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February 22, 2008
Improvised Tractors
... would make a good band name. But as Kevin Kelly notes in his Street Use blog,
In the '60s Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor in Poland.
That's true; I lived in Warsaw from 1963 to 1965, and it was common to see farmers bringing produce to market in downtown Warsaw, using horse-drawn wagons.
There's something to be said for horses as transport: they're fairly robust, easy to guide (heck, some can guide themselves on the homeward leg of a journey) and they can make more of themselves. On the other hand, they're slow by modern standards, have built-in obsolescence, they eat a lot, and disposing of their waste in a large urban area could be a major problem.
Posted by Berry at February 22, 2008 01:10 PM
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