Farm and Agricultural Photo Collection - Page 2

grebeman · #11 February 15th, 2012, 03:55 PM

Brady, here's something a bit different.

Sorry, these are not

, originals, but scanned in from photographs taken on a Leica M3 in late October 1979 showing goat and sheep herding in the western Himalayas, in the province of Himachal Pradesh.

A herdsman

What looks like a mixed flock of sheep and goats in the Kulu valley

Goats being herded over the Rohtang pass at 12,975 feet above sea level, coming down from the high pastures for the winter.

Barrie

Iconindustries · #12 February 15th, 2012, 07:00 PM

Thanks for the insight into the life way up high in the hills Barrie. I'm guessing it's still done this way today. I really like the 2nd one where the guy is carrying the baby goat.

Iconindustries · #13 February 15th, 2012, 07:08 PM

Queensland Cotton Ginning Corporation bosses come out to inspect cotton

grebeman · #14 August 11th, 2012, 10:31 AM

Before the coming of mechanised power man relied on the working horse.

The introduction of steam to the land increased the amount of work that could be done in one day. Here a pair of Fowler K7 compound ploughing engines demonstrate the use of a tine cultivator.

Here the winding cable of this engine is slack and will be payed out as the engine on the other side of the field pulls the cultivator across the field and away from this engine.

The cultivator begins its journey across the field being pulled by the engine on the opposite side of the field.

The engine drivers communicate with one another by whistle, when the cultivator reached the other side of the field the driver of that engine slackened off the winding cable and moved his engine forward. He then whistled to the other engine which gentle took up the slack, turning the cultivator round. Then the cultivator was pulled back across the field. The operator on the cultivator steers the machine and lifts and drops the tines.

The cable of the nearside engine is now taut, indicating that it is pulling the cultivator towards it. The engine is driving the winding drum located beneath the boiler. The engine on the other side of the field will have its cable coiling mechanism on the other side, so one engine of the pair is left handed, the other right handed. Such engines were almost invariably bought as a pair to work together.

Panasonic GH2 with 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom

Barrie

Iconindustries · #15 August 12th, 2012, 03:07 AM

I'm pleased you brought this back up Barrie, I had nearly forgotten about it.

As you know I love steam engines and have built a few model stationary engines myself. So I've heard of this way of cultivating before but had never seen it in pictures. Thanks for the documentary. I never realized the guy on the plow actually steered it. I wonder if this plowing technique was invented by Brunel?

Were the engines coal or wood fired?

Best,
Icon

grebeman · #16 August 12th, 2012, 03:09 AM

In fact used on small holdings and for horticulture, a Ransomes crawler tractor and plough.

Panasonic GH2 with 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom

Barrie

grebeman · #17 August 12th, 2012, 03:16 AM

Hi Brady,

The engines would be coal fired in the UK, however for the export market I believe that some might have been fired with other fuels, such as left over sugar cane and the likes, although they would have required bigger fireboxes to obtain the same power output, and the ability to accommodate that in the design of the engines would have been limited.

I doubt that Brunel had any input, although he had built a steam powered dredger for Bridgwater (Somerset) docks in, I think 1846, that actually pulled itself from side to side across the dock basin using a wire rope, so a similar principle in effect.

Barrie

Bhupinder2002 · #18 August 12th, 2012, 03:19 AM

Thanks Brady , this reminds me of my childhood back in India when I used to spend most of the time doing this sort of stuff.. I can feel that unique smell.
Cheers
Bhupinder

krugorg · #19 September 29th, 2012, 01:50 PM

dylandingo · #20 October 3rd, 2012, 02:38 PM