Friday, December 23, 2022

Know your Garrett Thresher

Not sure what a chob is, but there it is falling out of the machine at "E"

3 comments:

João Custódio said...

lots of chobbing going on in 1908

https://blog.scottishagriculturalimplementmakers.co.uk/portable-threshing-machines-in-1908/

rats said...

Chobs. Cavings. Smutter. My vocabularly is straining to encompass, envelop, and digest these fine new old words, but google is uncharacteristically shy about defining them. I demand my money back!

João Custódio said...

so chob looks like it is a light contaminant consisting of fragments of straw an weevil-infested grains
used as animal fodder (hens) or as a filler in mud bricks

https://books.google.pt/books?id=Zq6sAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=chob+wheat&source=bl&ots=hTsEXyDRvX&sig=ACfU3U0WAwQAN3xnkZJ49GlXf_I2Cjq-XA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwji8tyQsJH8AhUpUKQEHVmcAyA4RhDoAXoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=chob%20wheat&f=false

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10117906/1/AL-AZEM_THESIS.pdf