Stopped to see if a guy wanted to sell his old walk behind plow the other day. He said I could have it!! I will stop some evening this week and pick it up. I'm a happy camper and will display at the entrance at the ranch. It is a JD with same paint pattern as the one shown in picture. The picture is one I found on internet. The one I'm getting has all steel handles and steel grips other wise the same as picture and is mint shape.

That dirt mower in the picture I have one of them at the ranch that was used a lot in the early 1900 hundreds there.

Nice find!

Got a mule wandering around the place to give er a try?

I bet in the day there was some rodeos with them. LOL

Had a great uncle that plowed with a mule til the day he died. Wish I'd paid more attention when he showed me how to hitch up old Rodey but I thought I was really doing doing something walking the furrow behind old Rodey with Uncle Ben.

Rodey was a blue gum jenny mule broke to plow and ride.

Is blue gum still an acceptable term?

My dad once compared the fumes from the tail pipe of our Ferguson 30 to the team he walked behind as a lad growing up in western Oregon.

Interesting story's thanks.

A little history on one bottom plows>>>> His horse walked about 2.5 miles per hour. In a 10-hour day he probably walked 25 miles, maybe more. At that rate, his 12-inch bottom walking plow would probably cover about 2.5 acres. It would take 12 days to plow his 30 acres:that means he probably would walk 300 miles just to prepare the seed bed for his crop. But he was not yet done. He had to walk the field again, broadcasting the seed by hand from a bag over his shoulder. And still he was not yet done because he had to walk behind his horse pulling a harrow to cover the seed. All told he probably had to walk almost 400 miles just to prepare the land and seed his crop!

Not sure why, but in the Ozarks you see a lot of those nailed to trees with the tree grown around it???

That's nat as all get out.

Jerry has alot of old horse drawn equipment that his grandad and great grandad used

Can you imagine if that's how things were done now? People today don't have the same grit today