CUSTOM THRESHING CREW OF STONE COUNTY, MISSOURI - CIRCA 1900

The picture below shows Charles Henry Michel (great-grandfather of Pat Moyer ) and his threshing crew. According to Pat, "This is how it was explained to me. The threshing machine was used for threshing wheat,oats,barley and clover seed. The grain was cut with a mower, loaded into wagons & carried to the location of the thresher, it was then pitched into the thresher. Looking at the thresher you will see what looks like a tube coming back over the thresher, this is the tube through which the grain was discharged from the storage bin into the wagon to be hauled to the grain storage bin back at the barn. The thresher was moved from one field to another by a large steam engine. My Great Uncle said my GGrandfather was single at the time & traveled doing custom work for other people & a lot of
times they let him sleep in their barn at night. They would also feed him. Charles was the son of George & Anna Michel."