earlythreshingmill

Early threshing mill, Haymarket Carlow

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 16 older comments, and then…
• John Spooner said:

  A threshing machine in action (Dad's Army) youtu.be/a71PxWHm1HA?t=16m38s

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Reading from the detail and looking up Streetview the town hall in the background appears to be gone now which makes it a bit harder to locate!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  John Spooner Thank you for that John, my sides are sore from laughing!

• John Spooner said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons A quick perusal of the references to 'threshing machine' in Freeman's Journal suggests that Cpl Jones might have been lucky to survive the incident at 21:20. There are plenty of tales of gruesome fatalities from falling into the machinery of getting one's clothes caught. The lucky ones got away with an amputation. I realise that incidents which did not result in injury are not news, and only bad news tends to be reported, but with all those belts and wheels I think I would stand well clear of such a beast.

• beachcomber australia said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons The Town Hall is still there, and looking pretty as a picture - GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/RBJac