View from my tractor seat ....this week

samn40

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I love this time of year....everyone likes to tidy up their place for the holidays and I get a lot of hedge-cutting to do....160 hrs in 10 days! but my customers wait for me and make me feel important when I arrive! LOL
These hedges were last cut in February and the lady who owns them always makes me tea and cake when I have finished...So I know the job takes 2 hours and I arrive at her place 2 hours before I need fed!

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This lady likes all her roadside hedges cut and this is how it looks now
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Those wide roads kinda reminds me of Kansas!
The next farmer only likes this one hedge cut along his road frontage. I have part of it done in this photo so you can see just how fast the hedges have grown in about 18 weeks

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Just one side of the road belongs to the next farmer......

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This is Acton lake about 9 mile from my place. this lake was the highest point on the Newry to Portadown canal and was used as a feeder for the canal

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I have to cut the laneway to this lady's farm and the road frontage either side of her exit onto the main road

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And this is the village of Poyntzpass, named after the Reverend Poyntz.....whoever he was??

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Railway street ....

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Sam
 
Nice work. Your driving is solid and follows the curves well. I took the picture you posted of yourself, and processed it a little. (on the prior post). Jim
 
Great Pictures! I was stationed in England with the
U.S. Air Force from 76-79 and again from 84-91. I
always went to the steam engine rallies and
agricultural shows, along with driving in the
country side watching farmers work their fields.
I sure do miss going to the pubs and the fish and
chip shops every so often.
 
Looks nice when done, but kinda just a make work project. Who pays?? Is there a government assistance for having this done. I think that thoses hedge rows would soon disaper, and just be more field here. P.S. 6 days till marching season eh. Bruce
 
The landowners pay and are only to glad to do so....In fact sometimes I get more than I ask! These hedge rows will not disappear or our cattle would run wild! The hedges are centuries old and were maintained with hand clippers by our forefathers.
Bagpipes all tuned and ready, Bruce!
Sam
 
Nice job. Would like to see at least one pic of the business end of that trimmer at work. . .

I know getting the pic might be challenging- maybe you could get it going, then jump out of the cab and run ahead for the pic, while the rig drives itself. What could possibly go wrong? LOL
 
Those round abouts are hard on a guy that is used to sitting on the left side of the car and driving on the left side of the road and shifting with his right hand! I never knew where to expect traffic to come from, LOVED Ireland but would be happy to ride along with someone next time!
 
Very nice/interesting pictures. So you folks use hedge rows to keep the cattle in? Is it a special kind of hedge (thcik and thorny maybe?)- must be very thick to keep an axnious bull in! What hieght?
 
No bother keeping cattle in with these hedges...mostly thorn and ash and a mess of everything else so as it resembles a wall!
No bother keeping these lads in.
Sam
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Do you get any snow over there and if you do does it drift? Here in Ohio with conditions like you are showing in the winter it would be full to over the top of those hedges with snow and no place to push it, would have to have blowers to open the drives.
 
Yes, we got snow drifts like that in 1982....Our weather is usually moderate and mild.
Sam
 
Red IH... don't.... Please stop... I won't sleep for thinking back on all those good ol days in the UK.... you didn't mention the 90p 16 ounce Yorkie bars, 60p a pint zomerzet ziders... or once you said something out loud, the endless line of gorgeous birds who would say "oooooooooohh...so you ur an American chap are ent youuuuuu??????" ooooooooohhhhh......
 
Those hedges look to be 2 meters + in height, judgeing by the car in the road. Is that about right?

Looks like that would hold about anything in. I think it would take a bulldozer to drive thru it.
 

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