One thing we’re not short of in Suffolk is farms. And on most farms, in my experience, hidden away in a rusting barn or shed, and more than likely home to the local chickens for the part of the year it isn’t needed, is the farm lorry. I’ve seen loads in my time and even driven some (the floor MIGHT be swimming in grain, if it’s green and sprouting then so much the better). The seats MIGHT be ripped and collapsed. One of the headlights might be missing. The engine might have the temper of a bulldog stung by a wasp. Normally, it will enjoy its quiet, undisturbed life, until the time of the grain harvest, when it is uncovered from its tarpaulins and dragged into life to make the shuttle from farm to grain merchant. Later, it might enjoy the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the sugar beet run.
So, please get out into the farmyards with your cameras and let’s see some pictures, modern or old, shiny or rusty, asap!
I’ll kick off with a link to a collection I found on flickr which has some absolute beauties on it, but I didn’t take them so I shan’t insert them into my post!!!
and this one…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3436/3355929213_4644d49508_o.jpg
. And I’ll have you know that for the rest of the year we ran it out of Hull docks, (hence the logs) and I kept her spotless.
