Threshing machine Lanz

From an early age, people tried not to cope with the laborious threshing of the grain by hand - mechanical helpers were needed! The history of threshing machines began in 1786 with a blow bar thresher by the Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle. Since then, the machines have been continuously refined and improved. The threshers, which were initially operated by horse pegs or steam engines - occasionally also by hand - were finally powered by electric, stationary combustion engines or tractors. The threshing machines, also called "threshing boxes", were initially made of wood before the revolutionary "Stahl-Lanz" in all-steel construction was introduced in 1929. This technical achievement was gradually expanded and improved until the tried and tested threshing machine was replaced by the fully automatic combine harvester and pushed out of the market in the 1950s and 1960s.

In addition to various pictures and historical plans, the model was also inspired by an original. A Lanz threshing machine was found in an old barn in the Vogtland open-air museum Landwüst (part of Markneukirchen). This made it possible to clarify open questions. Even if the good old piece is »getting on in years«, it is still in relatively good condition, so that the color and structure in particular could be easily removed. (The illustration shows the threshing wagon with the roof gallery folded down to make it easier for it to enter the low barn.)

The miniature is based on the model from around 1911, a time when a fully automatic combine harvester was far from being thought of. The model is the perfect addition to historical systems - or as a barn find or "eye-catcher" for systems based on more modern models.