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Fresno scraper. The Fresno scraper is a machine pulled by horses used for constructing canals and ditches in sandy soil. The design of the Fresno scraper forms the basis of most modern earthmoving scrapers, having the ability to scrape and move a quantity of soil, and also to discharge it at a controlled depth, thus quadrupling the volume which ...
Horses, of course, could pull much greater weight than dogs. Children often rode in the back of horse travois. [7] When traveling with a travois, it was traditional for Salish people to leave the tipi poles behind at the camp "for use by the next tribe or family to camp there." [8] A horse travois can be made with either A-frame or H-frame ...
The hansom cab is a kind of horse-drawn carriage designed and patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom, an architect from York. [1]: 30 The vehicle was developed and tested by Hansom in Hinckley, Leicestershire, England. [2] Originally called the Hansom safety cab, it was designed to combine speed with safety, with a low centre of gravity for safe ...
A two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle is a cart (see various types below, both for carrying people and for goods). Four-wheeled vehicles have many names – one for heavy loads is most commonly called a wagon. Very light carts and wagons can also be pulled by donkeys (much smaller than horses), ponies or mules. Other smaller animals are ...
Buckboard Stereo card showing a long buckboard. Note the boards lay directly on the axles without springs Duke's cigarettes advertising insert card, 1850–1920. A buckboard is a four-wheeled wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal.
A vardo (also Romani wag (g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [1]: 89–90, 168 [2]: 138 The name v ardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [3]
A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Usually two-seated and able to hold four passengers, surreys had a variety of tops that included a rigid, fringed canopy, parasol, and extension. [1] The seats were traditional, spindle-backed (often upholstered), bench seats.
Detailed view. Battle taking place during the Emirate of Sicily. The Sicilian cart (or carretto siciliano in Italian and carrettu sicilianu in Sicilian or carretti (plural)) is an ornate, colorful style of horse or donkey -drawn cart native to the island of Sicily, in Italy.