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This was drawn by the Standard Fordson I remember as a kid of six or seven how we loved to have a ride on the empty trailers back to the field to be loaded. On this occasion I had just missed my chance for a ride and I was on my own, when I though I would...
In all my seventy three years, it was only during my first nine years that I had anything to do with our farms three shire horse. The most regular job was to lead them to the blacksmith's shop with my brothers on the way to school. They would stay...
( 1772 Silver George 3 rd half penny piece) Its not every day that you have a "find" even though it be modest, a friend of mine was walking the footpaths along our fields a few days ago, and came across a rabbit hole with fresh soil dug out...
On the up side it meant that three men could plant more potatoes than six people with different size feet. Potatoes', Going on from what Matthew Naylor wrote about potatoes, in one of his blogs, the earliest I remember at home was of the ground being...
Job to know where to start, and find things long forgotten, Things we used like brushing hooks, n' pitch forks stale gone rotten, At one time there used to be quite a few dispersal sales on the run up to March 25th when tenancies would be timed to...
These two cases that I tell you of happened a few years apart, and I am not one to cause trouble, it takes a lot to wind me up into taking action like I describe hear. It was ten years ago late June time and mowing grass for hay a couple of fields back...
I read the Farmers Weekly, ov read it all me life, Read it in the good times, and read it through the strife, In its words and pictures, brings us all the news, Tells us of our leaders, n' tells us of their views. This farm could double its output...
Going back 150 years, if walls could talk. In twenty two years the family had eighteen children. Its always a mystery how people lived years ago, particularly in the house that you live in. Our house in its present form was built around the first half...
A few years ago, while ploughing in one of our furthest field, I had an encounter with an A10 Tank Buster, or should I say three of them. It was the time of the Gulf War, and some American war planes were on training exercise in the UK before being sent...
I had a bit of a rush to get all the hedge cutting done before the end of February, and then in the last five minuets of finishing for the year, on drawing in the cutter head in towards the tractor, got distracted and it flailed off the whole of the back...
The long arm of the hedge cutter whiplashes forward past the pole and back again, giving the flails a second bite at it. The Garden Telegraph Pole Blog. Yet Another Embarrassing Moment (or should I say weekend) -- It was July and the front garden hedge...
It was as if the tractor was on an elastic band springing gently from its precarious position, with me holding its balance, You may or may not know that feeling when you know a trailer that you just spent a lot of time and energy loading by hand tips...
The tractor getting worn and old, its steering getting stiff, On every blooming corner, became a bigger loop and if Only it would straiten up, and not run corn down, Father on the binder would be warring his worst frown. One foot was still in a loop of...
When the ice did break in the middle the tractor dropped about eighteen inches and had a job to get it out , then could not use that route for a few weeks due to the deep steps down off the ice at the sides of the ford. I recall the winter of 1947 when...
This was the first I'd seen dead body, and shook me dam well ridged, Out with his tape and pencil, see how big to make the coffins image These men Jim and Bill were the same age and era as my parents, they both retired in 1985 when there was no more...
But me I stick with the old stuff that I was brought up on and the ploughs and impliments that matched them. Now into September were into the ploughing match season, entry forms all filled in and time to get the old ploughs and tractors ready for a bit...
It seems that you young un's would be interested in what tractors I've got, well tonight we'll stick to the up to date ones, well I think they are, but they're an old man's choice, driven steady, cleaned now and then, oil changed on...