The Beast!

Meet THE BEAST!!! This archaic looking machine is in fact a self propelled slasher mower!! This one is about twenty years old and amazingly the design style has not changed one bit to this very day!!! Love those wheels! This particular one belongs to some very lovely friends of ours who have no use for it anymore (they upgraded to  a REAL tractor!!) We have this on loan for a short time to see if it suits us and to make sure it's what we need.  We decided a while ago that we really have no need for a tractor as probably 6 months of the year this place is too wet to be able to get out there! We do need a slasher to clear the bracken and the brambles but thats about it really. The horse can do any heavy pulling and hopefully this little beastie can do the rest!!!

 Geoff with our ever helpful sidekick Martin set out this afternoon to pick it up.Getting it off once they got home nearly proved to be a challenge....It's heavy!

Luckily the second attempt out in the paddock proved easier.

 Proud!!!

Somehow this machine just suits Geoff! He looked (again) like something out of the early 1900's!

But what is it about when men get behind the wheel of machinery they start to pull funny faces???

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Mart wasn't much better................................!!!

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It's a boy thing l think!!!

Fun over for the evening and off they went to bed! It's tucked into the garage between the two cars!!! l'm sort of surprised it doesn't have a blanket on............................................

And it worked an absolute treat by the way!!!