Fougberg, Thord B.M. (Slim)
Sharehorse drawn cultivator
Description:
Horse drawn cultivator for row crops, mainly of steel with wooden handles. Shape, roughly triangular, with apex at wheel. Main parts are: 1) A heavy central steel bar, paralleling the ground, to which all other parts are bolted: near wheel it has a upturned section for attachment single tree to which a horse is hitched 2) wooden handles for use in guiding cultivator. 3) outer framework: on each side a heavy steel bar parallel to the central bar and having 5 reversible teeth bolted on at regular intervals. 4) 2 adjustment devices: (a) a wire activated by a handle between 2 narrow steel bars to regulate wheel depth. (b) a second wire also between narrow steel bars which controlled width of outer framework and so adjusted that to varying widths of rows. 5) the wheel. Used at Skookumchuck Indian Reserve.
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Source:
Fougberg, Thord B.M. (Slim)
Date of Object:
ca. 1910
Accession #:
984.30.01
Dimensions:
L 140 W 30 cm
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