Threshing stone

Similar to the use of threshing boards, the stone was pulled by horses over a circular pile of harvested wheat on a hardened dirt surface (threshing floor), and the rolling stone knocked the grain from the head of wheat.

[2] In the 1870s, approximately one-third of all Russian Mennonites immigrated to the Great Plains of North America.

Stones made in Kansas were approximately 29 to 30 inches long, 23 to 24 inches in diameter, with 7 notches (and rarely 8) resembling gear teeth, made of limestone, and 600 to 800 pounds in weight.

Numerous stones in Kansas are located at private residences as family historic artifacts.

Museums: Various: The Thresher is the official mascot of Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas and named after the threshing stone.

Threshing stone near Goessel, Kansas at Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church . (2010)
Cross sections of a threshing stone on a monument in Peabody, Kansas . (2010)
1974 Mennonite Centennial Memorial Monument in Santa Fe Park of Peabody, Kansas . A threshing stone was cut and placed on 4 sides of this monument. (2010)
Part of the exhibition at Zmeinogorsk Museum of Mining (in Russia ), including four threshing stones at the right.