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Spring is definitely in full swing down on the farm, and it's time for Farmer John to whip that old grass cutter into action. All it needs is a good oil and lube job--a nice horse to pull it around would also help things immensely.
Happy Fence Friday everyone.
Los Altos Hills CA
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) Belmont Park, Kelowna, BC.
As indicated in previous posts, the pair of RBNUs has not been active but available in the first week of April 2021. This is the second of at least four series I've taken. That may have changed today (April 9) as the grasscutters were back at work today with their handheld gas-powered weed trimmers that raise a terrible racket, a dither of dust, and a great disruption of everything the birds love about this park. Will see tomorrow if they're still around. They were not in the late afternoon a couple of hours after the environment smashers had departed....
An abandoned grass / hay cutting machine on the Peak Park Boundary Walk near Glossop in the Northern Peak District.
Green and blue rarely mix but I do not want to change the blue sky.... This wonderful old pick-up truck had some special suspension as he would have never got into the site over the speed humps !! Obviously can raise and lower it for events like this.
This works for me with the grass swirls in the foreground adding interest.
Image taken with iPhone 13 Pro Max on a stout monopod so I do not have to get down low or more to the point, then not have to get up again!!
The only certain thing in life, is that we all will be changed by the whimsies of time. There is beauty in that.
Hidden Villa Farm, Los Altos CA
I used a Tele lens for the first time last weekend!
This girl was very friendly and asked me to take shots of her and to send them by email. This was the best I thought!
Four sheep were let loose to bring the grass under control.
This one was quite friendly and had a sniff of my hand
As agriculture country, people tends to rely on the plantation. There the fields give another point, such this rice fields. Whenever the harvest time is over this wetty land occupied by wild grass.
So the middle class labour came handy and will take care of this kind a field, so ready to be planted again.
This cutted grass was the main resources for cow and goats.
***Thank you for your visits and comments :)
Honda HR216 Defeated & Abandoned , either failed to do its job or replaced by a younger better model.
I found this sorry looking mower in a field full of rusting equipment Aberdeen Scotland .
A sheep who along with three smaller soay's is keeping the grass down at All Saints’ and St Margaret’s Church, Pakefield, Suffolk
This shot is for John , for making me think :0)
Geoff my friend is a master craftsman in the wild , and he spotted this guy when I was about to walk past him . So this shot is entirely down to Geoff's great eyesight. Thanks Geoff. His stream is here www.flickr.com/photos/grasscutter/
A tight crop appealed to me here, with the blades of grass sticking up infront of the Hare
An orange Lawn-Boy mower in a snapshot dated April 1971.
See also Lawn-Boy Owner Manual.
A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of 1970s (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).
"Lawn-Boy Owner Manual. Model 5000, 18 inch. Model 7000, 21 inch."
The cover of a Lawn-Boy mower manual, circa 1957.
Honda HR216 Defeated & Abandoned , either failed to do its job or replaced by a younger better model.
I found this sorry looking mower in a field full of rusting equipment Aberdeen Scotland .
Honda HR216 Defeated & Abandoned , either failed to do its job or replaced by a younger better model.
I found this sorry looking mower in a field full of rusting equipment Aberdeen Scotland .
Some street photography for you my friends! Bumped into this guy while I was taking some shots along the Hassanal Bolkiah Highway. He is a grasscutter. Mainly of Indian or Bangladeshi nationality, they do a very good job of keeping Brunei roads & highways clean & trimmed.
Have a great friday everyone!
Explore: April 23, 2009 #228 Thanks a lot everyone for your comments & faves!!!
The Flickr Lounge-They Come In Two's.
I've seen one of these Grass Cutters along the side of the road cutting the long grass and weeds, but never one with dual cutters like this.
Cleared-up high-resolution scan of a previously posted photograph. Taken in April of 1968 outside a cave near the top of Kufan Mountain, not far from Balandugu, Northern Province, Sierra Leone. In 2014 it was suspected that bats might be spreading the Ebola virus that has killed numerous people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. It might be of interest to know how the bats were killed since bodily fluids seem to be the main way Ebola transmission occurs. Kufan mountain has numerous slit caves that are totally dark and are a favourite place for bats. People would stand at the mouth of the cave with sticks, branches, etc. and then convince a not-too-bright person (in this case, me) to walk as far into the cave as he dared with his torch (flashlight) turned off. Then he would turn it on and the bats would head to the mouth of the cave (which was not very wide) and would be swatted with branches from both sides. Some of the bats were badly injured and bleeding (download the highest resolution version of this photo and zoom in on the bats to see). One thing these kids failed to tell me is that when I turned on the flashlight, I should duck. I was hit by several bats and one even got tangled in my hair. The bats (cooked) tasted fine, but not nearly as good as Cane Rat ("Cutting Grass"), which was also a major wild source of protein. Perhaps the spread of Ebola to humans is affected by exposures to fresh bodily fluids from the way they are hunted.
Another mention of the hunting and eating of bats in Sierra Leone can be found in the "Annual Report on Monuments and Relics Commission for the year 1957," p. 11: "[W]e went to investigate reports of caves near a mountain by the name of Benduhun.... It would appear that a few years ago some of the population used to go to catch bats in the month of November, when the weather was rather cool, so that the bats in the cave would be huddled together in a bunch to keep warm. They were then knocked down with long sticks into nets. .... Our guides informed us that they no longer went there to collect bats, which are very sweet and do not require cleaning before eating, as the diet of the bats is only fruit."