Vineyard Equipment

Burgundy is blessed with two types of wonderful vineyard equipment.  One is the Bobard tractor that is used to go up and down these very narrow vineyards.  They are extremely strange and have the sort of cute ugliness you can but love.  I hope to get a decent photo of one of these tractors to post here soon.

The other is the brazier wheelbarrows that are used to burn pruned canes all over the Cote d'Or (la brouette aménagée en brasero).  The photo was taken at the premier cru Puligny Montrachet vineyard 'Les Murgers des dents de chien' yesterday on a very cold and blustery post Sunday lunch walk.  The machines themsleves are very simple, the vigneron starts a fire in the drum and then adds the canes ('sarments') and wheels the thing along as he goes down the vines.  The thing that gets me is that there are at least one of these things in pretty much every vineyard around here, and every single one of them looks exactly like this, rusty, battered and not a little like an antique.