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Horse Power 001.jpg Ok i got my picture to post. The system didn't like the type file a tif file. As too what we were talking about how you would thresh in 1866. Here are two horse pwers with threshing machines. Since the farmer in my story was a rich man I bet he had the latest equipment or severa...

The Lawyers are probably lining up to get in on all the money that is going to be changing hands.

I'm researching some families of Navarro co from 1850 forward. While at the County Clerks office looking for deeds. I came across an Agreement and Contract with the name I was searching for from 1871. It ended up not being the same lady I was searching for there names were the same. As I read the do...

I don't know I follow those directions and I get my file into the box under the message box but can't get it into message box. I tried to drag file into message box doesn't work either.

Hello Chuck I've been wondering where you were hiding.

Would someone in simple terms tell this stupid old man how to post pictures?

Beautiful! Wm. Pepper a new name for me. There must have been thousands of local manufactures!

Thanks Terry. Never had heard of threshing stones. This family in the diary were quite wealthy it seems. There were threshers at that time I have a book that shows them. One says it was from a catalog of 1852. Your people did a lot with the limestone.

Wow! That's neat. I'm reading a ladies diary written from 1856 to 1874. I'm to 1866 and she wrote about them harvesting wheat and then thrashing it. I'm thinking they used a horse power to drive the thrasher. My feed grinder or chopper is belt driven.

I use an air powered cutting wheel for doing stuff like that. You have to have a steady hand and cutting the short side would be touchy. Mine has a 3 inch cutting wheel.