Wordless Wednesday – Vintage Harvest

Published on: by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life, Miscellaneous, Wordless Wednesday 8 Comments
Vintage tractor
Vintage tractor with small stooks and old fashioned hale bailes
Combine harvester still going strong
Combine harvester still going strong
Winter feed - large stooks
Winter feed – large stooks

8 thoughts on “Wordless Wednesday – Vintage Harvest”

  1. The Hopeful Herbalist
    October 1, 2014

    My dad used to drive one of these! 🙂

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    • croftgarden
      October 1, 2014

      There are lots of old tractors here, in varying condition, but most of them are used on a regular basis. So much nicer than their modern replacements.

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  2. rusty duck
    October 1, 2014

    The combine on that slope… crikey!

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    • croftgarden
      October 1, 2014

      It may look a little ramshackle, but it does work. In fact I followed it (very slowly) down the road just before I took this photograph.
      On the islands old combines are used for threshing and binding, the cutting is usually done by a tractor and mower. The oats/rye is then put into stooks and later fed into the combine. Only a small proportion of the crop is threshed to provide seed for the following year, the rest is used as cattle food.

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  3. Cathy
    October 2, 2014

    Now tell me, have you asked for ‘a go’ on either of these….?

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    • croftgarden
      October 3, 2014

      Women driving machinery what an outrageous idea!

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  4. Chloris
    October 7, 2014

    I haven’ t seen old- fashioned stools like that for a long time.

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    • croftgarden
      October 8, 2014

      Fortunately the crofting system still supports many traditional practices and it is lovely to see the old machinery at work and field with stooks and old fashioned straw bales. Alas it may not last if we lose our agri-environmental support.

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