Le Sueur County Pioneer Power Field Activities |
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| This is the "Threshing Company" that keeps everything going on "Thresher Hill", from left to right: Ron Lund, Doug Hager-Straw Boss, Mark Meyer, Dwight Yaeger, and Dave Preuhs, not available for the photo are Bill Radil and Peter Thelemann. | |
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Many different field activities take place during the show. The photos below give you an idea of the activity going on non-stop on "Thresher Hill" and in the field. |
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Grain Threshing and Combining |
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 Threshing is done by many different brands and sizes of threshing machines. Tractors and steam engines used for power. |
 A gasoline engine powered hand feed threshing machine. |
 Steam power is used for threshing. |
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 1898 J. I. Case hand feed thresher. |
 5 teams of work horses provide the power to run the J. I. Case hand feed. |
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 Horse tread mill used to power the small hand fed thresher. |
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 After the grain is threshed it is unload from the wagons onto a waiting truck. |
 A nice collection of Massey Harris combines working in the field harvesting spring wheat. |
Corn Harvesting and Shelling |
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 Cutting corn using a John Deere PTO corn binder with loading attachment. |
 After the corn is cut it is run through a silage cutter and then used for livestock feed. |
 Shelling the ear corn using a MM corn sheller. |
 The corn shredder husks the ear corn from the stalk and chops the stalk for fodder and the ear corn is delivered to a wagon. |
 Corn shredding using a US corn shredder. Here is powered by the 5 team horse power sweep. |
 The kids enjoy the ear corn falling into the wagon from the shredder. |
Straw Baling |
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 Horse powered baler. |
 Bales need to be hand tied. |
 Gas engine powered baler, lots of dirty work. |
 Massey tractor baler. |
Plowing |
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 20 acres need to be plowed during the show. |
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