Finn45
06-22-2005, 02:30 PM
Alright; You've been warned, here's quite many pics so sorry for hanging up your connection. Don't under any circumstances open the link on the bottom; it contains a 10meg video filmed with small digital camera so quality is not what it's supposed to be and downloading takes forever. 10 megs, this is fair warning! Separate downloading to hard disk is recommended; you can delete it if it's not working.
It's all from last weekend, there was kind of an "annual traditional machinery show" right in my neighborhood where I've never been before. I went there with my five year old son just to look some tractors and stuff and there was also supposed to be some kind of drama scene about one of the Finnish wars with real costumes and equipment. Well, there was old tractors, stationary engines, stationary threshing machines and performance displays of those working like they've been working many years ago... And there was "cannon show"; really nice live act from Finnish war 1808 when Russians were conquering this area; the place is real, the Koljonvirta river and the bridge crossing it, poems and stories are written about this particular battle scene. There was Sandels, Sven Dufva and Dolgoruki and all and there was negotiation, disagreement, offensive, battle and lot of smoke from Black Powder. The hero, Sven, who was slightly half-witted and used to make all orders in opposite manner, attacked to the bridge when ordered to retract and by himself stopped the enemy attack and got killed; "that bullet knew where to hit". This battle caused one month delay for Russians progress and was very significant event in our history. You don't need to watch the video; did I say it's too big to download and there's only couple of shots fired? And only one horse btw.
Alright since you took a peek, here's few pics of the machines and also equipment used on the battle scene. Players fired also flintlocks and I did took a picture of one Pedersoli made Brown Bess, but the pic got ruined by the
sun reflection.
Little dude liked it btw. I think big one liked it too. Thanks for listening. And be careful with that video link...
It's all from last weekend, there was kind of an "annual traditional machinery show" right in my neighborhood where I've never been before. I went there with my five year old son just to look some tractors and stuff and there was also supposed to be some kind of drama scene about one of the Finnish wars with real costumes and equipment. Well, there was old tractors, stationary engines, stationary threshing machines and performance displays of those working like they've been working many years ago... And there was "cannon show"; really nice live act from Finnish war 1808 when Russians were conquering this area; the place is real, the Koljonvirta river and the bridge crossing it, poems and stories are written about this particular battle scene. There was Sandels, Sven Dufva and Dolgoruki and all and there was negotiation, disagreement, offensive, battle and lot of smoke from Black Powder. The hero, Sven, who was slightly half-witted and used to make all orders in opposite manner, attacked to the bridge when ordered to retract and by himself stopped the enemy attack and got killed; "that bullet knew where to hit". This battle caused one month delay for Russians progress and was very significant event in our history. You don't need to watch the video; did I say it's too big to download and there's only couple of shots fired? And only one horse btw.
Alright since you took a peek, here's few pics of the machines and also equipment used on the battle scene. Players fired also flintlocks and I did took a picture of one Pedersoli made Brown Bess, but the pic got ruined by the
sun reflection.
Little dude liked it btw. I think big one liked it too. Thanks for listening. And be careful with that video link...