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Ransomes ploughs could be pulled by horses, oxen or even elephants!The self-sharpening chilled cast-iron plough share, patented in 1803, was discovered accidentally by Robert Ransome when he ...

Small made his first experimentally shaped mouldboards from wood covered in thin metal before eventually making them in iron. This plough, vernacularly made, is very much in the Small's tradition ...