xenith | Somercotes - the Shed (Reply)

To finish off from the other day, I had a look through there. It made my head hurt though.

It starts off fairly ordinary with carriages

and wagons, like you see everywhere, if usually in better condition.

It does occur to me that with equipment in this condition it is easier to see the construction details.

Then there's a, um, one of these.

Ah, it's an Austral Oil Engine, which is an engine fuelled by oil. So now you know.

There are lots of photos of them in better condition here and also an easier to read version of the "name plate".

This one is easy: a John Deere tractor. Unusual to see one just sitting there though. I like the wheels.

That's a Roseburn boiler. I know this because it says so on it. What it was used for? This I am not so sure on.

Now this I thought was a seeder (seed drill) on the basis that it looks like one.

But then I took in the whole thing and decided maybe it was some sort of ploughing and seeding thing.

But then I looked at modern seed drills and decided I might have been right the first time.

The next thing though

I have no idea about, other than I don't want to be near it when it's operating. This appears to be looking at it from the side.

The thing on the right I should know but it's fallen from my brain. You put vegetables into it and cut them up. I'm thinking it's root vegetables for animal feed.

The thing on the left, um, one of my companions in this adventure was all over it (descriptionwise, his feet stayed on the ground, but I didn't catch what he said.