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I saw this couple raking hay at about 6 o'clock in the evening near Bialystok in the Eastern Region of Poland.
I stopped to take this and some other photographs and talk to them. They were 74 years old and had been working in the hot sun since 9 o'clock. We talked in my limted Polish about their small field and their concern with its future after they died. Like many people from Polish villages, their son had left to go to find work in Warsaw where he now lived and would not return to tend the field and live in a village in a small house.
I was touched by the simple, but hard life this couple had lived and by the sense I had of their closeness. I wondered what would happen when one of them died.
This was two years ago and I often think of them as I look at this photograph that hangs in my office. I feel honored to have captured this and to have preserved some of it far away as I continue my own life in a much more priviliged world.
Flying Cloud's masts all raked backward one and one-quarter inch per foot of mast height. This design characteristic -- common among clipper ships -- allowed the wind to lift the ship while plowing forward rather than the wind driving the clipper ship's much sharper bow under water at speed...dangerous to crew and vessel alike as well as a serious concern to insurance underwriters.
Mast rake also reduced the ship's inclination to alternately pitch forward and aft along the ship's centerline...pitching forward followed by the stern slamming down on her transom overhang aft under certain challenging sea conditions.
I spotted this apparently abandoned horse-drawn hay rake in a field. It reminded me when I was young in Minnesota and of my grandfather who used one to rake hay after it had dried in the sun.
The 1st Vanway Guides from Prince George, B.C., did a rake and run in the fall for a community service project.
After the herbicide treatments fully eliminate the exotic grasses, the restoration site is prepared using a root-rake. Root-raking is similar to disking. It's a mechanical treatment that is geared toward removing and chopping up heavier woody debris and thick root mats.
I had the kite up for another time lapse but totally messed up the viewing angle. Just as well I had low level back up.....
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The trees were spectacular, but raking leaves was a constant job for about 4 months of the year. When they were really coming down (what's shown here is pretty light), that sweeper would be completely full after less than one pass the width of the yard. Mowing the front lawn was a nice, tidy 20 minute job, but sweeping the leaves could take a couple hours. Photo by Walter Reed
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Los Angeles Firefighters made quick work of a swift-moving attic fire in Winnetka on January 1, 2011. The fire, which caused no injury but displaced a family of three, was sparked by improperly discarded fireplace ashes. © Photo by Juan Guerra