Fete des Battages a l’Ancienne in Gaillan-en-Medoc is built around Come and admire these old harvesters and tractors, On the program for this threshing festival: Exhibition of old and new equipment, craft show, demonstration of old-fashioned threshing with a steam engine ( ) Large garage sale on both days. The setting in Gaillan-en-Médoc gives the market its community scale, tying seasonal goods or second-hand finds to the everyday life of the town. That local texture gives the event its social and cultural weight.