Rome plows
Bit of trivia, Rome plows were named Rome Plows because they were manufactured by the Rome Plow Company in Rome Georgia.
One of my cherished memories is one night we loggered with a unit of the 577 LCC. AT "O" dark thirty they were up cranking the Cat D9s. I watched one of the dozier operators as he ground an edge on his 18 foot long blade throwing sparks everywhere in the early morning pre-dawn light. he set the grinder down and tweaked the blade edgewith his thumb as you would testing the sharpness of a pocketknife blade, kind of gave a thumbs up to himself, grinned and continued down the blade. They could clear 1,000 to 1,500 acres a day. Two or three years later it would be some of the most impenetrable jungle growth you could imagine.
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