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Why is a moldboard called a moldboard?
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    Posted: 30 Dec 2015 at 12:46pm
I mean really? Moldboard doesn't sound like anything ag related. Anyone know the reasoning behind it?
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I think its susposed to be moleboard moles dig in the ground
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I suspect that back when the plow was invented, it was an art to lay the furrow slice over against another one in such a manner as to have the grass, etc. covered with dirt and blended into the previously-laid slice. This "molding' was likely attributed to the Molding Board of the plow as it turned over the slice and pushed it into the previous one.

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because they were originally molded in to there shape.
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Because if daddy didn't get the garden plowed and planted mom would feed him moldy food from last year on the picnic table outside.
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you guys got it all wrong.you are reading it a like a yank.
mol is latin for "earth"
dboard is dutch for "over"
=earth over or moldboard.------GEEEEESH
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A moldboard is the wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow.
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They had to call it something.
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why was you called Creston? lol
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not easy to pin down, but def #3 may explain it

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mold

add "board" to make a compound word

even the 1st and 2nd defs could apply, as the "moldboard" does impart shape to the soil being plowed - UK: ploughed
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well where did FROG come from ?
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My frogs have shock shoes too!
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John Deere was an early plow and the "board" was for the part and mold was what grew on it because the JD went so slow it grew mold .
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The frog is a designer's term for a part that facilitates two or more different mechanical operations. A FROG on a violin bow for example joins the horsehair part to the backing rod in such a manner as to allow the horsehair part to be tightened or loosened by a threaded rod segment through the frog.
On a plow the FROG joins the Beam, the shares, moldboard, landside, etc. in such a manner as to allow the mechanical action of turning a slice of earth over after it is sheared by the plowshare, cut by the coulter or divider and turned by the moldboard.

I'm sure there are other examples of "FROGS" being used in designing machines of all types.

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How does it apply to frogmen? Just saw the beverly hillbillies the other night, the one with the frogman.
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Originally posted by SHAMELESS SHAMELESS wrote:

why was you called Creston? lol
Grandma read it in a book and thought it sounded nice, so she made Creston my Dad's middle name, and he and my mom liked it so they named me that. 

On the way to Hutch we went through my town in Iowa. Pretty neat seeing my name everywhere!
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Shameless ,sure would bet your wife called u that .LOL
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lol...Fred....shush! yeah...along with sum other names!!!!
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