Corner post.
Corner post.
His hands were gnarled as the tree that he had hand sawn and shaped to make the post.
Using just his bare hands, a crow bar and a long handled shovel he toiled for hours to dig the hole wide enough and deep enough.
Once he had reached the required depth he used the old tractor connected to a chain to drag the post as close as he could the hole in the ground.
Releasing the post from the chain and tractor he then used the crow bar to lever and manoeuvre the post.
He struggled that old man, he prised and pushed and shoved.
Not a word of curse was uttered.
He did eventually reach that point where he was able to reconnect the chain to the post and he was able to use the hydraulics on the tired old tractor to raise the post just barely high enough for him to finally prise into the correct position where it could be released.
With the post now embedded the old farmer then began the task of running the wire and and using a wire strainer applied the required tension.
The corner post has long survived the old man.
It is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that the old farmer has now left as a legacy.
It is almost certain that it will also survive the shed that the old man built in a time long past when he was a much younger man.
Durras, New South Wales, Australia.
Corner post.
Corner post.
His hands were gnarled as the tree that he had hand sawn and shaped to make the post.
Using just his bare hands, a crow bar and a long handled shovel he toiled for hours to dig the hole wide enough and deep enough.
Once he had reached the required depth he used the old tractor connected to a chain to drag the post as close as he could the hole in the ground.
Releasing the post from the chain and tractor he then used the crow bar to lever and manoeuvre the post.
He struggled that old man, he prised and pushed and shoved.
Not a word of curse was uttered.
He did eventually reach that point where he was able to reconnect the chain to the post and he was able to use the hydraulics on the tired old tractor to raise the post just barely high enough for him to finally prise into the correct position where it could be released.
With the post now embedded the old farmer then began the task of running the wire and and using a wire strainer applied the required tension.
The corner post has long survived the old man.
It is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that the old farmer has now left as a legacy.
It is almost certain that it will also survive the shed that the old man built in a time long past when he was a much younger man.
Durras, New South Wales, Australia.