Farm work has always been considered hard work with long hours of physical labour. So when we look at these pictures of steam traction, we can get an appreciation for the contribution tractors made to threshing and ploughing. They are big machines to handle big jobs.
These pictures are from the January 2016 open house at the Puslinch Steam Heritage Museum. More pictures and coverage of the Steam Museum can be seen at woodgears.ca. The official site is ontariosteamheritagemuseum here.
We look back at this automation with nostalgia when we compare it to the growing use of robotics in agriculture - where products are 'sensor networks and robots'. The main application is still at the harvesting stage. An emerging application is robots/drones for weed control.
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