The Camera in my Pocket... 2014..

That's a old haybob, haven't seen one of them for a long time,Barley is combined around the 18 July and then the wheats will be around the end July to the beging of Aug, the wheats are looking like they are dieing off more so an ripping, so i think the Quality may not be as good this year

 

I haven't a clue what a haybob would be.

We have next to no grain crops here Jiffy, just the odd field here and there. But what is here this year has ripened well, we've had so little rain. Most farming here is specialist breeds of sheep and cattle which are suited to the hilly/mountainous terrain.

 

The haybob in your picture is used to turn the grass and then when it's ready you change the setting from turning to rowing and row it up for baling, but now the machines have got bigger and one machine for turning and one for rowing up
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Rake

 

You're not going to catch me on that one Shiney!

Jiffy.....thanks for the info.

Woo......your sheep obviously wasn't camera shy.

 

Might try this one again but using a polarising filter next time I'm there

 

They being used for thatching?

 

I see stooks in a field beside the A39 between Minehead and Allerford that get used for thatching.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series5/thatch.shtml

Just got back from 5 days hols there, and my daughter rode past where they grow the thatching straw on one of her horse rides.

 

Armandii, there's an historical village in the south of the island. The people that live there are in the dress of the era and the whole village functions the same way year in year out, the same goes for the farming and that's the only place here we'll see the stooks. I'll have to pay it a visit and get some shots.

 

Is it just me that looks at an old weathered timber pile on a beach and thinks it looks like a Meerkat?