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The invention of a horse drawn rake in the 1800’s made the process of collecting hay much more efficient. The horse drawn rake could collect about 8 times a much as someone raking by hand. This lead to more hay gathered to feed the stock and more time to do other chores,before winter set in.
Makes a nice picture to hang on the wall for a bar, or anyone fond of the bottle.
This old tractor and cart reside on a property which has been dontated to Council locally – as you can see by the sign leaning on the cart, they used to sell honey and eggs to the locals. This has been treated with a few filters in Photoshop to try for an ink/sepia wash look. Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
Quiet corner behind a farmhouse in the Shenandoah.
This antique corn planter was one of many “relics” found out in the tree grove on an old farm place we bought on auction. I don’t know how old the plow is but when we found it, there was a tree growing up through the middle of the implement. It sits in my flower garden with roses planted around it now. This is one of my favorite images and was featured on the back cover of Country Magazine in 2006 and won the Calendar Contest for our local radio station the year before that.
A hay rake drawn by horse came onto the scene in the 1800’s. This made the process of collecting hay much more efficient. The horse drawn rake could collect about 8 times a much as someone raking by hand. This lead to more hay gathered to feed the stock and more time to do other chores, before winter set in….Also pictured is a split-rail fence.
In the early days fodder to get the stock through the winter was usually hay. The whole process was done by hand in the earliest days later a horse draw hay rake like the one shown was used. The hay then was place by hand into stacks around a pole to help keep it from blowing away. By pressing the hay down as they started and latter by the weight of the hay, it would become fairly waterproof. This took a certain skill by the stackers. The hay would cure by the heat generated by the release of moisture in the hay and compression. A fence was then place around the stack to keep the stock out until it was time for them to feed on it….Image was taken on The Mountain Farm Museum, GSMNP. The barn seen is the Enloe-Floyd Barn, and is of the Shotgun style
Light shining tho=rough window on a rainy day with the ocean in the background.
This may not look to be that comfortable to ride. It was a lot easier that raking hay by hand. This old horse drawn hay rake could rake bout what 8 men could do in a given time. That would leave a lot of time for other chores. More often then not, one of the younger kids would drive the rake, and the older kids and men would gather and put up the hay. This was pulled thru the field of cut hay. The tines would collect the hay. When they were full the lever would be pull releasing the hay in a pile. Then it would be gathered and taken to where they stored it. This may be crude by today’s standards but in its hay days this was a major improvement to putting up hay…….image taken at the Mountain Farm Museum at the Cherokee NC entrance to the Great smoky Mountain NP
This look into the past is preserved at the Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. This park is different in many ways from a lot of the other National Parks in the US. It is one of the 1st to have the land bought soley form logging companies and individuals. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 familys were displaced in the early 1920’s and 30’s when they sold their land for the purpose of a National Park. The park service also desided they wanted to preserve the way of life of these early pioneers. Throughout the park old structures have been preserved. Here at the Mountain Farm Museum and at the Cades Cove Visitors Center are 2 places where a whole farm was preserved. The only building here that was originally here though, is the barn, the other structures were moved from various places in the park to here. Another note of the parks uniqueness is they is no charge for entering due to an agreement with the states of Tennessee and North Carolina
Three farm trailers sit parked in a farm field
Contents of an old barn at the Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Please don’t copy or download this image. My photos may NOT be reproduced and/or used in any form without my written permission. If you want this photograph, I would be honored for you to purchase it. ©2008 Patricia Montgomery | Bucks Mountain Galleries All rights reserved.
Holmdel, NJ – Oct 2008 – HDR / Suburban Scenes by Mike Savad
This may not look to be that comfortable to ride. It was a lot easier that raking hay by hand. This old horse drawn hay rake could rake bout what 8 men could do in a given time. That would leave a lot of time for other chores. More often then not, one of the younger kids would drive the rake, and the older kids and men would gather and put up the hay. This was pulled thru the field of cut hay. The tines would collect the hay. When they were full the lever would be pull releasing the hay in a pile. Then it would be gathered and taken to where they stored it. This may be crude by today’s standards but in its hay days this was a major improvement to putting up hay…….image taken at the Mountain Farm Museum at the Cherokee NC entrance to the Great smoky Mountain NP
/ Suburban Scenes by Mike Savad / Mike’s Americana Squidoo Lenses
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/100’s ~ f / 5 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / ________ / ________
Nikon D40 with GII 18-55mm lens / 18mm ~ 1/200’s ~ f / 7.1 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processes in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / ________ / ________ / ________
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 24mm ~ 1/400’s ~ f / 10 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Auto Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / 09/05/2009 / ________ / ________ / ________
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/320’s ~ f / 9 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ FEATURED / THE MALE PHOTOGRAPHER GROUP / 09/10/2009 / ________ / ________ / ________
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/100’s ~ f / 5 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / This is a very old metal plow seat, probably circa 1920’s, plus or minus a few years. If you look into the background, you will see an all-metal tire. What do you mean an all-metal tire? Yes, long before the development and perfection of rubber tires, heavy trucks and farm equipment, used steel tires to perform land cultivation. Adding metal tires as wheels to farm implements removed the horse drawn plow from the equation and improved twentieth century agriculture. Later came the rubber tires on metal rims, but it was this steel tire technology, which helped increase world food production and decreased individual labor, changing farming forever! The title is elusively vague for a reason. I wanted the plight of those that till the soil, the farmer: the one that braves the elements, who is at the mercy of profiteers and who spends long days and nights nurturing all that grows and feeds us, to have a photographic memorial. After all it was this strong breed of individuals who were the corner stone of the creation of cities, communities and of civializations across the planet. I wanted the title to have the sound of Royalty, beacause it is those who produce food for the world population which are the true Royalty, they are the Kings and Queens of sustaining the life we hold so dear, our own and of those we love. They sit on the Throne (seat), producing food (sustentation) for all human beings. / ________ / ________ / ________ / ________
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/400’s ~ f / 10 ~ ISO=200 / Hand Held / Manual Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / ________ / ________ / ________ / ________
A spoonful of lines
Best View Larger! Taken in the town of Herrickville, PA and it was just parked there because it was raining that day. Canon 50D / Sigma 17-70mm lens / HDR
Nikon D40 with 18-55mm GII lens / 18mm ~ 1/200’s ~ f / 7.1 ~ ISO=200 / Tripod / Auto Focus / RAW / Processed in Nikon Capture NX 2 software / _______ / _______ / _______ / _______
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