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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!!
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
Spotted Pea-blue.~ Bluegram
When i just about to have fun shooting this small butt, the bluegram, with the little coatbuttons blooming again, our Grasscutter decided to give us a surprised by cutting it flat Yesterday, while we were out!....Lucky i got few shots from the previous morning....:((.
Sorry, i'm in the Post and Run Mode, Been busy again.
Have a Great Day All!
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 .
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 .
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."
Some of the old lawnmowers in the sheds at the Victorian Garden and greenhouses at Normanby Hall near to Scunthorpe.
Baba Avtar Singh lends a patient hearing to the plea of a devotee in the Diwan Hall at Sur Singh, district Tarn Taran, Punjab. Amusingly, the ransingha appears like a bullhorn amplifying the concern of the visitor.
Baba Avtar Singh is second-in-command of Baba Bidhi Chand Taruna Dal. His father Baba Daya Singh (Jathedar) is the eleventh descendant of Bhai Bidhi Chand. The Dal is based in Sur Singh village.
Bhai Bidhi Chand was born to Bhai Wasan of village Sur Singh. His mother belonged to Sarhali, a famous village in Amritsar district. During his early days, Bhai Bidhi Chand got into bad company and became a dacoit. Bhai Adli, a Sikh since the days of Guru Ram Das, met him. Influenced by his good behavior, Bhai Bidhi Chand accompanied him to Amritsar. When he met Guru Arjan Dev, he confessed that he was a dacoit by profession. The Guru advised him to earn his living honestly.
After the martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev, his son Guru Hargobind acquired two swords, representing miri and piri. This was a signal to the government that Sikhs would defend themselves. Guru Hargobind invited young men to come to Amritsar and learn the art of self-defense and the use of arms. Bhai Bidhi Chand decided to volunteer his services to the Guru to teach the art of war.
When Guru Hargobind was arrested by the emperor of Delhi and imprisoned in the fort of Gwalior, Bhai Bidhi Chand went from village to village, informing people of the sacrifices made by the Gurus. He, along with his dhadi jatha, would sing vars which brought chardi kala to the minds of the people. Later, when the Guru was released from the fort, Bhai Bidhi Chand became his bodyguard. He was appointed the leader of one of the five divisions of the volunteer forces of the Guru.
The rising image and strength of the Sikhs under the leadership of Guru Hargobind was not to the liking of the governor of Lahore. He found an excuse to attack the Guru in May of 1629 with an army of 7,000 soldiers. Bhai Bidhi Chand played a significant role in defeating the government forces. Bhai Bidhi Chand fought in all four battles alongside the Sixth Guru as a General in the Guru's army.
There is another legend related to Bhai Bidhi Chand. Two highly valued thoroughbred horses (Dilbagh and Gulbagh) were bought by the sangat of Kabul for the Guru. However, on the way to Amritsar, they were forcibly taken by the soldiers of the Lahore governor. Bhai Bidhi Chand brought them back by a unique ruse.
He dressed himself as a grasscutter and took a bundle of grass to the gate of the fort where the horses were kept under guard. He sold the grass to the caretaker at a very low price to befriend him. Bhai Bidhi Chand was assigned the job of bringing grass and feeding the horses. Bhai Bidhi Chand did this duty very devotedly and impressed all the employees and the guards in the fort. Bhai Bidhi Chand made a plan to jump with a horse into the Ravi River which ran alongside the fort. At night, once in a while, he would throw a large boulder over the wall of the fort into the river. When the guards inquired about the sound, he would say that there was a big animal in the river.
One day when he received his pay, he planned a big feast for the guards in the fort. When the guards were sound asleep at night, Bhai Bidhi Chand untied a horse and jumped with it into the river. The guards came to know about it only in the morning. By that time, Bhai Bidhi Chand had already taken the horse to the Guru.
For bringing the second horse, Bhai Bidhi Chand went to Lahore again. He stayed with Bhai Bohru who told him that Sondhay Khan, the custodian of the horses was extremely worried about the loss of the horse. He was consulting astrologers to help him find the missing horse. Bhai Bidhi Chand dressed himself as an astrologer. He went to the fort and sat in front of the gate. He conveyed to the caretaker of the horses that he could unravel the mystery of the missing horse. Bhai Bidhi Chand immediately told the caretaker that the man who brought grass for the horses was the thief. This convinced the caretaker of the powers of the astrologer and he took him to Khan.
When he met Sondhay Khan, Bhai Bidhi Chand explained to him the way the horse was stolen. Khan knew that everything Bhai Sahib was saying was correct. When he wanted to know the location of the stolen horse, Bhai Sahib said that he could tell that only at midnight by placing himself in the position from where the thief stole the horse. Khan came at midnight with his guards to find out about the horse, Bhai Sahib said that all the guards should be indoors and be sleeping on their beds as they were during the time of the theft. He told Khan that the thief had locked all the guards and that he would do the same. Addressing Sondhay Khan, Bhai Sahib spoke, "Now I will tell you how and where the thief took the horse". He untied the horse and said, "The thief got on the horse like this, jumped into the river and took the horse to Guru Hargobind. I will also take this horse to the Guru to whom it belongs." Before Khan could inform the guards, Bhai Sahib had crossed the river. He then rode straight to the Guru.
Bidhi Chand was not only a brave and tactful soldier, but also a devoted Sikh. He passed away in 1695.
© 2010 Gurbir Singh Brar, all rights reserved.
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A worker tends the grounds of the Okinawa Peace memorial Park, at the Cornerstone of Peace memorial, a semi-circular avenue of stones engraved with the names of all people who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, military personnel, or civilians. The monument was unveiled in 1995, and consists of 117 walls that spread out in concentric arcs. 69 of these walls have five folds and 48 of them have three folds, for a total of 1,212 faces displaying almost 250,000 names.