It was steam traction engines pulling plows and powering threshing machines that completed the taming of the Great Plains. Chuffing and clanking, they turned the buffalo's pasture into America's ...

The machine was built in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and is made of oak and ash. It can still thresh oats,barley and wheat. When used on the farms it took ten people to work it and threshing was a ...