What's this farm yard find?

[oowee]

[amateur]

Sugar beet grater?

[B725]

Chopping mangles did a fair bit as a kid.

Edited August 18, 2022 by B725

[Bigbob]

A chopper,  potatoes , turnips , mangles any veg to feed cattle over wintering inside 

[ditchman]

mangol chopper.....then you mix it will rolled oats and crushed barley 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

I wonder what the combined age of those that responded is?

I'll guess at 280

[CharlieT]

Here's another who used one, I still have it in the yard with flowers in it............. That puts the combined age up to 357

[Walker570]

Yep, mangol slicer. Brings back memories of aching arms and back as ours initially had to be turned by hand but grandfather then got a belt and pulley set up from the drive shaft of the grinder.   Back then no such thing as front end loaders tipping feed into a big power mixer on the back of a tractor.  Large 'mixing shed' stone floor and every day four very large bags of chaff brought and tipped on the floor, then a few shovel fulls of coloured powder additive, then about cwt of ground wheat oats and barley mixed and  two buckets of boiling hot ..well it was when you left the house 100yrds away.. and scoops of mollases from a 45 gal drum mixed in to melt it and poured over the chaff and by this time there would be a latge pile of chopped/sliced mangols under the chopper as someone else would have thrown those through the hole in the wall...these chopped mangols then thrown on top of the chaff mix and then with a large shovel the whole pile would be turned one way then the other intil the whole lot was thoroughly mixed. Then it was bagged up into hessian sacks and carried to the cowshed  and measured out into the troughs with some cows getting a bit more than others if they had just calved.  The cows would come in from the field and always go to their space and it was rare for one to go in the wrong standing.   Then three legged stool and nice clean bucket and hand milk 28 of them.   About 1952 we did get a milking machine fitted.     I wonder how it will all be done in 70 yrs time.

Edited August 18, 2022 by Walker570

[oowee]

Bamfords Perfect Root cutter. 👍

Edited August 18, 2022 by oowee

[Blackpowder]

Bamford?  Same family as JCB fame?

Blackpowder

 

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, Walker570 said:

Yep, mangol slicer. Brings back memories of aching arms and back as ours initially had to be turned by hand but grandfather then got a belt and pulley set up from the drive shaft of the grinder.   Back then no such thing as front end loaders tipping feed into a big power mixer on the back of a tractor.  Large 'mixing shed' stone floor and every day four very large bags of chaff brought and tipped on the floor, then a few shovel fulls of coloured powder additive, then about cwt of ground wheat oats and barley mixed and  two buckets of boiling hot ..well it was when you left the house 100yrds away.. and scoops of mollases from a 45 gal drum mixed in to melt it and poured over the chaff and by this time there would be a latge pile of chopped/sliced mangols under the chopper as someone else would have thrown those through the hole in the wall...these chopped mangols then thrown on top of the chaff mix and then with a large shovel the whole pile would be turned one way then the other intil the whole lot was thoroughly mixed. Then it was bagged up into hessian sacks and carried to the cowshed  and measured out into the troughs with some cows getting a bit more than others if they had just calved.  The cows would come in from the field and always go to their space and it was rare for one to go in the wrong standing.   Then three legged stool and nice clean bucket and hand milk 28 of them.   About 1952 we did get a milking machine fitted.     I wonder how it will all be done in 70 yrs time.

used to be a lot more tasty than boring old dry pellets

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Now well over 400

[islandgun]

very nice find it would be great to get it up and running

[ditchman]

2 minutes ago, islandgun said:

very nice find it would be great to get it up and running

if you have ever done the turning the handle on a chaff cutter you wouldnt come out with rash statements like that

[Wylye]

Remember one of these as a kid. It had a large wooden handle for turning it until it was modernised with a belt drive from the Fordson Super Major. Mixed with chaff and rolled barley it was fed to fattening bullocks. The mill was run from the tractor pulley too. 

[islandgun]

2 hours ago, Walker570 said:

Yep, mangol slicer. Brings back memories of aching arms and back as ours initially had to be turned by hand but grandfather then got a belt and pulley set up from the drive shaft of the grinder.   Back then no such thing as front end loaders tipping feed into a big power mixer on the back of a tractor.  Large 'mixing shed' stone floor and every day four very large bags of chaff brought and tipped on the floor, then a few shovel fulls of coloured powder additive, then about cwt of ground wheat oats and barley mixed and  two buckets of boiling hot ..well it was when you left the house 100yrds away.. and scoops of mollases from a 45 gal drum mixed in to melt it and poured over the chaff and by this time there would be a latge pile of chopped/sliced mangols under the chopper as someone else would have thrown those through the hole in the wall...these chopped mangols then thrown on top of the chaff mix and then with a large shovel the whole pile would be turned one way then the other intil the whole lot was thoroughly mixed. Then it was bagged up into hessian sacks and carried to the cowshed  and measured out into the troughs with some cows getting a bit more than others if they had just calved.  The cows would come in from the field and always go to their space and it was rare for one to go in the wrong standing.   Then three legged stool and nice clean bucket and hand milk 28 of them.   About 1952 we did get a milking machine fitted.     I wonder how it will all be done in 70 yrs time.

Done in 70 years time ? doubt we will be allowed any form of animal products, food will be re-hydrated algae..😀 

6 minutes ago, ditchman said:

if you have ever done the turning the handle on a chaff cutter you wouldnt come out with rash statements like that

I have, my neighbour used one to cut up home-grown turnips for his sheep

[old man]

44 minutes ago, islandgun said:

Done in 70 years time ? doubt we will be allowed any form of animal products, food will be re-hydrated algae..😀 

 

Not sure, by then algae will be classed as sentient beings and sitting in parliament? 😀

[amateur]

55 minutes ago, old man said:

Not sure, by then algae will be classed as sentient beings and sitting in parliament? 😀

Excellent!

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, old man said:

Not sure, by then algae will be classed as sentient beings and sitting in parliament? 😀

well it will be replacing the ameboitic pond life that is there at the moment

[Jim Neal]

5 hours ago, Walker570 said:

Yep, mangol slicer. Brings back memories of aching arms and back as ours initially had to be turned by hand but grandfather then got a belt and pulley set up from the drive shaft of the grinder.   Back then no such thing as front end loaders tipping feed into a big power mixer on the back of a tractor.  Large 'mixing shed' stone floor and every day four very large bags of chaff brought and tipped on the floor, then a few shovel fulls of coloured powder additive, then about cwt of ground wheat oats and barley mixed and  two buckets of boiling hot ..well it was when you left the house 100yrds away.. and scoops of mollases from a 45 gal drum mixed in to melt it and poured over the chaff and by this time there would be a latge pile of chopped/sliced mangols under the chopper as someone else would have thrown those through the hole in the wall...these chopped mangols then thrown on top of the chaff mix and then with a large shovel the whole pile would be turned one way then the other intil the whole lot was thoroughly mixed. Then it was bagged up into hessian sacks and carried to the cowshed  and measured out into the troughs with some cows getting a bit more than others if they had just calved.  The cows would come in from the field and always go to their space and it was rare for one to go in the wrong standing.   Then three legged stool and nice clean bucket and hand milk 28 of them.   About 1952 we did get a milking machine fitted.     I wonder how it will all be done in 70 yrs time.

That's a wonderful insight into how we lived in times which really weren't all that long ago!  I'm a child of the 70s and don't believe I've been namby-pambied, but I wouldn't fancy doing all that every day!

[Feltwad]

We grew turnips that was put through the chopper  yes it was hard work to put through 2 large turnips at a time from the straw covered turnip pile .I think a harder job was snagging the rows of turnips on a cold frosty morning your back ached and your hands were numb with the cold  which turned into keens on you finger ends . Yes that was farming the old way  the young ones would not have it today

Feltwad

[Agriv8]

Just shown my old man this and he blames one of these for his stoop and nakered shoulders

very much the same used for making cow feed for milking parlour for about 10 to 15 milkers all sorts went through it and All done before walking to school he recons

Agriv8

[tonker]

How many on here can remember cutting a load of silage by hand with a knife and then peaking it of for the cattle out in the field. sorry for digressing oowee.

[ditchman]

40 minutes ago, tonker said:

How many on here can remember cutting a load of silage by hand with a knife and then peaking it of for the cattle out in the field. sorry for digressing oowee.

the trick was to back the traler tight against the clamp so when you cut it a big wadge fell filling the trailer in one go

[39TDS]

On 18/08/2022 at 17:46, Wylye said:

It had a large wooden handle for turning it until it was modernised with a belt drive from the Fordson Super Major.

Ruined many a chopper that did. When turning by hand you stopped when you hit a stone, tractor just smashed the teeth off.