Machines for Flax-Pulling to Supersede Hand Labor
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A short Popular Mechanics article describing new European attempts to pull flax mechanically instead of by hand. It explains how a comblike device grips the flax stems and plucks them from the ground, with weeds sliding through, and how the flax is then bound and shocked like grain. The machine, hauled by horse or tractor with a driver and an operator, is said to harvest about 10 acres a day. A photograph shows the machine working in a field.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1923
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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