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Normally this wouldn’t trouble me much as, I would call for my prospective son-in-law, who is a systems engineer ( not a computer expert, he knows what he is doing), or my son, (he’s a blacksmith).  This weekend, however, my children and amours are all over the country and I am left stuffed. All my writings, whilst away, are done on an ancient Psion (pison) and it will only talk to my workshop computer.  (RS232 via a 9 way D type).

Normal procedures are (1) write the stuff, usually in bed, (2) squirt files from pison to w/s computer, (3) massage text on w/s comp, (4) transfer data to laptop on flash drive, for final polish, (5) add pictures from l/t, (6) send, (7) Hurrah!

Text now stuck somewhere on w/s computer. 

Cumbersome, Oh yes, but hey, if I wanted “slick” I wouldn’t be buggering around with a fifty odd year old tractor and plough. It’s a system that is becoming of one of a certain age, one who prefers an old straw hat to the to the new panama. The best suite is the pair of overalls freshly washed and ironed.

So your up and running. Good isn’t it, there are few sweater sounds than those coughs and grunts as she catches after major surgery. An then you spend the next few days looking for signs of water and oil hemorrhaging. In my experience it will take a few hours on the clock before the buttocks truly relax whilst out on the road!  Have you kept a time diary? Did you itemise every penny?

When the files are liberated I will send you the lot and probably more. In the mean time, these pictures will suffice, they are of some of the other ploughs in my life.

You might question the hazard tape on the 2 furrow. It helps my wife see it, she could trip over standard gauge steam loco. That picture illustrates two projects that will run concurrently.

Regards Mike.

Sorry Tim, I get a bit distracted these days, my mind tends to drift towards the fact that I used to have a pension. Now I  spend a lot of time working out the best busking spots for a bloke with an old straw hat with a concertina.

I found some more ploughs. These two are scotch swing ploughs, there were another ten around the croft, all over ten years old. Some had Mot’s so have got to be worth Ooh two grand part ex against a new Kia Sorento.

I have passed crofts where ploughs have been lined up to form fences!  A chap I know up there has a field full of horse drawn finger mowers. 

Regards Mike