Threshing Floor Boards

Threshing in barns was mostly done by hand with a flail until threshing machines became available in the 19th century.

Threshing floor boards.

The wear on these boards was created by the people who built our country. The massive flooring planks are worn with the character from farmers flailing wheat from the chaff generations ago on these boards. Our antique vintage thresher flooring is our original face barn board oak flooring. A dirty top oak plank that gives the look of original threshing floor.

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. Reclaimed antique oak barn threshing wood flooring is the most rustic and primitive wood flooring that we offer. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic. What is a threshing floor answer.

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. Many ontario barns built in the 1800s and 1900s were made from pine and hemlock. 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. Reclaimed threshing floor barn board table tops.

A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain. For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed. Threshing floors are in danger of being robbed 1 samuel 23 1. 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.

A booth is constructed for shade. Threshing is the process of separating grains. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually. Today reclaimed threshing boards can be repurposed in a variety of applications including flooring stairs railing and counter tops.

This one of a kind rustic wide plank wood flooring is reclaimed from 150 200 year old threshing barns. So a threshing floor has hundreds of years of wear from farming animals people and tools. Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff. 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.

Jc woodworking only sells this product unmilled. Antique threshing flooring is ideal for decks patios period workshops and barns.