Drawn by two or three horses, this roller featured serrated wheels to pulverise clods (lumps of earth) in the soil to prepare it for sowing.
The roller is constructed of a number of toothed wheels which were much more effective at splitting clods than a traditional roller (Slight & Burn 1858: 263).
The rollers were around 6 feet (180cm) long.
On the 18th of September, 1829, convicts Paget, Moger and Fetton broke the clods at the estate following sowing (Diary of William Archer, 18 September).
