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What is it? (quiz)

grist mill. grinding grain some how. probably stone wheels driven by dinosaurs :wink:

edited to add: what about wool storage and spinning/cleaning
 
Is the roof of a wheelhouse? like the one below.
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And we have a winner :D :D

We called it a mill house rather than a wheel house - it is a round house that originally was used to generate power by having horses walking around a centre drive shaft, geared up to provide enough power to drive a grain mill in the barn next door. Quite common if you didn't have a handy source of running water nearby that would drive a waterwheel powered one instead. Ours didn't have the workings still in place - it was gutted out to be cattle housing long ago. It was interesting to see the huge overhead beams they used - reclaimed ships timbers - as this was quite a big "clear span" for it's day given the weight of slates on the roof as well.
 
Hereford76 said:
jigs said:
nearest sheep is right by the fence post along the rock wall to the left of the pic
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.... and she is calling my name (under-his-breath)
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just because I live so close to Nebraska does not mean I partake in thier "sheepish" love affairs...

I asked Sand Husker about sheep once, he claims he only took advantage of the ones with thier heads caught in the fence....then I noticed that he fed the sheep on the other side of the fence!
 
I have a friend whose farm has a wheelhouse which is why I figured what the pic was, his surname coincidentally is also Wheelhouse. BTW the pic that I posted above is one of my customers wheelhouses.
 
Its the SW of Scotland Kato, the Stewartry district of Dumfries and Galloway region. Quite scenic and quite varied - 20 miles from the coast and 20 miles from the heather clad peaks of the Southern Upland range.
 
Well, who wood a thunk it? I figered it for a place yall had your pints and drank that good scotish whiskey. And also dressed up in them kilt mini skirts and werein no drawers and doin that jumpy dancein to some good old timey scottish poka music. Why don't me and u make the treck back over to the old country? I got a little scot blood in me. I'd love to go to one of them dances and learn them the okachobee stomp and the boar hog grind. U set it up and we'll go. Tell them to have plenty of good whiskey ready when we lite down. We'll stay about a week or 2. Or till they run us off.
 
Going to Scotland has always been on the top of my to do list. My Dad's side of the family comes from a little north of there, around Kilmartin in Argyle. My Mom's side came from around Dundee, so other than being born eighth generation Canadian, I'm still a Scot at heart. :D The closest thing to having a mixed up background for me is that one side were Highlanders, and the other side were not. :wink: :D :D

Some day I'll get there.
 
I figer myself to be highlander bred. On acount of me bein a little or lot, hot headed and not whiskey friendly. But I can hear a good scottish tune and get a lump in my throt, me a yurnin for the kilt and no drawers of the highlanders. A tune like oh danny boy. And I've always been braged on about my dancein ability and stanima. I'd dare say that me and some cowboy buddys of younger years, developed and perfected a still popular dance that is still in use today, in southfla honkeytonks.the boar hog grind. It would have never been perfected or would have fallen to the wayside, extenct, if it wernt for my scottish highlander breedin. I have all ideays. I wish I had a way to video this dance and share it with all my new buddys on rancher. Though I wood have to rest and only be able to holt out about a min.it wood b some good watchin!!
 
cowhunter said:
I figer myself to be highlander bred. On acount of me bein a little or lot, hot headed and not whiskey friendly. But I can hear a good scottish tune and get a lump in my throt, me a yurnin for the kilt and no drawers of the highlanders. A tune like oh danny boy. And I've always been braged on about my dancein ability and stanima. I'd dare say that me and some cowboy buddys of younger years, developed and perfected a still popular dance that is still in use today, in southfla honkeytonks.the boar hog grind. It would have never been perfected or would have fallen to the wayside, extenct, if it wernt for my scottish highlander breedin. I have all ideays. I wish I had a way to video this dance and share it with all my new buddys on rancher. Though I wood have to rest and only be able to holt out about a min.it wood b some good watchin!!
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An old cowboy up here figures cowboys learned to dance from watching prairie chickens in the springtime.
I tend to agree with this bit of information. :wink:
 
I don't have any of the Highland (or teuchtar as we call it) blood in me. No kilts, can't stand the whisky or the ceilidhs. Can still enjoy a bagpipe lament though - a powerful and haunting sound.
I can see you now cowhunter, doing a highland fling to an okachobee beat :shock: :lol: :lol: - you do know that you dance over the top of two sharp swords :???: might not be the best combination after a few jugs of whisky :wink:
 
Yea, I better stay home. I don't hear the pipes callin. I can stand a little of them pipes but I figger after a while the dronein would wear on me. Fueled on scottish whiskey, the flat woods cracker would come out in me and they would send us or me packin for me gettin tired of them pipes. Of corse now, if theyed keep the fiddle out, I have all ideays we would get to stay longer. But then the scottish lasses would be all over me. All wontin there dances. This bein a whole nother can of worms, I figer yall better make the treck with out me. My wife said she asures u, not to take me.
 
I could listen to bagpipes till my ears wore out. 8) :D :D :D It guess it's genetic. A friend of my brothers played the pipes in a band back when we were kids, and I would go sit on the steps and listen to her practice. She lived on the next block, so I guess the whole neighbourhood listened to her practice. :shock: :D :D :D :D Either you love them or you don't. :wink:

But I must admit, whiskey is not something I've acquired a taste for.
 
I've been to several military and law enforcement funerals- where they played a bagpipe funeral dirge- a sound that not only can bring tears to your eyes but can send chills down your back...

My old partner used to say the tears on his cheeks were because of how rotten bagpipe music is :wink:
 
"The Maple Leaf Forever" played on bagpipes has got to be the most incredible piece of patriotic music ever put together. Listening to that I can see why the Germans never stood a chance a Vimy Ridge. :shock:
My Scottish side, the Hunters, are apparently from the Isle of Islay. Can't say where that is, but I did see a picture of the family castle. And by castle I really mean "pile of rocks" :? Oh well.
 
Well if she lived by me I be a murderer. Like what the little fox got, but no peckin. I'd a cut her head off. A little pipes is good. But nobody can carry a good tune on the thing long before they get confused and waver off. That's when I'd like to take a yeller handled case and open up the bellows. But now and then, the highland blood calls me. Urnin for the kilt an no drawers. Its kind of strange thinkin of a girl tryin to look up your dress.
 
Silver said:
"The Maple Leaf Forever" played on bagpipes has got to be the most incredible piece of patriotic music ever put together. Listening to that I can see why the Germans never stood a chance a Vimy Ridge. :shock:
My Scottish side, the Hunters, are apparently from the Isle of Islay. Can't say where that is, but I did see a picture of the family castle. And by castle I really mean "pile of rocks" :? Oh well.
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the Hunters - is that a last name? my dad's sister is married to a hunter and he is all scott... actually saw him this morning and it had been a few years.
 

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