[SEL] Nice Wheels/ cable plowing

[Peter Scales]

Hi Arnie

This is certainly how it was done in the UK - a "contractor" would turn up
and plough your fields / dredge your pond / thresh your corn, etc..  It
still gets done that way today - most smaller farmers do not have the spare
cash for the capital costs of the equipment, so the bigger boys buy the gear
and rent it out (usually with driver).

Regards

     Pete
-- 
Peter Scales  

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of 
> Arnie Fero
> Sent: 01 August 2006 16:28
> To: The SEL email discussion list
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Nice Wheels/ cable plowing
> 
> 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.
> 
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