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Wooden beam walking plow?????

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gmccool

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Can anyone tell me about what time frame wooden beam plows were made. Also did steel beams replace wooden beams or were they both made at the same time & you just had a choice when you bought them. Also about how much would they have cost when new. Thanks Gerald
 
I've got a 1902 Sear's Catalog, reproduction, and they have a Kenwood both wood and steel beam and are priced at $9.75 for a 14" wood beam and 5 cents more for a steel beam. That's kind of an average, some of the smaller one's 7" and etc. start at around $2-3. Real interesting catalog to look through, they sold about everything you would ever need. As far as a timetable for first production, I not sure.
 
My dad, born in 1885. claimed the wooden beam plow was lighter and better balanced. He said that in good ground a 12 inch wooden bean plow with four mules could plow the length of a square forty without touching t he handles. This was with perfect conditions and all adjustments made correctly. He paid about 25 dollars for a model 13 Oliver cast iron plow before WW2 and sold it after the war getting his money back. 1908 Sears catalog has a deluxe plow for 8 dollars

In good conditions a young man and a good 4 horse hitch could plow about 2.5 acres a day, Usual conditions with 2 horses and about a 9 inch plow they could get about an acre.
 
I suppose the first was invented around 4000BC, the latest one was probably made in India just before quitting time.... still about 457 rupies...
I have 2 'two way' wood beams, both made in New York state, my guess atleast 120-140 years old from the look of the type used in the castings..
 
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