The Yellow Premie

[Allen]

This thing has been half completed for way too long. It's going to be my rainy day project for fall.

I was looking to make something to run with Kim's 'Americanized' Wilesco D405 when we saw an Avery Yellow Baby at an engine show in New Centreville, Pa.


The Avery company painted their threshers yellow. They came in 3 sizes, the "Yellow Fellow" was the largest, followed by the "Yellow Kid" and the "Yellow Baby".



The sturdiest and simplest way I could think of to make it was an acrylic box plated with coffee stirrers and basswood.


The cylinder even has teeth (carpet tacks through coffee stirrers mounted on a wooden spool), and the shaker ladders are fully 'functional'



Two acrylic 'windows' allow glimpses inside




The wind stacker pipe is abs plastic. It rotates, but doesn't extend


There isn't a whole lot left to fabricate, but I do need to go back through everything and see what I can do to reduce friction. It gets real stiff when the humidity goes up.

 

[November X-ray]

That's a neat machine your building. My Grand Father had an old Case Thresher that I never saw run, but I remember it sitting in the pasture for years and years. I don't know if it eventually rotted down or if perhaps someone aquired it.

Thanks for the pictures!