The Grebing Brothers made history in 1883 by purchasing the first McCormick Deering binder, a machine that tied grain bundles, and continued using it for decades, as shown in a 1908 family photo. In ...
The binder, a vast improvement over Cyrus McCormick's innovative reaper, was a machine that could cut and bind (tie) the stalks of grain into a bundle. The separator, or threshing machine, was used to ...