I love finding old mysteries in the woods. I have a friend thats 80 and he told me in his day when a car died and there wasnt enough cash tofix it was made into something else. He had an old Model A motor set up like this to run a cut off saw for sawing slabs.
I picked up several old farm implements cleaning up lots here. I took them and made yard art from the bad ones and sold others to collectors.
That thresher would bring big money to a collector. A museum bouth the only one I know of here for a working display.