Threshing Floor Boards

With its untouched original surface and historic patina our true grit 100 original barn threshing floors have the authentic look of a rustic cabin or barn.

Threshing floor boards.

A dirty top oak plank that gives the look of original threshing floor. Antique threshing flooring is ideal for decks patios period workshops and barns. The wear on these boards was created by the people who built our country. Reclaimed antique oak barn threshing wood flooring is the most rustic and primitive wood flooring that we offer.

To keep the grain from falling out the open doorway s a board was sometimes placed across the doorway called a threshold but the term threshold was originally the floor itself or well foot worn floor boards. These boards were salvaged from the first floor of the barns where the threshing took place the process of separating the grain from the stalk. Before there was machinery farmers used a threshing floor to separate the grain from the chaff. In biblical days there was no machinery so after the harvest the grain was separated from the straw and husks by beating it manually.

Reclaimed threshing floor barn board table tops. There are dozens of references to a threshing floor in the bible some literal and some symbolic. A threshing floor is a smooth flat surface that was used in the process of harvesting grain. These threshing floor boards each tell their own story with every scrape and dent that create their rustic beauty of the animals and old machines that once wore them down over years of traditional farming.

The mother prepares the meals and takes her turn. In syria at the threshing season it is customary for the family to move out to the vicinity of the threshing floor. This one of a kind rustic wide plank wood flooring is reclaimed from 150 200 year old threshing barns. For this reason someone always sleeps on the floor until the grain is removed.

The massive flooring planks are worn with the character from farmers flailing wheat from the chaff generations ago on these boards. The harvested produce would be spread over the threshing floor and then animals cattle or oxen would be led over it to crush and break the sheaves apart. What is a threshing floor answer. Our formaldehyde free epoxy finishing brings out the natural depth and patina of the wood and fills the deep crevices to create an easy to.

So a threshing floor has hundreds of years of wear from farming animals people and tools. Threshing in barns was mostly done by hand with a flail until threshing machines became available in the 19th century. Threshing is the process of separating grains. Many ontario barns built in the 1800s and 1900s were made from pine and hemlock.

Today reclaimed threshing boards can be repurposed in a variety of applications including flooring stairs railing and counter tops. Our antique vintage thresher flooring is our original face barn board oak flooring.