The front garden

WIZZO

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There are several houses here on the coast which are holiday-homes owned by rich city people. They bought an acre or two around the houses to protect them from possible development.

The local contractor mows them for free and takes the bales as payment to sell for horse feed.
 
Wizzo

Relates more to your last threads on UK machinery but they're a while back.

Prompted by firing up again today a Villiers Mk 12 stationary engine, one of two we still use. I'm thinking that there are a lot of UK sourced stationary engines that a lot of readers here have never heard of.

Like the ad we had here claiming that Hartz did the first aircooled small stationary diesel - ignoring that Arnstrong Siddley had done it about 1931!
 
I know a man who mowes the grass over the old landfill.
They pay him for mowing and he sells the hay. WIN/WIN.
 
Looks like the bales are picked up and loaded manually. Not enough room in that small field to tow a trailer.
 
There is something about the small accessory type fields, ones near the farm yard/buildings or hemmed in by trees/hedge/fence lines or similar. I've always enjoyed seeing them in use like the bigger ones, they have some character and age, as we still have many around here, its mostly hedgerows/forest with fields where it made sense initially, looking back in old aerial photos, even undesirable land was in use, amazing how much of it that remains, has reverted back to forest, prior to, it was mostly fence lines as a far as you could see.
 

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