Farmer’s Car Pulls Plow over an Acre in Three Hours (Aug, 1939)
Farmer’s Car Pulls Plow over an Acre in Three Hours
Instead of hitching up a horse or tractor, one farmer harnesses his automobile to the plow. One man drives the sedan, keeping the car wheels on one side in the previous cut of the plow; his partner handles the plow. In that way they turn an acre of ground in less than three hours. The plow is attached to the rear bumper with a chain at the side toward the furrow being turned.
If only they had some sort of “tractor” device they wouldn’t have to use the car.
Sometimes you have to make do with what you’ve got.
My granddad used horses
If your going to go through the trouble of using a car, why not use a plow with more than one furrow?
Bet he can do a lot more than when he had Ma hooked up to that plow.
If only they had something called “money” to afford a tractor.
Oh, I forgot: everyone’s rich.
Was this really newsworthy in 1939? The Model T had come out 31 years prior to this. Using a car in place of a horse on a farm in 1939 is not exactly original or innovative.
Well, they’d already used the “starlet with swimsuit made of emergency bandages” pix in the last issue, and a deadline’s a deadline, y’ know…