It was called pony drilling and the name pony referred to the small drill used. You could turn the soil over and seed it all at the same time. Very efficient! My Dad had 2 pony drill outfits. One was ...

With a two-bottom plow, Horst said, you probably could plow about two acres per hour. A modern tractor can use more than 600 horsepower and plow 18 furrows at a time — up to 60 acres in an hour. Back ...

The two-bottom plow -- the kind you can buy for next-to-nothing on auctions -- cut easily through the sod. The Allis-Chalmers tractor powered by an engine salvaged from a combine didn't have to work ...