Sulky plow

Anyway, the two-way sulky plow was certainly developed during the mid-1800s and most plow manufacturers offered them.

She "raised a little bit" in her garden, "when it wasn't a blowin" and remade clothes until she had "nothing more to patch." Throughout their marriage, the couple worked in the fields together, she driving three horses on the sulky plow while he drove five on the gang plow.

"My John Deere sulky plow was the first one that I bought," Alan says.

The sulky plow made things much easier for the plowman, but the cost of the machine still relegated most small farmers to the hand plow.

In 1884, a 3-wheel "Flying Dutchman" sulky plow was introduced.

Moline Plow released its Flying Dutchman sulky plow in 1884.

Moline's Flying Dutchman sulky plow (1884) was a market leader followed by the equally successful Moline Champion corn planter (1886).

The next major innovation in plow design was the arrival of the sulky plow in the 1840s.

Subsequent plowing was done by a single-bottom, 14- or 16-inch sulky plow pulled by three good horses.

When the Gilpin sulky plow went into production in 1875, it launched Deere & Co.

I bought a sulky plow recently and am unable to find a brand or name on it.

White Horse makes a non-hydraulic sulky plow as well, along with conventional steel eveners, and a rope-and-pulley hitch system that eliminates the need for heavy eveners between each team in a multiple hitch.