Straw burning

[B R C]

Daughter found these photos and asked me what they were.
Tractor was 1985 so I think 86/87, might be last year before ban. Ground looks rock hard judging by ploughing!

 

[betweenthelines]

Which is more harmful to the environment? Burning straw/stubble or using chemicals and diesel heavy cultivations to produce the same result?

 

[roscoe erf]

Daughter found these photos and asked me what they were.
Tractor was 1985 so I think 86/87, might be last year before ban. Ground looks rock hard judging by ploughing!

remember the days well and with fondness

 

[spin cycle]

remember the days well and with fondness

me to....slugs and blackgrass were 'myths'

 

[Pan mixer]

But we did have huge flocks of local housewives complaining about smuts, or was it just me?

So then we had to 'incorporate the ash' Not a job for a cabless tractor yes folks, some tractors didn't have cabs in those days.

Note the sack over the radiator grill.

 

[7610 super q]

Ah, those were the days. Proper tractors, proper farming.

 

[Still Farming]

Earth fire and water.
All NATURAL processes.

 

[Flat 10]

Daughter found these photos and asked me what they were.
Tractor was 1985 so I think 86/87, might be last year before ban. Ground looks rock hard judging by ploughing!

3140?

 

[Barleymow]

dad would chisel plough ash with the back window on ih 674 open