Hello farmers, we are back again with yet another exciting and interesting topic which increases your knowledge about farming and farm machines. And that topic is a multi crop thresher, an innovative farm machine.

Thresher is a piece of farm machinery that used to threshes grain. Here we come with this blog which provides you with complete information about the thresher. Besides, we also show details about the top 8 best threshers.

What is Thresher Machine
Thresher is productive farm equipment that threshes grain and removes the seeds from the stalks and husks. The farm machine used to separate the wheat, maize, soybean, peans and other small grains and seed crops from their chaff and straw. The machine loaded with advanced components and modern features, which helps in farming applications. Since the thresher machine came, it changed the threshing process, making it effortless and extra labour free.

Before the thresher machine was developed, the threshing process was done by hands with flails which were very time consuming and laborious. Later, in 1786 the first threshing machine invented by Scottish engineer Andrew Meikle, which removed a significant amount of hard work from farm labour. In the 19th century, reaper-binders, mechanical reapers, and threshers gradually widespread, resulting in grains produced much less laboriously.

The machine is rugged and made with advanced technology that improves the machine’s working ability. The thresher machines have become quite famous in the country in the last 2-decades. In India, the machine was first introduced during 1956-57, called Ludhiana Thresher. The thresher was tractor driven and mainly used for wheat. The machine was very good at working as it threshed, bagged, and cleared the grains at the same time. Later, in 1965, by viewing the low horsepower thresher needed, the low hp threshers were invented. The spike tooth cylinders thrashers introduced in the country around 1970. These machines had simple designs, and maintenance was inadequate because the machine’s total weight was less.

Types of Thresher

There are many types of thresher machines available based upon crops, functional components, and threshing cylinders. Have a look.

There are 4-types of threshers used according to the crop:-

Multicrop thresher
Maize Thresher
Wheat Thresher
Paddy Thresher
There are 3-types of threshers used according to the functional components:-

Drummy
Regular (Through-put)
Axial flow
There are 4-types of threshers used according to the threshing cylinders:-

Syndicator
Hammer Mill or Beater type
Spike tooth type
Rasp bar type
Components of Thresher
The thresher machine’s components are fan/blower, spikes, flywheel, concave, cylinder, feeding chute, towing hook, frame, driver pulley, upper sieve, transport wheel, can pulley, shutter plate, and suspension lever.

Process of Thresher Machine

The thresher machine greatly used for threshing, harvesting operations. There are 3-steps process:-

First Step
In the first step, putting the bunch of straw and grains into the feeder. The feeder controls the feed rate to prevent overloading into the machine.

Second Step
The rapidly rotating set of blades, called the separator. The separator first tore the bundles apart, breaking the twine, and snapping the heads from the straw after beating the straw and heads onto a grooved plate, kneeling them without crushing them. Then the straw passed over a straw rake to remove most of the straw from the kernels.

Third Step
In the last step, the cleaner kernels passed through the last screen were moved over an air stream that blew off the remaining chaff and straw away. The clean or pure grains fell into a feeder where a measuring device measured kernels, and later it blew out onto a straw stack by a larger, stronger blower.

Benefits of Thresher

The peanut sheller machine saves labour and increases farming output.
Thresher improves production quality.
It improves effectiveness and does the work fastly.
The machine is technologically advanced that provides work efficiency in the field.