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Re: I just have to tell someone.
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:05 am
by Richard
My father had one of those converted horse drawn rollers back in the 1960s. Originally the wooden shafts were fitted directly to the wooden deck and a seat would probably have been on top of the platform. When tractors took over on hill farms in the 1950s, local blacksmiths were employed to make up hitches to attach them to tractors, and the shafts removed.
Re: I just have to tell someone.
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:45 am
by Ricard with an H
Very interesting and thank you, I'm still trying to find out who owned it locally so I can build a story. The rollers the local farmer uses is massive compared to this one. The best way I can describe these modern rollers is that it's a roller pulling a roller that pulls a roller. There is a three gang, a two gang and a single. Our stony soil is such that they often tow the whole set to bed seeds in and push stones down.