464 S 5th Street Sebewaing, Michigan 48759-1559
The year was 1932, and I was running the 16-30 Hart Parr, and a
#9 Bird-sell clover and alfalfa huller.
We started threshing alfalfa clover that morning, and when we
finished that evening, about eight o’clock, we had 55
two-bushel bags full of alfalfa seed. Never before or after that
day did I ever thresh that much alfalfa seed. There were lots of
days when we ran all day and only produced two or three bags of
seed. When I got home that night, and told Dad how much alfalfa
seed we threshed, he could not believe it. The picture below is of
a Birdsell huller.
July 1954–My dad, William A. Kuhl, Sr., threshing wheat at his
farm. This was the last year he threshed any grain in our area. The
tractor is an HK Huber; grain separator is a 30×50 Red River
Special.
The following are names of threshing machinery that Dad owned
over the years:
Steam engines: Reeves, Buffalo-Pitts, Port Huron, Russell,
Aultman Taylor.
Tractors: Aultman-Taylor, Case, three Hart Parrs, four Rumely
OilPulls, Oliver Hart Parr, two Hubers.
Birdsell Clover Huller, Size No. 8 (Cylinders, 36×44 inches),
Completely Equipped with ‘Special’ Feeder and Gearless
V/ind Stacker (Recleaner Side)
All new hullers are now equipped with new style recleaner, and
belted up as shown here. Recleaner is driven direct from pulley on
raddle belt shaft and lower auger or conveyor is chain driven.
Separators: Avery, Yellow Fellow, Russell, Aultman-Taylor,
Farquhar, Gaar Scott, Greyhounds, two Advance Rumelys, two Port
Huron, three Red River Specials, Advance Rumely clover huller,
Birdsell clover huller, Advance Rumely hay baler, Ann Arbor hay
baler, Advance Rumely corn shredder, Rosenthal #89 corn
shredder.
During the 1930s and early 1940s, Dad had five grain rigs and
three bean threshers, doing custom threshing.
