This specialized plough features a sharp coulter and a heavy mouldboard built to slice and turn over dense, deeply rooted prairie grasses. It was historically essential for converting untouched grassland into arable farmland, as standard ploughs would ride up over the tough root mat instead of cutting it.
Heard on the job
We found an old sodbuster plough rusting out by the tree line, complete with the original heavy beam.
Also heard as
- sodbuster plow
- breaking plough