Busy fools!

-chris-

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Location

NR14

• Apr 26, 2015

• #1

A few of the threads on here lately have mentioned that we should be working smarter and not harder, in fact most jobs on our farm make sense practically but seem to have little economic benefit.
I've read many posts here asking what to diversify into but what enterprises should we be avoiding?

What are your worst jobs for taking up time whilst not showing much profit?

 

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7610 super q

Never Forgotten

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #2

Growing leeks.............

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Apr 26, 2015

• #3

Suckler cows
sheep
contracting
make loads when I am not doing any of these

 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer

Location

Somerset

• Apr 26, 2015

• #4

7610 super q said:

Growing leeks.............

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spose you have to mend them all the time

 

sleepy

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Location

Devon, UK

• Apr 26, 2015

• #5

-chris- said:

What are your worst jobs for taking up time whilst not showing much profit?

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Farming?

 

tr250

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Location

Northants

• Apr 26, 2015

• #6

Fencing

 

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7610 super q

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #7

Henarar said:

spose you have to mend them all the time

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-chris-

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Location

NR14

• Apr 26, 2015

• #8

In other words everything to do with agriculture
Dad spent a morning the other day straightening bent nails and I've had two days this week helping family and neighbours with TB testing. Not to mention the calf I have to tube everyday because it's too stupid to suck.

 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer

Location

East Sussex

• Apr 26, 2015

• #9

-chris- said:

In other words everything to do with agriculture
Dad spent a morning the other day straightening bent nails and I've had two days this week helping family and neighbours with TB testing. Not to mention the calf I have to tube everyday because it's too stupid to suck.

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But that's farming isn't it. By the time you added up your time with that calf you may find you might as well have given it a bullet and done something more financially worthwhile.

 

exmoor dave

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Location

exmoor, uk

• Apr 26, 2015

• #10

TB testing

 

exmoor dave

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Location

exmoor, uk

• Apr 26, 2015

• #11

Spraying anything with Grazing 90/ pro

 

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7610 super q

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #12

It's a strange industry that's for sure.When ever we have builders here, they look at me in astonishment when they chuck unused cement/blocks/bricks/ timber off cuts in a skip, and I dive in and retrieve them for use around the farm.You can here them mutter to themselves"that blokes a f**king nutter"

 

-chris-

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Location

NR14

• Apr 26, 2015

• #13

I didn't really want to start a moaning thread just wondered what sort of daft things farmers find themselves doing (mostly just because they want to).

 

exmoor dave

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Location

exmoor, uk

• Apr 26, 2015

• #14

7610 super q said:

It's a strange industry that's for sure.When ever we have builders here, they look at me in astonishment when they chuck unused cement/blocks/bricks/ timber off cuts in a skip, and I dive in and retrieve them for use around the farm.You can here them mutter to themselves"that blokes a fudgeing nutter"

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Waste not want not!

I tend to think they are nutters for chucking any of it away!

Don't they realise that a 1/4 bag of cement that has been left open for a week is still fine to use!

 

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7610 super q

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #15

exmoor dave said:

Waste not want not!

I tend to think they are nutters for chucking any of it away!

Don't they realise that a 1/4 bag of cement that has been left open for a week is still fine to use!

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And if it goes a bit hard, jump up and down on the bag to turn it back to powder again.

 

-chris-

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Location

NR14

• Apr 26, 2015

• #16

exmoor dave said:

Waste not want not!

I tend to think they are nutters for chucking any of it away!

Don't they realise that a 1/4 bag of cement that has been left open for a week is still fine to use!

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Only a week, pop it in a plastic bag and tie it up with string (it still won't last any longer). Then jump up and down on the bag to turn it back to powder again.

 

Bandrews

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #17

7610 super q said:

Growing leeks.............

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Big time. Picking leeks has to be the most soul destroying job ever.

 

carbonfibre farmer

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Arable Farmer

Location

south norfolk, uk

• Apr 26, 2015

• #18

Hammering bent nails, that sounds like my old man.......

Try so hard to work smarter not harder....
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But I fear I am slowly but surely turning into him, or so my wife says

 

-chris-

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Location

NR14

• Apr 26, 2015

• #19

What about calf rearing? Buy a calf, bag of milk powder, spend hours mixing milk, buy course mix and if they all survive they are worth what you paid for them.

 

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7610 super q

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #20

Bandrews said:

Big time. Picking leeks has to be the most soul destroying job ever.

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And not to mention trimming/peeling/ washing/packing the chuffing things.