Commonly used tillage implements in the study area include the tandem disc, chisel plough, cultivator,
rod weeder, and hoe drill seeder.
Charlie Fenster, another museum codirector, says vintage equipment portrayed in the film includes a Krause one-way plow, a John Deere 10-bottom gang plow, a 3-row Oliver lister and a 1930s-era spring-tooth harrow, as well as a Cheney
rod weeder and a vintage Sishc duckfoot cultivator manufactured in Torrington, Wyo.
A cable weeder is, as the name implies, a system using cables stretched tighter than fiddle strings to dislodge small weeds in fallow ground, similar in effect to a
rod weeder. As the ground-driven drum rotates, weeds are dislodged just under the surface of the ground by cables and removed by their roots.