Way back in the day in Aberdeenshire the midday break was two hours of a rest for the horses, the men would head to their cottages for their food and forty winks. Can’t place that photo 3 horses to a single furrow plough not in Scotland and not shire or clydesdale though the work gear is familiar, flat caps/hat and leggings also the chap on the right with the straps below the knees that kept the trouser bottoms out of the mud. The bottle on the left would be cold tea. They might even be expats abroad somewhere. Grand photo anyway.
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My father used to hire the services of a local man on our farm, he could turn his hand to many tasks such as hedging and ditching, he also did a lot of hoeing singling out kale and fodder beet as well as drawing straw for thatching which he could also do, when I was a nipper I worked with him a while making fencing piles, me cutting down chestnut and to length’s of 5ft 6 ins then peeling them and splitting them then he would clean and point them a very satisfying job it has to be said, he was also very good at agricultural stock fencing, learned loads of him.
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Hedge-laying was another rural craft now largely forgotten along with dry-stone walling.
Yeah…that’s the one I remember (I think).
Ah sod it, I’mconfused, but if I ever get another go in one, I’m sure it wil be like riding a bike…
Oh Jeez come think of it, I fell of that the other week.
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I’m sure Carryfast would come to yours, to give you some personal tuition. 
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He will tell you how much faster you can change gear with a Fuller than a poxy synchro but depending on which way the winds blowing he will tell you how great the ZF 16 speed synchro was in the Daf .Strange days indeed most peculiar mama
Very professional! 
Back in my youth I cut and chopped firewood with my dad the logs weren’t as big as these and not as easy to chop like this guy does it.
The Fiat on the left has an Istanbul registration number but it’s hard to make out the Leyland’s reg. The name on the headboard isn’t familiar either.
I posted it on fb and someone commented its Raketa an Eastern European operator who were keen buyers of AEC…..
Quick Google suggests Yugoslavian national operator but all i found was a MAN in their livery..
It looks more AEC than Leyland the cabs sat lower
but it’s still badged Leyland
That’s because Leyland decided everything exported had to have Leyland on the front hence the Leyland Crusaders
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