Farm Implements Complete the Story of Farming Heritage

A new home for old iron

The sad end to these stories is that I have just sold my baler and my Vicon Acrobat. The baler was spending too much time outdoors and every winter the winds would shred the cover I had over it. Where I live now we don’t have enough flat fields to make hay growing really worthwhile, so the baler had been standing for three years. So I put both the baler and the Acrobat onto an online auction site. I got several times more than I paid for them, but I felt quite gutted seeing that baler go. It paid for itself many, many times over, and it was a monument to some very happy and amusing times. But we can’t hang onto every single monument from the past. FC 

Josephine Roberts lives on an old-fashioned smallholding in Snowdonia, North Wales, and has a passion for all things vintage. E-mail her at pheenie@talktalk.net.