Its All Trew

By Delbert Trew
Published on January 1, 2006
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Left: Go-devils could be procured from implement dealers, like this P&O model, though more commonly they were homegrown.
Left: Go-devils could be procured from implement dealers, like this P&O model, though more commonly they were homegrown.
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Above: Go-devils on the farm were often hand-crafted, cobbled-together cultivators.
Above: Go-devils on the farm were often hand-crafted, cobbled-together cultivators.

Homegrown cultivators marked by farmer ingenuity

Early-day California oil field history tells
that when drillers reached the approximate depth of an oil or gas
formation, they cleared the hole of tools and cables. Next, they
lowered a package of nitroglycrerin to the bottom on a twine. Last,
they dropped a heavy object down the hole and ran for cover. This

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