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db4600

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Aumann has the last round of the CH Wendell auction listed. I didn’t take time to peruse the previous 2, but glanced at what is there now. It’s worth a look as there are a lot of pictures, literature, and manuals. Maybe as many as the SV collection.
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Looks to be 3- 30-60 Moguls and to many to count bottoms.
 
I have those pictures in CH’s book. That was no BTO. It was done at Purdue University as a demonstration of mechanical power.
 
That makes sense. The BTO tag was or is misleading. It pops up here from time to time so it came to mind. I believe that Rumely did something similar and for the most part those ploys were staged by somebody with greater means than the usual farmer. Hart-Parr did the self lifter tractor to display its power and I believe CASE did the incline test. Some vintage pictures can be found where exceptional displays were done by private operators. I’d bet we’ve all seen the early logging pictures of the massive western trees and personally Grandpa left us with some pictures of the Bonanza Farms in the Red River Valley. We have one that shows several teams of horses, wagons, and binder and 28 countable stacks of grain stretching beyond the horizon. This was specifically the Dalrymple Farm. There are some great pictures available through NDSU.
 
Took me a bit to understand what I was looking at.

Big steamer pulling a many gang plow, fella(s) would stand on the plow and put each bottom down with the big levers.

The horse team was driven across the standing platform of the plow for the novelty of the size comparison.

Would be a long day raising and lowering bottoms riding along there all day!

Paul
 
I have seen a similar one at the Geneseo IL fall show. I don't remember how many they pull,but one steam engine could pull it, and another tried to.
 
Not certain but I think I have ever book he ever published . Sure was a smart man in the old ag. .community.
 
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