Spring Plowing - Revolutionary War Farm experience

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Spring is in the air! On the Revolutionary War farm that meant it was time to prepare fields to plant. One critical step was to plow the land. Join us today as we meet farmer Kevin Tobias and talk about plowing. We will meet the tools, both physical and four legged, and then Will will test his skills in the field with an excellent mentor!
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3 окт 2024

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@ericwilliams7705 2 года назад

Rust! Plowing with Rust is a favorite summer camp activity of our daughters at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation. Kevin and Eva are treasures

@Oxmanfarmer Год назад

The origin of the word "acre" means the amount of land a yoke of oxen can plow in a day. Horses walk at a quicker pace than oxen and could plow 1.5 acres per day. As our farms prospered and got larger along with equipment improvements happened more horses started to replace the ox. Great video!

@RevolutionaryGazette Год назад

Thanks for the compliment - and for filling in some of the details. I got to plow with horses once too. You can find that over at Civil War Digital Digest

@randybutler4772 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing.🐂

@diamondtiara84 2 года назад

I love these trips back in time, glad I found your channel!

@chamandorarwanda12 11 месяцев назад

Good job.. thanks for your efforts to benefit People

@mickeyholding7970 2 года назад

Great video. You did very well plowing Will, the soil looks very rich their.

@CivilWarDigitalDigest 2 года назад

It is right down by a river. Wonderful ground!

@christophersnedeker 7 месяцев назад

Back in the day the saying was "man to the plough, wife to the cow, girl to the yarn, boy to the barn"

@RevolutionaryGazette 7 месяцев назад

Not one I had heard before.

@steveww1507 2 года назад

My great great grandfather plowed with oxen in the 1870s in Westport Ma

@NDFlyFisher 2 года назад

Great video. Pretty sure if I had lived in the 18th Century I would not have chosen farming as a life style. The 18th Century farmers were a hardy bunch indeed.

@RevolutionaryGazette 2 года назад

The fact of the matter is that until the late 19th century, over half of the US lived on farms. Odd are, we’d both have been…

@NDFlyFisher 2 года назад

@@RevolutionaryGazette Probably right. But I would have been strongly pulled into the long hunter life style.

@rajinnizam5800 Год назад

Hi, The fit of the yoke has been on my mind for some time now . Is the animal choking? Is there any bruising? How much can one animal do in that way? These were just some of my concerns. So, thanks to you, this video has been very helpful.

@rickschuman2926 2 года назад

The results here actually seem better than with the more modern plow. It may have something to do with the soil, but it seems closer to the sort of texture needed for sowing already. Modern tilling needs at least 3 more passes with different implements. Boots with laces? Of course it should be noted that 18th century style footwear can have very bad effects on 21st century feet, especially when most of us get to wearing them as adults.

@cole8834 Год назад

definitely soil plays a part. in poorer, more cloddy soil it would still need another pass with an animal-drawn harrow* to get it fully tilled. (afaik) using a harrow after a plow is never a bad idea. even the soil in the video would look better* if it were harrowed. It has a nice dark color too, but not quite black soil

@HM10thFoot Год назад

Hi there, great video! We are a reenacting unit based out of Lexington MA. Is it ok if we use some of the footage from this video for an upcoming video, crediting you of course!

@RevolutionaryGazette Год назад

Glad you enjoyed! We’d be happy to talk with you about you using some footage. Reach out to us at Revolutionarygazette@gmail.com.

@charlottehertlein996 Год назад

Currently debating whether or not to castrate my main bull to make an oxen out of him. This just gives me more reasons why I should!

@fiendish67 Год назад

What breed is Rust? Shorthorn, maybe?

@christophersnedeker Год назад

You're like townsends neat.

@RevolutionaryGazette Год назад

Thank you! We take that as quite a compliment. We approach things a little differently, but they do great things!

@Casecc Год назад

A 6in plo is hat e gave to the indians to use ith their ponies

@samuel_lament_of_hathor 9 месяцев назад

Animal cruelty

@RevolutionaryGazette 8 месяцев назад

Not at all. You are completely uninformed. As someone raised on a farm, I have never met a person better connected, or more caring of an animal than these two.