The auld farm implement thread

[Seahorse]

I'm always amazed at the amount of old farming bits and bobs that are seemingly littering the countryside. Some of it wouldn't look out of place in a museum.

Here's some of the results of this morning's wanderings.

Feel free to add your own.

 

[ricasso]

excellent, Seahorse,pic 3 is troubling me ( il get it in the end!) pic 4 is something made by Bentalls of Heybridge, Essex,I have a corn mill made by them in bits under the bench in me workshop

 

[Foxylady]

Oh, brilliant! What is that machine in pic 3? It's so quirky and mad-scientist-looking in that decrepit state. Love it!
Excellent pics and good stuff.

 

[Dieter_Schmidt]

I've got a family friend that has an old style plough in their back garden.

 

[Dieter_Schmidt]

Oh, brilliant! What is that machine in pic 3? It's so quirky and mad-scientist-looking in that decrepit state. Love it!
Excellent pics and good stuff.

I thought it was a posh mangle.

 

[Black Shuck]

Oh, brilliant! What is that machine in pic 3? It's so quirky and mad-scientist-looking in that decrepit state. Love it!
Excellent pics and good stuff.

This is a very interesting thread. It looks like some sort or Thresher to me , but I may be wrong. It certainly is archaic to say the least. Nice to see though. Makes me want to have a field walk and see what I can find

 

[Seahorse]

Oh, brilliant! What is that machine in pic 3? It's so quirky and mad-scientist-looking in that decrepit state. Love it!
Excellent pics and good stuff.

Is this view of any help? I must admit to being baffled too.

 

[Foxylady]

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Feel free to add your own.

Ooh, only just noticed your invitation to add. I've got loads!!!
I'll sort out a couple of the best later on. ..
...I hear voices from the bottom of the fridge right now...it's the beer calling!

 

[Seahorse]

...I hear voices from the bottom of the fridge right now...it's the beer calling!

Sounds like a plan to me. Hmm, the Guinness looks a cheeky little number. I think I'll risk it.

 

[RichardB]

Cheap red wine here.

Here is an implement from one of the Glenfarg tunnels.

 

[herts digger]

Beer

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Ooh, only just noticed your invitation to add. I've got loads!!!
I'll sort out a couple of the best later on. ..
...I hear voices from the bottom of the fridge right now...it's the beer calling!

Hey Foxy,I thought you were only supposed to hear voices AFTER drinking,or you could turn the volume down on your fridge,cheers me dear!

 

[herts digger]

Is this view of any help? I must admit to being baffled too.

Hi seahorse,I don't suppose you noticed any names moulded onto the iron wheels or any other metal part,I thought I was pretty well up on old farm machinery,but it has got me puzzled,I spoke to ricasso this evening and we wondered if it is some sort of carding machine,its the spikes on the drum that gave us this idea,a great find,weel done.

 

[BigLoada]

Great thread! I know Sausage will love this thread and I think he has a pic of a lovely rusty turnip chopping machine somewhere. I will ask him to find it

 

[Foxylady]

Hope you enjoyed your guinness and wine, guys.
The beer's going down a treat but I got bored with the film, so here are some piccies.

From Whitford Farm.

And from a farm graveyard at Colyford.

 

[ricasso]

Having seen the second pic im wondering if it could have been for prepping sheaves of straw for thatching?
is there a history of thatched cottages there, or is there or has there been a history of arable farming,im thinking along the lines of thatched ricks.

 

[james.s]

Is this view of any help? I must admit to being baffled too.

Seems to be a biscuit/root grinder for preparing cattle feed. I've seen a similar contraption before.

 

[ricasso]

Hiya Foxy, some nice pics mate, it never fails to amaze me that farmers always plead poverty and then leave thousands of pounds worth of kit out to rust away!

 

[Foxylady]

Hiya Foxy, some nice pics mate, it never fails to amaze me that farmers always plead poverty and then leave thousands of pounds worth of kit out to rust away!

Cheers, ric. Yeah, that's the funny thing, as at the 'graveyard' it was all old stuff and I thought it had just been abandoned, but when I went back again, new machinery had been added to it!
There's a gorgeous old tractor there just rusting away to nothing and a horse box too!

 

[ricasso]

Seems to be a biscuit/root grinder for preparing cattle feed. I've seen a similar contraption before.

theres something missing somewhere,too many pulleys for a simple root chopper/cake breaker, cant quite put me finger on it, the framework looks like the old corn dresser i used to have but as I said to Herts digger, its never had any kind of cladding on it by the looks of it?

 

[ricasso]

Cheers, ric. Yeah, that's the funny thing, as at the 'graveyard' it was all old stuff and I thought it had just been abandoned, but when I went back again, new machinery had been added to it!
There's a gorgeous old tractor there just rusting away to nothing and a horse box too!

Gorgeous old tractor! any pics !!!!