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WOW!
I never saw that before and I never even considered that is what the reels were for.
(City boy)
Thanks for that.
Love this forum. _________________ Stitch
I seen this video before but that was just one way the did. Most times they just pulled a plow behind the steam tractor and had guys riding the plow who keep adjusting it.
That's a neat trick with the loop of cable they used to flip the plough over at the start of each run. I've only ever seen it done by hand before using the weight of a couple of heafty guys. _________________ Regards
Roly Williams
"Opportunity is missed by most people, mainly because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" (Thomas Alva Edison)
I seen this video before but that was just one way the did. Most times they just pulled a plow behind the steam tractor and had guys riding the plow who keep adjusting it.
The best method depended on the soil. The US tended to have harder soil, for some reason, which was better able to stand the weight of a heavy engine. Horses for courses, as they say. _________________ Regards
Roly Williams
"Opportunity is missed by most people, mainly because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work" (Thomas Alva Edison)
Thanks Roly for the lesson I never new the difference till now. _________________ Jeff Member of the Georgia Steamers Association.
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That's a neat trick with the loop of cable they used to flip the plough over at the start of each run. I've only ever seen it done by hand before using the weight of a couple of heafty guys.
The ham fisted way the other engine is being driven shows why they're doing it that way, I wouldnt want to be hanging on that plough when it takes off like an exocet
Regarding other ways to plough, American engines, even big ones, are light. Combine that with wheels twice as wide as English ones, and a generally drier climate, and direct traction ploughing becomes a commercial possibility ( with the good supply of cheap labour to ride on the ploughs).
Cable ploughing just suits our bit of the world better. If you get one engine stuck, you've always got the other to help get you out. On the road, having two engines means one can take the plough, the other can take living van/cultivator/water cart.
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