[AT] sod breaking picture

[Ralph Goff]

captneb wrote:
> Sod was a standard here.  I wrote a book 40 years ago called SOD WALLS
> detailing their construction.  A special plow called a rod plow or
> grasshopper plow was used to shave a six-inch ribbon off the ground and roll
> it gently over so it could be cut with a spade into "bricks."  There are
> still a few soddies standing...back when I researched the books there were
> quite a few and I could still find homesteaders who could talk with me about
> how they went about it.  Some fine houses were built of sod.  And some
> pretty shaggy ones!
> 
> http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0501_0108.html

Thanks for that entertaining and informative link Captneb. I am seeing a 
lot of similarities between Sask. and Nebraska homesteading.
That two storey sod house was amazing.

Ralph in Sask.