Bandrews
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And not to mention trimming/peeling/ washing/packing the chuffing things.
Glad we packed them in a couple of years ago. Kale on the other hand....
Busy fools!
- Thread starter -chris-
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Glad we packed them in a couple of years ago. Kale on the other hand....
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
My old man's tighter than your old man
. I'll try to sneak a picture of his patch he sowed into his trousers himself last week......
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
All jobs are part of the big picture.
That's like saying "the farm is making money and the cattle are on the farm".
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
My old fella, first time he met my girlfriend (who became my wife) had bit of electric lead round his middle because his belt was being repaired and"baler twine was too valuable"!!!!!!My old man's tighter than your old man
He won't chunk screws out that are bent /buggered because they make good nails.......
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
Providing labour for anything is time consuming and poorly rewarded. Owning capital on the other hand is easy and well rewarded. If I rember correctly Karl Marx had something to say on the topic.
Measuring tree canopies.
If in very "rough figures" BPS might be around £50 acre, and there are around 4,000 square metres to the acre. For every 150 square metre tree canopy I measure, map and deduct from my eligible area. My potential BPS income might drop by the grand sum of about £1.87.
oh that is so true i spend most of my time in skips the stuff people throw away is unrealIt'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"
im afraid its inevitable just ask my son he thought he could get away with it but time is a cruel mistressHammering 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
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!
pah you've more money than sense a week
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
legend....my favouright is recycling something....storing it...then forgetting where it is and buying new.....rearing orphan lambs has to be two hapennys for a penny?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Ploughing one way
Forgot the , I must get the roller and chain harrow out lot
Forgot the , I must get the roller and chain harrow out lot
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
My old man's tighter than your old man
I fix my own clothes.......Even got a sewing machine to do it!
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- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Just hammer the screws out straight and they screw in no worries
only time you need to hammer them in is if the heads stripped out and you have had to unscrew them with a pair of mole grips Which brings me round to my most time consuming job which is looking for said mole grips, or in fact any other tool/general farm implement that dad has borrowed and put down somewhere on our 100acres or in his van or somewhere at home or just left on the tractor step and driven off down the road
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Picking stones.
Any machinery repairs maintenance when contracting is all unpaid time
Any machinery repairs maintenance when contracting is all unpaid time
smcapstick
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- Location
- Kirkby Lonsdale
I try to avoid wasting time on anything low-value, like making the wrong size handle fit a broken hammer. A new sledge hammer is £13, for God's sake. Using old fencing wire, too - a new roll is cheap and looks nice, so why staple a bent-up, rusty load of rubbish to your new posts?
Outsourcing labour often makes sense, too - my father is terrible for taking days or even weeks to repair something badly... then having to do it all again in a year's time when the bodge fails again. Get a professional in to do it right and it'll be done in a tenth of the time, never to be a problem again.
Concentrate on what you can do and what is profitable rather than spending 9/10 of your time trying to penny pinch. It makes life better.
Outsourcing labour often makes sense, too - my father is terrible for taking days or even weeks to repair something badly... then having to do it all again in a year's time when the bodge fails again. Get a professional in to do it right and it'll be done in a tenth of the time, never to be a problem again.
Concentrate on what you can do and what is profitable rather than spending 9/10 of your time trying to penny pinch. It makes life better.
We've still got sacks full of sacks hanging in the barn that I can remember patching up with copydex when I was a boy.Copydex gets a hammering from the old man, some of his clothes have lasted"30 yrs".
Must be a Norfolk thing @-chris-
Warp Land Farmer
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- Location
- Hazzard County
...and then end up smelling like them...20 acres a year for 20 years makes me shudder...remember the time we went with bars and pick axes to get them out of well frozen ground as they were £7/box....And not to mention trimming/peeling/ washing/packing the chuffing things.
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