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rurallib
(62,444 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,315 posts)Or walked in the snow. There were shovels too.
sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)The Wizard
(12,547 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Horse Drawn Snow Plow, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL (1908)
The first patents for snow plows appeared in the 1840s, but it was several years later that the designs were built and in use.
MuseRider
(34,115 posts)Horse power.
Also oxen or anything else that could be taught to pull things.
Horses and oxen pulled plows as well as wagons.
Remember our fathers walked 20 miles each way to school through 10 feet of snow with only a hot potato in their pockets to keep them warm. But seriously, if it was bad they probably stayed home or took a shovel?
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)Does just about everything with horses
It is pretty amazing
rickford66
(5,528 posts)In the 70's, we had a home, a few miles off the main road in the Poconos. There were homes all along the road. It was rarely plowed and we used chains. I kept a set of tires with chains in the trunk. I'd ride out with them mounted. When I got to a plowed spot, I pulled over and switched to my regular snows. On the way home I reversed the process and mounted the chained pair. More than once, the school bus dropped the kids off a mile or so from their homes and they waded through the snow to get home.
PCIntern
(25,576 posts)😁
rickford66
(5,528 posts)So it was uphill in every direction. Neighbors took turns directing traffic so vehicles could get head starts. A few times we traveled in convoys to help each other if we got stuck.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)Horses and other draft animals of the way I do it, a shovel.
raccoon
(31,118 posts)I've been in New England my entire life. Snow is old hat
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)Before engines and electricity, humanity did have tools.