Seeing as it's a dark and rainy day, I chased down the rabbit
hole................

I went looking to see if there were any French references I could find, and
the only thing I came up with is a "Rabot a Lisier" which is a "Liquid
Manure Plane" which you mount to the three-point hitch on a tractor. It has
a wide rubber strip (the caoutchouc) which rides along the ground and pushes
the material in front of it, much in the manner of an oversized squeegee.
And there you have yet another bit of trivia added to the Archives on the
Porch.

Cheers, ed in ottawa

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