Shepards on stilts to help traverse marshy ground, Gascony, France, ~1895
Shepards on stilts to help traverse marshy ground, Gascony, France, ~1895
The third sticks make it special...
This is not accurate. The stilts helped the shepherds avoid cracks, which would break their mother's backs.
This doesn't make sense.
I presume it's because getting up to your shins in mud makes it hard to draw your leg back out, whereas on stilts all your muscles and joints are above the stilt platform, allowing you to use them freely to draw the stilts out of troublesome terrain. That's just a guess though.
I thought it was gonna be German Shepards on stilts and I'm very disappointed.
It is not really to cross marshy ground but more to spot it and avoid it.
It also helps to keep an eye on all the sheep despite all the tall grass around them.
I haven't seen this mentioned enough. If you're job is to move and protect your flock then being high up and able to see further helps a lot.
French Tripods? Ulla-la.
After all, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one