On a farm machinery and implement lot on Highway 26 in Colfax, Washington sits a large selection of tools created and sold to facilitate the plowing, planting and harvesting of wheat in the Palouse. Here is a ‘wheel rake,’ used for haying after the wheat is harvested. This implement has a center pulling point and the two arms have about ten wheels with long spidery looking tines that spread out and run along the ground gathering the straw (in this case) or hay in another application into a windrow, where it is allowed to dry and then baled into the more old fashioned rectangular bales or the more modern large cylindrical bales. This particular implement can be drawn at higher speeds cutting the time a farmer spends in the fields.
Nice shot Madge – I like the perspective!
Thanks Paul… with such interesting shapes and colors… it is fun to get in close and just shoot!
Ah, my father-in-law has one of these and I meant to take a picture similar to this before we left after last week’s visit but forgot. Love the pattern.
Yes Becky… I do like the repetitiveness of this too!
Hi Madge- this is a very interesting and patriotic photo. Thanks for commenting on my photos. I tried to reply to you on my blog, but it will not let me for some reason.
Thanks Reed… one never can totally understand why technology allows/disallows somethings… or works one day and not the next!