Dang thing doesn't want to unload itself - weighs about 300 pounds.
Time for some meditation on Newton's Laws and a bit of rigging 101
Sweet old John Deere in very good condition - well maintained. Everything that should move does freely and there are no cracks or dents in the metal. This was used but taken good care of.
It is a bit of fun history that John Deere was originally a blacksmith - from their website:
John Deere's Plow
In 1837 our founder, John Deere, was a typical blacksmith turning out hayforks, horseshoes, and other essentials for life on the prairie.
Then one day, a broken steel sawmill blade gave him an opportunity. He knew that days in the field were difficult for farmers near his home in Grand Detour, Illinois, because they had to interrupt their work to clean the sticky prairie soil off of their cast-iron plows. He also knew that the soil would slide easily off of a highly polished steel moldboard. Steel was scarce in the area, so Deere fashioned a moldboard out of the second-hand blade.
Now, 175 years later, the company that grew out of the success of this innovative plow continues to manufacture advanced equipment to help those who work with the land accomplish their tasks better and faster.
While the original plow could only do a fraction of the work farmers can tackle with modern tillage equipment, it was high-tech at the time.
Going to use it this week to plant some apple trees and, when we come back from our trip, extend our garden. The sod is so dense that anything else just skitters off - I can use a pick but that gets old.
I also spent this afternoon prepping a new computer for the upstairs office for the grocery store - the one that people are using is getting a bit flaky and it's over five years old. Time to preemptively upgrade to a better system.
