Geese....

Goose · Mar 10, 2018

Visited the Desoto Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley, Iowa today. Desoto Lake was covered with geese.

Also saw a lot of artifacts from the Steamship Bertrand that sunk in the Missouri River on April 1, 1865 on its way with cargo for the mines in Montana. The riverbed changed over the years and the ship was found several miles from the current riverbed and excavated. I couldn't get very good pictures, though. All of the artifacts are in glass cases, plus with a crowd milling around, getting good pictures was chancy. Did get a good picture of a breaking plow that was recovered. It was pulled with six oxen.

SVcummins · Mar 10, 2018

That?s a big ol plow

carvel minne farmer · Mar 10, 2018

can you just imagine being the poor sob hanging on to the handles of that plow :shock:

BushogPapa · Mar 10, 2018

That is from the days when MEN were MEN...!

Texasmark1 · Mar 11, 2018

.....and stumbling over the clods with the reins across your shoulder plowing one row at a time. "Jee"; "Haw": get along little doggy, get
along. Indeed, I checked into this thing called life at the right time...not too soon and not too late.

What I never figured out nor saw, was what implement comes next...the disc and spike harrows that we have today?

JD Seller · Mar 11, 2018

Texasmark1 In the mid 1800s it would have just been a spike harrow. Disks came about in the later 1800s.

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