The land has at last dried out so I have been able to get on with the last round of clearing stones and boulders from a new field I bought last year. It had never been ploughed in history and we had to clear a mass of 8 foot high scrub last year. Then came the stone and boulder clearance - all a result of the field's glacial history.
So it has been a 71 year old me, a 65 or so years old Ferguson transport box and my 50 year old MF 165 tractor plus my Dad's old crowbar and towing chain. The latter two necessary to pull out some of the big boulders. I reckon some of the boulders weight up to a thrid of a ton.
It has made me realise just how hard our forefathers worked clearing the land and building the stone walls which are so common here, all with their own sweat and maybe ponys (4 legged type!) and sledges.
John