[AT] Some ads from the 11/22 Lancaster Farming

[charlie hill]

I think you guys are all correct.  Just depends on what you are talking 
about and who's talking.  Names vary by region and area and sometimes just 
by knowing what someone is talking about when they use the same term for two 
different things.

Kind of like the word plow.  You plow ground in the spring and you plow corn 
but it's not the same thing or the same kind of plow.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Some ads from the 11/22 Lancaster Farming


> Larry Goss wrote:
>> Steve, I won't argue about it, but the last I knew a fly net covered
>> the whole body of the horse.
>>
>> It wasn't always possible for poor farmers to buy or afford a matched
>> team, so spreaders were often used when the horses were mismatched by
>> size or when one horse was ill and couldn't pull its share of the
>> load.
>>
>> Larry
>
> I probably just learned it wrong. I was taught that a fly net was the
> headpiece, the one you refer to we called a fly blanket.
> Not a big thing. Unless you're the horse.
>
> Spreaders around here were pin adjustable for that reason. Also to allow
> for items that tended to pull to one side (like a sickle bar) by
> adjusting the spreader you could lessen the side load on the team and
> make it easier for them to pull straight.
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
> Near Cooperstown, New York
>
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