Summary

'Raisall ' crop lifter fingers fitted to a Sunshine'A.L.' stripper harvester. These facilitated the raising of a down and tangled crop for entry into the harvester front, where the fingers which strip the grain from the stalk are less than one-centimetre apart.

Originally known as a 'false comb', the 'crop lifter attachment' for Sunshine header harvesters was designed by Headlie Shipard Taylor and first introduced by H.V. McKay in 1917 to assist with the harvesting of storm damaged and tangled crops. The attachment gained prominence during the harvest of 1920 when extensive storms throughout much of New South Wales left many crops flattened and seemingly unrecoverable, Crop lifters were offered as an attachment to Sunshine harvesters, with the 'Raisall' brandname applied to the product at a later date.

This image appears to be the original source of a masked reprinted version that appears in MM 026238, MM 026247 and MM 026255.

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Sunshine 'A.L.' type stripper harvester fitted with 'Raisall ' croplifter fingers for facilitating the raising of a down and tangled crops for entry into the harvester front. The machine is situated against a white back screen in a workshop or factory, with a white cloth drapped over the rear portion of the machine, suggesting that the photograph was set up for subsquent reuse as a masked artwork in a catalogue or other publication.

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