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

Thank you for sharing.🐂

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Good job.. thanks for your efforts to benefit People

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

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

@RevolutionaryGazette

4 ай бұрын

Not one I had heard before.

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

@CivilWarDigitalDigest

2 жыл бұрын

It is right down by a river. Wonderful ground!

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

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 жыл бұрын

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 жыл бұрын

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

@rajinnizam5800

Жыл бұрын

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.

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

9 ай бұрын

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

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

10 ай бұрын

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

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!

You're like townsends neat.

@RevolutionaryGazette

Жыл бұрын

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

What breed is Rust? Shorthorn, maybe?

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

Animal cruelty

@RevolutionaryGazette

5 ай бұрын

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.