Traditional Turf Cutting

George Mcdonald has been cutting turf since the mid 70's. The turf is dried and used for home heating. I had a go at it myself and it's not as easy as it looks!
#traditional #history #tractors

[@harryfinch4986]

For anyone who wants to know. Turf is used in fire places ect once dried burns for hours 👍

[@emilyemily4946]

Emi...

[@Elder650]

Is it mud or some animal dung?

[@johnplagge7928]

dried peat@@Elder650

[@bartonkj]

For others who want to know: peat is one of the things that make scotch so yummy. Burn peat to dry malted barley, and it imparts a very smokey flavor to the barley, which survives distillation and aging and you smell and taste in the glass.

[@hubertcharles6551]

C’est tellement agréable le Wiskey tourbé ! Et quoi de plus enivrant que le parfum d’un feu de tourbe ? ? ? 😊

[@krestovozdvizhenskiy]

For others that want to know. Turf is used as the main component for substrate. It can take a lot of water and remain quite air permeable, which is very useful for potted plants and for agriculture in whole.

[@emilyemily4946]

@Emily Emily ? Saya yang lalu

[@scott-ww8mw]

For those of us in the US who have no concept of this, the Bog is the source of peat. The peoples of Great Britain and Ireland have been cutting peat for centuries.

[@robertcirincione6099]

That's what I thought. They are calling it turf as we would call it peat.

[@paullucas3]

If you look one google maps, I found an old peat bog near betterton Maryland as a kid. You can see where they cut the peat out. I was boggled at the time. I couldn’t figure out what the trenches were. Peat bogs, who would have thunk it :)

[@hubertcharles6551]

Des tourbières il en existait partout en Europe dont en France, mais avec des gisements beaucoup moins importants qu’en Irlande. Il faut dire que pour que cette tourbe se réalise il faut une grande humidité et des milliers d’années . . .

[@ke1vin]

I’m a simple man. I see a Ferguson, I click.

[@jasonlockhart4647]

It's just so satisfying to watch

[@giacomo8875]

I can watch this all day

[@abbylynn8872]

Twitter/X brought me here today❤🎉

[@rchobbychannel5681]

I bet that's quite heavy on the arms after a few loads. Fair play to that bloke he reminds me of my 87 year old grandfather who still cuts and chops his own logs and he has a 48 year old fordson major with a winch to help him with the heavier logs.

[@paulbergin5903]

The man's a legend.

[@mostwantedpakbusu]

can we see the dried one burn for heating ?

[@dominik29293]

That is really satisfying 😆

[@johnmoorhousedecorated-nam899]

Any videos of it burning?

[@scottschenk5456]

Thanks!

[@allsaintsfellowship]

Does this only exist in One country? I wonder if you can also find it in Africa

[@phantomrider8777]

Great!!

[@paulbrown521]

Wouldnt it be a lot labour intensive to cut peat and stack directly onto pallets ? Then position pallets .

[@tyronerautahi9705]

I would have thought Theese two should be doing each other’s jobs. Although the digger is very slick at it.

[@burdizdawurd1516Official]

Ferguson or Ford? Or is it some foreign brand of tractor? Looks similar to our pair of Ferguson TO-35s but I am fairly certain there were predecessors to these models that were developed in Europe

[@beefster1882]

This older gentleman is working harder than 60% of most people, if you don’t have a pace like this old man than you’re doing something wrong. Get up and get some bread

[@rafaelgelpi2718]

How long do the peat blocks dry before they can be burned

[@kevjo13]

My question us why is the old man doing all the hard work and the younger muscular bloak riding the tractor? 😊

[@hubertcharles6551]

J’aimerais savoir pourquoi cet homme lisse le haut du pavé de tourbe avant de le trancher ? ? ?

[@derekcolgan9270]

Hard works not easy.

[@houstonbarr6070]

Why are they doing this?

[@Team_Banchamek]

To sell in the cake shop

[@muzzyla24]

For solid fuel boilers, fireplaces. May be

[@donnellykieranj]

It's a source of solid fuel when dry for stoves and fireplaces.

[@jaume3130]

Para que utilizan estos bloques?

[@bg9318]

Never seen anyone cut like that

[@allsaintsfellowship]

😂😂😂 It seams like only old men enjoy doing these kinds of things

[@michaelmcmullan2300]

Looks like hard work 🤔

[@bergalvez5090]

How good if it was chocolate bars.

[@rafaelgelpi2718]

Son bloques de turba, una vez que se secan se queman como carbón o trozos de madera

[@hubertcharles6551]

Ils sont hélas beaucoup moins caloriques que du bois ou du charbon . . .

[@steveengelbrecht7271]

Not his first rodeo.

[@pointblank1978]

How much does one block sell for?

[@emilyemily4946]

Apa yang Anda pikirkan?

[@emilyemily4946]

eemily792 v

[@10andrico]

Not very informative

[@stupidol]

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