Campbell
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- Herefordshire
Joining the EU................
Greatest farming inventions/ ideas
- Thread starter Willie adie
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Folks go on about the wheel and the Ferguson system etc but I reckon for agriculture, construction and so many other applications whoever invented the hydraulic cylinder must have saved unknown amounts of man hours and health conditions and given longer life expectations to countless workers
Leaving the EU.......
To include the EU /CAP in the greatest farming ideas is an insult and has ruined the thread for me. I'm ooooot.
DealeyPlaza1963
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Barbed wire....though millions of North American Bison/buffalo & Native Indian tribes and WW1 soldiers might disagree...…….
BBC
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
And cable ties .......
Tarw Coch
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- Location
- Bottom of Wats Dyke
- Location
- North Norfolk
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Red string .
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Agri tape ,,both fix everything
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Now I've had time to think about it, probably the wattle hurdle. That allowed stock to be fenced in and the start of the Enclosure Acts. Could you have cultivated land with stock roaming loose?
DeeGee
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- Location
- North East Wales
My father always said the combine harvester was one of the best ever inventions.
Something maybe we all now take for granted: but he and his contemporaries had worked with the binder and the threshing box, and they remembered the number of man hours needed to cut and stook sheaves of corn before carting them home to be crafted into outdoor ricks. Then several days threshing the sheaves during the winter with all the attendant hard work and the manpower that had to be assembled just to separate grain and chaff from straw.
Personally I think the invention of the Ferguson System was a momentous turning point in farm mechanisation.
Something maybe we all now take for granted: but he and his contemporaries had worked with the binder and the threshing box, and they remembered the number of man hours needed to cut and stook sheaves of corn before carting them home to be crafted into outdoor ricks. Then several days threshing the sheaves during the winter with all the attendant hard work and the manpower that had to be assembled just to separate grain and chaff from straw.
Personally I think the invention of the Ferguson System was a momentous turning point in farm mechanisation.
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simmy_bull
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- Location
- North Yorkshire
I’m not sure there as trust worthy as a handle though?
And if you have to get out anyway to plug the pipes in?
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
If it had been invented a few hundred years earlier there'd have been no need to build all those hedges!
- Location
- sw scotland
A pity more farmers won't use one
- Location
- Worcestershire
Fertilizer, plant breeding
exmoor dave
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- Location
- exmoor, uk
Sheep dogs...... participating in shepherds most intelligent conversations and cause of most repeated swear words since the year Dot B.C.
The Gripple.