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This time, though, not from Nottinghamshire, but from the rural counties of southern England,

who took the fight to the threshing machines.

That's a fight I wouldn't want to have.

Yeah.

So what is a threshing machine?

It basically mushes up grain and actually I need to look this up.

Let me guess, Elle, as you look it up, I think it is a thing that they pushed along and then it whirled and cut up the crop.

A thresher machine or a thresher, it sounds terrifying, isn't it?

There's a piece of farm equipment that separate grain seed from the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the seeds fall out before such machines were developed threshing was done by hand with flails such hand threshing was very laborious and time consuming taking about one quarter of agricultural labour by the 18th century so mechanisation of this process removed a substantial amount of drudgery from farm labour,

but they were very, very sharp.

And like those combine harbusters, you don't want to have a fight with one.

Yeah.

But that is where Captain Swing comes into play.

I'd yell abuse at a threshing machine.

I'd talk heckle it, but I don't want to get too close to it because of the whole threshing

aspect.

A couple of rude hand gestures.

Yeah, exactly.

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