Hesston Steam & Power Show will be held for four BIG days on Labor Day weekend including steam train rides on 3 railroads, railroad speeder rides, sawmill, flea market, cranes, antique farm machinery, antique cars, steam traction engines, great festival food, vintage ice cream soda fountain and much more. 10am-5pm. Old-time farm machinery, antique cars, and other machines, flea market, and more.
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Steam Train Rides on 3 railroads (including their 1929 logging locomotive). Admission Fee: Admission $5 adults; free 13 & under; Train Fares $5 adults; $3 children 3-12; free under 3. Information: 219-778-2783 or www.hesston.org.
Steam Show is Only on Labor Day Weekend.
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Story Behind Thrashing:
Steam Powered Traction Steam Powered Traction engines were the main feature and provided most of the power. The video also shows steam-powered threshing machine in operation. Only on Labor Day Weekend will you see all these machines in operation. Local Thresher men volunteers purchased a steam locomotive in 1964 from Elliott Donnelley of Lake Forest, IL, who took an interest in the accomplishments at Hesston.
A threshing machine or a thresher is a piece of farm equipment that threshes grain, that is, it removes the seeds from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out.
Before such machines were developed, threshing was done by hand with flails: such hand threshing was very laborious and time-consuming, taking about one-quarter of agricultural labor by the 18th century.[1] Mechanization of this process removed a substantial amount of drudgery from farm labor. The first threshing machine was invented circa 1786 by the Scottish engineer Andrew Meikle, and the subsequent adoption of such machines was one of the earlier examples of the mechanization of agriculture.
During the 19th century, threshers and mechanical reapers and reaper-binders gradually became widespread and made grain production much less laborious.
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