Here are some farming tools you will encounter in our impressive collection: A “Locomobile” or traction engine; a threshing machine; a “javeleuse”, a sort of harvester or combine harvester; a motor tractor from the company Société Française de Vierzon, with its characteristic noise that made its reputation… After a walk among these machines, they will no longer have any secrets to you!

Among these oldies, you will find the so called “moto-scie fendeuse”, a unique device from the 1940’s, also called “la batteuse à bois”, a log splitter. This machine was invented by Emile Jouhanneau, a mechanic from La Châtre. It was manufactured from recycled parts and the framework is a chassis from an old Citroën C6G!

With this machine, Emile Jouhanneau toured the roads of our “Vallée Noire” at the speed of 12 mph! When he arrived at a village square, he used his incredible thresher to saw and split the wood, in return for some coins.

This amazing ambulant sawmill is only to be seen in our Museum!