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Fig. 8. A stationary (i.e., nonrotating) rodweeder that had two rods spaced 1 m apart. By walking forward on the plank, the driver tilted the front rod down underneath the soil as seen here. When the front rod became plugged with weeds or residue, the driver stepped to the end of the plank to bury the second rod and raise and clear the first rod. The driver needed to tilt the rodweeder back and forth several hundred times during the day. Plugging during rodweeding was eliminated with the introduction of the rotating rodweeder in 1907 (see Fig. 10). Photo from Brumfield (1968).
