kcm.MN
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farmerjohn
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I?ve never seen one with a pulley on the belly like that, I wonder what it?s pulling that it won?t pull the engine sideways.
Pulling a turning plow, see the stake drove in the ground in side of front wheel to keep it from sliding, had to get off and re thread the plow to go back then about ever other thru the unit would move up about 5 ft. Sure was rough but better than horses back then. Needed big flat fields for sure.
Cable plowing was mostly used in the UK and northern Europe, with a pair of cable drum equipped machines moving in tandem across the headlands of the field being worked. One steamer pulled a reversible gang plow towards it by reeling in its line, while its partner played out its cable. When the plow reached the end of the field, the machines would advance the length of the furrows created then the plow and process would be reversed. This one could be skidding logs by itself, but with the barren landscape visible in the photograph, that seems unlikely.
Unless you were parked on some pretty slimy clay, I dont think you could pull one of those steam engines sideways given their weight. Most of those small fields had been farmed since Neolithic times and were pretty well picked clean of major rocks and other plow-snaring obstacles.
Unless you were parked on some pretty slimy clay, I dont think you could pull one of those steam engines sideways given their weight. Most of those small fields had been farmed since Neolithic times and were pretty well picked clean of major rocks and other plow-snaring obstacles.
Majorman
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Steve@Advance
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I see the concept behind the cable plowing with the winch underneath, but it must have also been used for pulling from the looks of the massive rear wheels.
What other type implements would have been used at that time?
That's quite a machine!
What other type implements would have been used at that time?
That's quite a machine!
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