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The Graham Collection - Assembly Line and Plow Production (1955)

Cathy Morrow

No Sound on Film | 1955

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Loading up the trucks
Crane
Loading a flatbed
Plow tilling a field
Farmer adjusts the plow
Blades on a conveyer belt
Working bundling the blades
Removing tempered blades from the fire conveyor belt
Attaching blades to the hooked conveyer belt
Cutting the blades
Cutting the blades cont.
Putting the blades in the fire
Machine forges the blades’ shape
Blades are re-fired
Worker and machine bend the blades
Holes punched in the blade
Quenching the blades
Machine shaves the blade to sharpen it
Machine creates springs
Machine bends metal into chisel
Worker adjusts the chisel
Checking the gauges
Blueprints being drawn
Pressing buttons to start the cleaning process
Machine bending a beam
Snowstorm outside the factory
Soldering
Staking the frames and cleaning them
Completed plow on the farm
Plow's collapsable wings
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This industrial film footage captures the manufacturing process for the Graham-Hoeme Plow at the company’s factory in Amarillo. All stages of production are captured from forging, soldering, and assembly to blueprint sketching and loading on to trucks. The film portrays the technology used to build the plows as well as the workers that ran the machines. It also includes footage of the finished product in use on a farm.

Touted as “The Plow to Save the Plains” the Graham-Hoeme Chisel Plow, named jointly for its inventor Fred Hoeme (of Hooker, OK) and the Amarillo-based corporation that manufactured and distributed it, helped control the effects of wind erosion during the seven-year drought of the 1950s.

Potter County
Randall County
Amarillo