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bygones
At Farmer Giles working farm park, we have over 30,000 square feet undercover with a unique exhibition of farming bygones including a wonderful machinery display

Some of the machinery is over 150 years old and SWAPS, the South Western Agriculture Preservation Socity, are helping me organize and manage this unique collection. Here are a few examples of the equipment i have on display:

Thrashing box - which was used to separate the grain from the corn

Sack lifter - simple device to lift a wiltshire sack onto a mans back. These sacks weighed 2¼ hundred weight (cwts), almost 11 stone!

Potato storter

Hand plough

Lots of equipment for making hay

 

Old fashioned Cider Press