Stump-jump plough
Arado de salto de tocones (stump-jump plough)
- Date
- 1876 · confidence high
- Place
- Ardrossan, South Australia, Australia
- Credited to
- Richard Bowyer Smith
- People
- 👤 Clarence Herbert Smith1865–1901👤 Richard Bowyer Smith1837–1919
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A plough with shares mounted on hinged arms that jump when they strike roots and stumps and return to the furrow under a counterweight. It made it possible to farm mallee land without clearing it completely.
What it led to
- agricultural settlement of the Australian mallee
- spring-mounted independent plough shares