[SEL] Nice Wheels/ cable plowing

[Arnie Fero]

Hi Curt,

Rather than an individual farmer buying two traction engines and the cable
plowing rig, I wonder if it might have been done on a local collective
basis?  Maybe a couple of entrepreneurs who went farm to farm and did the
cable plowing?  Perhaps something like what was done with threshing?

See ya,  Arnie

Arnie Fero
Pittsburgh, PA
fero_ah at city-net.com

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Curt wrote:

> Have been to several steam shows here in the states and, to date, have
> yet to see a steam traction engine with a cable setup under the belly.
> So it might have been done, but it was sure on small scale. In our early
> culture of entrepreneurial / no government involvement, what farmer
> could afford to buy 2 traction engines!? It would be interesting to know
> the extent that government subsidies were involved in cable plowing in
> Australia.