Glass Chatroom Board

Good Morning everyone. A repeat of yesterdays weather and the day before that and the day before that ...... Each morning you can feel that chill slowly disappearing. Spring is on its way.

Don @donscns I have a friend that does hay. Yep hard work. They are still lifting them manually. I remember as a child a man that use to use a scythe to cut the whole paddock, all on his own. Each day we drove past we would look to see how far he had done. Can you imagine anyone doing that these days.
Years ago when we 'd not long moved to this house , I saw ,at a farm clearance auction,a big antique timber and cast iron hay press that was operated by horse. It was huge and very heavy. It had been through many floods over its lifetime. It was an old farm situated right on the river. The old barn had sunken a lot and there was many years of built up soil around the press. I fell in love with that piece of machinery and I wanted it so badly. I wanted to use it in our home extensions and build a room around it , Have it as the focal point of the room. BUT I would have had to be a millionaire to be able to afford the equipment needed to get it out of the barn and to my place. Firstly you would have had to demolish the old barn. A crane would be needed to lift the press on and off a truck (truck hire another cost)