Ridley's stripper harvester
Cosechadora desgranadora (stripper) de Ridley
- Date
- 1843 · confidence high
- Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Credited to
- John Ridley (and John Wrathall Bull)
- People
- 👤 John Ridley1806–1887
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A horse-drawn machine that combed the ears and threshed the grain in the field in a single pass. It solved the labour shortage in Australia's wheat fields.
John Wrathall Bull claimed to have designed the machine; Ridley built and marketed it.
What it led to
- H. V. McKay's Sunshine harvester (1885)
- the expansion of wheat growing in Australia