PhotoDiary: 20/08/2016 Ploughing Competition. How things have changed over the years!!

Saturday, August 20, 2016

20/08/2016 Ploughing Competition. How things have changed over the years!!

Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 13C. 29 km/h SW wind. 3mm rain measured overnight.

The old way and still in use in some places....

Working in Tandem.

Our Mayor at work on his old tractor...

Lots of activity...

A bit more modern...

and here as well...

Work going on all over.

The very modern.

Relaxing after work.

8 comments:

Nancy ChanAugust 21, 2016 at 1:55 AM
Looks like the machines are taking over and very soon humans will just be the operators! Have a blessed Sunday!
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diane bAugust 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM
That was an interesting romp through farming history.
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David M. Gascoigne,August 21, 2016 at 5:29 PM
These ploughing matches are held all over North America too. I guess there is always nostalgia for the past. But where I live there is a large community of Mennonites who eschew electricity, motorized conveyances and other aspects of modern life and always work their fields with teams of horses, so we get so see it on a regular basis.
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GaelynAugust 24, 2016 at 1:35 AM
With horses seems the hard way but those horses are magnificent.
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20/08/2016 Ploughing Competition. How things have changed over the years!!

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