Posted by LenNH on February 17, 2010 at 06:50:34 from (24.60.236.239):
In Reply to: Trip rope clip posted by RICHMONDRON on February 16, 2010 at 13:25:37:
When I was growin" up on the farm (in central N.J.) in the 40s, we had a high-tech solution for almost anything. We called it "bale wire." Before twine-tying balers became popular, balers used a heavy wire, mostly manually-fed (there may have been a wire-tying type, but this is so long ago now that I can't recall if this is true). The trend was towards twine, because pieces of wire sometimes got mixed in with the hay, and this does not seem to sit well in a cow's stomach). The "bale wire" (s'pozed to be "baling wire," but we didn't know no diff'rent) was all over the farm--some in bundles for the next round of baling, and lots and lots of it that came off the bales when they were opened. The farm "shop" (as in "junk shop")had loops of it hanging all over the walls. Seemed like there wasn't anything you couldn't fix with bale wire. You could patch up a fence. You could make a loop to attach a gate to a post. You could hang tools made from bale wire hooks. AND.....here we get down to the really high-tech part.....you could make a loop to attach the plow trip-rope to the tractor seat. If the plow ever came loose from the tractor, the loop opened and the rope and the plow stayed behind. My father's favorite little joke was something like, "Well, it's broke, guess we gotta get out the bale wire." A word about the plow trip-rope and the lift mechanism. As far as I know, there were only two ways to raise and lower a plow before hydraulics came along. Horse-drawn plows were lifted with levers, I believe (seen 'em, never used one). Tractor-drawn plows at some point in their history were given a clever lifting mechanism that involved hooking the end of a lever in notches around the inside of a drum attached to the left wheel. One half revolution of the wheel lifted the plow. A latch inside the lift box kept the plow up. To drop the plow, you gave a yank on the rope, which unlatched the axle and let the plow drop. Very hard to describe, but easy to understand if you've ever seen one. I used a Little Genius and a Little Wonder on my father's place for maybe 20 years all together. The lifts never failed. I can see these things as clear as day, but I can't seem to describe them any better than this.
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