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Re; Railroad Tracks: "Whipple Tree"

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Subject: Re; Railroad Tracks: "Whipple Tree"
From: "Dallas Congleton" <dcong996@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:33:22 -0500
I too grew up when horses and mules were still used. In my part of the
southeast this was called a "single tree", or "double tree" if two horses
were used.
Dallas C

---- Original Message -----
From: "spook01" <spook01@comcast.net>
To: <CIAG6@aol.com>; <headlam@kingsley.co.za>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: Railroad Tracks


> Quite right.
> But had I written "whipple tree", I suspect many would have scratched
their
> heads!
> Most have some notion of how the drawbar is used on a modern tractor.
> Best, Ray
>
> "Charge 'em boys, there's cheese in their haversacks!"
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: CIAG6@aol.com
>   To: spook01@comcast.net ; headlam@kingsley.co.za ; mg-t@autox.team.net
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:36 PM
>   Subject: Re: Railroad Tracks
>
>
>   In a message dated 1/25/2005 7:05:23 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> spook01@comcast.net writes:
>     For those of you who have never seen how horses are harnessed, I am
sure
>     this sounds odd and narrow.  Check out old photos of the draw bar area
of
>     wagons.
>     Best, Ray
>
>   Don't need photos, I grew up on a country farm that was run by real
> horsepower.  By the way, it isn't a "draw bar", it's a "whipple tree".
>
>   RayG

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