Ice plow

Related to Ice plow: Snow plough
a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.
a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc.

See also: Ice, Plow

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His collection includes early wooden moldboard plows, hillside plows, root cutters, a bluegrass plow, an ice plow and an early steel ditch puller.
Preserving the plow: today's relics once a critical component of tillage operation
and Farm Collector columnist Sam Moore correctly identified the piece as a horse-drawn ice plow (or marker), used to score ice in ice harvesting on lakes and rivers.
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Here, a group of men work with tongs, saws and an ice plow.
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Even so, Ed's 1923 Gifford-Wood field saw was a far cry from the industry's early days, when hand-powered saws and horse-drawn ice plows were commonly used.
The ice man cometh: Missouri man pairs engine hobby with rare ice saw
Then came the ice plows, each drawn by a single horse, and featuring a long, heavy beam set with eight separate blades (or shares), each notched at the bottom.
The coldest harvest ice: more than a century ago, ice cut from rivers and ponds was a cash crop
Ice plows followed the markers, deepening the grooves until they were about two-thirds of the way through the ice.
Cold crop ice: today we take it for granted as we go to the refrigerator and stick a glass under the chute of the automatic ice cube maker. It wasn't, of course, always so easy. Some of us old-timers remember having to actually jerk the lever on a metal tray to break loose the cubes: ice harvesting was a boom business in the northeast
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