Go to some farms where string is treated as a precious commodity!!!
You've obviously never run out of string and had to resort to robbing the string box of the baler.
Go to some farms where string is treated as a precious commodity!!!
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.
I know a few that will always tie it in a bow so they can use it againGo to some farms where string is treated as a precious commodity!!!
It isGo to some farms where string is treated as a precious commodity!!!
Same here. I have to go and raid the neighbours rubbish heap for the stuff. We only have net wrapped round bales here.It is
How much Hesston band do you want?Same here. I have to go and raid the neighbours rubbish heap for the stuff. We only have net wrapped round bales here.
You've obviously never run out of balls of string and had to tie the old bits together again!You've obviously never run out of string and had to resort to robbing the string box of the baler.
hand rearing cade lambs.
Hand pulling beet field corners. Three days hard labour to lift £80 worth of beet.
Pulling all the old rusted wire out of hedge bottoms before putting up new fencing.
Hoovering out the barn before harvest time. The walls are porous and it looks better cosmetically, but there's still barrow loads of dust engrained in there.
Running a tap and die over a set of rusty old nuts and bolts so we can use them again.
Taking a cylinder head off, lapping the valves in a bit then putting it back on again as a proper refurb "would cost a fortune".
Hand roguing wild oats that are so thick they should have been sprayed off.
Digging up land drain tiles, cleaning them out and relaying them.
Putting fodder beet through the old root cutter "to give the beast a bit of variety",
Small bales.
keeping a few hens/pigs etc for the house.
Picking up all the sticks for firewood round a fallen tree.
Breaking all the lathes out of the plaster ceiling of demolished farm buildings so we had about twenty years supply of kindling for the fire.
Smashing up rubble with sledge hammers to mend the farm road.
yes, I've been there.
I love stone picking , when I get home I start building with my pickings of the dayPicking stones.
Any machinery repairs maintenance when contracting is all unpaid time
+1Same here. I have to go and raid the neighbours rubbish heap for the stuff. We only have net wrapped round bales here.
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.
I wish!Theoretically of course you are bang on. So does your bank balance reflect your practice of the theory?? -