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<blockquote data-quote="Leonard D Neubache" data-source="post: 1289524" data-attributes="member: 11069">RE: The Anti-Clown World Thread: In Praise Of The Disappearing Old WorldFarm walls made of rock.<img src="https://www.dochara.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wall-of-mourne-691x426.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://ak.picdn.net/offset/photos/553fbe295a10fc50d2d0a45e/medium/photo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Most people don't know that these walls exist largely because all of that rock was pulled out of the dirt by our ancestors to farm the land, but back in those days there were no tip trucks to cart all that rock away and so it had to be put to use somehow.Where these walls still exist you can instantly get a sense of just how hard the people of that land had to work per acre just to get decent pastures underway. The land in the second picture was obviously particularly tough. You can still find some of these walls in rural Australia and I'm certain that the farmers there only keep them out of a sense of duty to honor their ancestors since these days it would be easy enough to just scoop all that rock up with a front end loader and put something more modern in its place. Those old timers sure slogged hard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leonard D Neubache, post: 1289524, member: 11069"] [b]RE: The Anti-Clown World Thread: In Praise Of The Disappearing Old World[/b] Farm walls made of rock. [img]https://www.dochara.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/wall-of-mourne-691x426.jpg[/img] [img]https://ak.picdn.net/offset/photos/553fbe295a10fc50d2d0a45e/medium/photo.jpg[/img] Most people don't know that these walls exist largely because all of that rock was pulled out of the dirt by our ancestors to farm the land, but back in those days there were no tip trucks to cart all that rock away and so it had to be put to use somehow. Where these walls still exist you can instantly get a sense of just how hard the people of that land had to work per acre just to get decent pastures underway. The land in the second picture was obviously particularly tough. You can still find some of these walls in rural Australia and I'm certain that the farmers there only keep them out of a sense of duty to honor their ancestors since these days it would be easy enough to just scoop all that rock up with a front end loader and put something more modern in its place. Those old timers sure slogged hard. [/QUOTE]

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