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Puffing Billy Railwaysickle knife Guard bar, for an old horse drawn mower
... for an old horse drawn mower ...Metal sickle knife Guard bar for an old horse drawn mower ... horse drawn mower ... for an old horse drawn mower Historic - Farming Equipment - sickle ...Metal sickle knife Guard bar for an old horse drawn mower Historic - Farming Equipment - sickle knife Guard bar Metal - wrought iron sickle knife Guard bar for an old horse drawn mower puffing billy, sickle knife guard bar -
Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation SocietyPhotograph - Horse-drawn lawn-mower, Port Melbourne, 1920
... Horse-drawn lawn-mower, Port Melbourne... grass into lawn in the old days: A horse drawn lawn mower used... grass into lawn in the old days: A horse drawn lawn mower used ...Copy of photo of draught horse harnessed to a lawn-mower with wooden grass-cutter. Horse standing on grass with trees behind, then Station Street with two-storey terrace houses, one inscribed 'Derwent SC House'. Near Corner Station and Raglan"Caption: And this, Sonny Boy, is how they used to turn grass into lawn in the old days: A horse drawn lawn mower used by the old Port Melbourne Town Council". Inscribed in pencil in one corner "Raglan St ?".parks and gardens, local government - town of port melbourne, transport - horse -
University of Melbourne, Burnley Campus ArchivesPhotograph - Colour print, A.P. Winzenried, Girl Harvesters at Work, 1931-1990
... horse drawn mower... west orchard horse drawn mower hay recreation oats farming ...Photograph made by A.P. Winzenried for, "Green Grows Our Garden," p73Colour photograph. Copy of a patchwork of 5 photographs of female students which appeared as newspaper illustrations c.1933, made by A.P. Winzenried. The caption reads, "Girl Harvesters at Work. Girl farming students at Burnley Horticultural Gardens are busy this week. They undergo two years practical and theoretical training in many... farming work. Pictures show: 1. Hay forking by the "weaker" sex. 2. Miss Joy...Miss Freda Poynter, typical students, enjoying billy tea. 3. A happy group on the...a crop of oats. 4. A reaping mower going round the crop. 5. Miss Thelma (Johnson?) drives old Don and the mower." See B99.1057.female students, a.p. winzenried, green grows our garden, burnley horticultural gardens, freda poynter, thelma johnson, don, donald, horse, srtudents working outside, west orchard, horse drawn mower, hay, recreation, oats, farming, reaping mower, newspaper cutting -
City of Moorabbin Historical Society (Operating the Box Cottage Museum)Tools, metal scythe, c1880
A scythe is an agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. It was largely replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery. A scythe consists of a wooden shaft and a long, curved blade is mounted at the lower end, perpendicular. Scythes always have the blade projecting from the left side when in use. Mowing is done by holding the handle , with the arms straight, the blade parallel to the ground and very close to it, and the body twisted to the right. The body is then twisted steadily to the left, moving the scythe blade along its length in a long arc from right to left, ending in front of the mower, thus depositing the cut grass to the left. Mowing proceeds with a steady rhythm, stopping at frequent intervals to sharpen the blade. The correct technique has a slicing action on the grass, cutting a narrow strip with each stroke Mowing grass is easier when it is damp, and so hay-making traditionally began at dawn and often stopped early, the heat of the day being spent raking and carting the hay cut on previous daysEarly settlers and market gardeners used these scythes as they established their farms in Moorabbin Shire c1880A large metal scythe with a wooden handle x 2early settlers, pioneers, market gardeners, moorabbin, bentleigh, brighton, cheltenham, tools, blacksmiths
