betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Contractor wont spray field
- Thread starter dundee dave
- Start date
dundee dave
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no just dont like chemicals for health reasons known too many friends dead due to working with them in summer the surrounding area stinks like a chemical factory due to all different ones used
dundee dave
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had a dvd resulting in massive clots in heart and lungs if not treated when i was would not be alive now doc said was a matter of life and death at the time so apart from a bit of hay turning last year not up to doing much now
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Err, any contractor is well within their rights to refuse to do any job, especially if they think the risk is too high, the conditions are too rough for their gear, the job is too small or difficult to be profitable, or they just don’t want to do it . . .
As a planting contractor in the past, I’ve turned down work for all the above reasons . . .
As a planting contractor in the past, I’ve turned down work for all the above reasons . . .
- Location
- South Wales UK
Do it your self possibly?
ollie989898
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Just wait until the spud haulm is gone?
I would run the discs over it myself, be smoother for the man spraying it. As for seed potatoes, I wouldn't go near them.
I would run the discs over it myself, be smoother for the man spraying it. As for seed potatoes, I wouldn't go near them.
dundee dave
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health reasons nearly died just after ploughed it was topped last year but could do with a good clean up got every weed known in it also drains buggered by previous pwners soaking wet last 2 years could not travel on this field due to sinking
dundee dave
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went out to field 1st time this year boy next door has sprayed a part of his field next to suspected spud field as nothing showing above ground could be another crop its not ridged up as per usual tattie field
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Are you sure the smells chemicals in Dundee!?
Which chemicals did your friends die from exposure to?
dundee dave
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fair enough i am dealing with contractor through a 3rd party who had fert done on other fields of mine only going by what he is telling me if he does not want to do the job rather they were upfront about it and say socall a spade a shovel
ollie989898
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He has said he won't do it and given a reason. What more is there to say.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
Does anyone else feel that if you plant a very vulnerable crop on your boundary you shouldn't expect your neighbour to change his farming operation to benefit you? Certainly not without offering to compensate said neighbour for the inconvenience? Presumably seed potatoes are a pretty profitable crop - why should the OP lose out and the neighbour gain at his expense?
dundee dave
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probably them all worked for spraying firm does sprayer tank being roasting hot due to mixture reaction not say something? also over the years how many SAFE chemicals have now been BANNED from use? car coverd in yellow chemical from wheat fields 1/4 mile away wind drift farmer wont say what it is being used wonder why i have absolutly no know how about chemicals never had anything to do with them if that safe why do the sprayer boys now get all geared up like medical frontline workersAre you sure the smells chemicals in Dundee!?
Which chemicals did your friends die from exposure to?
ollie989898
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This thread has gone from the unusual to the bizarre.
dundee dave
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nothing i just like people to be honest and up front with all things
dundee dave
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nothing at all really
- Location
- East yorks
Agreed, I wouldn't deliberately let it drift onto the neighbours crop no different than if it was my own but i wouldn't not spray something as the neighbour has planted something there thats a bit "sensitive"
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
That dangerous yellow chemical on your is pollen!
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
ollie989898
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I don't see the issue. Get the discs on the field for now to stop the weeds flowering and then spray it off once the haulm on the spuds is long gone. If they are seed potatoes they won't be in the field forever.