Homer Jones of Calico Ridge, Sardis

 

Homer Jones poses on his horse-powered mowing machine. Notice the lugs that form the tread on the iron wheel where Homer is resting his left foot. These lugs pressing into the ground assured that the wheel would not slip as the mowing machine was pulled over the ground by the matched team of horses. This wheel in turn rotated a set of gears that was connected to an arm that converted the rotary motion into horizontal motion and drove a sickle-blade (not seen in the picture because of the horses).

 

Photo taken about 1937 (estimate)

 

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Mowing machine

Taking in hay

 

 

 

Provided by Dorothy Bayes

 

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