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This wood beam plow is likely the oldest piece of original equipment on the site. We have a record of John Boyd purchasing a plow in the late 1860s and going to Quesnelle Mouth to pick it up and this may well be that plow. The advantage of the wood beam plow was that all that had to be shipped was the iron, the rest was made on site. In the early days of the gold rush every pound (or kilogram) saved in shipping was important.

As can be seen in this view the plow shape itself is fairly straight, not the curve we see on the other walking plow in the garden section. This would make it easier to pull through native sod on the first breaking. In addition this plow does not have the the round coulter (the small round cutter) that you see on modern day plows or the sulky plows.