Threshing Floor Boards

Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff.

Threshing floor boards.

Antique threshing flooring is ideal for decks patios period workshops and barns. These boards were salvaged from the first floor of the barns where the threshing took place the process of separating the grain from the stalk. Our antique vintage thresher flooring is our original face barn board oak flooring. A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain.

Reclaimed threshing floor barn board table tops. This one of a kind rustic wide plank wood flooring is reclaimed from 150 200 year old threshing barns. Threshing in barns was mostly done by hand with a flail until threshing machines became available in the 19th century. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic.

Reclaimed antique oak barn threshing wood flooring is the most rustic and primitive wood flooring that we offer. A booth is constructed for shade. The wear on these boards was created by the people who built our country. Today reclaimed threshing boards can be repurposed in a variety of applications including flooring stairs railing and counter tops.

Many ontario barns built in the 1800s and 1900s were made from pine and hemlock. With its untouched original surface and historic patina our true grit 100 original barn threshing floors have the authentic look of a rustic cabin or barn. In syria at the threshing season it is customary for the family to move out to the vicinity of the threshing floor. What is a threshing floor answer.

The mother prepares the meals and takes her turn. Jc woodworking only sells this product unmilled. The harvested produce would be spread over the threshing floor and then animals cattle or oxen would be led over it to crush and break the sheaves apart. Our formaldehyde free epoxy finishing brings out the natural depth and patina of the wood and fills the deep crevices to create an easy to.

For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed. So a threshing floor has hundreds of years of wear from farming animals people and tools. To keep the grain from falling out the open doorway s a board was sometimes placed across the doorway called a threshold but the term threshold was originally the floor itself or well foot worn floor boards. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.

A dirty top oak plank that gives the look of original threshing floor. Threshing is the process of separating grains.