[SEL] Nice Wheels

[bill at antique-engines.com]

I have a magazine from 1919 that shows it being done in Russia and I
thought talked about it elsewhere, but I'd have to look.

IF I remember, I'll try to dig up that article. It was quite interesting!

Bill

> 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-----
>> > From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
>> > [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of
>> > john palmer
>> > Sent: 31 July 2006 09:08
>> > To: SEL at lists.stationary-engine.com
>> > 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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