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THE KICK-BACK PLOW AND THE PATENT JOHN DEERE BOUGHT

A large percentage of people in the United States during and after the Depression pulled out all stops to control their destiny with new inventions that would, in turn, earn them a living. The others, resigned themselves to their fate of either government or public support if they could not move to the city and find big factory work. Another problem was that the people that really wanted to try were from the "Old School", and were very intelligent in what they knew, but only knew what they were familiar with.

Thousands of patents were submitted during the period of the late 1940's, but were outdated before they ever got off the drawing board. One such man had been a farmer most of his life. He invented and patented the first and only horse (or mule) drawn steerable hillside cultivator that had "kick-back" plows. In the event that the operator were to hit a stump, root, or whatever. the spring loaded plow would trip. On every John Deer Cultivator plow that is pulled behind modern tractors today, you will see this plow, with the spring behind it.

This old farmer patiently and painstakingly built a lead model of his invention, and his plows. Then he sent it to the US patent office for a patent, and recieved a patent on all of it. Shortly thereafter, he was contaced by the John Deere Company, who wanted to buy the patent to his kick-back plow. They had no interest in the horse-drawn steerable hillside cultivator.

There was one working model of the cultivator ever built in a small welding shop in Covington Tennessee. The farmer, for as long as he farmed, tested and proved this to be one of the most unique horse pulled culitivators ever conceived.
He never owned a gas driven tractor, and said the reason he didn't was because it disturbed the soil too much, making it necessary to plow deeper. He said that this deep plowing caused the soil to be more prone to soil erosion, and made it more apt to dry out during the hot summers. This is the very same man that used to watch the bugs in the yard and could tell you what the weather was going to be from how they acted that day. And he had a very large productive farm that was relied upon by many in the community for food, so I am sure he knew what he was talking about from hard experience.

As he watched the other farmers go to their fields on modern day International, Ford, and John Deere tractors he continued to use his mule drawn plow to farm his land.

NOTE: We have the model that was built for this patent. It is made of lead, and is hand carved down to every detail. All the parts are working parts, and it is in the original box that was built to ship it to the patent office. There is also the patent application paperwork that went with it. There has not yet been a price put on it, so you are free to make an offer for this item. The original plow was also in existence up until the 1980's, but was stolen and has not been recovered.

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