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Post by DAG on Jan 23, 2011 19:21:12 GMT
It certainly was dangerous! But of course there were no health and safety regulations in those days. Unguarded revolving machinery to chop off your hand if you weren't careful and worse still, there were many accidents caused by standing up and overbalancing while ploughing/or towing other equipment and if you fell off the rear wheels crushed you to death before you could get out of the way! Don't even think about it!
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Post by kedigato on Jan 23, 2011 19:51:41 GMT
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Post by nazimundo on Jan 23, 2011 21:14:38 GMT
Not a job I would fancy doing. I suppose it's like many jobs from those days life was cheap Can you do another one Dag ?
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Post by DAG on Jan 23, 2011 23:14:02 GMT
Yes, I will try and post another up tomorrow.
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Post by DAG on Jan 25, 2011 15:25:55 GMT
Traction engines usually had 2 speeds either 2 or 4 miles per hour for ploughing work, designed to be the same as a horse pulled plough.
This was of course long before cars were invented so before synchromesh gear boxes and the earlier crash boxes. Therefore they didn't even have a gear lever either so how do you imagine they changed gear then? BTW no tools were required and it certainly wasn't automatic! ;D
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Post by kedigato on Jan 25, 2011 15:41:55 GMT
They answered to "giddiup" and "move it", or something similiar. Either that, or there was a brake for the slower speed, that you took off for the faster mode.
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Post by DAG on Jan 27, 2011 17:18:19 GMT
Kedi, some automatic gearboxes do work like that but you are about a century too soon. A clue is that they had a similar arrangment on the early wind-up gramophones when they wanted to change the cyclindrical shaped record.
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Post by kedigato on Jan 27, 2011 17:47:43 GMT
Has it something to do with cranking up to a certain speed first?
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Post by DAG on Jan 27, 2011 17:58:58 GMT
Has it something to do with cranking up to a certain speed first? No.
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Post by kedigato on Jan 27, 2011 18:17:07 GMT
Was there something on the plowshear perhaps that could be widened or narrowed, by means of a rope, according to the speed required?
Or were there two plowshears, one for high speed and a second one could be lowered to slow it down, perhaps when doing a deep plough for certain crops?
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Post by DAG on Jan 28, 2011 9:27:35 GMT
No, nothing to do with the plough, you would be able to change gear while on the road for instance.
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