Farming

[Klenchblaize]

Did someone say,time off

Chill, its a Lowland kind of thing!

K

 

[Wapinschaw]

The rising sun is a country park now with deer on it
We will never see the likes of your uncle Alex again very few miners left now & the ones that are left are in poor health due to life below ground

Thanks for the information about the Rising Sun. I have had a look at it online, certainly an improvement over what I knew as a kid.

 

[finbar]

Am 60 now & all the old land marks pit wheels heaps railway tracks all but gone
There’s a cracking pit museum up at wood horn colliery
Well worth a visit with you grand kids

 

[John Gryphon]

Summer harvest in the lower states, reaping and rolling goes on and on and on.
Mind you there are plenty of "hotseat" places here..dad does 12 hours in the cabin then swaps seat for son that does the next 12 hours and on it goes.

 

[Taff]

1st for us too mine in North Island just above Auckland.

Hope she is enjoying our wet humid weather at Christmas, should dry out next week

 

[mdp67]

Hope she is enjoying our wet humid weather at Christmas, should dry out next week

It's holding up the watermelon planting she says but they have nearly finished that now she will be glad of some nice sun.

 

[Ratel]

Farming is one way of life Keepering is another. Worse when you are the man in charge. Undrrkeepers given Christmas day off to spend with kids, shooting Boxing day.
Up and feeding the whole three beats then back to do communsl kennels and excercise dogs. Breakfast, back out to check or move pegs when wind has changed, feed bit you had forgotten about. Back home, bit of lunch, two beaters phoned, can't make it, spend time ringing round to try to get replacements. Boss rings up, come up and see me just want to finalise things for the drives (pray he doesn't want to change them) back home, tea, glass of amber, fall asleep in chair. Almost makes you glad it's no longer that way. Now wild birds and stalking, great.

 

[Klenchblaize]

One can so easily wallow in nostalgia but to my mind we have lost a great deal in our desire for so-called progress:

Makes me weep when I consider what this Isle has become in it's pursuit of a Creedmoor lifestyle and aesthetic.

K

 

[mudman]

I live in an area of big arable. By their own admittance the owners, sometimes even the tenants of, a large acreage of good combinable land are not grafting 24/7. They are managers of a high turnover business, work hard for a few months of a year, and thereafter have a lot of time and a lot of money to spend as they wish, many of them gracing quite serious game shoots quite frequently, if not exotic beaches or nice ski slops.

There is farming, and there is farming.

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, When i was a young lad 13/14/15 i use to go and help on my friends farm on the Milking in the school holidays and Christmas , Summer was Hay/ Straw baleing

 

[User00056]

One of the biggest changes I've noticed in recent years is just how vast tractors have become. My 1970's Leyland weighs 2 1/2 tonnes. I think a standard weight now is around 22 tonnes. They're just huge

 

[Flash G 74]

One of the biggest changes I've noticed in recent years is just how vast tractors have become. My 1970's Leyland weighs 2 1/2 tonnes. I think a standard weight now is around 22 tonnes. They're just huge

Hello, I know, it was old massey and fords i use to drive, The cabs look like an Aeroplane cockpit

 

[shakey jake]

One of the biggest changes I've noticed in recent years is just how vast tractors have become. My 1970's Leyland weighs 2 1/2 tonnes. I think a standard weight now is around 22 tonnes. They're just huge

22 tonnes?
That sounds a bit off

 

[User00056]

22 tonnes?
That sounds a bit off

12 tonnes. Bloody sausage fingers

 

[sikasako]

Scheduled days off for stock farmers are generally few and far between, if not non existent.

There are always livestock needing to be tended to, particularly during the winter months.

 

[David.evans]

Remember, when most of us have a day off and are sitting down to Boxing Day lunch, farmers are out preparing next year's food. Alistair, Aberdeenshire 26 December 2025 12:45

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I support farmer all day long , but fked , if Im eating that

 

[Flash G 74]

Hello, Do anyone read the Farming weekly ?? , Rats are causing £1000s of £s worth of damage to farm machinery in Sheds and Barns by eating through wires and belts, On my friends farm a few years back cost £3000 to fix combine

 

[countrryboy]

12 tonnes. Bloody sausage fingers

My fingers are the same.
But wven 12T is a heavy tractor a lot are around 5-7T mark.
My forwarder is only 16T odd and its a fair lump off metal.

I mind doing some hill fencing for a very old school fencing contractor.
Had an old mf135 with twins on back and a crappy trailer with twins, wot a heap of sh#te.
Was that old never had a Pto but a big flywheel thing
We loaded it up every morning and drove it over the hill could hardly travel with the quad.
Was so ligbt just floated over the wet bits.
A lkt to be said for light tractors.
The chapper tractor was an early mf390, so modernish but not a big lump, twins all round and found every wet hole on the hill was a nightmare.
Think that jobs was 10K odd meter so spent a lkt of tine on that old massey.
Hes still chapping with that same 390 now

 

[mdp67]

wires are supposedly made with soya i think so they love the taste of them (clever idea)

 

[shakey jake]

Hello, Do anyone read the Farming weekly ?? , Rats are causing £1000s of £s worth of damage to farm machinery in Sheds and Barns by eating through wires and belts, On my friends farm a few years back cost £3000 to fix combine

Thats almost always down to poor house keeping, either messy farm yard or crap shed or both.
Clean tidy farms are easy to keep rat free. Some farmers dont help themselves.
When i see videos if farms crawling with rats i think its digusting, the products should be condemed