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Grove Rake. 16th February 1991. The last headgear and shaft worked mine in the North Pennines. As opposed to drifts.
Kel and I spent a few hours in the Market Porter, talking to an older couple. When Kel & I were ready to think about heading back to the hotel for a breather before dinner, they convinced us that we had to try a particular beer at the Rake before we went. The beer was no longer on tap, but we managed to spend another hour or so drinking and chatting...
The Rake
London, England
Somewhere in Sweden or Norway, not too far away from Fulufjället nationalpark.
A raking machine is raking the road. Very special :-)
This photo is from our Scandinavia family holiday back in 1989 (I was about 16 then).
In the leaves of their back yard is an oil painting by my Aunt Bobbie Girling, of her youngest daughter Christy and youngest son Robbie, my maternal cousins. 10-28-10
These photos go in that category of “snapped just because they were there and I had a camera in my hand.”
Another category might be “it can’t be lemons or flowers.” Or sheep, or Hawaiian green sea turtles which aren't really green.
Yesterday between rain storms, someone brought the disk harrow, Mark had bought, and this Minneapolis Moline Rake/Tedder. It never looked like it had seen a grease gun in years, the balls in all of the grease zerks were rusted in place but we were able to break them open, there must be 30 or more of them on the thing. We put a couple springs in place of some bailing wire on one lever so we could adjust it. Scraped off some hardened grease around the gears, so we could adjust the gears into forward or reverse, as we wanted it to go. We then started to pull it around to see how it would work, making adjustments as we needed to. It will be handy to stir the hay next year to help it dry better. This year I tried raking the hay into small windrows after 1 day to try and help it to dry but even in a small windrow it is still too thick to dry very well.
Since John got a hat, Erin decided she wanted a scarf. Well, I tried to do it as a double sided knit on the Bond (left sample - aka 1x1 Rib), but didn't like how it was turning out, so started over on the double sided rake. Erin is liking how it is turning out.
It's really not enough to grab the first or cheapest tool you see. I went through a few small hand spades until I decided to splurge for the all metal one seen here, and it has taken abuse that would have destroyed lesser tools. The hoe, likewise, was purchased after a couple of frustrating years spent with one with a wooden handle out of which the implement was constantly falling until the handle failed and broke (the hand spade is propped up on what's left of it). The model I selected as its replacement has a metal handle with the working end attached via rivets. The shovel was picked for the same reason. I hardly ever use a garden rake, and then only for light duty, so hopefully its wooden handle will not be a liability. And besides, it was only four dollars, and aren't rules made for breaking anyway?
Yesterday between rain storms, someone brought the disk harrow, Mark had bought, and this Minneapolis Moline Rake/Tedder. It never looked like it had seen a grease gun in years, the balls in all of the grease zerks were rusted in place but we were able to break them open, there must be 30 or more of them on the thing. We put a couple springs in place of some bailing wire on one lever so we could adjust it. Scraped off some hardened grease around the gears, so we could adjust the gears into forward or reverse, as we wanted it to go. We then started to pull it around to see how it would work, making adjustments as we needed to. It will be handy to stir the hay next year to help it dry better. This year I tried raking the hay into small windrows after 1 day to try and help it to dry but even in a small windrow it is still too thick to dry very well.
Checking alignment of 4 blades, all bent to ~60mm offset (depending on how deeply I slot the dropouts and whether I position them so I can finish them to look like it's a continual curve to the actual dropout or not.
I was trying to get a nice shot of these guys raking the beach. How very resort. I thought this was the shot, but...
Hugelkultur raised beds filled w/ rotten wood. This makes for raised beds loaded w/ organic material, nutrients, air pockets for the roots of what you plant, etc. As the years pass, the deep soil of your bed becomes incredibly rich & loaded w/ soil life. As the wood shrinks, it makes more tiny air pockets - so your hugelkultur becomes sort of self tilling. The first few years, the composting process will slightly warm your soil giving you a slightly longer growing season. The woody matter helps to keep nutrient excess from passing into the ground water - & then refeeding that to your garden plants later. Plus, by holding SO much water, hugelkultur could be part of a system for growing crops in the desert w/ no irrigation.
www.waldeneffect.org/blog/Hugelkultur/
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