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| Tractors |
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| How to work with large animals |
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2008-02-28 07:55:20 ![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
http://www.nda.agric.za/docs/infopaks/Animaltraction.pdf - This is a paper by Fort Hare University in South Africa about the using agriculture using animal traction. Harnessing is still used in Africa, China and the Indian sub-continent. —198.54.202.182
Obsolete (for the purpose of an obsolete skill) does not mean not in use, it means that it is something that was the common standard that was known by all people in the field, and that is now rare or not the common standard. Oxen and horse teams were used post-Katrina to clear parts of Alabama. Are you arguing that ox driven plows are considered in general to be the current agriculture standard? If you believe that the standards for the wiki in general should be more limited, feel free to discuss it at What is obsolete. Of course, since reenactment and survival enthusiasts use virtually all past tools and skills, nothing is obsolete if use is the criteria.
2008-05-22 03:48:59 The EU has been spending a lot of money on development in Namibia to train draught animals and provide small agricultural implements to subsistence farmers. Tractors are too expensive for these people. —Ulrike
