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Maybe the John Deere 630 three-row lister plow got parked for the last time in the late 1930s. After the Dust Bowl years, different plows and new ways of farming were making an appearance. Lister plows had been part of the problem. Whole fields would blow out just as deeply as the listers turned the topsoil. But the old 630 sits with a stoic grace, its iron wheels buried in sand, and sagebrush growing up through the frame. Two of the listers’ depth-setting jacks now brace either end of the Winds of Change table. Sections of sheet metal flooring from a Ward’s 1500-bushel grain bin now wrap the cabinet sides. Ebonized oak frames surround panels of curly longleaf pine, salvaged from barn roof sheeting. The great longleaf pine forests of the South were logged out by the ‘30s, so this amazing wood can only be seen in a rare salvaged board.
Ebonized Oak, salvaged pine, scrap iron
36” x 55” x 16 ¼”