Spring Tyne Cultivator

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Massey-Harris Limited

c. 1910

Overview

This is a 2 horse Spring Tyne Cultivator which was made by Massey Harris Canada c1910 and used at the Bussells’ farm, Cattle Chosen. A cultivator is a machine that disturbs the top layer of the ploughed soil to prepare a smooth, loose, aerated seedbed, and/or to kill weeds. Cultivators with spring tynes are known as the all-rounders in stubble cultivation and seedbed preparation and are suitable for both shallow and deeper soil cultivation. The tynes drag through the soil helping to loosen and remove weeds making it the ideal tool for inter-row weeding and in most models the width between the tynes and the working depth can be adjusted.

Historical information

In 1847, Daniel Massey established the Newcastle Foundry and Machine Manufactory in Ontario, Canada which was renamed to the Massey Manufacturing Co. In 1891, the Massey Manufacturing Co. merged with A. Harris, Son and Company to form Massey-Harris Limited, which became the largest agricultural equipment maker in the British Empire. In 1953, Massey-Harris merged with the Ferguson Company to become Massey-Harris-Ferguson, before shortening it to Massey Ferguson in 1958. Massey Ferguson is still manufacturing agricultural equipment today.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2023.65

Item type

Machinery

Material

Iron

Contextual Information

The basic idea of soil scraping for weed control is ancient and was done with hoes for millennia before any more complex equipment was developed to reduce the manual labour and to speed up the work. The notion of joining several hoes together and using animal power to drag them led to harrows which have been around since the Romans. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Industrial Revolution led to a proliferation of cultivator designs. These new cultivators were drawn by draft animals (such as horses, mules, or oxen) and / or were pushed or drawn by people, depending on the need and expense.

When the Bussell brothers moved from Augusta to the Vasse in 1832, John Bussell was granted 3,573 acres of land on the Vasse River which was named “Cattle Chosen. Many other settlers from Augusta eventually moved to The Vasse due to the success of the Bussells relocation.

Keywords

Busselton

Farm Machinery

Place made

Newcastle
Ontario
Canada

Year

c. 1910

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