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farming was the turn plough, also
known as the mould-board
plough (UK),
moldboard plow (U.S.), or frame-plough. A
coulter (or skeith)
could be
added to...
-
component of a plow (or plough). It is the
cutting or
leading edge of a
moldboard which closely follows the
coulter (one or more ground-breaking spikes)...
- pedometer, the
polygraph (a
device for
duplicating writing), and the
moldboard plow, an idea he
never patented and gave to posterity.
Jefferson can also...
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carefully plant crops in rows
instead of
sowing seeds by hand. The
heavy moldboard iron plow, also
invented during the Han dynasty,
required only one man...
- wood. The plow bolt was
devised to hold
replaceable plowshares to the
moldboards of iron plows. The share, the fastest-wearing part of the plow, would...
-
plowing of land and its
introduction coincided with the
adoption of the
moldboard plow.
These parallel developments complemented each
other and increased...
- 1837 by an
Illinois blacksmith named John
Deere who
developed a
steel moldboard plow that was
stronger and cut the roots,
making the
fertile soils of...
- draft-animal-powered or
mechanized work
include ploughing (overturning with
moldboards or
chiseling with
chisel shanks), rototilling,
rolling with cultipackers...
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harrows and cultivators. This may
follow primary tillage (if any) by
moldboard plows or
chisel plows. No-till
farming methods avoid tillage for seedbed...
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Germanic peoples, due to the more
abundant food
supply available, use the "
moldboard" plow,
introduced by the
Slavs in
Eastern Europe. The plow
works the land...
