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I don’t have a farm, but I generally try and do as little as possible.
I was only thinking the other day - what exactly IS farming? What jobs can you say constitute actual farming? I guess cultivating a field, or planting a crop or harvesting it, or tending cattle, or making fodder for cattle would all qualify, but what about all the myriad other jobs we all have to do? Is hedgecutting farming? Or fixing a shed roof? Or doing paperwork? Or fixing fences? Or servicing/mending machinery? Fixing a water trough? Repairing a track? Digging out ditches? There are lots of jobs that if you did nothing but them you wouldn't be a farmer, so how come doing them occasionally counts as farming?
I always define farming as a series of often seemingly unconnected (largely practical) problems that all have to be solved in order for food to be produced.
That's the beauty of farming - it saves you having to get a real jobwhen I was worked in a engineering design office you had your nose to grindstone all the time and it got quite tiresome and tedious. I have sympathy for folk who do real jobs. I did one for about 15 years then I returned to farming, half of which is messing about, but I like it on the whole.
The whole point of taking on the DIY....roofing / plumbing / maintenance, is tradesmen charge £50 / hour plus. Farming earns less than £10 / hour at 1970's prices.
Why would you get tradesmen in at £50 / hour, to give you more time to earn £10 / hour ?
If we had to get "tradesmen" in we would have been bust years ago. Best thing dad taught me as a farmer was how to weld.
My advice for what it's worth. Earn enough when your young and fit so you can pay others to do it later and get out and enjoy life a bit
I don't think I would be able to cope with a real job, where I was answerable to a boss and had to stick to set hours.That's the beauty of farming - it saves you having to get a real job
The butcher would close his shop and leave if he couldn't afford a painter . Many haveI completely accept it's a fiscal decision, but that doesn't make it any more closely related to farming.
If the butcher paints his own shop front because he can't afford a tradesman it doesn't make him any more of a butcher, or indeed a better butcher, or even a busier butcher.
It is a poor reflection on the state of either his business acumen, the industry he operates in, or most likely both. Painting still has bugger all to do with butchery at the end of the day.
I completely accept it's a fiscal decision, but that doesn't make it any more closely related to farming.
If the butcher paints his own shop front because he can't afford a tradesman it doesn't make him any more of a butcher, or indeed a better butcher, or even a busier butcher.
It is a poor reflection on the state of either his business acumen, the industry he operates in, or most likely both. Painting still has bugger all to do with butchery at the end of the day.
The butcher would close his shop and leave if he couldn't afford a painter . Many have
It might make him more money though and it might make him a busier butcher. (If he was good at painting his shopfront)I completely accept it's a fiscal decision, but that doesn't make it any more closely related to farming.
If the butcher paints his own shop front because he can't afford a tradesman it doesn't make him any more of a butcher, or indeed a better butcher, or even a busier butcher.
It is a poor reflection on the state of either his business acumen, the industry he operates in, or most likely both. Painting still has bugger all to do with butchery at the end of the day.
It might make him more money though and it might make him a busier butcher. (If he was good at painting his shopfront)
Like me dumper driver, farmer, building, tree works, labourer!Jack of all trades, and master of many as well!