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This very MOOtiful double act were busy posing just outside my brother's property near Orange in New South Wales.
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos taurus.
Cattle are commonly raised as livestock for meat (beef or veal, see beef cattle), for milk (see dairy cattle), and for hides, which are used to make leather. They are used as riding animals and draft animals (oxen or bullocks, which pull carts, plows and other implements). Another product of cattle is dung, which can be used to create manure or fuel. In some regions, such as parts of India, cattle have significant religious meaning. Cattle, mostly small breeds such as the Miniature Zebu, are also kept as pets.
Around 10,500 years ago, cattle were domesticated from as few as 80 progenitors in central Anatolia, the Levant and Western Iran. According to an estimate from 2011, there are 1.4 billion cattle in the world. In 2009, cattle became one of the first livestock animals to have a fully mapped genome.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
...as the farmer eats his sunny side up eggs. His tractor and the harvest warms up to a rising golden sunny morning!
New AM. Lumber Beard V2 - (LeLutka) (BOM Only) @ Mainstore & Marketplace
New AM. - Scar set (BOM Only)
AM. - Eye scar
AM. - Jaw Scar @ Marketplace
KM. Sucker Punch - Left @ Mainstore
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Day 354. After spending a couple of days feeling under the weather and stuck in the house, I went on a short ride round the local woods with my son. We pass through a farm yard where there was laid out a random collection of rusty bit and pieces. I took a wider shot that's elsewhere on my photosteam, but for this shot I closed in on the rather intriguing pattern and texture of the of this old rusty implement that I guess was used to turn the soil on the field.
A new morning reveals old technology. A hundred years ago, this plow was state-of-the-art technology, but today, it has been repurposed as art on the estate.
HFF!
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A utility scraper, or razor scraper, with a particularly expressive look while the blade is exposed.
Yes, I've confirmed the portion photographed is under three inches (76.2mm) long.
Now I'm trying something new! I have implemented noise reduction using artificial intelligence on the entire image stack before the actual stacking in Helicon Focus.
This noise reduction was done using Lightroom's Denoise function, and it turned out to be a time-consuming affair: The AI process itself took About 20 (!) hours to complete on my aging laptop. 😂
115 pictures stacked in helicon focus. Raynox dcr-250, Flash and AK diffuser used.
The slime mold grew on a small Bracket fungus. yellow leaf as background.
Model 5610,
Disc harrows are the perfect implement for tilling soil.
Bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
Porto Covo, Setúbal, Portugal
This is a small sample of old farm implements preserved in perfect condition!
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Esta es una pequeña muestra de antiguos aperos de labranza conservados en perfecto estado!
The Allis-Chalmers Company of West Allis, Wisconsin, just outside Milwaukee. This great company was one of the pioneers of the industrial age in America and around the globe. Allis-Chalmers built the engines that ran our factories: in 1900, they were perhaps the largest maker of steam engines in the world. Over time, they expanded into almost every type of engine and machine, using the slogan “Ours the Four Powers: Steam, Gas, Water, Electricity.” The company made everything from giant turbines for power plants to the more familiar orange farm tractors. Allis-Chalmers was a continuous inventor and innovator in these fields.
The business end of a small carbon fiber brush for cleaning a phonograph stylus (needle) as safely as possible. The bristle cluster itself is ¼ inch (6mm) diameter; the overall length of the brush is just under 2⅜" (exactly 58mm) long.
The very fine-bristled brush, when used correctly, is a lot easier on the stylus and the fragile cantilever (stylus support arm) of a modern cartridge than the time-worn tactic of using your index finger to knock those little dust bunnies off the needle. Of course, keeping records clean minimizes the likelihood of those bunnies multiplying ;).
Former tractors, harvester, and other farm implements.
Camera: Beacon Two-Twenty-Five, a low-end 1950s plastic camera with a 70mm doublet lens. The focus is fixed and ranges from about 5 1/2 feet to infinity. The shutter, at around 1/50 second, is best for daylight shots, but even small movements (such as the horse's ear) can result in blur. Overall, the camera is quite fun to shoot and I was very pleased at the quality of image produced by the doublet lens. The camera is called the "Two-Twenty-Five" because it produces 2.25-inch square images.
A fascinating history of the company which produced the Beacon can be found at Mike Eckman's website: mikeeckman.com/2023/07/beacon-two-twenty-five-1950/
Film: 120-size Arista 100 ISO, respooled onto a 620 reel.
Developing: Kodak HC-110, Dilution B, 6 min.
This neat little device (farm implement) turns your tractor into a small combine, or corn picker.
August 17, 2019
Montgomery County Old Threshers Show 2019
Missouri
Five days ago we went to one of the local lakes.
No other visitors there, so we had the place to ourselves for a full-on walkabout.
(The word Walkabout is regarded as a real word in Australia, originally coined by the indigenous, when they would, from time to time, 'pick up sticks', and well, go walkabout ;)
Oh, and the saying, 'pick up sticks', is another old saying, meaning 'pack up and go'…. I s'pose, referring to your few odd possessions and perhaps your hunting sticks, i.e.. the spears and woomera.
Oh, and a 'woomera' is a stick with a hook on the end, an effective implement with which to catapult a spear farther and with more velocity.
Anyway, apart from removing one dot, no edits.
I leave that up to your imagination.
Warm, sunny and windy here today, wonderful to get everything on the line dry.
I'm off the the local country show, two streets away.
Have a beautiful w/e x
This vintage grain harvester sits on display at the Guy Goodwin Education Center in Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California. Cattle were brought to the grasslands of the Carrizo Plain by the early 1850s. The next big change came in 1885 when dryland grain farmers started homesteading in the valley. Eventually vast amounts of the grassland was put to the plow. This was aided in the 1910s by the introduction of mechanized farming implements like the grain harvester pictured. This beast of a machine took a crew of up to 10 men to operated it and was pulled by 26 horses or mules. Eventually the harvester was replaced by more efficient threshers but some remained in use on the Carrizo Plain until the 1940s. The Carrizo Plain gets only 8 to 10 inches of rainfall a year on average but the amount during any given year can be highly unpredictable. The risk of crop failure due to insufficient moisture became too great for many farmers and most of their farming efforts were abandoned. In the last few decades many of the homesteads were bought and became part of the National Monument which is administered by the BLM.
"Spreading a Little Sunshine" in Capitol Reef National Park.
I photographed this vintage farm implement, an old manure spreader, in a park that includes a lot of agricultural history. I grew up using a more modern version of this spreader, on our family dairy farm in eastern Oregon. Ours was pulled by a tractor, rather than a team of horses. Ours used the Power-Take-Off (PTO) from the tractor to convey the manure to the spinning tines at the end, which flung the dung out into the field; whereas, theirs was powered just by the horses and those large wheels connected to a series of gears. Either way, you didn't want to be near those spinning teeth at the back end, or you'd get "sunshine" in your face!
The hardest part of creating this photo was making sure the Photopills app was correctly calibrated on my cell phone, so that my Blue Hour camera/tripod alignment shot was correct for the Milky Way core, which wouldn't be visible for another 90 minutes.
TECHNIQUE & EXIF: Stacked and Blended • Canon 6Da + Canon 24mm f/1.4 • Blue Hour exposure: f/16, 30 sec, ISO 800 • Nautical Twilight exposure with lighting glow underneath (Lume Cube Panel Mini, with diffuser, 3800º K): f/16, 30 sec, ISO 3200 • Milky Way Sky (during Astronomical Dusk): f/2.8, 15 sec, IS0 8000 - using a stack of 15 exposure for noise reduction, processed in Starry Landscape Stacker • All 3 exposures blended together in Ps layers, with the glow blended last, using the "Lighten" mode.
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Mooney’s Barn has similar characteristics to barnhouses found in central and northern Europe. This land was acquired by CFE Reimann in 1854. The large roof is believed to cover the original two room living accommodation, the hay and grain storage, and implement area. Later a lean-to dairy was added. This is a significant barn with complex structure and history.
The ancient Saxon tradition whereby man, his animals and goods were all housed under one roof, common even in twentieth century Mecklenburg, is a rare house-form in South Australia. Only one such building, Mooney's Barn, near Hahndorf, has been discovered, although others are said to have existed. Two further barns at Paechtown have similar structure. One has been renovated into current living accommodation.
Heritage Listing
Listing Number: 18390
Authorisation Date: 11-October-2007
Details: Mooney farmhouse, barn, shed & slab outbuilding
Extent of listing: Farmhouse: walls constructed of local stone with [rendered] red-brick dressings, hipped corrugated galvanised iron roof, timber-framed openings with timber doors and timber-framed double-hung sash windows, red-brick chimneys with coursing to top, and corrugated galvanised iron bull-nose verandah with timber posts. Barn and shed: timber frames including saplings & branches, corrugated galvanised iron cladding and gable roofs. Timber-slab shed: timber frame, timber-slab cladding and corrugated galvanised iron skillion roof.
Source:https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Hahndorf_Old_Barns
2Y61 Fort William to Mallaig. Class 57 in WCRC Northern Belle livery seen hear departing Fort William with the Jacobite. This is normally a steam loco, but due to the extreme dry spell, Network Rail implemented a steam ban due to high fire risk.
Whoever put this cart together was ready for all kindsa jobs - it has a pump, a corn sheller and an engine.
July 17, 2021
Gasconade County Threshers
Missouri
Preface: I came upon a handmade diving implement left leaning against one of the dumpsters (bins). I was admiring it as it was obviously hand made and a rather ingenious yet simple device. Being one who is interested in material culture I examined the "diver's wand" as to its construction, materials and operation. I photographed it and noticed a woman watching me.
I was rather excited and showed it to her and demonstrated it workings. She proceeded to put two rather nice chairs into the back of her pickup truck.
She was friendly and curious, both about the device and me. She asked questions about me and my purpose for photographing junk. I asked if she would mind practicing a bit of diving with the wand, so that I might get some photos of its operation, but she declined. She did however offer to take photos of me, so I accepted.
We staged several photos with me holding the wand, which consisted of a hollow iron tube (a sleeve) with two stationary hooks attached to the far end. An iron rod was inserted through the sleeve. At the terminal (business) end of the rod was a single hook, while the other (operator's) end sported a bent handle with a hand made sewn and braided leather grip. These features are best seen in Frame 2. By sliding the rod back and forth through the sleeve one is able to grasp and secure items of varying sizes and at different depths or distances.
Frame 1: I proceeded to the closest dumpster, it was fairly empty, but in the bottom I noted some office supplies and a few books. I poked around a bit and got a feel for the diving device. I became rather excited when I saw "A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets" and with very little effort was able to extract the hard-cover book from the trash.
Frame 2: Ascertaining the condition of the book. Someone had taken very good care of it, I would describe the condition as good to excellent. The paper cover was slightly warn and there was a very small stain or two on the hard cover. In ink on the inside jacket cover was written a price, $8.95.
Frame 3: Same dumpster, a Hardcover edition of Margaret Mead, Blackberry Winter.
Frame 4: Pocketing the booty. A satisfying score.
Afterward: I wondered why someone would throw these books into the dumpster instead of placing them on the reuse platform just 15 feet away.
I retrieved my camera from the interim photographer and we talked a bit, sharing TS observations, and philosophies. I then walked to the homeless camp and asked the occupant if the hook belonged to him. It did not, he claimed, so I returned it to the spot I had found it. Surely it's owner would be back.
A short time later I saw another woman employing the hooking device. I asked her if that was her hook, she said no and asked me if it was mine. I said no, but I had seen it resting against the other dumpster. She said yes, that's where she had found it. I asked her if she planned to keep it and she said "yes, I like it." I said, "but it doesn't belong to you." She replied, "If I don't take it, someone else will."
So that was the end of it. I'm sure she detected my displeasure. It wasn't always that way around here. You could pass an item in the same place for a week or a month or all winter before someone came by and claimed it. Now it guess it's "finder's keepers..."
I went to the museum last weekend with some friends who were visiting. You know what struck me, more than any other detail? How interesting the supportive structures are. These bones are of course intriguing, but when I focused on the structures that hold them up… all the structures of display in the museum, in fact… I really saw the whole experience through new eyes.