise and lower and swung in either direction to get the straw away from the machine, and replaced two or more "straw bosses". It rode on four wheels behind the "Minnesota Chief' and it was dubbed "Kjaringa" because wherever the Minnesota Chief went, the stacker would tag along behind. Emil Peterson was the "separator man" and  general manager, Peder Engebretson the engineer. In 1903 or 1904, the rig waš sold to Frank Rosengren, who got rid of the stacker and replaced it with a blower, but found that the 16 HP Advance did not have enough power for all this extra equipment, so he traded the 16 HP Advance for a 22 HP traction engine. The crew left to right: [1l Tankman, Herman Peterson, [2] Carl Swenson, [3] Edwin [Svante] Anderson, [4] Ernest Frantzick, [5] Nils Nilson. On Machine: [1] Fred Larson, [2] Carl Bengtson, [31 Alfred Ternquist [Band Cutter], [4] Ole Kasperson Loo, [5] not known, [6] Albert Larson, [7] Mendes [Elmerl Ternquist, 8] Ellis Bjorklund, [9] Emil L. Peterson, General Manager, machine tender and feeder, [10] Walter Carlson, Fireman, fll] Peder Engebretson. Note alligator wrench. This piece of equipment was also known as "Slang Skjafta". It appears that all of the crew was not present, as without the straw carrier, and self feeder a crew of 15 to 18 men would be required to keep the threshing outfit above pictured, going full blast, and this does not include the grain haulers which were supplied by the farmer.