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« Thread Started on Mar 24, 2010, 10:12pm »		[Quote]
We have a lot of farms around this area, and so many different kinds of farm machinery and vehicles. I'm not even sure what some of them are called, but I'll take some photos and put them up on here, maybe someone can put a name to them as time goes on?

Some of the barns here are really interesting to look at too.


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Please add your own pictures also.
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« Reply #1 on Mar 24, 2010, 10:16pm »		[Quote]
Not really a barn, but I came across this little house the other day. No idea what it's used for.

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This one looks like quite a newly built barn or it's been well preserved:

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Some of the barns are just huge, kept for horses and cattle:

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« Reply #2 on Mar 24, 2010, 10:19pm »		[Quote]
Any idea what this could be or could have been used for?

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« Reply #3 on Mar 24, 2010, 10:19pm »		[Quote]
Friendly cow:

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I have more pics, but will post them another day...
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« Reply #4 on Apr 10, 2010, 2:29pm »		[Quote]
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« Reply #5 on Apr 11, 2010, 10:32pm »		[Quote]
# 2 looks maybe like it cuts something and shoots the result upward into trucks but I'm really just guessing. If that's what it is, it's missing some parts. Like wheels. :) Love the old buildings and barns, they remind me of my childhood. :)
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Re: Out on the farm
« Reply #6 on Apr 11, 2010, 10:38pm »		[Quote]
Reminds me of the days when I part-owned a farm...
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Re: Out on the farm
« Reply #7 on Apr 11, 2010, 10:54pm »		[Quote]
Farms are fun places to explore, but darn hard work. I see what the farmers around here have to do and I don't envy them one bit. I have my hands full just managing my acreage. Did you live long on the farm, Spindrift?

Thanks, gertie. You could be right about that machine thingy, but I don't know for sure. I actually have no idea. Where you brought up on a farm?
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« Reply #8 on Feb 4, 2011, 2:45pm »		[Quote]
A few from my quasi-uncle's farm:

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« Reply #9 on Feb 4, 2011, 3:37pm »		[Quote]
Wow, Thill ~~ what excellent photographs! I love the angle and focus/unfocus of the barbed wire, the bleak sense of lost time in the truck picture, and that last, wonderful momento mori pic, all in such rich black & white.
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« Reply #10 on Feb 4, 2011, 5:12pm »		[Quote]
Thanks again! ;D These were taken a few weeks after I'd gotten my LX3. Hard to imagine that these came out of a camera that you can put in your jacket pocket. 8-) I think that barbed wire pic is still one of my personal favorites.
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« Reply #13 on Oct 11, 2011, 5:15am »		[Quote]
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This is a "Beaver Slide", a hay-stacking device that was developed in the Beaverhead Valley. The hay is pulled up the ramp and dropped into a pile inside the fence, then the slide is moved to the next place the rancher wants a pile.

Sadly, these are rapidly being displaced by large bale baling machines...
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« Reply #14 on Apr 5, 2012, 8:21pm »		[Quote]
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A relic from bygone days...
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« Reply #16 on Jun 3, 2012, 11:14pm »		[Quote]
What a beautiful still-life, casi!
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« Reply #17 on Jun 6, 2012, 7:14pm »		[Quote]

Jun 3, 2012, 11:14pm, kimby wrote:
What a beautiful still-life, casi!

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Thank you Kimby. That's my tool shed,a hoarder's paradise!!

That old wooden handled tool is what is known as a potato shovel. I procured it from one of the old barns, along with that watering can, on the family farm in NY. It's one of my treasures.
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« Reply #18 on Jun 6, 2012, 7:19pm »		[Quote]
Do you USE any of this stuff or just pause in your labors to admire it? ;)
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« Reply #19 on Jun 6, 2012, 7:31pm »		[Quote]

Jun 6, 2012, 7:19pm, kimby wrote:
Do you USE any of this stuff or just pause in your labors to admire it? ;)


I did for a time use the potato shovel to turn compost with but anything wood here in NOLA rots so easily that I stopped using it. It's more of an heirloom to me.
The watering can has a tiny leak that I suppose I could patch.....
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« Reply #20 on Jun 15, 2012, 5:05pm »		[Quote]
The potato shovel is great. It sort of looks like a safe version of a pitchfork.
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« Reply #21 on Jun 28, 2012, 4:53pm »		[Quote]
Clearly your soil is different from the rocky stuff we have here. That elegant shovel would never work in my soil. But how I would love to hang it on my wall!
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« Reply #22 on Jun 28, 2012, 8:15pm »		[Quote]
Ah ... yes the shovel is a treasure but my eye was caught by the scythe ( sickel) in the picture .

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Jun 28, 2012, 4:53pm, kimby wrote:
Clearly your soil is different from the rocky stuff we have here. That elegant shovel would never work in my soil. But how I would love to hang it on my wall!


It's function is not to be used in the soil Kimby.
It's used to move potatoes after they are harvested into storage bins or large potato cellars.(many farmers would store their potatoes as they keep so well and hold out for a better price to sell them.) The tool is designed so as not to pierce the skin of the potato.

Great video Lugg.
I have a few of those sycthes and some other old tools.
Few people, as the video shows, know the proper way in which to use one.
Thanks!
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Jun 29, 2012, 11:09am, casimira wrote:
It's function is not to be used in the soil Kimby.
It's used to move potatoes after they are harvested into storage bins or large potato cellars.


That makes sense. You know potatoes are still stored for future consumption. That's why they are so mealy and uninteresting this time of year, waiting for the new crop to come in.
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« Reply #26 on Jul 15, 2012, 9:38am »		[Quote]
Just beautiful htmb!! Where is that? Surely not Florida.
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Jul 15, 2012, 9:38am, casimira wrote:
Just beautiful htmb!! Where is that? Surely not Florida.


Thank you! That photo (and I have several others) was taken in the languedoc region of southern France. I had just watched those farmers mow the field and bale the hay. That photo was taken facing west, but in some of my photos taken of the southern landscape you can just barely see the peaks of the Pyrenees.
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« Reply #28 on Jul 15, 2012, 3:34pm »		[Quote]
That is a lovely photo htmb
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« Reply #29 on Jul 15, 2012, 4:04pm »		[Quote]
Thank you, lugg!
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