I have a question for you: A portable wench anchored, and used to pull a cable attached to bottom-plow through very rocky soil is called?

[Beckster]

I was a engineer working for John Deere and Company in the 1970s and 1980s, I left to work in construction ...I have a question for you: A portable wench anchored, and used to pull a cable attached to bottom-plow through very rocky soil is called a?

 

[Wagtail]

G'day Mate and welcome to TBN from Downunder.

Hopefully you mean a 'portable winch anchored' plough. An alternative name is a 'Lewis' plough (or plow).

(Being retired Navy, I've come across a few portable wenches in my travels )

Enjoy the site... from wherever in the world you are.

 

[jeff9366]

Drag Line Plow

Buy your tractor and make your first implement a Disc Plow, which is essentially an offset Disc Harrow with one or two pans., Disc Plows roll over large rocks.

Monroe Tufline is the main USA producer of Disc Plows.

Tufline – Well Built, Performance Driven Implements

monroetufline.com

 

[Looking4new]

To the winch, wench! Winch faster wench!

 

[Doughknob]

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No rotten eggs here eh?

A portable wench --

 

[CalG]

I was a engineer working for John Deere and Company in the 1970s and 1980s, I left to work in construction ...I have a question for you: A portable wench anchored, and used to pull a cable attached to bottom-plow through very rocky soil is called a?

 

[Egon]

Cable plow’s, a pretty popular method in days gone by.

 

[Gee Ray]

Very interesting:

Antique Cable Electric Farm Plow Field Charrue Pflug c1903 Trade Ad Card g | eBay

DER ELECTRISCHE PFLUG. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL c1903 TRADE ADVERTISING CARD. CABLE PLOW AT THE TURN-OR-THE-CENTURY. THERE IS ADVERTISING TEXT ON THE BACK! IMAGE ON THE BACK OF THE CARD ABOVE MAY NOT BE FROM THIS CARD.

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