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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 4726550" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>My neighbours up Glenlivet fed whole oats to cattle in the field. The oats would be stored in a stack thatched with straw. When it snowed, the stacks would be black with Black Game and hill partridges (greys) would be pecking about where the cattle were fed in a sheltered spot beside forestry commission woodland.</p><p></p><p>Then the estate put up a cattle shed and the cattle were moved inside. The grouse and partridges disappeared and the RSPB wondered why.... My neighbour's father was in his eighties (this was in the 1970s) and talked about how he used to work on the roads. In the winter, they'd be set to clearing snow with shovels. He said it was heart breaking clearing a stretch and then seeing it all blowing back in again when the wind got up. </p><p></p><p>We certainly got snow up there. The B9009 road (Cock Bridge to Tomintoul) is stil the first to get blocked with snow. If the forecast said "Possibilityof snow showers", we'd have six inches in the morning. One yearwe got 26 inches on level ground. It stayed for six weeks. That year I cut the tops off some deer fencing stakes holding the chain saw ay waist level! But we managed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 4726550, member: 4505"] My neighbours up Glenlivet fed whole oats to cattle in the field. The oats would be stored in a stack thatched with straw. When it snowed, the stacks would be black with Black Game and hill partridges (greys) would be pecking about where the cattle were fed in a sheltered spot beside forestry commission woodland. Then the estate put up a cattle shed and the cattle were moved inside. The grouse and partridges disappeared and the RSPB wondered why.... My neighbour's father was in his eighties (this was in the 1970s) and talked about how he used to work on the roads. In the winter, they'd be set to clearing snow with shovels. He said it was heart breaking clearing a stretch and then seeing it all blowing back in again when the wind got up. We certainly got snow up there. The B9009 road (Cock Bridge to Tomintoul) is stil the first to get blocked with snow. If the forecast said "Possibilityof snow showers", we'd have six inches in the morning. One yearwe got 26 inches on level ground. It stayed for six weeks. That year I cut the tops off some deer fencing stakes holding the chain saw ay waist level! But we managed. [/QUOTE]
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