Reaper-binder

A reaper-binder ( or binder mower or colloquially Binder ) is an agricultural machine for harvesting grain.

It was developed Mähbinder 1872 by the American Charles Withington. He was popular in Germany, especially after the Second World War until the late 1960s, and was then replaced by the combine. The reaper takes over - as the name suggests - mowing the crop and for bundling and tying the grain stalks into sheaves. The bound sheaves of sets of the reaper from the field.

The first machines were binding only on the previously deposited in heaps on the field of grain. Due to the high grain losses they could not prevail and were only sold in the United States. As a further development, the sheaves were directly after they were mowed with a sickle bar, attached to the machine.

Later threshing the grain sheaves were stored in a barn and knocked in a poorer working time with the flail. Later that hand work was greatly facilitated by the threshing machine.