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Although cement sections later replaced the original clay tiles, and machines were used to dig the trenches for the tile lines, the process remained quite labor-intensive and limited to specialized contractors. The first successful mechanical trencher for drainage tile was James B. Hill's Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher, invented in the late 1880s.
Hill worked as a drainage tiler in northwestern Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s, during which time he devised a wheel trencher that he later named the Buckeye Traction Ditcher (U.S. Patent 523-790; July 31, 1894 [2]). The Buckeye allowed for the quick placement of drainage tiles to aid in cultivation.
A basic component in machine tools at this time was gray iron castings. The company bought castings from jobbing foundries for the machine tools it manufactured. Some of the Cincinnati local foundries which supplied to the machine tool company included the Blackburn Foundry, Buckeye Foundry Company, the Steel Foundry Company (Cincinnati) and ...
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Innovative railroad yard machine shop for first railroad linking Chicago and the Mississippi River. 1858 Aurora: Illinois United States ASME brochure: 133: 1988 Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher. Earliest surviving example of the first successful traction ditching machine for laying agricultural drainage tiles. 1902 Findlay: Ohio United States
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