[AT] unidentified horse drawn equipment

[John Hall]

I agree with horses being a bit slow for a rotary hoe. This one has pointed 
discs, aren't rotary hoes curved on the end? Other than what we call rolling 
cultivators for plowing row crops, we never used anything like rotary hoes 
around here.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Van Peursem" <deanvp at att.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:54 PM
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> John,
>
> This may sound like an oversimplification, but was it a small rotary hoe? 
> However, I don't remember
> rotary hoes being around during the horse era and whether horses could 
> pull one fast enough. But
> anyway that is what comes to mind with the description you have provided.
>
> Dean VP
> Snohomish, WA
>
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> Of John Hall
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 6:51 PM
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> Subject: [AT] unidentified horse drawn equipment
>
> While on a family outing at a pumpkin farm, I briefly saw a horse drawn
> piece of machinery I couldn't identify. It is built similar to a stalk
> cutter but instead of a large drum with straight blades, there are 2 or 3
> rows with star shaped discs. The rows of discs are straight, not angled 
> like
> a harrow. It looks sort of like it is some sort of an aerator. It is a bit
> east of me so that puts it on the edge of peanut and cotton growing 
> regions.
> Any ideas?
>
> John Hall
>
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