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Just thinking about some of the unusual names for farm equipment.There was a piece of equipnent used in this part of the world,called a (GO DEVIL).any one know of some odd sounding names used by farmers in the old days.( I will tell you what the go devil was later on.
 
It maybe off your subject but when ever I get to talkin to some city folk and mention the name "Cockshutt" they definately give me a funny look.
 
Kin I don't know where you are from but up in the panhandle in the 40's everybody used a godevil on their dryland cotton. Homemade knifing sleds were in every pile of old equipment in the 50's. All replace with 3pts with rotary hoes.
 
Maybe then they would wonder about us Deere fans when we open the petcocks to start our hand crank tractors. LOL
 
Who knows what a stoneboat was ? Its nothing more than a skid made of two 4x4's for runners with 2x6 decking. The whole thing was about 5 ft. wide and 7 ft. long. Pulled by two horses or a small tractor. In summer it was used to skid large stones off a field, in winter to clean barns. The advantage because it was so low, it was easier to load.
 
The only place I heard that term was many long years ago Popular Mechanics magazine had plans to mount a amall engine on a drive trailer to put behind a bicycle to make a "motor bike". This was right after WWII. (The big one, as Archie Bunker usta say).

Areo
 
I know about "Go-Devils", "Double Shovels" and "Georgia Stocks" because my brother made a crop of peanuts one year with a team of donkeys. We thrashed them with a stationary thrasher run by a steam engine. That was before external_link run for president.
 
Thanks Ken for the mention of the Go-Devil. I have an original sale bill from my great-grampa's auction in Oklahoma, in 1914. It has a Go-Devil listed on it, and no one around here knew what it was.

Paul
 
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