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Main Boards => General Walking Discussion => Topic started by: Lee in Doncaster on 16:38:59, 23/06/19
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I discovered an unusual object on the moors today and wonder if anyone knows what it is.
Details and photos on my blog.
Cheers.
https://peakwalking.blogspot.com/2019/06/fairholmes-to-hallam-head.html (https://peakwalking.blogspot.com/2019/06/fairholmes-to-hallam-head.html)
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What unusual object are you talking about?
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Looks like a device to be towed behind a tractor. The chains and spikes probably rake the ground. Collapsible design for delivery on a trailer. I'm no farmer/game keeper but is it something to do with grouse moors?
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Looks like a device to be towed behind a tractor. The chains and spikes probably rake the ground. Collapsible design for delivery on a trailer. I'm no farmer/game keeper but is it something to do with grouse moors?
I've been told it's a disassembled harrow for use on hilly and boggy ground, maybe left in place on standby to provide firebreaks for when the heather is burned.
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Modern art?
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Modern art?
It's definitely a harrow, possibly placed there ready to make firebreaks for when they're burning the heather....from a distance it does look like it's fallen off an aeroplane though.
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It's definitely a harrow, possibly placed there ready to make firebreaks for when they're burning the heather....from a distance it does look like it's fallen off an aeroplane though.
In my experience, things that fall off planes make bigger holes! :) . I like the some sort of harrow hypothesis.
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You've just reminded me, I need to finish watching 'An American Werewolf in London,' it was the word 'moors' that made my brain work again. I was really enjoying it but the doorbell rang and I ended up going down the pub!