He began with built-in furniture, and also developed labour saving devices.
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Such work has always needed to be done but before the Industrial Revolution and the advent of labour saving devices, it was physically much harder.
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It is said that he was one of the first to develop the stump-jump plough ( a labour saving device to remove mallee tree stumps ), for which he was awarded a medal for exhibiting it at the Port Wakefield Agricultural and Horticultural Society in 1885.