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The crew of Mackay Sugar locos Cedars and Dulverton shunt together a loaded rake.
Mackay Sugar operates an extensive and highly specialised cane rail network, spanning 832 km across the Mackay region - from Wagoora in the north to Munbura in the south and west through the Pioneer Valley to Finch Hatton. With a fleet of 34 cane rail locomotives and approximately 6,600 cane bins, Mackay Sugar collects and transports an average of six million tonnes of sugar cane every year from around 280 cane rail sidings.
Wagoora, QLD.
Thursday, 5 September 2024.
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.
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).
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Dull old day on Friday.
Despite that I decided it would be worth going out to shoot the first "proper" length freight train down the coast since the back end of 2014 when Freightliner's 6M11 Hunterston - Fiddlers Ferry coal was diverted around these parts a few times.
This working was the 6Z22 Ribblehead VQ - Sellafield DRS empty box wagons.
The 22 JNA wagons themselves belong to GBRf and were collected from Ribblehead for short-term hire to DRS for a flow of capping material for vaults at the Low Level Waste Repository at Drigg.
Unfortunately when you do get a decent length train it's invariably a Shed, 66425 doing the honours.
The train is seen approaching Harrington station.
Mackay Sugar loco no. 18 Gargett leads an empty rake to load.
Mackay Sugar operates an extensive and highly specialised cane rail network, spanning 832 km across the Mackay region - from Wagoora in the north to Munbura in the south and west through the Pioneer Valley to Finch Hatton. With a fleet of 34 cane rail locomotives and approximately 6,600 cane bins, Mackay Sugar collects and transports an average of six million tonnes of sugar cane every year from around 280 cane rail sidings.
Mount Blackwood is visible through the trees in the background.
Kuttabul, QLD.
Tuesday, 3 September 2024.
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.
With nighttime temperatures dipping down into the mid-thirties - it is definitely time to put the garden tools away until next spring. I have had several decades of use from this old rake, and it is indestructible. Today's modern tools can't begin to compare in quality. I wish our country had the same pride in craftmanship today - as we had less than a century ago.
Here's a close up of the flower pots, I decided as it was a nice day that it was apt to take pics of the garden cake in my garden! - it also allowed me to practice doing blurry backgrounds (my technical jargon is legendary! .... that was especially for Claire - of course I mean DoF! ) .... shame it doesn't hide the dead patch of grass in the background, I raked up the moss and then went in for a cup of tea and didn't go back out .... for over a week! - oops! ... still the birds were taking moss for nesting so I left them to it hoping they'd take the whole pile! .... they didn't, but I s'pose its hard to push a wheel-barrow when you're flying!
Apart from the fabulous sugar shell coated chocolate rocks (thanks to Cindy!) this is all fondant with cmc
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.
Aurizon units 2308D and 2306D drop down the grade into Laidley hauling an empty coal rake back to the mines
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Leading a rake of empty VTG blue JNA wagons, DC Rail Freight Class 56 loco 56091 'Driver Wayne Gaskell - The Godfather' approaches Garswood heading towards Ince Moss Junction. It hauls the 4Z85 empty sand train from Ravenhead Sidings, St Helens back to Derby Chaddesden Sidings.
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Got to love the fog. Another image from the Back roads of Dummerston, Vermont. For more of the photographic highlights of one of my favorite nearby towns, check out:
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