Busy fools!

[Kidds]

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.

Excellent advice.
Any clues as to what is profitable?

 

[spin cycle]

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.

me to....my dad would patch his trousers using copydex as well

 

[smcapstick]

Excellent advice.
Any clues as to what is profitable?

Whatever is the thing that makes the money. If you milk, concentrate on the cows. What I was getting at is don't spend all day rebuilding a stop tap or waiting around all day at a farm sale hoping to to save £10 on a creep feeder.

 

[spin cycle]

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.

those were different times though when materials were expensive compared to labour

 

[smcapstick]

those were different times though when materials were expensive compared to labour

He does that right now!

 

[Hilly]

Whatever is the thing that makes the money. If you milk, concentrate on the cows. What I was getting at is don't spend all day rebuilding a stop tap or waiting around all day at a farm sale hoping to to save £10 on a creep feeder.

What world do you live in ? save a tenner on a creep feeder at a sale !! PHA cost you twenty more than new delivered more the reality

 

[Gulli]

What world do you live in ? save a tenner on a creep feeder at a sale !! PHA cost you twenty more than new delivered more the reality

same up north then? Those crappy painted hurdles that used to be a quid each go for £10+ now
Every now and then there's a nice bargain though I have 800 steel stake insulators in a shed at home. Brand new as well

 

[Kevtherev]

Picking up wool used to be done up here!!

 

[Alf]

What world do you live in ? save a tenner on a creep feeder at a sale !! PHA cost you twenty more than new delivered more the reality

I can't argue with that . Ring feeders , calf creeps , toughs and gates . All make new price at sales . Why ? I asked myself that for 30 year

 

[smcapstick]

I know of a chap that spent all day at a sale, waiting for something but didn't get it as it was only £10 less than a new one. They then drove a 110 mile round-trip to another sale, all day, to buy another because it was £30[!] less than the item at the first sale but required a full day's work to make operational. They also paid somebody £20 to get it home.

Two days gone, one lost to work, parts and consumables to make the things operational plus 110 miles worth of fuel (not including fuel to travel to the first sale) to save £10. For £20 they could have had new.

I mean, come on!

 

[Hilly]

I know of a chap that spent all day at a sale, waiting for something but didn't get it as it was only £10 less than a new one. They then drove a 110 mile round-trip to another sale, all day, to buy another because it was £30{!) less than the item at the first sale but required a full day's work to make operational. They also paid somebody £20 to get it home.

Two days gone, one lost to work, parts and consumables to make the things operational plus 110 miles worth of fuel (not including fuel to travel to the first sale) to save £10. For £20 they could have had new.

I mean, come on!

Every sale is full of them, but when you selling you want them !

 

[smcapstick]

Every sale is full of them, but when you selling you want them !

If I ever sold anything at a sale, I'd love them!

Tin hat time...
This it why the SFP is silly.

 

[Mishoo]

Love reading these and the cap definitely fits here. We should all just get in the dreaded office and delegate the rest.

 

[Hilly]

If I ever sold anything at a sale, I'd love them!

Tin hat time...
This it why the SFP is silly.

nowt to do with sfp, they would still do it sfp or not, all these feeders etc etc are made because of sfp

 

[spin cycle]

not many bargains at farm sales these days IMO....but occasionally you get a sale where a bargain's to be found...don't go to many these days as they always seem to be during busy autumn or spring periods

 

[smcapstick]

nowt to do with sfp, they would still do it sfp or not, all these feeders etc etc are made because of sfp

With no SFP, somebody else would be farming there. I know that sounds awful... I don't mean it to.

 

[Hilly]

With no SFP, somebody else would be farming there. I know that sounds awful... I don't mean it to.

A farmer with an ounce of sense would survive removal of sfp, the supply industry will not, farmers just get it one hand and out the other if it don't arrive in the right hand it aint going out the left hand !

 

[KMA]

Best way to attend a farm sale is stick a tenner in your pocket for the coffee and bacon roll and leave your wallet and cheque book at home

 

[smcapstick]

A farmer with an ounce of sense would survive removal of sfp, the supply industry will not, farmers just get it one hand and out the other if it don't arrive in the right hand it aint going out the left hand !

How about one that actively uses three days lose £20?

 

[Happy hillbily]

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.

You need some deodan D60 buckets, they seal up nice and tight, good for months !!!