Mechanization

The War Years were years of unprecedented mechanization. Even before World War 11 broke out, the government was planning for Britain’s survival – and it already had 3,000 Fordson tractors in reserve, such was their foresight!

Tractors became a feature of all farms, and in the war years, they were transforming the landscape. With farmers working by starlight and by lamp, these tractors could work 24 hours a day.  Along with the tractors, there was the gyro-tiller, the prairie-buster and the rotary cultivator – these machines exploiting the marshes, the hillsides, the bogs and the heath. All of the countryside was taking on a new face. Never again would it be as it had once been!

HOW CAN I APPLY THE ABOVE INFO TO MY LIFE?

Currently we use a car, a petrol lawn mower, a chain saw for cutting our winter wood, an electric pressure hose to clean outside walls and paths, plus a multitude of mechanized tools and household equipment. An addition that we might consider would be a mulcher, but in the meantime, we can continue our composting by cutting up greenery with secateurs or running over it with the lawn mower to reduce it for the compost heap.