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L’OUR bales of hay laid lengthwise along the top of a load of bulk wheat will give sufficient pitch to covering tarpaulins to run water away quickly when ridge poles are not available. Mr Alan Gardner, of Scargill, resorted to this method when, after hearing an unfavourable weather forecast, he realised two of the railway waggons he had loaded during the day had tarpaulins lying flat.
A trip in the darkness to the hay barn and down to the station was the remedy. The value of a railway waggon filled with bulk wheat is roughly £250 and four bales of straw or hay are cheap insurance.
When the waggons arrived at the flourmill in Christchurch the bales of wheat
straw •were still in place and holding the covers up well without any dips where rain might have collected. On one waggon the bales were placed on top of a damaged tarpaulin with a second cover making the pitched roof. In the other waggon the bales were lying on top of the grain with the tarpaulin over them. In this case also there was no subsidence.
The photograph shows the bales lying on the top of the bottom cover with the top tarpaulin folded back. «
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 9
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