Thanks John. They did not use all of the pieces this year, about 80% though. Thye did run a single plough down for a row but i was to far away and they only did the one row.
Dave On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 1:38 PM John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 09:44:02AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > > Attended the annual, but may be the last year for this, Lewis farm > plowing > > demo in Markham Ontario on Thursday > > > > http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2019-plow/album/index.html > > I grew up in farm country, and I can say with some certainty that there's > hardly a plow (or plough) to be seen in any of those shots! > > It would be a shame to see the end of such an exhibition, but at least > we've got your backlog of excellent shots to remind us of times past. > > The last frame, in particular, brings back memories; just such a machine > (although a little but later, I think) driven by the PTO from a tractor, > used to be set up during harvest season at the end of the row of six houses > (some housing farm workers, some - including ours - in private hands). > A decade later everything was being done by combine harvesters; I got my > first summer job driving tractors to ferry the grain from the fields > to the barns. (At age 16 I was old enough to legally drive a tractor > on public roads). Learning to reverse a two-axle trailer was > 'interesting'. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
