22-03-2022, 12:59 PM
(22-03-2022, 09:20 AM)Duncan Grimmond Wrote: The horse-drawn binder was actually converted to fit to a tractor draw-bar but I was sitting in the saddle-seat with three grut-big operating levers and I'd been shown how to tie the knot one the next ball when it came to running out of binder-twine. It was a morning I'll never forget with a harvest picnic lunch brought by the redoubtable Maude Avison.
In the afternoon I helped to make stooks with the shaffs. The following year (1964) they had a combine harvester, IIRC the first one in the village.