I have to start this by stating that I’m not a ploughman. Like a lot of livestock farmers I can get nervous if I see the ground, ‘brown side up.’ But every so often a grass ley will been renewing. So every so often we’ll plough. At the age of sixteen I learned to plough on a tractor with no cab, pulling a three furrow plough. My father learned to plough walking behind a horse.
The black and white photo was taken during the war but frankly the technology hadn’t improved much at our level in the following twenty-five years.
Ploughing with horses was hard work. Not only did you have to walk all that distance, you also had to wrestle the plough as you did so. If the plough started biting too deeply, you had to press down and bring the front end up a little to keep it…
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I have to say that the two land army ladies are making a good job in the photo 🙂
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They seem to be… but what would I know? 😉
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Actually it takes very little knowledge to appreciate good ploughing. The line should be straight and all the turfs should be exactly the same width 🙂
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From an artist’s perspectuve, it looks good 😉
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Apparently the judges will carry rulers to measure 🙂
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I can see that… but it seems a little extreme 😉
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Well at least it’s objective rather than subjective 🙂
And with the really good ploughmen it’s probably the only way you can do it
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Interesting, especially since I know nothing about ploughs and ploughing. 🙂
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It is always good to learn 🙂
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I prefer to learn by reading, especially when the subject revolves around hard labour. Lol 😀
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I can appreciate that, Kevin 😉
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