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Tag Archives: rake
Making wooden hay rakes video – North West England
Were these men really so relieved to have their hand work replaced by being machine operators? I’m glad to still be hand making hay rakes in the NW. Continue reading
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Tagged hay, rake, traditional, video, wooden
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Rakes at Elvaston Castle
It’s a rake making month as I’m just back from a great weekend demonstrating at Elvaston Woodland Festival. I get to camp in some brilliant places during these events and Saturday was a beautiful morning so I got up early … Continue reading
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Rake making at Beamish
I’m back in the modern world after a weekend spent at Beamish museum making wooden rakes as part of their 1913 Show of Agriculture. My rakes are traditionally made using cleft timber and hand tools as working implements so I … Continue reading
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Tagged Beamish, corn dolly, hay rakes, hayrake, rake, rake making, stail engine, tine cutter, wooden
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Keeping busy through the summer
June went by in a flash and I realised I hadn’t written anything here all month. It’s mowing season so a lot of my time at the moment is taken up with scythes – find out about it on Scytherspace, … Continue reading
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Tagged CANW, chisel, green wood, greenwood, hay rakes, hayrake, rake, rake making, sheath, wooden, wooden rakes
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Meadow raking in Austria
I’m on holiday this week in Austria and, with spring well on the way over here, Christiane and I spent a few hours together raking the meadow she mows. This is public land by the apartments where Christiane lives and … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, Christiane Lechner, grass, meadow, preparation, rake, scythe
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Leela's rake
Last October I met Miss Kathloon Peart from Bishop Auckland who told me how she’d received her first hayrake when only 3 years old and had been making hay on her farm for the 50-something years since then. So I … Continue reading
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Tagged cumbria, hay rakes, haybridge nature reserve, hayrake, rake, scythe, wooden
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Romanian Rakemaker
I’ve been in the Transylvania region of Romania taking part in an International Haymaking Festival. During the week we called in to visit Viktor-bacsi (an honorific for older people translated for us as “Uncle Viktor”) who, despite ill health makes … Continue reading
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Tagged hay rakes, hayrake, rake, romania, transylvania, wooden
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Double bow rake
My first completed rake, post-fire, a double bow model based on one at MERL. The head is 695mm wide with 12 tines, the bows are made from cleft ash, shaved almost to size and then drawn through a dowel plate. … Continue reading
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Straightening rake stails
A straight stail is essential for a good rake so it can slide through your hands while you work and and for balance. You can test a rake’s balance by holding it horizontally in your hands. As you relax your … Continue reading
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Tagged coppice, pole, rake, stail, steam bending, straight
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