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IMPROVED HARVESTING MACHINERY.

Gun Te Awiiinutu correspondent sends hh the following description of .some now harvest machinery Messrs Fry have lately imported from the celebrated Walter A. Wood Manufacturing Company one of their latest improved string binders. I went to sec it at work ill a paddock of oats at their farm, and on my way across the field to where the machine was at work the first thing that attracted my attention was the closeness of the cut to the ground and the very clean way the straw had been gathered by the machine, the ground being as clean as if it had been raked by hand. The knife has a cut of lift. Oin., so that a large area can be got over in a day. It was 7 p.m. when I arrived on the ground, and ten acres had been cut since 0 a.m. r lhe chief advantages this improved machine possesses arc lowness of cut, cleanliness, and the sheaf carrying attachment. This, though mentioned last, is by 110 means the least of the improvements, for it is a great saving of labour to have the sheaves deposited in regular rows, thus saving the carrying of them when stooking involved under the old system. The attachment cirries six or eight sheaves, which it deposits where required, the driver regulating it by a lever, on which ho keeps one foot, liy pressing this down the carrier drops, and the iron tines, which are fixed on the outside of the carrying platform, and which are bent upwards to hold the sheaves in place, fold backwards towards the body of the machine like a bird's wing. By another motion of the foot the carrier adjusts itself again. On the outside of the tying apparatus is an iron fork of three tines, an 1 as the knot is tied and the string cut this fork tosses the sheaf on to the carrier ; with such precision does it work that one could imagine that it possessed life and instinct. If the crop is thin the sheaf is not tied under a regulation size and no mattor how long it may be in bsius* gathered the fork does not move till the tying is doueand the stringent. Another prominent feature in the machine is its extreme compactness, it appeared to me to be much smaller and lower than the ordinary binders, and so accurately is it adjusted that it will cut and tie all day without spoiling sheaf or breaking the twine unless there are kinks in it. The tying apparatus is adjusted so that it can be moved back or forward according to the height of the crop ; by this means the sheaves are all ■tied at a uniform distance from the bult. Another good feature in this machine is the readiness with which it cuts lodged grain, of course, it will not do so if driven the way the grain is lying but if driven the opposite way it cuts and ties it very well. There is no necessity for cutting a swarth round the paddoelf to make a beginning for it, the hordes are driven round, ai)d the grain that is trampled down by them is picked up again by driving the reverse way. I saw this done while there. The maker claims that it is the most perfect machine of the kind in the world and after seeing it at work one can easily understand the justice of the claim. It is well worth a visit from those who are interested in cropping. Want of space prevents a more detailed description of the mechanism being given. I may say that I noticed the three horses which drew it and they appeared to dr? the work with ease. I forgot to' stole that owing to its peculiar construction this machine, is particularly adapted fop working on hill sides and steep slopes.

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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2

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IMPROVED HARVESTING MACHINERY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2

IMPROVED HARVESTING MACHINERY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2422, 19 January 1888, Page 2

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