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The Large One-bottom Plow
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The large one-bottom plow cut a furrow 4 feet wide and 2 feet deep. Its turning-under moldboard was 6 feet high and 6 feet wide, and its landside was 10 feet long and 1 foot high. Foundry made, it was strengthened and mended, and it was manufactured by Post Bros. of Santa Ana, California. The plow was carried on two steel drum wheels set ahead of the cut-and-turn section, and its frame was hinged to raise or lower the plowing section. Pulled by a '60' Caterpillar, it turned its furrow to the left, although agricultural plows normally turned right, and it dug up young willow and cottonwood trees up to 20 feet tall along the Missouri River. In 1982, the Behren brothers, Urban, Ray, and Arnold, donated the plow to the Brownville Historical Society, and Max Peeler, Bob Sage, and Ed Herman moved it to the Depot Site.
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