by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 08/08/2017 at 17:55
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 08/08/2017 at 17:55
Tags: Ploughing
; Vintage
STARS: 4
Meet a really old tractor and an equally old plough. The first tractors were essentially mechanical horses and so used implements in just the same way. Ploughing then was a two man job and judging by the speed of this combination barely faster than a pair of horses.
Interestingly the tractor had hand controls only.
"Berang" (berang)
08/08/2017 at 18:02, STARS: 1
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Well yeah, if you use a tiny plow. But with a tractor you could also use a big plow.
"vicali" (vicali)
08/08/2017 at 18:19, STARS: 1
Looks like Trevor;
"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/08/2017 at 18:20, STARS: 0
You could, once technology had moved on a bit and if you could afford one.
Alternatively, you could have done this, although I can’t imagine it was very common:
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/08/2017 at 18:22, STARS: 0
Well, just replace the steam by internal combustion....
"Berang" (berang)
08/08/2017 at 18:38, STARS: 0
It was a common practice, but farms didn’t own their own machinery. They would hire a company to plow the fields. The company would travel farm to farm with the engines and plows. This was still common even once gas tractors were invented. The idea of each farm having its own “small” tractor didn’t really occur to most people until the 1920s.
Ford tried with the Fordson in 1917, but the idea was ahead of its time then. Still, neat machines:
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/08/2017 at 19:27, STARS: 0
Also seen on Monday: the John Deere one, a sort of combined tractor and plough.
"Berang" (berang)
08/08/2017 at 19:55, STARS: 0
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The Moline Universal had interchangeable rear axles, which could be replaced with different implements.