I acquired appropriate handles and a shovel
plow point from plow collector Harold Eddy at his fascinating museum in Slater, Missouri.
* Brink's
Plow Point was made from a twisted sheet-metal strip with a two-point, clip-on sheet-metal barb.
The TE-20 would go fast enough with two bottoms to bend a
plow point should you hit a stump.
When the
plow point hits an obstruction, the bottom kicks back and up, compressing the fluid in the cylinder.
I have a Moore
plow point and parts book from 1931, and it has points available listed for a Millington Clipper No.
Typical procedure was to initially "lay off" the rows with a "gopher" or similar
plow point on a "plow stock." The fertilizer was then placed in the rows with the guano distributor.
The jointer, a miniature of the
plow point, rode against the coulter and turned about 5 inches of the soil before the
plow point and moldboard finished turning the earth into the furrow beside it.
During the first weeks after they moved in, he'd found old harnesses, hay hooks,
plow points, garlands of rusty trace chains, a cracked wooden wheel.
Nuts and bolts on Yankee rakes and manure spreaders had to tightened, gears and
plow points had to be replaced, disk harrows and cultivators readied, wagon wheels greased, mowing machines updated with new pinion gears.
Agway is a farmer-owned cooperative which sells everything from seed and
plow points to energy and insurance.
The sculptures highlight new uses for hay rakes, wagon wheels, wrenches,
plow points, round discs and tobacco carts.