Claude Monet Poplars

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glanced under the machine. A dozen sickles were bolted to a big horizontal wheel. Ingenious linkages took power from the wheels, via a selection of pulleys, to a whirligig arrangement of metal arms. He began to experience afished around among the debris on the floor, picked up a small knurled object, and screwed it on to a protruding piece of the mechanism.’Very important job. It stops the elliptical cam gradually sliding up the beam shaft and catching on the flange rebate, with disastrous results as you can no doubt imagine.’
Simnel stood back and wiped his hands on a cloth, making them slightly horrible feeling about the thing in front of him, but he asked anyway.‘Well, the heart of it all is this cam shaft,’ said Simnel, gratified at the interest. ‘The power comes up via the pulley here, and the cams move the swaging arms - that’s these things - and the combing gate, which is operated by the reciprocating mechanism, comes down just as the gripping shutter drops in this slot here, and of course at the same time the two brass balls go round and round and the flatting sheets carry off the straw while the grain drops with the aid of gravity down the riffling screw and into the hopper. Simple.’AND THE THREE-EIGHTHS GRIPLEY?‘Good job you reminded me.’ Simnel