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    CARRYING THE LOAD

    Jan 14, 2022 4 minutes
    Sam Moore

    Most readers of Farm Collector probably aren’t familiar with the nomenclature of the wooden wagons found on nearly every American farm until the mid-1950s.

    Early man acquired knowledge of friction when he tried to move a large rock from here to there: The rock just wouldn’t slide. Rolling the thing worked, if it was round, but what if it was flat? Eventually some ingenious soul got the flat rock up onto a log, allowing the weight to be moved more easily.

    However, the rock traveled at twice the speed of the rolling log and soon ran off the roller. A number of rollers in a line could be used,

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