Sunday, September 24, 2017

Still alive





Haven't had a lot of spare time lately to connect with the web of world weirdness. It's just stuff, but busy stuff.

 Here are a few videos from a farmer friend in Herefordshire. First (and sadly, perhaps the last) a classic English Ploughing Competition.





Next, stacking straw bales. These are used as bedding whilst cattle and sheep are housed indoors during the wet English winter.

And finally, the scene near the White Hart Inn and Bunkhouse near Brecon, Wales. Lovely countryside.

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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2017 at 6:07 PM

    Thanks for the post; missed you these past days. Hope that things are going as well as can be expected.

    Paul L. Quandt

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    1. OldAFSargeSeptember 25, 2017 at 5:45 AM

      Ahem, and where have you been Paul? We've missed you as well.

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    2. AnonymousSeptember 25, 2017 at 11:42 AM

      I'm still in a head up my a** snit over blogger not posting my comment some time ago. I should get over it any day now. I know it wasn't your doing, it's just me being stupid. Thanks for the kind words.

      Paul

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    3. OldAFSargeSeptember 25, 2017 at 5:07 PM

      Hahaha!

      (Stupid Google and its errant child, Blogger.)

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2017 at 9:01 PM

    Ditto what Paul said.
    John

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  3. SCOTTtheBADGERSeptember 25, 2017 at 1:16 AM

    Compared to a 19th century American Deere style plow, the British one is unusual looking. It's so long handled, and shallow moldboarded!
    In the third video, there is a rather new John Deere driving past. You can almost hear it snickering. That Lanz is havig a tough go of it, in that heavy soil, and so it that little crawler.

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  4. OldAFSargeSeptember 25, 2017 at 5:46 AM

    I had figured (hoped) that you were too busy to post.

    Good stuff from Blighty. I have ever loved the English countryside.

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  5. be603October 5, 2017 at 4:08 PM

    So just how does one score a ploughing competition anyhoo?

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