McCormick Deering was an early American manufacturer of farm equipment, most notably the McCormick thresher, seen here. The thresher was pulled to the field by a steam tractor and parked in a convenient place for threshing. The steam tractor (and soon after the internal combustion tractor) was connected to the thresher with a long, leather belt that provided motive power. The sheaves mentioned in "Binder Levers" were stuffed in the top, the grain separated, and the chaff blown out of the now-horizontal tube mounted on top. I discovered it here, alongside a road, giving homage to the moon. A wonderful demonstration of this form of harvesting can be seen in the movie "Days of Heaven".
