Is it possible to compare the transportation and/or assembly costs to the manufacturing costs? And in fact to compare these to the costs of manual threshing? I think this would give good context to the scale of the problems.
It seems like there would be a business to buy a machine and take it round various farms in the local area (assuming assembly really is easy-ish).
Taking a machine around to different farms did actually happen, once portable machines were made (which was not always trivial). See my reply to @ChristianKl
Very interesting.
Is it possible to compare the transportation and/or assembly costs to the manufacturing costs? And in fact to compare these to the costs of manual threshing? I think this would give good context to the scale of the problems.
It seems like there would be a business to buy a machine and take it round various farms in the local area (assuming assembly really is easy-ish).
Taking a machine around to different farms did actually happen, once portable machines were made (which was not always trivial). See my reply to @ChristianKl