02/01/2014

My first day back at work in the new year.  The first load was only three drops, the first to one of the companies stores and the other two drops were to local farms.  Neither of the two farm drops were particularly arduous, and I have delivered to both farms before.  The  only thing of note was a slowly decaying rulley standing abandoned in a field on the edge of the farm track.

I think "Rulley" is a local or Yorkshire name.  A rulley is a four wheel trailer with the front two wheels mounted on a turntable. This style of trailer was in regular use from the time when horses were used on farms until the end of the 70's or just after.  I come across them less and less often now. When I do they are usually parked where they were last used, slowly decaying and often overgrown with brambles.  To me they represent a memorial of things past and though I find the sight of a forgotten rulley slowly decaying slightly sad I do like to see them peeping out from the summer nettles.