This pic pales to some the others have posted recently. But after a half mile walk into a closed section I wanted to take some sort of trophy out with me. The real accomplishment is that I have been remembering to take my camera with me. A real milestone in my career.
...just some rusting tool from times past.
Ah, that's two pic(s) genius!
😉
That side delivery hay rake was manufactured a lllooonnnggg time ago. We had one back about 1960 more advanced than that and we thought it was an antique at the time. Ours had solid rubber tires instead of the plain steel wheels shown above. I'm guessing the one in the photo was manufactured prior to 1930. These came into existence during the horsedrawn days of farm equipment. The solid wheels were fine at slow speeds going down gravel roads between fields. Once they were converted to allow being pulled by tractors it was discovered that high speed travel (maybe up to 12 or 14 mph or more) and steel wheels didn't work well together. Side delivery rakes were a tremendous improvement over the old sulky or dump rakes.
I own a steel-wheeled manure spreader that was built to be pulled by horses but was converted over by using a post as a tongue to allow being pulled by a tractor. I endured the experience of filling it too many times with a pitchfork and then riding in the cast iron seat on the front to engage and disengage the mechanism that powered the drag chain and beater system from the large rear wheels. It hasn't been out of the barn since 1992 and hasn't been used since the mid-1960's.
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
What's the deal with the black/yellow pipe near the fence?
Holy Cow, post: 425996, member: 50 wrote: [USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
What's the deal with the black/yellow pipe near the fence?
There was a drilling rig about another quarter mile north. I'm guessing the HDPE was either their water source or waste.
You'd think living in Oklahoma as long as I have would have provided me with knowledge of the oil & gas industry. In reality the less I know about that stuff the better off I feel.
paden cash, post: 425988, member: 20 wrote: The real accomplishment is that I have been remembering to take my camera with me. A real milestone in my career.
Don't feel bad, I have my phone with me all the time and still canÛªt remember it has a better camera built in than than my "regular" camera.
Nice pics, you could develop a 3500 unit PUD there. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 426012, member: 379 wrote: Don't feel bad, I have my phone with me all the time and still canÛªt remember it has a better camera built in than than my "regular" camera.
Nice pics, you could develop a 3500 unit PUD there. 😉
I'm thinking a 3500 space trailer park might be a fire hazard....
...and too many 10-16s (domestic disturbance) for the local sheriff to deal with.
paden cash, post: 426015, member: 20 wrote: ...and too many 10-16s (domestic disturbance) for the local sheriff to deal with.
Legalize weed and ban alcohol and that problem will resolve itself.
FL/GA PLS., post: 426017, member: 379 wrote: Legalize weed and ban alcohol and that problem will resolve itself.
Not a bad idea. But banning booze in Oklahoma would indeed be a difficult task. No alcohol sales would wreck our State Budget and half the legislature would show up for work with the DTs.
On a positive note I'm thinking a ban on liquor might clean up the teen pregnancy problem. And legalizing weed might reduce the number of road rage incidents....
paden cash, post: 425988, member: 20 wrote: This pic pales to some the others have posted recently. But after a half mile walk into a closed section I wanted to take some sort of trophy out with me. The real accomplishment is that I have been remembering to take my camera with me. A real milestone in my career.
What species of trees are those in the background? Are they something that was introduced for shelter belt planting in the 1930s, or natives?
Looks a lot like hedge/bois d'arc/osage orange to me.
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
Mrs. Cow was in to collecting worthless old stuff when she met me. We probably have two or three replacement wheels available to take the place of the one on the left in your photo. The damage shown suggests some foolish human ran into the rake at one time with something considerably heavier than the rake. There is no way that damage occurred by the rake striking something else.
paden cash, post: 425988, member: 20 wrote: ...just some rusting tool from times past.
I resemble that remark.
You know how Popeye kept his tool from rusting? He put it in Olive Oyl.
Kent McMillan, post: 426021, member: 3 wrote: What species of trees are those in the background? Are they something that was introduced for shelter belt planting in the 1930s, or natives?
HC right, there's a lot of bois d' arc in there, and I believe they're native. There's also a good amount of hackberry on the hill there also. The little stunted tree growing up through the rake is a hackberry. According to our State Historical Society Black locust, catalpa, Chinese elm, cottonwood, green ash, hackberry, honey locust, mulberry, Osage orange, pecan, plum, Russian olive, red cedar, and walnut were commonly planted in the '35 to '42 program which lived under several names, ending in the Prairie States Forestry Program.
The area pictured is in N. Central Grady County, with upland vegetation. Closer to rivers with sandy alluvium the program planted honey locust. And from what I can tell, with an aggressive root system the species did what it was intended. There are 1/2 mile or longer stands of locust trees that are now 10 feet higher than the lands on either side. And impossible for anybody but the devil himself to walk through:
Another "oops" of the program was the proliferation of the Western Red Cedar. It's now considered obnoxious blight in fallow pasture.
paden cash, post: 425988, member: 20 wrote: This pic pales to some the others have posted recently. But after a half mile walk into a closed section I wanted to take some sort of trophy out with me. The real accomplishment is that I have been remembering to take my camera with me. A real milestone in my career.
...just some rusting tool from times past.
We had one that looks very much like this one. Steel wheels and all. We rarely used it. The only time that we did is when it rained on cut down hay. By the flip of a lever, you could reverse the direction that the rake would rotate. What that did was turn the hay over so it would dry better. Once dry enough, it was raked into a windrow ready for baling.
Our regular rake was a '60s or so rubber wheeled New Holland model. It looks like someone backed into the steel wheel of that one.
Holy Cow, post: 426029, member: 50 wrote: Mrs. Cow was in to collecting worthless old stuff when she met me
Was that intended to read like that or a slip of the pen?
Re those steel wheels. We had a manure spreader, but it actually dispensed granulated fertiliser.
Dad decided he didn't need it any more so gave it to another farmer at opposite end of town.
As it wasn't street legal it was decided best to transport in early hours of morning. And supposedly avoid detection.
Steel wheels on bitumen creates quite a cacophony at that hour of the day.
Not sure what the locals thought was happening on its 2 mile journey.
paden cash, post: 426045, member: 20 wrote: Another "oops" of the program was the proliferation of the Western Red Cedar.
That's actually Eastern Red Cedar. Western Reds are a coastal, and very different, thing. In fact, the Easterns are actually junipers, not a cedar at all.
[USER=833]@Richard[/USER]
I'm so proud of you. I was waiting for someone to catch that turn of a phrase.
Thanks HC
Probably 'cos I'm fresh from a sleep and bright eyed and bushy tailed, as they say here,.
You fellas are at other end of the day or closer to
