Posted by Buzzman72 on April 21, 2012 at 06:56:18 from (74.129.196.127):
In Reply to: Terminology posted by Ron 1456 on April 20, 2012 at 20:04:47:
I grew up in a farm equipment dealership on its way down. Never did any farming myself. But a plow was a plow, whether it had a single bottom or several. I was most familiar with the moldboard plows, but a lot of farmers here liked something called a disc plow, whether they were plowing with a Cub or an H. A disc was ONE of the disc-shaped cutting devices, OR a machine made up of one or more gangs of those separate discs, and a "disc harrow" was some city guy talking about your disc [although I have heard a few old-time farmers talk about buying a "disc harra," which I always assumed was just old-timer speak]. My grand-dad had a Jeep CJ2A with a 3-point hitch, PTO, and hydraulic lift, and when he prepared his garden, he had a spring-tooth harrow he pulled over the garden after it was plowed.
And a cultivator was a complete "set of cultivators," as the terms were used interchangeably. But an incomplete "set of cultivators" was a problem, especially if you were buying and selling tractors with attachments...because, if you only had a part of a set of cultivators, it was pretty difficult to buy just the missing sections of the cultivator to complete the set, as most farmers who were selling wanted to sell the complete set [as opposed to farmers who were trading, who might not have used the complete set for one reason or another, and who may have "misplaced" the rest of the set of cultivators].
Of course, back when it wasn't un-PC to smoke, most people called that little device an "astray," and not a "butt receptacle" like the military did, either. So where you grew up probably has a lot to do with what you call something, be it an ashtray, a disc, or a set of cultivators.
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