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Beautiful job!  Is that hub looking thing on the drive shaft a mechanism for shaking the feeder chute?

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Good to hear from you Paul and hope all is well in Iowa?

Yes the drive for the "shaker feeder chute" is quite unique, the small pulley on the main shaft next to the main drive belt pulley takes the drive to a reduction countershaft, then the drive from the small pulley on the end of that shaft goes around a set of jockey pulleys taking the drive 90 degrees to the shaker shaft which then has an acentric cam on the rod which connects to the underside of the shaker chute.

The chute itself is suspended by four very thin pieces of strap steel which allows movement in the entire chute to shake the grain down the chute.

Hope that as explained it well enough Paul, the old saying a picture says a 1000 words.

All the Best,

Malcolm.
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OK,  I see that now.  Very clever.  So the main bearing assembly (on the end towards the cart tongue) has a curved flat peice and a rod running back to the main grinder housing. Appears to be linkage of some sort.  Was curious what it's purpose was.

And yes, everything pretty good here in Iowa.  I think not as good weather-wise as at your place though.  I see nice green lawn and bushes in the background on that one picture and no snow and ice hanging all the way to the ground on your building.  Different than here and probably our friends to the north in Minnesota.

RE:M-H Barn Equipment.

Here is a very nice original Massey-Harris  Number 1 root cutter displayed in a small museum in the town of Bowmanville, right next to the home of Massey in Newcastle, Ontario.
Good to see they still recognise the importance of what Massey did for those areas in Ontario, and encouraging to see a display with information boards for the public to read.

Malcolm.
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The first showing last weekend of the recently refurbished No 3 M-H Mill.

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Malcolm Your No 3 Mill looked great last weekend. You must have put a lot of work into it to restore it. With the heavy wooden frame it didn't look as if it would move very far if it was being used. Just disappointed that you didn't put a couple of bags of wheat through it!!!. I wonder what Heath and Safety would have said. Alan

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As you know Alan there is an immense amount of work in organising a rally with over 1000 exhibits and all the other logistics the visiting public expect these days.
All this means I get very little time to look after my own exhibits, otherwise you would of seen white dust flying in the wind, or would that be a danger to the public these days!!!

Malcolm.
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RE:M-H Barn Equipment.

Here is another corn grinding mill with Company links to Massey - Harris.

This mill made by Jeffery and Blackstone of Stamford, Lincolnshire is from a much earlier timeframe of late 1800's, long before their agreement with M-H and after 1900 their name changed to "Blackstone & Company Stamford".

This was a very rare sight to see out working on the rally field, these mills have two large and very heavy stones inside the cover to grind the flour.

Seen here at Newby Hall rally in North Yorkshire last weekend, this recently restored example was the largest I have ever seen and being driven by a Ruston & Procter of Lincoln oil engine.



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Malcolm Thank you for the photos of the Jeffery and Blackstone Mill and also the history lesson. I had never seen a mill like that nor had I heard of a company called Jeffery and Blackstone. Did they make other farm implements under that name before they became Blackstone and Company? Alan

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Alan,

It's amazing how things work out, as we finalised Carrington Rally only two weeks ago an exhibitor from the North said, "I will bring you a mill made in Lincolnshire for your feature of Lincolnshire built next year", the next day he sent me the attached two photo's, it's a Jeffrey and Blackstone of Stamford, first time I had ever heard of this name. Then this weekend another turns up at Newby Hall, which is a much larger version of the one pictured here.

I have just researched some notes Michael Key wrote on the history of Blackstone in Stamford a few years ago, he mentions George Jeffery ran his own business from January 1876 to June 1877, he then entered a partnership with Edward Christopher Blackstone and the Company Title was changed to Jeffery and Blackstone.
George Jeffery retired early at 44 years of age in 1882 and the name continued for a further six years.

So I presume all implements we know as Blackstone were produced under the J & B name during this timeframe.

As you say all very interesting early British agricultural implement history.

Malcolm.

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