Two Way Plow - Eureka, MT
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N 48° 54.339 W 115° 04.978
11U E 640477 N 5418738
This two way plow is one of several plows of various sizes and types that one will find on the north side of Highway 37, 1.2 miles west of the Highway 93 junction just north of Eureka Montana.
Waymark Code: WMM03P
Location: Montana, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2014
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Someone had managed to gather together about 60 farm implements and wagons and has decided to put them on display. The vast majority of the farm implements are very old horse drawn machines. The collection includes plows, cultivators, harrows, discs, mowers, corn planters, farm wagons, potato diggers and planters, a hay loader, a manure spreader and two road graders. The display is immediately north of the highway and appears to be accessible 24/7/365, at no charge.
This is a two way plow, with a left and a right share, which allows the farmer to plow in both directions. The idea is that the farmer may, by alternating which share is put to use, return up the field on the same furrow he just came down. It works this way because a normal plow will turn the ground in one direction only, and when the plow is turned around, the plow would turn the ground in the direction opposite to what it had just done, which is not a desirable thing. This design was a leap forward in simplifying a farmer's life. More advanced designs based on this concept are still made today. As one might expect, it was manufactured by John Deere.
