# Help ID this old farm equipment

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346 "2015-05-05T23:31:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/1 "2015-05-05T23:31:09Z")

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Seen in the picture [here](http://s290.photobucket.com/user/legendcity/media/Krause%202_zpstzqyr16w.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0). Taken in probably the 1920s or 1930s. It’s either western Oklahoma or central Arizona. 😕

I’m hoping the machine type might tell us something.

Thanks, I’m anxious to learn what that might be. I’m just a city slicker. 😃

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/2 "2015-05-06T00:00:29Z")

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It’s hard to tell from here, but this city slicker would guess it’s a mill of some sort.

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**Author:** ![Potestas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Potestas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potestas)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/3 "2015-05-06T00:02:26Z")

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It looks like an early corn harvester from the turn of the century (1900s or 1910)

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/4 "2015-05-06T00:33:50Z")

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It’s hard to get a feel for the scale when you can’t (or I can’t) even tell what’s all part of the the equipment. It looks to me like the wheels in the background are part of something else.

If you do a GIS for antique belt driven corn mill, you’ll get similar pictures. I’m not finding anything exact, or even close enough to get a brand on it yet, but similar enough that it’s the idea that I’m running with right now.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/5 "2015-05-06T00:58:37Z")

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Doing some more searching, I’m still sticking with mill and Sandwich is the brand that seems to have the round hopper.

[http://www.oldengine.org/members/sbarr/images/Shows/2006SandwichShow/equip/08.jpg](http://www.oldengine.org/members/sbarr/images/Shows/2006SandwichShow/equip/08.jpg)  
[http://www.oldengine.org/members/sbarr/images/Shows/2006SandwichShow/engines2/47.jpg](http://www.oldengine.org/members/sbarr/images/Shows/2006SandwichShow/engines2/47.jpg)

If you can’t get an answer here, I’m guessing [these guys](http://www.smokstak.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=51) can figure it out.

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-old-farm-equipment/719346/6 "2015-05-06T02:07:38Z")

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Thanks for the answers so far. Arizona is not really corn country, but I think OK might be better suited? We grow cotton in AZ, probably not needing anything like this.