Re: terrace plow

Posted by Hoosierbuddy on December 31, 2002 at 19:44:24 from (67.241.18.6):

In Reply to: terrace plow posted by GREG on December 31, 2002 at 18:38:59:

What you have is a Whirlwind Rotary Terracer.
This terracer consists of a shortened moldboard plow to cut and lift a furrow slice up into a rapidly revolving vertical power-driven auger,which throws the dirt to the side.The auger is driven from the tractor power take-off by either gears or v-belts.
In operation the auger revolves about 1060 rpm and the tractor travels about 5 mph.
With a 22 hp tractor,the whirlwind terracer required 50 man hours and 50 tractor-terracer hours to construct a mile of terrace containing 1899 cubic yards per mile.This is not only a terrace -building machine but a good unit for maintaing terrace contour year after year.

Taken from"Machines For The Farm,ranch And Plantation" by Turner and Johnson,1948,2nd printing and;
"Farm Machinery And Equipment" by Smith,1948,3rd edition,4th printing
I totally knew this info would come in handy some day!!
I Love These old books.Hope this helps
HB

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