As part of the museum aspect of the mission, the
Okanagan Historical Society has gathered together a respectable collection of machines, farm implements, tractors, engines and wagons of yesteryear, a great many of which are 100 years of age or more.
In the southeast corner of the mission grounds is a large collection of farm implements, some under cover, some in the open.
This baler is in the far end of the long machinery shed. This is a piece of farm equipment one will see only a few times in a lifetime. The sign at the baler indicates that it is homemade, and doubtless by an individual with no small measure of engineering, blacksmithing and carpentry skills, not to mention a dash of imagination. It was made primarily of wood, with a smattering of both handmade and prefabricated steel parts, such as steel rods, gears, chains, springs and flat iron. Didn't notice a knotter on the machine, something that would be pretty tough to cobble together by hand, so we imagine the bales were hand tied. When was it made? Likely 100+ years ago.
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