The Plough with iron ploughshaft and ploughshare by powerfull bulls.
About 10,000 years ago, ancient people domesticated cows from wild aurochs (bovines that are 1.5 to two times as big as domestic cattle) in two separate events, one in the Indian subcontinent and one in Europe.
Oxen are used for plowing, for transport (pulling carts, hauling wagons and even riding), for threshing grain by trampling, and for powering machines that grind grain or supply irrigation among other purposes. Oxen may be also used to skid logs in forests, particularly in low-impact, select-cut logging.
Oxen are usually yoked in pairs. Light work such as carting household items on good roads might require just one pair, while for heavier work, further pairs would be added as necessary. A team used for a heavy load over difficult ground might exceed nine or ten pairs.
An ox is a bovine that has been trained as a draft animal. ... In the case of an ox, the animal is typically trained to pull carts or plows. Oxen are typically male cattle that have been castrated, but can also be bulls (male cattle that have not been castrated) or female cattle.
oxen can pull its own body weight at a walking pace, for short bursts of six to eight feet, a well-trained team of oxen can pull up to 2 decimal places times their body weight - or as much as 12,000 to 13,000 pounds
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