At Geißler's farm
The pupils of class 3 visit the farm of Mr Geißler every year. There we can discover a lot of things.
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| Mr Geißler has still many machines from former times, for example the rope lathe. It makes a rope of four to five thin cords. In former times people had to turn the rope lathe with their hand. Later Mr Geißler converted it on engine work. The machine works in that way: You take four or five hooks, hung these hooks into individually swivelling loops and on them you fasten individual cords. At the other end of the rope all cords are put together on a large hook. When the rope machine is turned now, the individual cords twist themselves to a thicker rope.  Video: WMV, 2.7 MB or Real Video, 618 kB
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| Röber's winnowing machine With the winnowing machine you can remove the spelts from the grains. On the top there is a funnel. There you tip in the grain. By a crank the wind turbine moves inside the machine. Then you open the funnel and the grain comes out. The produced wind blows away the lighter spelts of the grains. The grains fall on a filter, are through-vibrated again and then land in a large dish. Video: WMV, 3.39 MB or Real Video, 775 kB
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| Flail Mr Geißler also built some flails. They were used in former times for beat (thresh) the ears. Sometimes Mr Geißler tries together with the children to thresh grain. It is very difficult to stay in time. The flail consists of a long rod of wood with a small piece of wood on a leather belt. Video: WMV, 1.87 MB or Real Video, 425 kB
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