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Hillside Ploughshare


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      Date: 1900 -

Description: A steel ploughshare with a springloaded trip mechanism which was activated by kicking, thus causing the furrows to always be downhill no matter in which direction you were travelling with the plough. Used on Flinders Island.

Format: realia
Object: ploughs
Material: steel

Titles:
Hillside Ploughshare

Subjects: ploughing

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00541

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