[SEL] Nice Wheels

[Tim Christoff]

Does anyone know if cable plowing was ever done in the US?  I have never
seen a reference to it.  Also, what was the advantage of plowing a feild in
this way beside the fact that the engines were not traveling through the
feild, I guess what I am trying to say is, was this method quicker than
pulling the plow behind a smaller tractor?

Tim Christoff
Basehor Kansas


> [Original Message]
> From: Peter Scales <peter at loud-n-clear.net>
> To: The SEL email discussion list <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Date: 7/31/2006 5:47:40 AM
> Subject: RE: [SEL] Nice Wheels
>
> I can remember, as a child of ten or eleven, watching a pair of Fowler
BB's
> (steam tractors, look here, 3rd pic -
> http://www.oldglory.co.uk/archive/30nov05/ft3.htm) plowing the 20-acre
field
> behind our house.  This would have been in 1966 or 1967, well after the
end
> of WWII.  As I recall, this working pair used to plow fields,  dredge
pools
> and pull out stumps for many years after that.  I do not know if they are
> still working, but they almost certainly still exist.
>
> Regards
>
>      Pete
> -- 
> Peter Scales  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of 
> > john palmer
> > Sent: 31 July 2006 09:08
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> > Subject: [SEL] Nice Wheels
> > 
> > You can see how far behind the British were.We were using 
> > these things till 
> > after the second war!!   John
> > 
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