Olden days at work

[Old Boar]

I can see the resemblance!

 

[Kidds]

I think dad used to call them artillery wheels.

Nowt rare about them, I only sold my last set a fortnight ago. That's the 5 stud ones mind, I still have a few sets of 3 studs.

 

[bluegreen]

GJ Pecks Ely Depot pre harvest 1987.

 

[Selectamatic]

GJ Pecks Ely Depot pre harvest 1987.

They all look new...

Were 8070's offered at the same time as TF's?

 

[bluegreen]

They were all new, the TF range were the rotary machines and the 8000 series were straw walkers. Back in 87 there were lots of yellow combines in the Fens, not anymore sadly.

 

[opininionated]

Loading bales the easy way, around the late 70's, yours truly on the loader.....

 

[opininionated]

This is an old one, 1860's or 70's I would guess - not necessarily at work but taking a well earned rest! It shows my gt gt grandfather (2nd from right) with his three brothers and a workman (far left). They were drovers from the Tregaron area and seem fairly prosperous, at the time only freeholders could be drovers. My ancestor then moved to this area in 1870.
The brother in the middle was a large man for the time and there's a record that he weighed 24 stone. Btw the brother 2nd from left was the gt gt grandfather to our local AM Elin Jones.

I had to look closely at that picture, at first I thought the workman was standing, with a white full length coat, I thought he's not very tall, being the same height as the men sitting down. Then I couldn't see any legs protruding from his white coat, which was strange.then I looked at his head and decided it was a monkey.
No offence intended, but. My eyes sometimes see things not as they are....

 

[Johngee]

I had to look closely at that picture, at first I thought the workman was standing, with a white full length coat, I thought he's not very tall, being the same height as the men sitting down. Then I couldn't see any legs protruding from his white coat, which was strange.then I looked at his head and decided it was a monkey.
No offence intended, but. My eyes sometimes see things not as they are....

You should've gone to specsavers! Of course he's got legs!

 

[Old Boar]

Sorry about the quality - taken from old cine film.

bagger harvester on barley

Baling the straw afterwards

Baling with the bags of barley in the foreground.

All around 1978. I am behind the camera.

 

[Goweresque]

Those wheels on the wagon look identical to two wagons I have which were made at Swindon.

I've a got a couple of Barrett wagons too.......went to the sale went the works was sold up in the 90s as well.

 

[Old Boar]

Oats in stooks - 1979. Bound with oat stalks and fed whole to the cattle who never looked better.

 

[haulmblower]

Oats in stooks - 1979. Bound with oat stalks and fed whole to the cattle who never looked better.

Do you know how the Oats were fed please?
In a manger or strewn about as bedding for the cattle to browse?

 

[Old Boar]

The whole sheaf was chucked into the mangers. They ate most of it and the scrap went for bedding. No strings to cut. The sheen on the cattle was something to behold!

The sheaves were stacked heads in on some pallets to quite a height and a tarp thrown over the lot, after they had been out for "3 church bells" and turned regularly. The children called the stooks "eeyore houses" and had lovely fun running in and out of them.

As soon as the reaper binder came, a whole crowd of old men turned up, and showed me how to gather and tie a sheaf, as the knotter did not work. They all got stuck in and loved it. Someone else turned up with a basket of cups and sweet tea in a small churn, and someone else with warm Welsh cakes, which was lovely as I wanted to do the field work. I ended up with about 20 people in the field, all having a lovely time, gossip flying and endless jokes.

A golden time that will not be repeated.

 

[Riverblue]

This is an old one, 1860's or 70's I would guess - not necessarily at work but taking a well earned rest! It shows my gt gt grandfather (2nd from right) with his three brothers and a workman (far left). They were drovers from the Tregaron area and seem fairly prosperous, at the time only freeholders could be drovers. My ancestor then moved to this area in 1870.
The brother in the middle was a large man for the time and there's a record that he weighed 24 stone. Btw the brother 2nd from left was the gt gt grandfather to our local AM Elin Jones.

I have seen this picture before with a neighbor of mine who is very keen on local history. From what i could remember there was some writing on the picture stating that they were 5 brothers. But what surprised me more was from where in Tregaron they come. It stated that they come from a farm called Tynberth which is about 3 miles outside Tregaron. Well that where I live!!! Small world.

 

[opininionated]

Having a tidy up in the office and found this....

And then these.......

Not that I'm a hoarder or anything...

 

[REStracTORATION]

Having a tidy up in the office and found this....

And then these.......

Not that I'm a hoarder or anything...

Top right
Is that an galaxy S2 I still have mine
Was one of the best phones ever.
Trade them in online with electronics buyers

 

[rob1]

Having a tidy up in the office and found this....

And then these.......

Not that I'm a hoarder or anything...

like your handbag

 

[RushesToo]

Having a tidy up in the office and found this....

And then these.......

Not that I'm a hoarder or anything...

@opininionated Check the brick one out - it may have some value [and probably going up.]

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Having a tidy up in the office and found this....

And then these.......

Not that I'm a hoarder or anything...

Mine's 4th from the left, 3rd from the right.

 

[opininionated]

like your handbag

Bugger, secrets out.....