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I've been looking at some old field maps (tithe maps) of this area, which
have raised some questions about historical land use. Is this an appropriate NG to raise them on, or does anyone know any more appropriate places? May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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Gilgamesh writes
I've been looking at some old field maps (tithe maps) of this area, which have raised some questions about historical land use. Is this an appropriate NG to raise them on, or does anyone know any more appropriate places? uk.business.agriculture -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Gilgamesh" wrote in message ... I've been looking at some old field maps (tithe maps) of this area, which have raised some questions about historical land use. Is this an appropriate NG to raise them on, or does anyone know any more appropriate places? May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) Sounds interesting to me. I think history its very relevant to we farm our ground. |
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Here's the first conundrum :
I noticed that many of the old field boundaries are curved in a sort of backward-S shape. The only book I could find in the library says this is characteristic of enclosed strips which were ploughed by oxen (If I read things aright, that means any time up to about mid-18th century), but gives no explanation beyond the suggestion that it made them easier to turn. Well, with a single-bottom plough, that does'nt make sense to me, unless you plough in one direction only. An acre is already an 11-mile walk - would anyone willingly double that to 22 miles? The logical layout would be the classic furrow long by stetch wide acre, although the land hereabouts is relatively light, so you might well be able to plough more than an acre in a day (Is it just coincidental that an acre is usually quoted as much as a skilled man with a scythe could reap in a day? The field layouts for Champion Country were probably set before the Black Death, when reaping was done with a sickle) -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) "Richard McDermott" wrote in message ... "Gilgamesh" wrote in message ... I've been looking at some old field maps (tithe maps) of this area, which have raised some questions about historical land use. Is this an appropriate NG to raise them on, or does anyone know any more appropriate places? May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) Sounds interesting to me. I think history its very relevant to we farm our ground. |
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You really are in the wrong group here. You should repost to uk.business.agriculture. On the principle that I already said that, and you didn't, you don;t know how to so I have x-posted this post. However bear in mind that some posters do not x-post so a valuable reply my not appear on sci.ag. Gilgamesh writes I noticed that many of the old field boundaries are curved in a sort of backward-S shape. The only book I could find in the library says this is characteristic of enclosed strips which were ploughed by oxen (If I read things aright, that means any time up to about mid-18th century), but gives no explanation beyond the suggestion that it made them easier to turn. That is often correct. Well, with a single-bottom plough, that does'nt make sense to me, unless you plough in one direction only. ER, no. They were ploughed in lands. So the animals start to turn when they are out of the furrow making the plough turn, and equally swing wide coming in. These small changes add up each time you go round so the field gets a 's' shape. This can still be seen when you have students on cultivations in small fields. An acre is already an 11-mile walk - would anyone willingly double that to 22 miles? Only if the land is very sloping. The logical layout would be the classic furrow long by stetch wide acre, although the land hereabouts is relatively light, so you might well be able to plough more than an acre in a day (Is it just coincidental that an acre is usually quoted as much as a skilled man with a scythe could reap in a day? I have seen both 'definitions'. I doubt either are more than piecework estimates. Chains, poles, perches and furlongs are very old measurements. The field layouts for Champion Country were probably set before the Black Death, when reaping was done with a sickle) Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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"David P" wrote in message ... In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. I didn't see the original post, perhaps it's just as well ... Mary -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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David P wrote in message ... In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. that's the temperature you start working up a sweat at. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... Better? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... the convention would be C20th ... or even C30th ... but at least we'd have understood. I'd like to know more about flint sickles. Mary Better? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Mary Fisher writes
I'd like to know more about flint sickles. It was a travellers journal I once read that stuck in my memory. Apparently the locals preferred their flint sickles because: 1) They were much cheaper than steel ones. 2) They were lighter and easier to use. 3) They only needed 'sharpening' once every few days. 4) They cut better. The date was about 1902. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Mary Fisher writes I'd like to know more about flint sickles. It was a travellers journal I once read that stuck in my memory. Apparently the locals preferred their flint sickles because: 1) They were much cheaper than steel ones. 2) They were lighter and easier to use. 3) They only needed 'sharpening' once every few days. 4) They cut better. The date was about 1902. If all the above is right why aren't they still used? And how did they get a piece of flint big enough? Or were they very small sickles? The only result of your reply is to make me even more curious! Thanks, Mary -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message
... You really are in the wrong group here. You should repost to uk.business.agriculture. On the principle that I already said that, and you didn't, you don;t know how to so I have x-posted this post. However bear in mind that some posters do not x-post so a valuable reply my not appear on sci.ag. Gilgamesh writes I noticed that many of the old field boundaries are curved in a sort of backward-S shape. The only book I could find in the library says this is characteristic of enclosed strips which were ploughed by oxen (If I read things aright, that means any time up to about mid-18th century), but gives no explanation beyond the suggestion that it made them easier to turn. That is often correct. Well, with a single-bottom plough, that does'nt make sense to me, unless you plough in one direction only. ER, no. They were ploughed in lands. So the animals start to turn when they are out of the furrow making the plough turn, and equally swing wide coming in. These small changes add up each time you go round so the field gets a 's' shape. This can still be seen when you have students on cultivations in small fields. An acre is already an 11-mile walk - would anyone willingly double that to 22 miles? Only if the land is very sloping. The logical layout would be the classic furrow long by stetch wide acre, although the land hereabouts is relatively light, so you might well be able to plough more than an acre in a day (Is it just coincidental that an acre is usually quoted as much as a skilled man with a scythe could reap in a day? I have seen both 'definitions'. I doubt either are more than piecework estimates. Chains, poles, perches and furlongs are very old measurements. The field layouts for Champion Country were probably set before the Black Death, when reaping was done with a sickle) Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. Until you cross-posted, uk.business.agriculture didn't show up on the list of ngs. There is something odd going on since I switched to an @anytime@ connection. Now I can see it, I'll use that for further queries. Thanks for your comments - the field boundaries I had noted were mostly around the 200-250 yard mark, that's why I suggested a single stetch rather than lands, obviously, once the strip shape was established, you would continue to plough it that way - anything else would leave a lot of short work up to the berms between strips (more likely ditches in this case since they are mostly on the flood plain of the Wom brook). Yes, I know the sickle is still in use - although we had progressed to steel, I used one 2 or 3 times in the 1950's & 60's to open up the cornfields for the self-binder - and Orwell notes the use of the sickle in North Africa between the wars (as well as plough teams of an ox & an ass) -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t... "Oz" wrote in message ... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... the convention would be C20th ... or even C30th ... but at least we'd have understood. I'd like to know more about flint sickles. Mary Better? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. They have "teeth" made of dressed flakes of flint set in a wooden handle (originally a jawbone IIRC) In some parts of the world, they still use obsidian (black volcanic glass) for very similar reasons. -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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Mary Fisher wrote in message t... And how did they get a piece of flint big enough? Or were they very small sickles? The only result of your reply is to make me even more curious! I would assume they were a wooden sickle with small flints set into the wood to create a cutting edge. This would give it a 'ragged' blade and build in a sawing action, but this is supposition based on other stuff I've read about. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' |
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Gilgamesh wrote in message ... Yes, I know the sickle is still in use - although we had progressed to steel, I used one 2 or 3 times in the 1950's & 60's to open up the cornfields for the self-binder - and Orwell notes the use of the sickle in North Africa between the wars (as well as plough teams of an ox & an ass) -- here in the NW of England the biggest use of the sickle in the 20th century was actually cutting the grass etc on a dike cop (the bank a hedge is grown on) as you were trimming the dike. In this area In the 20th century, a ley or scythe was used for opening out, not a sickle. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Mary Fisher writes I'd like to know more about flint sickles. It was a travellers journal I once read that stuck in my memory. Apparently the locals preferred their flint sickles because: 1) They were much cheaper than steel ones. 2) They were lighter and easier to use. 3) They only needed 'sharpening' once every few days. 4) They cut better. The date was about 1902. If all the above is right why aren't they still used? I don't know, it was unstated. However maybe the crofters were in fact very poor and this was a good enough excuse or that the ability to quickly knap perfect flint flakes was lost in following generations. And how did they get a piece of flint big enough? The flint sickles I have seen have been a wooden frame with the flakes set in it. I can believe this would work quite well, remember modern combine sections for cereals are serrated - plain ones do not work very well. The only result of your reply is to make me even more curious! Unfortunately I have no more information. I remembered it because the reasons seemed plausible. Certainly I have seen skilled people use flint tools to butcher a carcass and the cutting ability and retention of edge of flint is quite extraordinary. Not crude tools at all. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Gordon Couger writes
Freshly knapped flint of the right kind would be sharper than any steel blade could ever be and hold its edge a great deal longer. I have found arrow heads that were still pretty sharp after being in the ground hundreds of years. Swap you a flint arrowhead for a low denomination roman coin (rather corroded due alkaline soil), or a musketball? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Oz wrote in message ... Mary Fisher writes Unfortunately I have no more information. I remembered it because the reasons seemed plausible. Certainly I have seen skilled people use flint tools to butcher a carcass and the cutting ability and retention of edge of flint is quite extraordinary. Not crude tools at all. certainly better than steel for cutting open big bales. Goes through silage wrap a treat. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message ... certainly better than steel for cutting open big bales. Goes through silage wrap a treat. Thanks, Jim, that's going to be useful to know hereabouts ... Mary |
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"Gordon Couger" wrote in message news:3e3e3d41_1@newsfeed... There is a fellow in the US that makes obsidian knives for eye surgeons using the same flaking methods as were used for flint knives. Laboratories also use freshly broken glass knives to section specimens for examination for microscopes. So the art is not completely lost. There are still people flint knapping but I've never seen any piece of flint big enough to compare with even a small sickle blade. I wondered if they grew bigger in Oz's 30C (or whenever it was ... ) Mary |
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
... Gilgamesh wrote in message ... Yes, I know the sickle is still in use - although we had progressed to steel, I used one 2 or 3 times in the 1950's & 60's to open up the cornfields for the self-binder - and Orwell notes the use of the sickle in North Africa between the wars (as well as plough teams of an ox & an ass) -- here in the NW of England the biggest use of the sickle in the 20th century was actually cutting the grass etc on a dike cop (the bank a hedge is grown on) as you were trimming the dike. In this area In the 20th century, a ley or scythe was used for opening out, not a sickle. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' I don't dispute that, although I was taught that the bagging hook was the tool for the job. I'm sure either did at least as good a job as the big petrol strimmer my cousin uses on the hedgebanks now - and we could use the resulting hay for the rabbits. I would, however, have been 10/11/12 at the time, not big enough to handle a scythe, and not savvy enough to be trusted with one anyway. I usually got roped in on the basis that David (my friend & the farmer's son) couldn't come fishing until the job was done, so it was a sickle each. These were smallish fields of oats - D's dad still used the self-binder on those, although he combined the rest of the grain crops (he fed the oats in the sheaf if my memory isn't playing tricks) -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) |
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Mary Fisher wrote in message t... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... certainly better than steel for cutting open big bales. Goes through silage wrap a treat. Thanks, Jim, that's going to be useful to know hereabouts ... depends whether you are at daughters or in Leeds I suppose :-)) -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' Mary |
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Gilgamesh wrote in message ... I would, however, have been 10/11/12 at the time, not big enough to handle a scythe, and not savvy enough to be trusted with one anyway. I usually got roped in on the basis that David (my friend & the farmer's son) couldn't come fishing until the job was done, so it was a sickle each. These were smallish fields of oats - D's dad still used the self-binder on those, although he combined the rest of the grain crops (he fed the oats in the sheaf if my memory isn't playing tricks) Was it fed to sheep? or do any of our nutritionalists know if oats can be fed to cattle un-rolled and still digested. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' |
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Was it fed to sheep? or do any of our nutritionalists know if oats can be fed to cattle un-rolled and still digested. Barley certainly can be (and is), so I guess oats would be fine too. Wheat is not so good as I understand it because the gluten makes it too sticky, and stock don;t like it so much. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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writes "Oz" wrote in message . Swap you a flint arrowhead for a low denomination roman coin (rather corroded due alkaline soil), or a musketball? My brother got off with them all. I will look around and see if I can come up with one. A visiting American (from Idaho) gave me one:-) Grey in colour and shaped like the apostle on a spoon. Not particularly finely made but nicer as a gift than followed by 3' of wood and Turkey feathers. regards -- Tim Lamb |
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Gilgamesh wrote in message ... If my memory serves, it was fed to the bullocks he fattened. He cut it still slightly green which I understand raises the protein - and may mean that the corn is still in the milk. I don't know if that makes it more or less digestible. makes it sound like 'whole crop' which would be -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) "Oz" wrote in message ... Jim Webster writes Was it fed to sheep? or do any of our nutritionalists know if oats can be fed to cattle un-rolled and still digested. Barley certainly can be (and is), so I guess oats would be fine too. Wheat is not so good as I understand it because the gluten makes it too sticky, and stock don;t like it so much. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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If my memory serves, it was fed to the bullocks he fattened. He cut it still
slightly green which I understand raises the protein - and may mean that the corn is still in the milk. I don't know if that makes it more or less digestible. -- May glorious Shamash make his face to shine upon you Gilgamesh of Uruk (Include Enkidu in the subject line to avoid the spam trap) "Oz" wrote in message ... Jim Webster writes Was it fed to sheep? or do any of our nutritionalists know if oats can be fed to cattle un-rolled and still digested. Barley certainly can be (and is), so I guess oats would be fine too. Wheat is not so good as I understand it because the gluten makes it too sticky, and stock don;t like it so much. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Jim Webster writes Was it fed to sheep? or do any of our nutritionalists know if oats can be fed to cattle un-rolled and still digested. Barley certainly can be (and is), so I guess oats would be fine too. Wheat is not so good as I understand it because the gluten makes it too sticky, and stock don;t like it so much. I suspect that you might have miss read the question - I am unaware of any cereal grains that can be fed to cattle whole successfully. Barley passes straight through judging by the evidence I have seen from when they have found the grains in straw and eaten them whole. Dan -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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Dan writes
I suspect that you might have miss read the question - I am unaware of any cereal grains that can be fed to cattle whole successfully. Barley passes straight through judging by the evidence I have seen from when they have found the grains in straw and eaten them whole. 1) I don;t have sheep. 2) I have seen it said in FW and elsewhere many times that feeding neat barley to sheep is effective. 3) I am *certain* I have seen trials results of it's use. Remember that barley ex-fm is but 60/T, if even 20% goes straight through, it's still a cheap feed. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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You really are in the wrong group here. You should repost to uk.business.agriculture. On the principle that I already said that, and you didn't, you don;t know how to so I have x-posted this post. However bear in mind that some posters do not x-post so a valuable reply my not appear on sci.ag. Gilgamesh writes I noticed that many of the old field boundaries are curved in a sort of backward-S shape. The only book I could find in the library says this is characteristic of enclosed strips which were ploughed by oxen (If I read things aright, that means any time up to about mid-18th century), but gives no explanation beyond the suggestion that it made them easier to turn. That is often correct. Well, with a single-bottom plough, that does'nt make sense to me, unless you plough in one direction only. ER, no. They were ploughed in lands. So the animals start to turn when they are out of the furrow making the plough turn, and equally swing wide coming in. These small changes add up each time you go round so the field gets a 's' shape. This can still be seen when you have students on cultivations in small fields. An acre is already an 11-mile walk - would anyone willingly double that to 22 miles? Only if the land is very sloping. The logical layout would be the classic furrow long by stetch wide acre, although the land hereabouts is relatively light, so you might well be able to plough more than an acre in a day (Is it just coincidental that an acre is usually quoted as much as a skilled man with a scythe could reap in a day? I have seen both 'definitions'. I doubt either are more than piecework estimates. Chains, poles, perches and furlongs are very old measurements. The field layouts for Champion Country were probably set before the Black Death, when reaping was done with a sickle) Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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"David P" wrote in message ... In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. I didn't see the original post, perhaps it's just as well ... Mary -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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David P wrote in message ... In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. that's the temperature you start working up a sweat at. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... Better? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... the convention would be C20th ... or even C30th ... but at least we'd have understood. I'd like to know more about flint sickles. Mary Better? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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says... David P writes In article , says... Reaping was still done with flint sickles in parts of scotland in the start of the 30C. Pardon? I can't even hazard a guess on that one. let me rephrase .... start of the 20C ... Better? Much g You can be so imprecise at times bg -- David Visit http://www.farm-direct.co.uk for your local farmgate food supplies. FAQ's, Glossary, Farming Year and more! |
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Mary Fisher writes
I'd like to know more about flint sickles. It was a travellers journal I once read that stuck in my memory. Apparently the locals preferred their flint sickles because: 1) They were much cheaper than steel ones. 2) They were lighter and easier to use. 3) They only needed 'sharpening' once every few days. 4) They cut better. The date was about 1902. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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"Oz" wrote in message ... Mary Fisher writes I'd like to know more about flint sickles. It was a travellers journal I once read that stuck in my memory. Apparently the locals preferred their flint sickles because: 1) They were much cheaper than steel ones. 2) They were lighter and easier to use. 3) They only needed 'sharpening' once every few days. 4) They cut better. The date was about 1902. If all the above is right why aren't they still used? And how did they get a piece of flint big enough? Or were they very small sickles? The only result of your reply is to make me even more curious! Thanks, Mary -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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