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    Tractor Talk

    Jan 22, 2021 4 minutes

    We want your news, views, and pictures: Write to us at Tractor & Farming Heritage, The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent, ME18 6AL or email tony.hoyland@kelsey.co.uk

    LETTER OF THE MONTH

    Memories of an anvil

    Re Rural Relics ( August). The anvil was wanted on every farm. Most of them weighed 2cwt (100kg) and were put on a log of wood or a low metal frame. We had a local blacksmith if anything needed to be repaired. He also made and fitted horseshoes for the cart horses we had in the Thirties and Forties. I sometimes took a horse up

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