Cutting and raking hay … this time in Oklahoma:
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April 7, 2012
more horse-drawn haying
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April 6, 2012
hauling round bales in the snow
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Are you feeling a bit warm in this year’s early spring?
Let’s head out into the snow of a Montana winter, then, shall we?
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As always, if the embedded video won’t work on your computer, click here to go directly to YouTube.
April 5, 2012
loose haying
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Here’s something unusual and interesting …
The description of this video says, “… See how the hardy ranchers of Beaverhead County, Montana, put up hay for the winter, using draft horse power and a unique device known as the ‘Beaver Slide’ (the complete name is Beaverhead County Sliding Stacker).” The video clip is the trailer for a full-length production, which shows modern teamsters and history buffs reenacting old-fashioned haying techniques from the area, using authentic horse-drawn tools and machinery.
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April 4, 2012
the trotting king and a fast coach
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A member sent the link to a blog post that I thought you might find interesting as well.
It’s interesting to note how much faster one could travel at the end of a seventy-six-year span in the nineteenth century than at the beginning.
Do you remember that, in 1819, it took twenty-four hours to travel a distance of twenty-five miles over Kentucky’s roads? According to the blog post I’ve linked to above, in 1895, the Red Jacket coach was expected to travel the twenty-two miles from Buffalo to Niagara Falls in a mere two hours. The mode of transportation was basically the same, so it must’ve been the quality of the roads (and the fact, perhaps, that the coach was traveling in relay stages) that made such a huge difference.
April 3, 2012
whoooohoooooo
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In case you haven’t heard, the Univ. of Kentucky Wildcats beat the Kansas Jayhawks last night to claim their eighth national championship title (their first since 1998).
Whoooooohooooooooo!!!
That’s all.
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