What's with Europeans and plowing?

[N80]

That's cool, but no. The one I have the clearest memory of was a single mule, and a single bottom walk behind plow.

[ChuckinNH]

They had one of those single bottom plows at the plowing event, and were letting folks try it. I can tell you that it's a lot more work than I want to do all day in rocky ground! I didn't see Pat's
Easy Change on any of those animals either.

[Egon]

On the farm where I grew up it was quite common to plow the garden site with a walk behind plow and several draft horses. We also had a horse drawn potato hiller.

To harvest the potatoes the row was turned over with the horse drawn plow and the spuds were picked and placed in burlap sacks. Needless to say we never bought potatoes!

[pennwalk]

Did you notice how light and fluffy the ground is in a lot of those european plowing videos? Around here there still a lot of guys who plow. They don't like to use chemicals on their crops. Of course there are also some who plow with horses and mules. It is kind of neat to see a guy out with six mules and a 2 bottom roll over plow.

Chris

[dillo99]

Originally Posted by barneyrb

This one had me fooled for a min

YouTube - CASE 4994 R/C Tractor Ploughing

It took me more than a minute. That is some serious RC.

[Glowplug]

Originally Posted by dillo99

It took me more than a minute. That is some serious RC.

The "GIANT" that walks by at about 47 secs is a dead giveaway! That is too cool!

[YM-135trac]

I've always had envy for the folks across the pond? They work-to-live, not live-to work(U.S.) It requires leisure time to do stuff like that! All my time belongs to providing for Taxes/insurance/fuel co$t/utility bills/food cost ect. & no time for leisure! Gota keep slaving life away/need more overtime? to keep-up? I remember reading about Huey Long's saying "once the grain bins were full, then time could be used@ university studies&other leisure activities" Dam communist ........Meanwhile I'll continue to live free& slave away my life and try to keep-up!

[N80]

Work was made for the man, not the man for work.

Huey Long, while a socialist at heart, was probably exposing his southern roots with that comment. The distinction you made regarding a rural European lifestlye vs the US lifestyle used to be a distinction between the US south and the Yankee north. In the antebellum South, leisure time was highly valued and not seen as laziness as long as it was productive/edifying in other ways (literature, music, poetry, social graces, ect).

That ideal, that work is for man and not man for work died, in large part, with the South's defeat with the Civil War. And while I strongly believe in the Southern ideal of constructive leaisure time, the South based that ideal on slave labor to maintain it. And in that form, the ideal needed to die. But I still think, that with the stain of slavery removed, the idea of constructive leaisure time is a worthy one....but nearly non-existent due to a consumer driven society (which is a Northern ideal.)

[RobJ]

YouTube..

Search for the RC mini tractor pulls(leaf blower engines in some). And of course the power tool drag races. The saws are cool.