Thresher’s Requiem 

Shot up, robbed for parts, and dumped on its back, the old J.I. Case threshing machine perched near a draw cutting down the caprock overlooking Palo Duro Creek. The years of work and weather had produced a rare rust patina. A section of the thresher shell graces the front panel on the Thresher’s Requiem. Bands and rivets now hold slide-gate sections together.

Side panels are beadboard reclaimed from the attic room in the old Moore homestead out east of Lipscomb, Texas on Wolf Creek. Post-salvage coats of milk paint cover the case. A bolt, in combination with two rod brackets from an old horse-drawn sulky rake, works now as a door pull. Inside, the drawer back plate is a mystery piece.