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Early hay rake that would have been pulled by a tractor is put out to pasture, so to speak, to become a symbol of bygone days. This rake was photographed near Duncan BC Canada.
A hay rake may be mechanized, drawn by a tractor or draft animals, or it may be a hand tool. The earliest hay rakes were nothing more than tree branches, but wooden hand rakes with wooden teeth, similar in design to a garden rake but larger, were prevalent in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and still are used in some locations around the world.
Another of my old wanderings took me to the back roads southwest of Longmont. This rake appears to be more lawn art than farm implement. A rambling rake no more! ...And it is not used up yet! It was not made of Chinese plastic.
Some of my captures need a load of editing, not so much here, as I am deluged with retouching in my directories. I expect to post more as I get past my immersion in most of the mass of current projects like starting on the quasi-logical Win-10 that needs another upgrade and a heap of cleanup afterward.
The Ag Museum was open to get to the McIntosh Lake Loop Trail. Hmm, I just might try it on the remaining day. I can't simply just hang around the Museum, I am already crammed with MAC snaps. I have some neighbors who do nothing more than hang around, I have places to go. Perhaps a small degree of exercise? I can only stand sitting behind the monitor for a small while.
This is a dump rake, used for making hay. The horses would pull it until the rake was full of grass, then the driver of the horses would lift it to "dump" the hay. The goal was to have all the dumps lined up in a straight line, so when they picked it up it was easy.
Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis)
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
ORDER: Gruiformes
FAMILY: Gruidae
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/overview
www.fws.gov/refuge/monte_vista/
The jumping crane will kick out and toward the partner, which defines the "Jump Rake". The stationary crane is demonstrating the Wing-spread-forward-tilt (other half of the Jump-rake dance).
Sandhill Crane Display Dictionary: www.amazon.com/Sandhill-Crane-Display-Dictionary-Naturali...
Detail of NMBS 1189 coupled to a push-pull rake consisting of five ICR coaches and two driving trailers. Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer, 30 December 2008
T200812-0084
From the story, THE TEAR-IMBUED HANDKERCHIEF OF VIC CHAMPIGNOLE.
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186 431-3 (Railpool / HSL) with rake of Ermewa, Wascosa & GATX Zacns & Zans (33 1203) on DGS 69467 Bremen Inlandshafen - Großkorbetha (+449) passing through Bremen Hbf
Another image that proves that I always seemed to go out in dull weather. 56097 passes through Knottingley with a rake of empty HAA's for Gascoigne Wood. 7th April 1995.
Great Torrington station in 1971, with rakes of milk wagons in the sidings. This station was on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, one of the last standard gauge lines to be completed, opening in 1925.
Westbound across the Atlantic, a glint of setting sun catches the starboard raked wingtip of BA's Boeing 789 Dreamliner G-ZBKA.
(Added Note : For the aircraft enthusiasts who frequent this stream, to me the wing looks long, with little width compared to older aircraft designs. However, it must be something of an illusion because Boeing's wing size statistics are not significantly different to e.g. their 777 aircraft. Perhaps one reason for the 'illusion' is that the engines are mounted almost entirely in front of the wing? I couldn't see the starboard engine at all from window seat 38K half way down Bilge Class)
i slowly crawled down under this freight train to take this pic...
here u can see MG axle and wheels of flat bed rake..
AN INTERESTING LOOKING WATERFALL WHICH IS QUITE TALL BUT NARROW. THE WATERFALL IS FORMED OVER AN OLD GEOLOGICAL FAULT MAKING A LOVELY CASCADE.
Crewe Basford Hall Marshalling Yard, Cheshire, UK. 27th May 2017.
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The sun sets behind Mt. Diablo as this antique Buck Rake languishes in a field, perhaps recalling an earlier day when it served a more noble purpose sweeping hay on a busy ranch.
This old piece of farm machinery is one of my favorite subjects for testing new gear and I happened to meet the rancher who said this Buck Rake was used in his family in the 1960's before they ultimately sold it to the the present owner to be used as a decoration lining the entrance road to the golf course.
This is a single underexposed shot, double processed and fed into Photomatix for tone mapping.
Lens is the FA31 Limited.
Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis)
Monte Vista NWR, Monte Vista, CO
Groups of cranes gather in the San Luis Valley on their migration south for winter. Their display/dances are not limited to springtime and I always enjoy seeing the "jump-rake" where the male typically jumps and kicks out toward the female while she is in a wing-spread-forward-tilt ...
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/id
www.amazon.com/Sandhill-Crane-Display-Dictionary-Naturali...