Already a classic! With over 1,000 drawings and photos covering how to plow with horses using older equipment and new implements. Here you will find simple diagrams explaining tricky adjustments for both riding and walking plows. Detailed engineer's drawings of John Deere, Oliver, McCormick Deering, Parlin and Orendorff, Avery, and many other older manufacturers will be immensly helpful to folks restoring equipment. Also includes closeup photos and information on new makes of animal-drawn plows including Pioneer and White Horse. (368 pages)
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Lynn R. Miller is one of the country's foremost experts on small farms. A multi-faceted speaker, author, storyteller, artist, teacher, and farmer, his efforts to champion the causes, and advocate the support, of the small independent family-based farms and ranches of North America have made a significant difference. Miller has been farming since 1970 and working with draft horses since 1973. In 1976 he conceived of and started The Small Farmer's Journal, an international farm quarterly. To this day he functions as editor/publisher and as such he offers, to over 40,000 subscribers around the world a powerful tool for self-sufficiency, sustainability and community.
Miller has authored (and sometimes illustrated) over 12 books on various topics related to animal power and alternative agriculture, including; The Small Farm Dream is Possible, Why Farm, The Workhorse Handbook, Buying a Farm, Work Horses Today, Training Workhorses, Thought Small, Ten Acres Enough, Horsedrawn Plows & Plowing, Haying with Horses and more. He has conducted workshops and lectured extensively throughout the United States and Canada. He continues with research and development in agriculture alternatives. He is currently farming a mixed crop/livestock, high-desert, horse-powered, family ranch raising Belgian Draft Horses, commercial beef cattle, free range poultry, potatoes, hay, grain, while working to dovetail operations into an ever more beneficial symbiotic relationship with the fragile surrounding wildlife habitat.
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Yet another great book from Lynn Miller,
By Timothy Springston (Susquehanna, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Horsedrawn Plows and Plowing (Paperback)
This is a fantastic book from a series of fantastic books by the author. It will never be a bestseller simply because the information it contains is uninteresting to most people but if you want to learn to plow with horses or oxen, this is the only resource there is. This book covers every aspect of plowing, including the appropriate timing of tillage. It also discusses the numerous different types of walking and riding plows and gives instructions for the proper use and maintenance for each major type. There were far to many different plow companies to even mention all of them but Horsedrawn Plows and Plowing mentions all the most common with many fascinating reprinted images from old catalogs and manuals. This is a great book for anyone interested in animal traction, antique farm equipment or agricultural history
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