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Post by hmca on Jun 1, 2022 18:51:20 GMT
Nice follow-up post, BuckSkin. He has some created some beautiful pottery.....and your little buddy seems very concentrated on the process.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 1, 2022 18:54:31 GMT
And now, the finished product.
An ancient artifact that any archaeologist would be ecstatic to unearth.
Saturday_30-April-2022
All done now; let's see if we can keep from touching any of the rest of us with our muddy hands.
Potter Waltz is wearing a 146th Kentucky Derby cap; seven days after this photo was taken, they ran Derby #148 at Churchill Downs on 07-May-2022.
Pottery class is over; let me wash my muddy hands and see what else we can get into.
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Post by Lillias on Jun 1, 2022 20:16:46 GMT
That's one happy looking little sidekick BuckSkin... |
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Post by jackscrap on Jun 2, 2022 3:10:27 GMT
I hope she remembered to put her initials and year on the bottom of her fabulous pot.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 3:57:08 GMT
I hope she remembered to put her initials and year on the bottom of her fabulous pot.
Now that you mention it...., that clay must be super-expensive, or else he has another reason, in 2018, and the same in 2022, once a kid's turn is over, he squishes up their creation and puts it back in the bag of clay.
When she first did this in 2018, I was all excited about getting to bring home her creation and as soon as she stood up, he promptly squished her creation and put it back in the bag.
I don't know the reason why.
He does this all for free.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 4:35:03 GMT
Allis-Chalmers CA with a 2-bottom A-C Plow
1950-1958
23 PTO-horsepower
Behind it, a John Deere 630
The rear tire on this side, and I assume the other side matches, is an Armstrong, surpassed as a farm tire only by the old pre-radial Firestones.
In the 1960s, Armstrong was the fifth largest tire producer of all types in the world.
Armstrong sold to Pirelli in 1988; Pirelli continued to produce tractor tires with the Armstrong label until July, 1994, when the agricultural division was sold to Titan.
A tractor tire with the Armstrong name has not been built since 1994.
Recently, ZAFCO has purchased the Armstrong name, complete with the Rhinoceros and are labeling radial tires with the original Armstrong logo.
I looked at their site and did not see a single genuine bias-ply tire with any of the tried and true Armstrong tread patterns, nor did I see any agricultural tires; all I saw were radials; so, their revival of the name does not excite me.
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022
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Post by jackscrap on Jun 2, 2022 6:43:42 GMT
I hope she remembered to put her initials and year on the bottom of her fabulous pot.
Now that you mention it...., that clay must be super-expensive, or else he has another reason, in 2018, and the same in 2022, once a kid's turn is over, he squishes up their creation and puts it back in the bag of clay.
When she first did this in 2018, I was all excited about getting to bring home her creation and as soon as she stood up, he promptly squished her creation and put it back in the bag.
I don't know the reason why.
He does this all for free.
Not what I was expecting to read, perhaps clay is expensive and the joy comes entirely from the lesson and the hands on experience of working with the clay. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 7:11:34 GMT
Now that you mention it...., that clay must be super-expensive, or else he has another reason, in 2018, and the same in 2022, once a kid's turn is over, he squishes up their creation and puts it back in the bag of clay.
When she first did this in 2018, I was all excited about getting to bring home her creation and as soon as she stood up, he promptly squished her creation and put it back in the bag.
I don't know the reason why.
He does this all for free.
Not what I was expecting to read, perhaps clay is expensive and the joy comes entirely from the lesson and the hands on experience of working with the clay.
I intend to also peruse E-Bay hoping to find a really good second-hand one at a great price --- but they are somewhat big and bulky, so shipping will definitely be a factor.
And, as I didn't fall off the pumpkin truck yesterday, I have also been considering just making one.
Years ago, someone gave me a big cut-out from a Granite countertop; I have that in mind for the turning surface.
We will know firsthand just how expensive that clay is; but then, if starving Mexicans and Indians (Cowboys and Indians Indians) can afford to make pottery, surely we can. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 7:18:47 GMT
A pair of Red Sorrels
Although their manes and tails are lighter than most, they are not light enough for me to declare them as Flaxen.
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022 
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 13:38:09 GMT
A Rare Pair of Buckskin Mules
American Buckskin Registry
That long building connected to the silo is not level.
The floor and roof are intentionally at least four feet lower at the far end.
The run-off from around and inside the building is funneled into a huge manure pond.
Down the center of the building, from the silo all the way to the far end, is a silage conveyor, set up in such a way that the cattle can poke their heads in and eat from the conveyor.
If everything is working as it should, you can wear your Sunday-go-to-meetin' clothes and Sunday slippers, push a button and leave, and nobody at church will ever know that you fed three hundred head of cattle on your way to Sunday School.
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 2, 2022 14:06:01 GMT
The Grey
I am definitely no expert on Grey Horses; but, I am going to call this one Fleabitten Grey.
I considered Grullo; but then, he's got a lot of white in his mane.
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022 
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 4, 2022 1:06:45 GMT
John Deere 630 w/JD 825 Rollover Plow
1958-1960
303ci 2-cylinder Gasoline, All-Fuel, or LP-Gas
48 PTO Horsepower
Transmission: Unsynchronized Gear = 6 Forward - 1 Reverse
Independent PTO 540 RPM
Weight: 5,858 lbs
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022 Notice the bottom wheel on the plow is completely broken across the rim.
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Post by whippet on Jun 6, 2022 19:20:29 GMT
Flea bitten? Shame on you, BuckSkin, that grey is beautiful. The saddle looks very comfy. But, what is this for. All I can think of, is drinking water.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 6, 2022 20:44:06 GMT
But, what is this for. All I can think of, is drinking water.
That is a good question; you may be right; however, I would have opted for the more traditional round slab-sided blanket-wrapped canteen, of which I have several.
I replaced the cloth strap with thick leather and made laced leather covers for all of mine.
I fill them with drinking water and completely soak the outsides; then, store them in the deep-freezer.
The frozen soaking wet outsides thawing and condensing keeps the insides frigid cool all day; at least a third of the water is still solid ice at day's end.
I had wondered also what that was; and, my first guess would have been flag boot, except that a flag boot is attached to the stirrup.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 7, 2022 10:44:28 GMT
Holland Transplanter - One Row Tobacco Setter My cute little buddy is modeling a Holland Transplanter, what we Kentucky hicks would call a Tobacco Setter.
Serial #172661
Holland Transplanter Company
Holland - Michigan
Although the job of riding the setter is most often relegated to the more dexterous females of the family, I have ridden these things hundreds of miles.
Usually, there are two long-footed chain-smoking women in old rotten T-shirts and cut-off jeans riding the setter.
The lid on that big water-tank behind them is just for looks; it leaks freely.
Inside that tank is a mixture of various fertilizers, herbicides, and fungicides.
Tractors and implements have no suspension; thus, the slightest bump is magnified such that a geyser of liquid spurts out of the tank at each tiny bump, splashing all over the riders and keeping them soaked in whatever carcinogenic concoction has been mixed into the tank.
It is worst at the ends of the rows, where the driver lifts them three or four feet in the air and has to cross ditches and jump gullies to get turned around; the setter swinging violently side-to-side; gallons of whatever is in that tank shooting out and raining down onto them.
Poor, starving, stingy Kentucky farmers will crop right up to the edge of the woods, or right against the neighbor's fence, forcing the tractor driver to do some serious off-road navigating to get turned around.
The absolute best thing to happen to Kentucky school children was when the government took away Federal support for tobacco and done away with the tobacco program.
I don't know what the tiny plants the guys in the VIDEO are planting; the tobacco plants we always had were twelve- to eighteen-inches long, longer than those clips where you place the plant.
Home Place on Green River
2022_Spring Festival and Plow Day
Taylor County - Kentucky
Saturday_30-April-2022     
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