Threshing Floor Boards

Antique threshing flooring is ideal for decks patios period workshops and barns.

Threshing floor boards.

What is a threshing floor answer. A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. Reclaimed antique oak barn threshing wood flooring is the most rustic and primitive wood flooring that we offer.

For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed. 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. 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. 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.

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. The massive flooring planks are worn with the character from farmers flailing wheat from the chaff generations ago on these boards. So a threshing floor has hundreds of years of wear from farming animals people and tools. Many ontario barns built in the 1800s and 1900s were made from pine and hemlock.

Today reclaimed threshing boards can be repurposed in a variety of applications including flooring stairs railing and counter tops. The mother prepares the meals and takes her turn. The wear on these boards was created by the people who built our country. These threshing floor boards each tell their own story with every scrape and dent that create their rustic beauty of the animals and old machines that once wore them down over years of traditional farming.

Threshing floors are in danger of being robbed 1 samuel 23 1. A booth is constructed for shade. Our antique vintage thresher flooring is our original face barn board oak flooring. Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff.

Jc woodworking only sells this product unmilled. In syria at the threshing season it is customary for the family to move out to the vicinity of the threshing floor. 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. Reclaimed threshing floor barn board table tops.

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.