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Description
The grain binder was pulled by a tractor and powered by the tractor's power take off.
The grain was pulled toward the cutter bar by the large reel, then cut and dropped onto a canvas platform. Grain stalks then were bundled and stacked in the field to dry.
About This Item
- Title: Grain binder, Caribou, ca. 1940
- Creator: George Whitneck
- Creation Date: circa 1940
- Subject Date: circa 1940
- Location: Caribou, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Agricultural laborers
- Harvesting
- Farmers
- Threshing--Maine--Caribou
- Grain
- Agricultural machinery & implements
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