Wolds Beef
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@Hindsight 1984 The year of the world Match at Wispington near Horncastle. Several hundred tonnes of wheat stored on the concrete at Poolham store. The world ploughmen could not believe it!!
WB
WB
1976
- Thread starter GTB
- Start date
- Location
- N.Lincs
I remember getting off the tractor and walking round the front end - the weights and front axle were absolutely plastered, what seemed like an inch thick, with aphids
- Location
- Hertfordshire
We went on a school trip to Liverpool (I know!!) and I remember seeing the streets absolutely carpeted with ladybirds. I've never seen anything like it and unless you'd actually witnessed it you wouldn't believe it could happen.I remember getting off the tractor and walking round the front end - the weights and front axle were absolutely plastered, what seemed like an inch thick, with aphids
- Location
- N.Lincs
Jeez it was wet - we kitted out our first tractor and spreader with Terra Tyres that week.
Hay in a day.
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Warwickshire
I was 8 in 1976 so don't remember that much, but we had 2 new R reg 6600s with Q cabs that Autumn
The 1976 national ploughing match was at Dad's Uncles, Fred Deakin at Lichfield. The rain had come by then
I do remember the 84 World match, another hot dry summer followed by a mud bath
Storeman
Member
- Location
- South East Englandshire
We used to all gather at my Uncles in Wimbledon. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, much fun was had. This garden used to seem huuuge to me. Got smaller as I got older.
Not much grass though.
Not much grass though.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
We used to all gather at my Uncles in Wimbledon. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, much fun was had. This garden used to seem huuuge to me. Got smaller as I got older.
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Is that sand or dead grass ! ?
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
I went to cadet camp at retford in 76, it was boiling hot. The soldier that drove us around in the bedford truck lost control due to a sweaty slippery steering wheel and we landed in the ditch.
- Location
- SG9
I ploughed at that one Tamhorn Park 22-23/10/76 No rain on either day I was on a MF 175 No cab!
Storeman
Member
- Location
- South East Englandshire
Yes hay in a day
A bit over dry I think
- Location
- Darlington
Bl**dy traffic
Bill & Ben Flowerpot Men
New Member
- Location
- Somerset
Grassland look as dead as dead. Thought we were going to plough it all up and reseed in the Autumn. But it rained eventually and lo and behold it greened up.
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I thought you were much younger
Old enough to remember the heatwave, but too young to remember sights like those in the film....
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
It was like that again in 1990, at the end we didn't even turn the hay, just mowed it and baled the rows. Turning it would have lost what little colour was left in it. I was supplying a hay and straw merchant at the time and we just kept baling, when we were 10,000 bales in front of him he suggested that we stopped and cleared them just in case it rained, however it didn't. I even gave up watching the weather forecast and by the time my son was born at the end of July I was able to take a couple of weeks off because there was nothing left to do. I made 40,000 bales of hay that year all in flat 8's.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yes, I remember attending. Norman, Hobbit, Mardler feed wheat and Avalon, Bounty milling wheat if I recall correctly. Oh and the blackgrass was as bad as today in places.