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You folks in the UK are you all familiar with the swing plough that they pull behind horses?
I have seen a lot of pictures of them, but haven't found mucha information about that type of plough. I haven' seen any one use them in the USA. Could you tell me what is the advantage of that type plough.
I have seen pictures of them being pulled behind a Fordson tractor, it requires two people, one to drive tractor and another to control the plough.
 
A "swing plough" is the forerunner to to-day's reversible plough. Horse drawn were always single furrow, and in the early days of tractors, farmers would hitch them behind a tractor like a Fordson with a chain, and some poor old farm worker hanging onto the handles to steer and operate the plough.



The advantages of reversible {turn over} ploughs are:-

no dead open furrows left when finished

level field for ease of following cultivations

faster ploughing, no running along headlands to the next open furrow

no packing of the headland with multiple tractor running to next open furrow

faster ploughing, no time wasted setting out the field into "bouts" = opening furrows.
 
Thanks for supplying an answer to my question.
Over here the plough is called a two way or reversible plow.
Over here on this side of the big pond Our draft animal plow usually had one little wheel in front to adjust depth, or maybe none at all
I have always been interested in ways of doing things in different parts of the world.
The early days of this country has so much Welch influence, but its not mentioned in most history books.
 




All horse ploughs made here have 2 wheels. The smaller wheel runs on the land, and the large wheel in the open furrow.

Both were adjustable up and down to set the plough level side to side to make perfect furrows.

Note the adjustable quadrant on the front so the horse or horses could pull evenly
 
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