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Re: Cultivator vs. Scuffler..Wheel Plow vs.Disc
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on August 14, 2003 at 03:10:33 from (216.208.58.182):
In Reply to: Cultivator vs. Scuffler..Wheel Plow vs.Disc posted by Michael Soldan on August 13, 2003 at 18:42:01:
Micheal: You are quite correct on this terminology matter. However if you look at how quick technology around us has evolved in just your and my lifetime this is not very surprising. Here we are a group of people conversing almost daily around North America and beyond. I dare say most of the guys in our age group started to school in a one room school district, and we didn't know people beyond that district, other than a relative. Many of he disagreements on forums have been created by this merging of terminology On the tillage tools you mention, where I grew up in Nova Scotia a row crop cultivator was called just a cultivator. What you refer to as a field cultivator even the newer wheel controled versions were called spring tooth harrows. I first heard the term scuffler and scuffled, when about 20 years of age at an auction in PEI during the month of June. All of the guys in crowd were discussing scuffling their potatoes. Not knowing what they were talking about I kept very quiet trying to figure this out. At first the only item I could think of was my dad and his 1/4 to 1/2 acre potato patch for personal use on dairy farm. He used to drag a 5 foot section of spike tooth harrow over his potato rows just as potatoes were emerging to kill weeds. He always used a horse for this chore. One day while doing this one rein broke and the old horse took off in circles, and by the time dad got him reined in he had made about 6-8 circles around the potato patch. Of course the crossing row effect up rooted potatoes and he had a terrible mess. Figuring his potato crop was a disaster anyhow he hitched the horse to the potato hiller and hilled it all up again. He said that turned out to be one of the best potato crops he had ever grown. When the guys at the auction were talking about scuffling all I could imagion was my dad's experience. If you go into the Maritimes today those machines are all called cultivators either field or row crop. They will call a disk or spike tooth a harrow, but if it has spring teeth it's a cultivator whether field or row crop. In NS again a wheeled plow without question would be a trailer plow. A disk plow would have been called a headache. When I was a teenager in Nova Scotia most mounted plows would have been called headaches. Many many farms down there went from trailer plows to semi-mounts. You and I have really just discussed part of eastern Canada. And no, I don't think it really mattered what name the manufacturer put on the implement, geography was what put the name on the machine. But just think what all this is doing for our collective vocabularies. Many many times I have scratched my head wondering what terms of different areas were. In a nutshell it's one room school to world wide web in 50 years.
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