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3-row Horse-drawn Walking Cultivator - Cultivator, Walking
Solid iron cultivator has curved unpainted wooden handles attached to base with flat metal strips to cross-piece. Cross-piece has spool ends that go against outer "V" of cultivator for manuverability. Single-loop horse harness at front.
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Avery Six-Disk Harrow - Harrow
Sulky (seated) six-disk Avery harrow has a triangular body and two six-spoke wheels attached to central vertical axle in front so that it can rotate left to right. Spade-shaped seat has two rows of round perforations and is mounted to back of body and above disks. Two three-disk units are mounted to back of body and clamp into holes of horizontal bar to adjust width. Two wire spring levers mounted to either side of seat for making wheel height...
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Brussels Sprout Harvester - Harvester
Brussels Sprout Harvester, 1966. Invented by Aldo Giusti, in 1966. The harvester is comprised of: a large, green painted, metal, rectangular frame; a sharp-edged, metal, cylindrical component, with an electric cord coming out of it, and it is straddling the top of the frame with two metal bars on either side attached to it; a downward tilted rack of bars underneath the cylindrical device, in the middle of the frame; a green painted metal band in ...
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Bull Rake - Rake
Large sulky (seated) bull rake has two giant iron six-foot seven-double-spoke wheels on either side attached to central axle upon which spade-shaped seat with two rows of oval shaped perforations and ten curved rake forks are also mounted. Wooden horizontal board covers tops of forks and a wooden beam extends out front.
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Cambridge Walking Plow - Plow
Cambridge Walking Plow. Plow has solid iron blade, painted red with an unfinished wooden beam out front to the back of which are mounted to unfinished wooden handles with curved grips. Metal brackets extend down from front beam. There is a small wheel in front with "spokes" comprised of three circular openings.
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Champion Walking Plow - Plow
Large Champion walking plow is wood with painted red wooden beam and green painted iron metal bracket. Oak wooden handles extend behind large blade and are supported near grips by a red crossbar. Small six-spoke red iron wheel is mounted between two V-shaped brackets at front of beam.
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Chattanooga Hillside Walking Plow - Plow, Hillside
Chattanooga Hillside Walking Plow. Plow has iron beam and center bracket, painted red, with arrow-shaped double-sided blade. Oak wooden handles come to a point above blade. Latch behind blade allows you to switch sides blade plows for making indentical rows perpendicular to slope as farmer switches back and forth.
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Coburn Branding Iron, c. 1872-1916 - Iron, Branding
Coburn Branding Iron, c. 1872-1916. Cylindrical metal rod extends length of tool. Metal rod splits into three metal tongs. Three metal tongs attach to rounded, C-shaped brand. Top of metal handle is shaped in a ring. Cylindrical rod is slightly curved from use.
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Cultivator - Cultivator
Iron metal walking cultivator has a small wheel, with three V-shaped spokes, in front. There are five curved metal prongs at bottom with a V-shaped metal scraper in back. Wooden handles with curved grips have wooden dowel and iron rod cross bars and come to a point at top center of body. A metal spring rod vertical lever is mounted between front of handles and is used to adjust width or tightening of blades. Cultivator is painted red while wo...
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Cultivator - Cultivator
Seated cultivator has long wooden beam out front that tapers to a rounded end covered with iron metal. Two double-seven-spoke wheels on either side of body which is composed of two rows each of seven curved metal bars attached to vertical springs in center and a horizontal rod at front above which is mounted a spade-shaped seat with two rows of oval perforations. A wire spring lever is mounted to right of seat for making wheel height adjustment...
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Cultivator - Cultivator, Walking
Small walking cultivator has large 8-spoked iron wheel in front, small 5 prong cultivator in back and two oak wooden handles with curved grips and wooden dowel cross bar. Handles are mounted to wheel and cultivator by flat iron bar brackets. Used for weeding; it pops out weeds you do not want.
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Dain (John Deere) Wheel Buck Rake - Rake
Wood and iron wheel buck rake has a metal axle in back with inset six-spoke wheels between center and ends. Axle is framed by two horizontal wooden boards attached with metal brackets and approximately eight to ten "rake" pieces extending out front. Front piece has two long wooden beams attached by a horizontal board at front at the ends of which are attached two more six-spoke wheels. A larger seven-spoke wheel is sitting on top.
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Ditching Plow - Plow
Solid iron metal walking ditching plow has a double-sided blade that comes to a point in the center. A curved iron beam is mounted behind blade and extends out front and has a double six-hole harness mount at end. Iron handles have iron cross-support pieces and adjustable metal curved perforated grips. A small wheel with three V-shaped spokes sits just below and behind blade.
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Hay Hook, c. 1880-1900 - Hook, Hay Bale
Hay Hook, c. 1880-1900. Hook has a solid iron hook with a pointed end that is affixed to a slightly bulbous cylindrical oak wooden handle through the center. Wooden handle is split into two sections mounted to either side of hook top end so that handle spins when hook is in use.
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Holt Scraper, 1909 - Weeder
1909 Holt scraper is solid iron with a 2x4-inch wooden crosspiece above box. Back beam handle is curved iron. Box has a curved back, flat sides and open front. Top wooden beam is affixed via iron nuts and bolts to one of many notches in thick iron bracket that is mounted to sides and extend in front of and above box for adjusting scraper angle. Two looped iron rods extend out front and are mounted to inside sides of box.
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Homemade Weeder/Scraper - Weeder
Homemade Weeder/Scraper has a flat wooden wheel lined on outside with a flat piece of iron metal. Wooden bracket extends from wheel at back of which are mounted two wooden handles with perpendicular wooden grips mounted to ends. Handles are supported by an iron bar cross piece. Perpendicular T-shaped iron scraper with a flat bottom is mounted to wooden bracket behind wheel.
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International Harvester Dump Rake - Rake, Dump
International Harvester Dump Rake is used for raking cut grain into wind rows. Unit is painted yellow, red and blue and is solid iron metal with two long wooden beams out front. Large sixteen-spoke wheels on either side mounted to metal rod and L-shaped rod to which are affixed 27 curved rake forks with spring loop ends at top. Lever above center back for adjusting wheel height. Spade-shaped seat has two rows of round perforations, is red, an...
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International Harvester Potato Harvester - Harvester, Potato
Horse-drawn International Harvester potato harvester is solid iron with wood handles and is red and black. Center spade digs up the potatoes onto the six-rod, flare-sided "fork piece behind it which shakes off the dirt. Potatoes are then dropped in back and the farmer, who is holding the wooden handles and walking behind the plow, has to be careful not to step on the potatoes! Cross piece at front has two rods that drop down and end in wheels-...
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International Harvester Reversible Cultivator - Cultivator
Fourteen-tooth International Harvester reversible cultivator. Red metal bosy has a wheel in front at the point of three bars that form a triangle with an upright lever at back center. 14 serpentine spikes are affixed vertically to metal bars. Two off-white wooden handles extend out from center bar. A wooden dowel and metal rod stretches between the handles just below the tapered and curved grips.
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International Harvester Ridger - Harrow
Solid iron sulky International Harvester ridger has two horizontal sections with ten serpentine blades extending out back on each side behind seat. Seat is spade-shaped with four oval-shaped perforations on each side and is mounted between blade units and two front small ten-spoke iron wheels. An iron pipe sits below seat and mounts to blade units and two vertical flat metal levers that can be used to adjust blades. A looped-end metal rod exte...
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Jackson Hay Fork - Fork, Hay Lifting
Jackson hay fork. Cultivator has a triangular wooden frame, painted green, with two cross piece4s. Two protective iron rods on outside lengths of frame. Four curved spiked forks extend from flat part of triangle. Iron loop harness at point of frame above which is a metal support bracket with text on one side. A leather strap with iron hook at end is mounted to top of bracket.
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J. Nourse Wood-beam Walking Plow - Plow
J. Nourse wood-beam walking plow. Solid oak wooden plow has clear varnish and an iron blade, bracket and harness that are painted black. Handles have bent wooden U-shaped dowel above straight wooden dowel cross bar and exend down just behind blade. Center beam is slightly curved.
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John Deere Iron-beam Plow - Plow
John Deere Iron-beam plow. Solid iron plow is painted green and has oak wooden handles with clear varnish. Iron beam is curved and mounted to handle with flat iron brackets. A small iron tree, painted yellow, is mounted to front and has two metal hooks hanging from both ends.
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John Deere Red Jacket Plow - Plow
John Deere Red Jacket Plow. Single row horse-drawn walking plow has oak wooden handles with clear varnish, a curved central wooden beam painted red and iron metal parts, also painted red. A small 6-spoked solid iron wheel is in front. Handles extend down and are mounted just behind the blade.
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John Deer Steel-beam Walking Plow - Plow
John Deer Steel-beam Walking Plow is steel with yellow paint over green paint. Blade is painted green. Handles are solid unfinished oak with curved grips and a metal rod as a cross bar. Vertical double-bracket at front with seven holes on each side for mounting rigging. Large blade was probably used with softer soil.
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