What do you tractor boys n girls like for your “in field” tea

Wolds Beef · Aug 15, 2020

@yellowbelly Surely it must be Myers Lincolnshire Plum Loaf and Poacher cheese, With Pipers Crisps and at one time wash it down with a bottle of Tom Wood Ale!!
WB
P.S. Proud of my County Products!!

glasshouse · Aug 15, 2020

steveR said:
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Who cares what's in the basket, it's the deliverer that matters....

What do you mean who cares whats in the basket?
I nice bit of crumpet
A right muffin
And
Some wobbly jellies

kill · Aug 15, 2020

Tomr10 said:
There has been some nice sandwiches made over the years a nice picnic under a tree. Lot less people involved these days so not as good

A fresh sandwich made with decent fresh bakers bread can be an absolute treat compared to one that’s spent 12+ hours drying out in your lunch bag , while sat on a hot cab floor above the gearbox or in fact anything that hasn’t sat in the tractor floor food wise

Breckland Boy · Aug 15, 2020

As a child my mother would load up the cortina estate and take a hot tea (saucepans, meat and veg) upto where father was combining. Dad would roar up in the senator/ dominator raising and lowering the reel. Happy days.
Years later, when I started driving tractors all hours she would bring me a bacon sandwich at dockie time and enough sandwiches and drink to last until I was low on fuel.
Nowadays, my wife tells me " go to the garage and buy enough food for yourself as I have to look after the kids all day by myself"

Will 1594 · Aug 15, 2020

Breckland Boy said:
As a child my mother would load up the cortina estate and take a hot tea (saucepans, meat and veg) upto where father was combining. Dad would roar up in the senator/ dominator raising and lowering the reel. Happy days.
Years later, when I started driving tractors all hours she would bring me a bacon sandwich at dockie time and enough sandwiches and drink to last until I was low on fuel.
Nowadays, my wife tells me " go to the garage and buy enough food for yourself as I have to look after the kids all day by myself"

Think she needs training

fgc325j · Aug 15, 2020

curlietailz said:
This year I’ve (semi) retired from tractor work and I’m going to be lugging more food out to the tractor boys in the field
What’s your top tractor tea
The thing that lifts your spirts when you see it arriving in the field at tea time

When we used to make small bales of hay, with the neighbours bringing their own tractor and trailer to help out, i always thought that bread/butter/cheese/fruit cake/scones tasted far better out in the sun - and you felt as if you'd earned it.

2wheels · Aug 15, 2020

Will 1594 said:
Think she needs training

nah, a good spanking.

carpenter1 · Aug 15, 2020

Was helping to clear hay bales a while ago, the farmers girlfriend got the bbq going in the field.
Was a good evening then just 1 trailer each left to do after

ED.D · Aug 15, 2020

Al R said:
Crumbs, I used to be delighted with my can of cold beans straight from the tin but trailer drivers used to complain/gag from the thought of it.

Blimey, I’m never far from a cold tin of tomato soup or spaghetti

Best thing Heinz ever did was put a ring pull on the tins.

Suffolk Serf · Aug 15, 2020

Several years ago, on the Estate i'm on, one of the woodmen was sent corn carting. At tea time he lit a small fire on the grassy edge of the field and out came a frying pan, sausages and eggs. It gets mentioned every harvest time still. The man is still a total legend for many other reasons.

Netherfield · Aug 15, 2020

I fancied trying this idea, but realised that it could be expensive and some hungry people if it didn't work out right.

On top of which not everyone likes their meat the same doneness.

Breckland Boy · Aug 15, 2020

Will 1594 said:
Think she needs training

It's not

Suffolk Serf said:
Several years ago, on the Estate i'm on, one of the woodmen was sent corn carting. At tea time he lit a small fire on the grassy edge of the field and out came a frying pan, sausages and eggs. It gets mentioned every harvest time still. The man is still a total legend for many other reasons.

The cab floor on my Massey2680 would get hot enough to fry an egg. They were fields very close to where you used to live. Plough points were blue and used a set each day.

fingermouse · Aug 15, 2020

Mother never failed to make sure everyone got fed , no matter how many people it was
At harvest tea would always be 5.30 when Dad had finished milking and mother and him would pile the picnic basket full mostly of freshly baked pies , bread and cakes load us kids in the car and then go to whatever field the combine was in the balerman usually found his way there as did the local older youths who where carting bales and everyone sat down and had an unrushed tea
In fact mother fed everyone
The bulk tank driver always had a cup of tea and cake and any wagon drivers delivering also got same treatment
I remember coming home from a yfc do once and dad had called the vet out to a calving and they where both sitting at the kitchen table with the local copper who as he seemed to do frequently

just happened to be driving past
In the middle of the kitchen table amongst all the fag smoke was a bottle of scotch that was getting emptied at an alarming rate
I guess mother drew a line at what time she fed guests

Johnnyboxer · Aug 15, 2020

The other Sat afternoon I was in Wensleydale, near Askrigg and as I was driving they were haytiming in a roadside field

All small bales and some baled, some in rows and the balerman going up the rows

On some stacked bales the ladies of the farm, one older in her 60's laying out the food on a tablecloth on top of a bale stack, Younger wife in her 30's getting the tea urns and a wicker basket (covered by an obligatory tea towel) from the back of a pickup

Cars and pickups in the field, farm machinery associated with haytiming spread about the field, kids playing quietly near the adult women

Such a lovely sight, I slowed to take it all in

Reminded me of hay timing in the 1970's & 80's

I guess in the Dales, times haven't changed as much

startinghandle · Aug 15, 2020

Having tea at harvest time in the field is a very distant but pleasant memory for me . Also worth a mention is the smell of home cured ham frying at supper time when work was finished
I remember seeing bacon and ham
hanging the old fashion way at a butcher shop around the Dorrington
area several years ago

Speedstar · Aug 15, 2020

Will 1594 said:
Really , When cutting at other farm ,wife comes over with tea for three of us ,
Lamb @Old Tip and butternut curry ,home made bread , then coffe and wallnut cake ,with either yoghurt or ice cream ,and fresh strawberries and raspberries , , And a dabble in chocolate tin if want owt else
Next night , beef chilli ,and same pudding ,
Get tea brought most nights , and when she comes back from work always calls with ice cream ,if on land work or drilling , will bring tea out if not back by seven , cannot eat late

no wounder the scales keep telling you one at a time please, you must put some weight on in the summer & back end

Lofty1984 · Aug 15, 2020

Can think of only 3 that feed us on our chopping round the rest don’t bother

@d williams your cousins wife has the award For the best at feeding us up

Muddyroads · Aug 15, 2020

My ex mother in law cooked 3 of us black current crumble and custard once when we were felling trees there. She was normally a reasonable cook, but this crumble was the most sour thing I’d ever come across (until her daughter decided to divorce me a few years later!) We did the polite thing and ate it, but heaven knows how.
It turned out that the black currents were actually sloes!

glasshouse · Aug 15, 2020

Johnnyboxer said:
The other Sat afternoon I was in Wensleydale, near Askrigg and as I was driving they were haytiming in a roadside field

All small bales and some baled, some in rows and the balerman going up the rows

On some stacked bales the ladies of the farm, one older in her 60's laying out the food on a tablecloth on a bale stack stack, Younger wife in her 30's getting the tea urns and a wicker basket (covered by an obligatory tea towel) from the back of a pickup

Cars and pickups in the field, farm machinery associated with haytiming spread about the field, kids playing quietly near the adult women

Such a lovely sight, I slowed to take it all in

Reminded me of hay timing in the 1970's & 80's

I guess in the Dales, times haven't changed as much

Thank god

glasshouse · Aug 15, 2020

The round baler killed the harvest tea times, no need for big squads, and nowhere to sit anyway

What do you tractor boys n girls like for your “in field” tea

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