Armchair ploughing

Agate presents its current favorite.
Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, a "motorisation in the mountains" mission with ploughing on a armchair.

Ploughing on an armchair, following the line of the slope (M. Schmithof's farm at Zeel am See).

The plough has a single share and its front frame is supported by a two-wheeled axle. The driver steers the plough by acting on the traction axle via a handlebar. His weight anchors the ploughshare.

Source of photograph: "Motorisation in the mountains" mission, June 1953: photographic report, Ministry of Agriculture, central machinery testing station. Photograph: Pierre Chauvet.

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