Towards the end of June when the crops were already ready segaven farmers fields to get the cereal. Now all process is machining but the origins of this work was manual and the tool par excellence was used to harvest sickle.
The first sickles were probably made with the jaw of an animal with small flint stones embedded. Later he was honing tool and used a bentwood. With the age of bronze it began to make metal.
The harvest should be done at the right time so that the grain mass and immature all fell to the ground. This was one of the biggest concerns. How often planted or mixed Mestall time of maturity of the different varieties or species of the mixture did not agree and the choice of dates was complicated timely.
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Vicente Xandri Avia farmer s'Puig had been explained Obiols:
"They formed gangs [To organize the harvest] led by the head of the group. Each village became his, and began work towards Bages; our parents had gone even navy. [...] fields are far away, so it was still dark when we loaded a truck with sailing because Foss tip field clear. "
After harvest beating
Once harvested the grain and moved into the era had to separate the wheat from the chaff and boll, ie had to beat. The space is often made was not permanent and every year they choose a well compacted earth ground even though you were still some beating tiled in villages or private property as Casafort.
It was cleaned and prepared the car for carretejar the sheaves. It removed the empostissats that were set at the level of the rods in their place and hanging a "solera" under the fusell- sustained through a cadenes- to about a foot from the ground; put a "ladder" on the back to carry more long; the railings are about Fermi "Estaquirot" -Wooden Poles with sheaves punta- that sticking it on both sides allow more high load, and the long rope hung with paths that should serve to hold the wagon.
