Re: Jull Plow

Just an interesting side note,the Leslie plow was also a Jull-designed plow.

Leslie type snowplows were invented by a Canadian from Ontario, Orange Jull in 1883. Two other Canadians, the Leslie brothers were associated to the construction of the first prototype, later they bought the snowplow patent from Jull and founded the Leslie Brothers Manufacturing Company ...

Jull developped another type of snowplow, the Jull Centrifugal Snow Excavator, which he thought was more efficient. It was equipped with a large, cone-shapped front screw to cut snow. This type of snowplow had some succes on standard gauge tracks on the Union Pacific, but failed against a Leslie snowplow on the Denver, South Park & Pacific difficult mountain narrow gauge line during famous snow clearing trials in 1890. "

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2008 11:12PM by bcp.