Combine Harvesters Travelling Through Perth Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video of Combine Harvesters, from Bruce Farms in Forfar, the county town of Angus, travelling down Tay Street on a visit to Perth, Perthshire. In 1826 in Scotland, the inventor Reverend Patrick Bell designed, but did not patent, a reaper machine, which used the scissors principle of plant cutting, a principle that is still used today. The Bell machine was pushed by horses. A few Bell machines were available in the United States. In 1835. The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate harvesting operations, reaping, threshing, and winnowing, into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn, maize, sorghum, soybeans, flax linseed, sunflowers and canola. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and ploughed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock. Combine harvesters are one of the most economically important labour saving inventions, significantly reducing the fraction of the population engaged in agriculture.

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