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A plough or plow (both pronounced / p l aʊ /) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. [1] Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil.
Pages in category "Horse-drawn vehicle parts" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The heavy weight made horse-drawn transport difficult, especially in the mud and snow of the Eastern Front. [8] The motorized version was attached directly without a limber to either a Sd.Kfz. 6 or Sd.Kfz. 11 prime mover and could easily achieve a march speed of 40 km/h, equivalent to a day's march by a horse-drawn battery. [14]
The first snow plows were horse-drawn wedge-plows made of wood. The earliest reference found by the Oxford English Dictionary was written in 1792 in a description of New Hampshire: [6] When a deep snow has obstructed the roads, they are in some places opened by an instrument called a snow plough.
An early horse-drawn snowplow at the Rosstag Burggen, a historical reenactment of life in 19th-century Germany [10]. Although snow removal dates back to at least the Middle Ages, early attempts merely involved using a shovel or broom to remove snow from walkways and roads. [9]
Moline Plow was formed in the 1870s when the firm of Candee & Swan, a competitor of Deere and Company (also of Moline), won a lawsuit against Deere allowing it to use the "Moline Plow" name. [3] Reorganized under the new name, it built a line of horse-drawn plows and other implements to serve the large American agricultural market.
1. A type of tack placed upon a horse or other animal in order to hitch it to a cart, plow, wagon or other horse-drawn vehicle. [1]: 101 2. To harness a horse is to put the harness on the horse. harness racing, trotting races The sport of racing horses in harness, pulling a very light single-person cart called a sulky. The horses usually trot ...
Four locomotives plow deep snow in February, 1869. Early roads were often rolled rather than plowed to compact accumulated snow into a surface suitable for sleighs drawn by draft animals. [7] Rail transportation brought the requirement for snow removal by plows. In the 1840s railway companies began using Bucker plows to remove snow from ...