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The"loraden" (treshing house row) consisted of the drying barn, the middle floor, the straw barn and the horse mill.

In the lower part of the drying barn, at ground level, there was a large brick oven, which was always built on rock because of the risk of fire.

In the drying barn the grain was dried for 2-3 days in the heat and smoke of the large drying oven.
The oven was heated so that the smoke and heat dried the straw and grain.
When it was dry, the grain was threshed out with flails on the "middle floor ". The sheaves where then opened and were spread out on the smooth log floor.

Two to four men hit the grain with the flails, separating the grain and chaff from the ears and straw.

The straw was removed and the grain was sifted with a sieve or 'shaker', a table with a sparse bottom made of thin wood, with which the grain was sifted so that the grain fell to the floor together with the chaff.

The threshed grain, which still contained chaff and strawremnants, was thrown into the air with a throw shovel so that the wind through the barn carried away the light chaff and the clean grain could be used.

The straw was stored on the "middle floor" and in the "straw barn" for future needs, including roofing and bedding for the cattle.
Only straw that had been threshed with a flail was suitable for roofing.

On the middle floor were the first threshing machines, which were pulled by hand or with a horse mill, where the axles that transferred power with belts to the threshing machine from the walk came in.
The horse walk had a large gear wheel made of wood, which a horse pulled by going around in a circle. The grain was then sieved in a so-called "throwing machine" or by hand through a sieve, separating the chaff from the grain.