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David Kronwall
11-04-2006 03:45:03
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Re: A good site to teach about implements? in reply to Mike CA, 11-03-2006 15:54:23
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Mike...as a footnote to Allan's answer, and just for fun, here's a little bit of ag trivia concerning the word "cultivator" and Howard Rotavator Company. As you may know, Howard was a British company that manufactured tractor-mounted tillers (generic name) which they called Rotavators (trademark name). In the US we tend to call them roto-tillers, which, I believe, is actually another trademark. Anyway, since the British and we share many things EXCEPT a common language, here's where the word "Rotavator" came from. What we Americans call tillage, breaking up the soil in various ways to create a seedbed, the Brits call cultivation. So when A.C. Howard, the inventor of the Rotavator, came to naming his rotary tiller (or, as he would have said, rotary cultivator), he combined the words ROTARY and CULTIVATOR, and came up with ROTAVATOR. The word also happens to be a pallindrome--a word that is spelled the same forward and backward. Ha! Isn't that amazing? The reason I happen to know this trivia is that I worked for Howard Rotavator from 1979 until they ceased manufacturing operations here in the States in about 1985. My former boss, who was one of the TWO men sent to the US from England in the 50s/60s to sell Rotavators, still lives in Woodstock, Illinois. Just a little trivia for you and anyone else who's interested. David
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