I've just finished a new exhibit here at the museum about hay making. The neighbours helped out with the hay making as the 4 metre photo in the exhibit shows. There must be 20 people standing around the haystack as it is being built. Quite a change from today with contractors doing all of the work, which is one of the main points of the exhibit. The farmers have very little involvement in hay making these days.
It's interesting to see how the people around the hay stack are dressed and the expressions on their faces.
A hot job building those hay stacks and if they were poorly built, they would be ruined when it rained. because the stack would leak.
The other new exhibit here at Ag Heritage is about those wild men in their "flying machines" the topdressing pilots. Well it's about one man in particular, Ossie James and James Aviation. We've made a video about Ossie, his Tiger Moths, Fletchers and DC-3 airplanes. We found some great old film of the early planes topdressing and included that footage in our video.
It was very interesting putting this "Topdressing" exhibit together. I met some of the early pioneers in the topdressing industry such as Guy Robinson of Robinson Air Services who also worked out of the Hamilton Airport when James Aviation was there.
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