BBC photo series – Machinery

BBC photo series – Machinery

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26 March 2023 at 12:07 #639169
ega
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Some interesting pictures on this theme at:

**LINK**

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-65026997

Edited By ega on 26/03/2023 12:08:34
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26 March 2023 at 12:07 #37184
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26 March 2023 at 14:30 #639183
Ches Green UK
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The Threshing Machine pic is my favourite. As the caption said, I also hope someone has restored it.

It was a wonderfully complex piece of machinery for it's day and required careful maintenance, either by the farm staff or a local expert.

No need to call out a technician with a laptop to reboot it's software .

Ches

Edited By Ches Green UK on 26/03/2023 14:33:23

Edited By Ches Green UK on 26/03/2023 14:33:47
26 March 2023 at 15:02 #639187
ega
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Yes, it reminded me of an episode of Dad's Army when the platoon get in the harvest.
26 March 2023 at 15:23 #639190
Bill Phinn
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The threshing machine looks like the kind Thomas Hardy referred disparagingly to in chapter 47 of Tess of the D'Urbervilles as the "red tyrant" :

"Close under the eaves of the stack, and as yet barely visible was the red tyrant that the women had come to serve – a timber-framed construction, with straps and wheels appertaining – the threshing-machine, which, whilst it was going, kept up a despotic demand upon the endurance of their muscles and nerves."
26 March 2023 at 15:35 #639194
Bazyle
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Pity we didn't know about it earlier to submit some decent photographs of machines instead of eg motorbikes which will probably get their own whole topic some time.
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