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Old art of belt setting honoured
A contestant scrambles over the top of
the th reshi ng machine to adjust the
straw blower.
Belt setting is the art of getting the tractor and the threshing threshing. Here a crew races to get the belt on a steam engine,
machine lined up and the separator rolling and ready for the
One of the most impressive contests at The competition grows from the time
the Thresher Reunion each year is the belt when the threshing gang arrived on the
setting competition. farm and there was considerable pride in
The trick of the whole exercise is to get the belt on the moving drive wheel of the
engine without it spinning off.
how quickly the thresher could be set up,
ready for use. The tractor pulled the engine
to its appointed place, was unhooked and
driven out to where it would line up
perfectly with the pulley on the machine.
Meanwhile the thresher operator was
putting out the feeder on the machine,
putting up the pipes to direct the grain into
the bin and winding out the straw blower to
where the straw was to be put.
Finally the belt had to be rolled out and
put on the drive pulley of the tractor. If the
tractor wasn’t lined up perfectly the belt
would spin off and the job would have to be
done again. Once the belt was lined up
properly the belt would be tightened by
backing up the tractor slightly and the
threshing machine started turning and the
threshing gang was ready to go. It’s
virtually a lost skill these days but some
crews still make brave attempts in the
competition.
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