Albert Tuschhoff demonstrates old-time threshing

A vanishing tradition — an old-time threshing — is demonstrated in August 1958 at the J.A. Young farm east of Oak Ridge. In the separator, from the left, are Payton Miller and Albert Tuschhoff, owner of the threshing rig. Gene Myers and Lonnie Grebe are pitching bundles from the mule-drawn wagon into the maw of the separator. Tuschhoff started with a thresher in 1903, has owned four of those similar to the one shown here and has worn out two steam traction engines.