During the 1930s large threshing machines, for example produce of Borga or Lanz, came in use. The Borga threshing machine is build by "Borg en Mensingsa"-engineering works in Appingedam. Nowadays these big machines are out of use and displaced by combines. Fortunately in the Netherlands some enthusiasts saved several of these machines from the scrapheap and restorated them to be as good as new. The photograph alongside is taken at harvest home in Kamperland. This machine and baler are restorated with devotion and patience of Job by L.P. Brasser, farmer from St. Laurens.

From this treshing machines are drawings avalible via the dutch modelengineering society NVM
the society runs a selling point for modelbuilding plans and drawings. The catalogue now contain over 1300 different plans which are available for members and non-members. Six different catalogues exist, each covering another kind of modelbuilding.

For the driving belts I used sandingbelt.
The Borga has a steel framed, boarding and the riddles, shaker connecting rods, and all spouts were made of wood.What must appear to modern eyes,as a multiplicity of belts on both sides of a treshing machine would probably give the pundits who dreamend up the Health and Safety at Work Act bad dreams,but when machines were in regular use troughout the countryside, no-one had to be told to keep clear of the open belts,they were used to them and behaved accordingly, and belt guards were virtually un-heard of.

When the Borga was operational it was completely dismantled again to spray-paint all the parts in the right colour. The picture alongside shows the result.

Above the threshing machine and baler is positioned in line.

Most of the time a baler is coupled behind the threshing machine, so the straw is directly compressed into bales. The horsehead formed press is a remarkable part of the carterpers.

The threshing machine and baler has been built in about four years.

Some details pictures of the baler