Fergie47:
Cutting grass / hay making…and smellsWe’ve had three weeks with no rain, yesterday, sun all day, peaking at 30+, this morning at 6.00 thunderstorm and lots of rain, it stopped around 9.00, went out onto the lawn and smelt that smell that only comes after lots of sun then a cloud burst, and what a smell it is, can’t really describe it, but its just so…country summertime.
Growing up in the Hampshire countryside as a lad my friends dad drove a Thames Trader for a local guy who did general farming haulage, sacked grain, potatoes, green vegetables, and hay. We use to go out with him summer evenings during school holidays to load up the hay, him and l on top of the load catching and stacking the bales thrown up to us by the men…After loading, and ropeing down, the men got a beer, we got lemonade. I can still see myself sat on the top of the load looking out across the fields, and that smell, the smell of fresh cut hay… two country smells, not to be forgotten
You forgetting one very “sweet” farming aroma Dave-----Slurry----- 
The farmers in our part of the world are all big sileage makers so after each “cut” (usually 3) the contractors are charging about with those bloody huge slurry tankers getting it banged on before the rain starts 
Now the “hum” of that bloody stuff pervades the area until it drys up/gets washed in to the land.It can give the nasals a fair old seeing to before it disappears,Ah! Bisto! Cheers Dennis.
Well Saviem you jogged my memory yet again, going back to when I was a kid born on a farm my Father rented. Remember him ploughing with a standard Fordson and two furrow Ransoms plough sitting on the wide mudguard with me feet on the hand grab to stop me sliding off, no H&S back then, that fordson came to the farm before my mum and dad were wed and she drove it ploughing for the war effort when she was only 16 years old,we progressed when he went to a farm sale at Waltham Chase and he out bid every one else to purchase a Nuffield petrol/TVO only one year old the number I remember was NAA 919, this was in 1960. Later he acquired a little grey fergie petrol/TVO second hand this was for light duties and worked the cut down buck rake when silage making was in full swing, I got so good on that little tractor always making it do more than designed for, never forget those bollickings for not turning it over to tvo when she got warm and of course back the other way two minutes before turning her off to get her back on petrol ready for starting next time. The Nuffield was power for the inline Lundell forage harvester towing the high sided tipping trailer, and was also used for rolling the pit but this could be dodgy as it had stub axles at the back which could ride up the clamp wall if one got too close, this happened a few times and I got a many rollicking for getting it stuck.
. The firm of F.& A Bayram,now there was/is a set of lads to be-hold they ran immaculate 6 wheel Scanias and draw bars and were brothers/cousins of the F & A,I used to deal with Frank,a great chap! and we would carry out the odd running repairs for them on the Scanias(as we held more spares than the local service dealer 
Cheers Bewick.
