Wish I took more pictures. This (what I think is a harvester) was super cool with its wooden body and frame, leather belts, and also belts that looked like recycled firehose. But it was sitting in a sea of no less than 27 million burdocks. My new flannel was a coat of burrs after I left here. I would have liked to shoot close ups of every square inch of it but I was quickly turning into human Velcro. On the plus side, the brazillion burrs I pulled from my flannel, jeans, and shoe laces made for great tinder to spark a fire back at camp.

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I believe this was used to rake hay/straw/alfalfa and the like, then pull it up to someone standing at the end of wagon to be tossed aboard with a pitchfork. Just a guess though - I am no farmer, nor an agricultural historian.



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Sweet! The tree trunk growing through the machinery is certainly many decades old.

My new flannel was a coat of burrs after I left here [...] I was quickly turning into human Velcro.

LOL! Love the analogy. They definitely plant or at least let burdock grow rampant all around the outer edge of my local botanical garden. Apart from the slight inconvenience, as you mention, you definitely also stick out like a sore thumb among the daytime visitors, if you hopped the fence to get in for free