reaping machine

Also known as reaper, reaper (machine)

thumb|Typical 20th-century reaper, a tractor-drawn Deutz-Fahr|Fahr machine

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Commons category: Reapers (machines)
time of discovery or invention: 1828-00-00

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Hand reaping
Mechanical reaping
Mechanical reapers in the U.S.
Reapers in the late 19th and 20th century
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thumb|Typical 20th-century reaper, a tractor-drawn Deutz-Fahr|Fahr machine

A reaper is a farm implement that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass, especially wheat. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reapers that were used in Roman times in what would become modern-day France. The Gallic reaper involved a comb which collected the heads, with an operator knocking the grain into a box for later threshing.