Farm Machinery OO Scale

This was purchased from my local model railway shop, Where I make a pilgrimage at least once a week, it interested me and  when I did some research I found out that something was missing so I  made the rotary reaper thingy from bits from my brass box. Although it  is very delicate I am more than pleased with the results…
                The reason for me putting the photo's on are, Does anyone know who made the kit?, when I bought it already built part of it was missing. I thought it was Langley Models, but I could not find it on their site. But I really do think it is a interesting piece?







Below is a Buffer stop made from my off cut plastic card box and covered  with over 60 years old veneers from my fathers Marquetry days when I  was a toddler ( the veneers come in great for rustic fences too)

Having spent many a long day riding one of those reaping machines Alan, I can confirm it's not a bad model at all. :thumbs

The post holding the "sails" wasn't as long as the one on your model - it only had to raise or lower the sails enough to make sure they flipped the cut crop back onto the moving canvas bed to feed it up into the binding mechanism.  Barley had short straw, around  2'6",  wheat and oats, longer - up to a good 3ft or more.  I've never grown rye and, in those days, maize didn't grow in UK.

The machine (called a "binder" in Yorkshire) made sheaves which were then "stooked" (stood up like little "houses" - 12 to a "house") where they dried and ripened before being taken to the farmyard (or corner of the field) to be made into "corn stacks" (rather than "hay" stacks, which were grass).  During winter, when there was a demand for grain, the stacks were threshed and the grain sold or fed to livestock.

I could tell you who made the real ones but have no idea who made the model.  Their general use on farms ended with the advent of combined harvesters in the 1960's so don't put them in a field next to an HST …………………

That veneer look great.  You could make some very realistic looking packing cases from that. thumbs:thumbs

Thakyou Petermac for the info, I have a picture of me as a toddler looking for our cat among the stooks but he is behind me…Happy innocent Days…

That's a great photo Alan.  thumbs:thumbs

They all make up our history.  Where was that taken ?  Looks like a hillside next to a typical "Pontefract" style end of terrace house ……………hmm

Hi Petermac. the field is now a housing estate, but the terraced houses are still there, In a village called Kippax where I grew up...

I was about to say "I know it well Alan" but that wouldn't be true.

I do know it but not "well".  I lived in Leeds (Roundhay) after Dad left the forces until I was 10 - not too far away from Kippax. :thumbs

It is a small world we live in Petermac, And it's getting smaller?

Then you may remember The Clock cinema .We rewired it to suit bingo several years back.  It had the original managers office equipment left there . An ancient typewriter and an original Ewbank push along carpet cleaner with polished wood top and in perfect working order.

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Then you may remember The Clock cinema .We rewired it to suit bingo several years back.  It had the original managers office equipment left there . An ancient typewriter and an original Ewbank push along carpet cleaner with polished wood top and in perfect working order.

Good heavens Reg - I do indeed remember the Clock Cinema - a classic art deco cinema.  Harehills at the bottom of Easterly Road.  A tram route terminated there but I'm blowed if I can remember which one.  Did you ever pop into the nearby pub, the "Fforde Greene" - the spelling always got to me ………….

Here's a shot of the trams with the Clock Cinema in the background (it's a "Bing" image so hope it's non copyright…………….:roll::roll:)



I saw my first film there - "Red River" I think it was (Dad was a great fan of Westerns)