Manure Spreader
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Manure Spreader
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
I was going to name this image something like "Congressional Limo" but thought better of the idea...
A manure spreader, muck spreader or honey wagon is an agricultural machine used to distribute manure over a field as a fertilizer. A typical manure spreader consists of a trailer towed behind a tractor with a rotating mechanism driven by the tractor's power take off. Truck mounted manure spreaders are also common in North America.
The first successful automated manure spreader was designed by Joseph Kemp in 1875. Manure spreaders began as ground-driven units which could be pulled by a horse or team of horses. At the time of his invention, he was living near Magog, Quebec, Canada, but soon, he moved to Newark Valley, NY and formed the J.S. Kemp Manufacturing Co. to manufacture and market his current and subsequent designs. In 1903, he expanded the company to Waterloo, Iowa before selling the design to International Harvester, in 1906.
Joseph Oppenheim of Maria Stein, Ohio was the inventor of the first modern wide spreading manure spreader and is honored as such in the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame. Originally manure was thrown from a wagon. Later, “manure un-loaders” used a drag chain at the bottom of the wagon to pull the load of manure to the rear where it was shredded by a pair of beaters.
Because the un-loaders deposited manure directly behind the wagon but with very little spreading to the sides, farmers still had to take the time-consuming step of heading into the fields with peg-tooth drags or similar implements to spread the manure in order to prevent burning the soil.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image made near Masonville, Colorado and copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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December 20th, 2019
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