Steam powered threshing

We went to the Acton Scott historic working farm, just outside Church Stretton.

The event of the day was threshing the wheat which they had grown this year. The equipment consisted of a threshing engine from the 1940s and baler, both powered by a steam engine. The sheaves of wheat were put into the top of the threshing engine which separated the grain from the chaff and straw. This was common practice on farms until the combine harvester arrived.