cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32524920

I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester’s inner workings and I still don’t understand how this thing works.

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    5 days ago

    How does one even start to make a self-propelling machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level?

    You look at a horse-drawn mowing machine like this and start thinking about how you could do something similar without the horse.