Rural Scenery In Constable, New York

I'd just toured the hamlet of Constable, but the town had a lot of rural land, so I turned onto Miller Road to see what I could see. The first farm I came to was big and well maintained, with multiple barns, three silos, a sugar house, a couple of grain bins and neat rows of hay bales:

 The farm was too big to get in one photo so I drove on, catching it again from a different angle:

 Still the same farm, this one showing the farm house:

 I continued on Miller Road, which became woodsy and made a sharp turn, where I stopped to snap a picture of this house, shaded by the many pine trees. I never noticed the pile of old furniture until I got home and looked at the picture:

 I saw no more farms, so I turned back the way I'd come, photographing this collection of barns and children's swings. The bigger red barn was full of firewood. And if you are wondering, this is indeed part of the same farm I began with:

 I turned onto Dineen Road, where I photographed this sizeable sugar house and other outbuildings:

 Someone was drying laundry on the line, behind which a number of horses appeared. They looked to me like the Welsh pulling pony I once had:

 The house which went with the ponies and laundry led me to guess that this was an Amish farm:

 A dairy barn, milk room and silo, with a row of baleage out front:

 The above barn was too big and too close to the road to get in one photo, so here's the rest of it:

 I found myself again in the hamlet, with no more farms, so I ended my driving tour. But before I put my camera away, I had to get a shot of this amazing creation, made from an old stump in front of someone's house. Very creative!

St. Lawrence Power And Equipment Museum - Part 2

My next stop was the rebuilt sugar house. There was an antique boiler inside and a concession stand for maple flavored products, including cotton candy:

They had disassembled, moved and rebuilt an antique grain barn and a corn crib:

Pony pulling contests had commenced and I arrived just in time to watch several teams compete:

A couple of teams pulled the concrete weights the full distance and a couple of teams could get only a foot or two:

This fellow was having difficulty hooking the ponies to the weights, being cautious not to lose his hand in the process. The ponies made several false starts before they finally got to make their pull:

There was a flat bed completely filled with perfectly reproduced, miniature farm equipment - two rows of it. I never did find out what it was for, though:

And a rubber wheeled train which surely must have transported tourists at some former attraction. It was being used here only as a stationary exhibit, however:

This 40 horsepower, portable steam engine was built in 1922 and owned by the St. Lawrence County Highway Department until 1983, when it was sold to the museum for one dollar:

This was called a railroad speeder or crew car, and used by track inspectors to move quickly to and from work sites:

This diesel, 100 horsepower engine was part of the operations of a cheese box factory in nearby Heuvelton, New York. A sign noted that it weighed 30,000 pounds:

More of the mystery machines which I've been seeing all over the county. I have been told that they are old wheat threshers, and were used, before combines, to separate grain from the straw:

It was no surprise to find antique tractors, but the quantity of them was nothing short of amazing. This beauty was an International Harvester, 1948 Farmall. And yet there was still much to see at the Power and Equipment Museum, so I'll post Part 3 tomorrow: