mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Might be destoning.
Or some kind of bed-forming.
Probs the former.
Ether way, pretty terrible way to treat good soil
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Or some kind of bed-forming.
Probs the former.
Ether way, pretty terrible way to treat good soil
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Gravity Aided
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Ta, will take a look, the local farmstore is running low on lengths..
Lots of people suddenly building chicken runs I guess.
Didn't bother with burying it last time around.. 13 years ago..
Just L shaped it outwards, wired it down intermittently, and the grass grew through fixed it down quick enough,
2 km of trench digging otherwise
It wasn't the wabbits that initially breached the defences.
It was them pesky badgers - being wily sods they take three steps back - and start digging from outside of the line of horizontal chicken wire .
After my very tasty sweetcorn..
And broadbeans.
The wabbits just took advantage, of the ready made runs.
Hey ho, never a dull day in our 'battles' with nature.
Seems ironic whilst I'm at the same time trying to do my bit for the ecology..
Always a fine line _______
Solver of rabbit problems here.
Gravity Aided
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Padded seats in the U.S. in 1950. The model 35, when still grey with green frame. Here is a movie, with the seat at 2:45+, just after the long tracking shot of the tractor arriving at a farm wiith the "love theme" playing in the background..
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUry11WOy8&t=6s
And here's a fellow in his travails with a 1941 Farmall. By 1941, a lot of farmers were starting to go mechanized, and we were no longer horse farmers and teamsters. Everybody in my family had a job in the city by then, or got drafted.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaCjnRWjQuM&list=PLZJS6Md1UOg1qUGkFk4SI08Si4RsszohQ
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mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
I was having a socially distanced cup of tea with a freind on her campsite just now.
Her dog very similar pounced on a baby wabbit, as we were chatting.
I might have to get her and her hound round.
Not a massive dog fan myself..
I can see the point, but just not for me.
And the resident vole (and sometimes bunny) catcher would not
be at all impressed...
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
It’s good to share
I just realised @Randomnerd
This is also a ploughing play on words..
Well done -
who says farmers are dull witted..
Gravity Aided
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Beagles are fine dogs if you are used to their behaviors, but they can be a real trial for even the experienced owner. Our older shepherd/ beagle mix is 13, so he doesn't participate, but the Elizabethan Beagle does much of such problem solving around here. Even at seven years, she is faster than rabbits in the suburban setting.
Randomnerd
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Ahh. Thank goodness.I just realised @Randomnerd
This is also a ploughing play on words..
Well done -
who says farmers are dull witted..
Finally.
I can sleep now @mudsticks
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Good - i do apologise for being so slow - its the heat - and my tooth playing up perhaps as well.
- i'm planning on sleeping out on the hilltop under the new crescent moon tonight - its rising just under Venus - pretty astronomical stuff ..
Over the mobile chicken howzes.. So technically 'farm machinery'.
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Randomnerd
Bimbleur
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- North Yorkshire
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Pale Rider
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The tractors I used may have had padded seats at one time, but any padding was long gone.
We used to use a folded paper or hessian sack.
There were two Nuffields, a 10/60 and a Universal, and a Fordson Major.
The Nuffield Universal only had five gears, but top was quite high making it fast - for a tractor.
We tended to use the Universal for road work, dragging grain to the local co-op, and moving tackle between the two farms we farmed.
The 10/60 had front hydraulic arms for a bucket or bale handler.
No power steering, so very hard work when you had any weight on the front.
None of the those tractors had a cab or roll bar.
The farms were in south Worcestershire and fairly flat, so no real risk of tipping over a tractor.
Apart from flattening silage on the silage pit, but I wasn't allowed to do that.
The brakes were poorly maintained - there weren't any - so you had to rely on engine braking.
Quite effective to get down to walking pace.
Modernisation arrived in the shape of a Ford 5000.
That was the 'big tractor' a whole 75bhp if I recall.
We used that for ploughing, which was done pretty much flat out in low gear.
The plough was reversible, but tiny by today's standards at two or three furrows.
The newest tractor was a Ford 4000 which had a cab and an all but useless foot throttle - it was impossible to keep steady in a field and tiresome to keep open on the road.
I occasionally look at new tractors at shows.
Absolute beasts in comparison, and with lots of knobs and levers, few of which I understand.
I reckon I could still get one to move across a field, but little else.
We used to use a folded paper or hessian sack.
There were two Nuffields, a 10/60 and a Universal, and a Fordson Major.
The Nuffield Universal only had five gears, but top was quite high making it fast - for a tractor.
We tended to use the Universal for road work, dragging grain to the local co-op, and moving tackle between the two farms we farmed.
The 10/60 had front hydraulic arms for a bucket or bale handler.
No power steering, so very hard work when you had any weight on the front.
None of the those tractors had a cab or roll bar.
The farms were in south Worcestershire and fairly flat, so no real risk of tipping over a tractor.
Apart from flattening silage on the silage pit, but I wasn't allowed to do that.
The brakes were poorly maintained - there weren't any - so you had to rely on engine braking.
Quite effective to get down to walking pace.
Modernisation arrived in the shape of a Ford 5000.
That was the 'big tractor' a whole 75bhp if I recall.
We used that for ploughing, which was done pretty much flat out in low gear.
The plough was reversible, but tiny by today's standards at two or three furrows.
The newest tractor was a Ford 4000 which had a cab and an all but useless foot throttle - it was impossible to keep steady in a field and tiresome to keep open on the road.
I occasionally look at new tractors at shows.
Absolute beasts in comparison, and with lots of knobs and levers, few of which I understand.
I reckon I could still get one to move across a field, but little else.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
One of my oldest friends (in terms of time known) is from a farming family
By the time he was 14, he was restoring Fordson E27N's
He'd already fettled a Morris Minor for his older sister
After the E27's, he progressed, to a Field Marshall Series 1
(I think he may still have it?)
Then trucks
By the time he was 14, he was restoring Fordson E27N's
He'd already fettled a Morris Minor for his older sister
After the E27's, he progressed, to a Field Marshall Series 1
(I think he may still have it?)
Then trucks
