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A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-04 01:29pm
by fordlltwm
My parents made silage on the weekend, here's a few photo's that I've played with on Gimp to get the monochrome / colour split

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Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-05 06:15am
by madd0ct0r
I hear you say sialge, but I see no black bags

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-05 09:40am
by fordlltwm
Wrapping was done at nearly midnight, we aren't rich enough / have a big enough access road to afford a combined baler wrapper.

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-19 07:01am
by Lagmonster
What's the year/model of the tractor in the second photo? It looks nearly identical similar to the last one owned by my grandfather's farm.

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-19 01:17pm
by fordlltwm
She's a 1963(ish) Fordson Super Dexta, running a Vicon Acrobat rake.

The other two are a 1987(ish) Ford 4610 GenII and a 1970's Leyland 285

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-07-20 07:53am
by Action Avenue
Life and the farm is a cool thing. Where I am from in the USA's midwest, there were a lot of family farms when I was a kid. Unfortunately, that appears to be changing. Cities are expanding and people are moving into the country. Plus, corporate farm companies seem to be putting a lot of small family farms out of business. I didn't grow up on an actual farm, but your pictures do take me back; as I had friends who were farm kids. Great photos. Thanks for posting them.

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-08-13 01:41am
by shyerychen
It looks so cool.

Re: A few photos of the silage harvest

Posted: 2013-08-26 04:31am
by FSTargetDrone
Nice work. I like these a lot.

Where I live, about a 40-minute drive outside of Philadelphia, PA, USA, among McMansions and the endless sprawl of suburban shopping centers, you still see the occasional tractor pulling a heavily-laden trailer with hay, or other farm equipment making its way along the main street:

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