Reader Jenna Winkeller of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to us about a homemade device that can make small-scale wheat cultivation far more efficient: a DIY wheat thresher crafted from just a bucket, drill ...

Note: The Sylvantec foot-powered thresher is no longer available from Sylvantec; however, foot-powered threshers are still useful tools for small-scale grain processing.

People get stuck on [need for] combine [harvesting], threshing, cleaning. Establishing something like that here would be a huge incentive.” Silver is considering purchasing a larger stone mill and ...

For 80-plus years, from 1870 until the last production threshing machine by a major farm equipment rolled off the line in 1956 or so, harvesting was done like this.