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Haymaking at Culter

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Haymaking at Culter
This photograph from the early 1900's shows a pair of farm workers loading a cart with hay. After the hay was cut it would be forked into haycocks in the fields, hopefully drying in the sun and wind. It would be turned regularly to ensure it became fairly dry or 'wun'. The man on top of the cart receives forkfuls of hay lifted up to him by the other men, and it was his job to arrange it so that it lay neatly and didn't unbalance and fall off as the cart travelled back to the farm. Once there loads of hay would be built into hayricks, thatched to ensure that rain didn't soak inside.
Peterculter
Industries, Farming
I12_01
Aberdeen Local Studies
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