Let's Talk Rusty Iron

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July 2003
Sam Moore 
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Two-way sulky plows use a horizontal hitch, which provides for automatic shifting of the evener clevis to the front of the working beam by means of a roller moving on a horizontal draft bar. When one of the beams is in its lowered, working position, the front of that beam is ahead of its raised counterpart. This causes the roller on the evener clevis to move along the horizontal draft bar, automatically placing the point of hitch in line with the working beam.

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All horse-drawn walking or riding plows with two or more bottoms are gang plows. Riding gang plows can be either frameless, low-lift or the framed hi-lift style, although most are the latter, including the modern version built by Pioneer Equipment Inc. In the early days, multiple-bottom plows intended for use with tractors or steam engines were called tractor or engine gang plows.

To get around the extra cost of a sulky plow, some manufacturers sold an attachment consisting of wheels, axles, levers and a seat, along with the necessary clamps, to convert a walking plow into '... a satisfactory two-wheeled sulky ...' as one old catalog put it.

So the next time someone asks about sulky and gang plows, just tell them that it's all about the bottoms: one for sulky plows, and more than one used simultaneously for gang plows. PC

- Sam Moore became interested in agricultural machinery growing up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. He now lives in Salem, Ohio, and collects antique tractors, implements and related items.



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