Welcome to Highland Perthshire!

[davieh3350]

I had a little time to kill yesterday and it was such a nice day I thought I'd go photo the farm from above

Craig na Airigh.

about 2/3rds of the way up you clear the plantation and you can start to get a view. The first field is the hill park, and below the road is the sawmill field... This is my main project at the moment, new water pipe was put through years ago, and it's been wet ever since

thats fathers house below,

and that's Schiehallion to the west. (It means fairy hill of the Caledonians in Gaelic seemingly) it's where contour lines were first thought up. Scientists were trying to work out the mass of the earth and were surveying the hill to work out its mass, but all the numbers on the paper got confusing, so they just used dots for each level. Then the dots got confusing so they joined them!

More later...

 

[Lincs Lass]

Those are views you cant get fed up with ,looks a beautiful area

 

[JohnD]

Stunning scenery

 

[haulmblower]

@davieh3350 if you have time and are inclined to do so would you post more detail of how you farm please? Whatever you are comfortable with doing. I don't wish to pry.

I'm fascinated, your farm is nothing like anything i have seen before. There are posts on here from all corners of the World but I dont think I've seen anywhere as remote and mountainous.

Cue a rush of pictures from The Rockies to the Southern Alps and the Brecon Beacons

To me this is the wonder of the internet, thank you for posting

 

[davieh3350]

@davieh3350 if you have time and are inclined to do so would you post more detail of how you farm please? Whatever you are comfortable with doing. I don't wish to pry.

I'm fascinated, your farm is nothing like anything i have seen before. There are posts on here from all corners of the World but I dont think I've seen anywhere as remote and mountainous.

Cue a rush of pictures from The Rockies to the Southern Alps and the Brecon Beacons

To me this is the wonder of the internet, thank you for posting

Well as you asked so nicely...

the field in line with the houses is called the Biscay field (fecked if I know why though) to the left of it is the bottom Balchraggan field, dark patch of rashes is another problem created by the water mains.
then you can see the sub station fields with a clump of trees in the middle, the one at the top is called the monument field, as there's a monument to Robert The Bruce who rested there after the battle of Methven.

thats the Faskally fields (fas kil eee, not fasss kally) it's a field that had sat idle for 20 years, finally got the owners to lease it to me 6 years ago, it's in poor shape again, very light sandy soil with stoney river gravel patches amongst it. I sowed it with ryegrass and white clover once I'd gotten the rabbit warrens levelled out, but it was in the days of not really knowing much about grasses, I should've used deeper rooting ones. Cocksfoot loves it down there. Its getting reseeded as soon as it warms up enough. Still getting minus 6s at night.
It's right between a caravan site and the river so on a hot Friday afternoon you can be mowing and watch a hundred or so people walk through on their way to the river.
The buildimg you can see is Clunie power station, the water comes from loch Tummel (which you can just see in the picture of schiehallion) through a tunnel in the hills.

i don't have any hill ground, (that's the neighbours ground in the distance) looking towards Blair Atholl.

 

[davieh3350]

The hill between the bull (a red poll) and the birch tree is Carn Liath, the one at his arse is Beinn A'Ghlo. The two bullocks are twins, highland/limousine crosses.
If you go over the back of the two hills you get to where my dad used to live and work. He was a deer stalker/shepherd at a place called Fealar. It was (possibly still is) the highest and remotest place in Britain that was lived in all year. He used to get blocked in from end of October till may. My place ain't that remote, town isn't far, not that you can get anything other than souvenirs and food out the coop.

 

[RushesToo]

Cab over pete is thinking lime, Tim W is thinking higher than I would risk and I am thinking Canada in summer.
And by the way what is all that light and shadows stuff that you have going on - are you sure that this North Europe and April?

 

[RushesToo]

@davieh3350 Just out of interest have you become blind to how majestic the place is - or does it still take your breath away, every day?

 

[JP1]

I still remember you kindly offering to give a fellow TFFer headspace and you'd move out for a while. Impressive place, impressive man. I really respected you for that

 

[haulmblower]

I was going to write something about the weather.
Instead I will completely agree with Jeremy

 

[davieh3350]

Cab over pete is thinking lime, Tim W is thinking higher than I would risk and I am thinking Canada in summer.
And by the way what is all that light and shadows stuff that you have going on - are you sure that this North Europe and April?

Back to snow tonight,

but yup yesterday was a scorcher!

 

[haulmblower]

Would you not call that a hill?

 

[davieh3350]

@davieh3350 Just out of interest have you become blind to how majestic the place is - or does it still take your breath away, every day?

Never! It's amazing, it's spoiled a bit by the noise from the A9, and all the glum faces of the tourists that drive by.
I do have a desire to leave for the prairies though. It felt claustrophobic when I came back home from Canada.

 

[JohnD]

Looking at the scenery and reading your posts is as relaxing as a good malt (well nearly).

Lovely part of the world spent a few days there on the stags last year.

 

[davieh3350]

Looking at the scenery and reading your posts is as relaxing as a good malt (well nearly).

Lovely part of the world spent a few days there on the stags last year.

Ooohhh, where abouts were you?

 

[Zebbedee]

Always nice to see some photos of where others live, thanks

 

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Amazing pics, thanks for that Scotland is truly a different country in every aspect of the word to England/Wales

 

[abitdaft]

I still remember you kindly offering to give a fellow TFFer headspace and you'd move out for a while. Impressive place, impressive man. I really respected you for that

Aye, but he was probably planning to move into the "Pine Tree's " in the meantime

 

[davieh3350]

Aye, but he was probably planning to move into the "Pine Tree's " in the meantime

I'd go a bit further than Pitlochry to stay in a hotel.
Have you stayed there? Sister used to work there back in 1997. Quite a few after pub parties in the staff quarters
Or do you mean these..

that's the candelabra tree at Bonskeid house road end.

 

[JeepJeep]

Wow!!... Looks fantastic..