#hay making

[strawberryjayne]

Hay time

[soviet-amateurs]

Haymaking near Leningrad, 1976

[suncem-okupana]

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (8/31/20) Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884) Hay Making (1877) Oil on canvas, 160 x 195 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Dubbed the "grandson of Millet and Courbet" by Zola, Jules Bastien-Lepage specialised in agricultural scenes which were a far remove from the affected pastoral scenes that cluttered the Salon. Zola was excited by "Hay Making," seeing it as the masterpiece of naturalism in painting.

Indeed it is a far cry from Millet's Rest. The artist has powerfully captured the epic of the French countryside and depicted the peasants in their simplicity and despondency: the young woman sitting in the foreground is haggard with weariness.  The effects of accelerated perspective, the light palette, and close framing of the figures are signs of modernity within the naturalist approach.  (translated from the Museum website)

[dak91]

Grady Press Trailers Twin Pak XXX 1421.

Basically it’s the capacity of a big baler that will split them into 2, 3 string bales.

Benefits of this that I can see are less passes in the field if you rake windrows together. You can keep your equipment the same for handling smaller bales. Less passes in the field for a roadsider.

I do believe this is the only type of baler that can do this.

[writing-challenges-and-prompts]

Medieval Hay Making

[creationfromnothingness]

Jules Bastien-Lepage: Les Foins, 1877

[soviet-amateurs]

On the farm, raking hay