Rural WTF

[bunn]

It is 20 minutes to 1am in the morning, and someone is employing a tractor, lights and a bizarre swooshing thing on the field opposite my house.    I think it may be muckspreading.   As the valley is otherwise completely silent at this hour, the noise, which would normally be unnoticeable, is quite striking.  It sounds like he is energetically circulating a number of angry foxes in a large metal barrel.

WHY  would anyone be muckspreading at 12:40am?  WHY? 

At least he's unlikely to be very long about it.  It's not a big field.  Which just increases the mystery of the 'WHY AT 12:40am?' question by an order of magnitude.

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[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yay, I think you have it! Viewing the operation by tractorlight in a sleepfuzzled state, I thought that field had already been mowed and the thing that made the fox-battering noise was a muck spreader, but in the light of day I can see that it must have been a baler and presumably he was getting in ahead of the rain forecast for today.

This is excellent news as it means there is no overwhelming pong this morning. Though I'm sure balers don't normally make that noise? I'm not sure what does!