hayrake

Volunteers are needed at 9.45am on Tuesday to paint benches on the park and more volunteers are needed on Sunday, August 26, between 2pm and 5pm for a hayrake - cutting the top meadow.

This position does not cause obstruction with eating and presents minimal disturbance to speech, unlike hayrake and cage-type appliances.

Get up close to the traditional wild flower meadows of Upper Teesdale and meet some minibeasts that live therein the company of Mr Hayrake and Friends on a guided walk with a difference for the whole family.

"I played Mr Hayrake, a farmer from the 1950s, but for next summer I'd really like to get hold of an authentic outfit - not only for myself but some clothing for the children to try on themselves.

Life is a girl's happy blur of gallopingher pony on the plain with her half-coyote dog, Sport; sliding down haystacks with flaxen-haired Jewel Nordland; her brothers speaking "Negrowegian' to the livestock; their neighbor, Gus, a kindly alcoholic bachelor who lives on cold "pannie cakes' fried up once a week; blizzards, droughts, grasshopper plagues; wearing a blue crepe de Chine from a catalogue to her first basket social; the Nonpartisan League; driving the hayrake; the glory of the harvest with Pop atop the haystack:

AVT Sprayer pounds 750; 3 Legsubsoiler pounds 750; Flexicoil Press pounds 440; Claas Jaguar Forage Harvester pounds 2,200; Row grip wheels pounds 480; Germ Sprayer pounds 3,400; KRM 3m Press pounds 2,200; Dowdeswell 4 Fr Plough pounds 1,150; Vauxhall Brava Pickup (N) pounds 2,300; Lely 3m Power Harrow pounds 500; Ifor Williams Horsebox pounds 1,400; NH376 Baler pounds 300; Kuhn Hayrake pounds 200; Haybobs to pounds 350; Irrigation Trailer & Pipes pounds 660; Amazone 3m Seed Drill pounds 2,500; Mims Cattle Weight Grate pounds 440; Wheatley 5T Trailer pounds 375; Weeks 7T Trailers to pounds 650 (twice); Bateman Sheep Handler pounds 400; Sheep Transport Trailer pounds 440.

pounds 420; Krone Hayrake pounds 250; PZ Haybobs to pounds 360.

For such machines as hayrake, side delivery rake, or tedder, the Samson Iron Horse just fills the bill.

Meanwhile, a couple of partners named Candee and Swann had started building hayrakes and other implements in Moline, Illinois, in 1852.

Over the past four decades Norman has collected hundreds of old equine implements, from harnesses to harrows, hayrakes and seeders.

Over the past four decades Mr Frost, 63, has also collected hundreds of other old equine implements, from harnesses to harrows, hayrakes and seeders.