Hi folks
(see far below for quote)
Benefiting from an agricultural background, I'd call that a tedder; a hay
tedder
which is a successor to the hay-rake.
As the implement is towed by a tractor, the two big wheels in good contact
with the earth drive a solid rotating axle which powers the drum-looking thing
on the left. You can see the right-angle power take-off that looks like a
differential but possibly isn't. That drum-looking thing is connected to
another
at the rear by 4? bars, and these 4 bars have many sets of spring-loaded
tines pointing down to the ground where the new-mown hay lies in broad
swathes. As the tedder is towed along the swathe of mown hay, the two
drum-things rotate, causing the tines to sweep the hay into a long windrow or
continuous mound of mown grass that gets better airing and exposure to
drying. When dried enough, it is baled.
That tedder is not only a very old model, but many parts are broken-missing
especially the tines.
Something else you never thought you'd learn on this list!!
By the way, a great composition, and on-screen I'd never have picked it was
a splice job.
Brian
>
> I like the juxtaposition of the old tree and the old machinery (a harrow)?
> The paths add to it, but make it hard to figure out where you spliced! :-)
>
> Andrew
on 2005/01/25 12:48 PM, GeeBee at geebee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> They were two horizontal shots, one of a tree on top of a slight rise and
> one of an old item of farm machinery in an adjacent field.
>
> They were overlapping on my desk and I liked the way they combined so I
have joined them up as a composite and cropped to a vertical format.
>
> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05029.htm
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