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    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    May 08, 2020 4 minutes

    Looking for leads on early horse-drawn grader

    This unique, early horse or mule-drawn grader has been loaned to the Eastern Washington Agricultural Museum. The one-piece circular blade can be positioned (using two levers) to move material left or right or carry it straight ahead. The two levers are cast with the name J.D. Adams, Indianapolis, Ind. We’d like to learn more about this unit. Anyone with information is asked to contact me. Thanks!

    David Ruark, dnruark@wildblue.net

    Remembering the days of hay fork pulleys

    Regarding Sam Moore’s column on rigging hay fork pulley systems in the April 2020 issue of : We had a system like the one shown in the diagram in the large barn we used to store bales

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