Included in the Hoogegelegen museum are some older farm implements, including a reaper that may have been horse drawn hanging on the wall.As I boy I remember it being a vicous looking machine which now and then cut the leg of a farm worker. The corn fell on the wooden platform, which was made up of slats and worked like a conveyor belt taking the cut corn to one side and leaving it in long rows.The horse equipment is intriguing, especially the piece meant to have two horses or oxen on one side and only one on the other.I'm afraid I don't know enough to explain how that worked. The scythe with the upper works I assume was meant to make sheaves as the reaper cut the corn.
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