diary of a comedy sheep farm

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
You forgot Jennifer Aniston ...:sneaky:
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They can be a pita to live with sometimes mind you o_O
Jeeeez @Bury the Trash I'd absolutely no idea you lived with her

- I doff my cap in respect to you sir, you're punching well above your weight 👍👍
 
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spin cycle

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Location
north norfolk
🙄 Norfolk landed gentry.......really🤦

thats what i thought....feck me :rolleyes:....unless 'landed gentry' smoke rollies...has evaporated milk in his coffee....has 2 days a yr when he doesn't do any work.....farms with scrap machinery and occasionally downs a bottla toffee vodka in less than 2 hours:scratchhead:...the last thing i shot was poorly sheep (and i nearly missed that fekker:rolleyes:)....never skied and drives a battered old van:scratchhead:......someone said the other day i was worth £3million.....but thats only if i sell up and pay tax....then what?....i don't want to travel and do bourgeois [email protected] just wanna be left alone on my little patch to enjoy the countryside and raise a few sheep:rolleyes:....bitta rant cos accountant reckons the farming bit doesn't make enough money and i'm at risk of being classified as a 'hobby farmer'...the definition of which is someone who deliberately farms to loose money:banghead:...all i can say is what a feckin 'hobby'😭😭

take this afternoon....smeg (a tractor older than @robbie ) has a faulty spool valve....the linkage...2 hours scrabbling under then over to fix...grazed knuckles...muck falling in eyes......holding bracket lost a bolt so under the tractor... poked new bolt thru then scrambled out to put nut on in cab only for bolt to have fallen out:banghead:.....that finally fixed i have senior moments as first i get an 11mm spanner.....scramble under and it needs a 10mm......back out then back....adjust linkage.....crawl out to find i've adjusted wrong way:banghead:

best of it is....it wasn't a 'bad day really':rolleyes:
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
thats what i thought....feck me :rolleyes:....unless 'landed gentry' smoke rollies...has evaporated milk in his coffee....has 2 days a yr when he doesn't do any work.....farms with scrap machinery and occasionally downs a bottla toffee vodka in less than 2 hours:scratchhead:...the last thing i shot was poorly sheep (and i nearly missed that fekker:rolleyes:)....never skied and drives a battered old van:scratchhead:......someone said the other day i was worth £3million.....but thats only if i sell up and pay tax....then what?....i don't want to travel and do bourgeois [email protected] just wanna be left alone on my little patch to enjoy the countryside and raise a few sheep:rolleyes:....bitta rant cos accountant reckons the farming bit doesn't make enough money and i'm at risk of being classified as a 'hobby farmer'...the definition of which is someone who deliberately farms to loose money:banghead:...all i can say is what a feckin 'hobby'😭😭

take this afternoon....smeg (a tractor older than @robbie ) has a faulty spool valve....the linkage...2 hours scrabbling under then over to fix...grazed knuckles...muck falling in eyes......holding bracket lost a bolt so under the tractor... poked new bolt thru then scrambled out to put nut on in cab only for bolt to have fallen out:banghead:.....that finally fixed i have senior moments as first i get an 11mm spanner.....scramble under and it needs a 10mm......back out then back....adjust linkage.....crawl out to find i've adjusted wrong way:banghead:

best of it is....it wasn't a 'bad day really':rolleyes:
Not all bad news spinney, I don't have a faulty spool valve!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
thats what i thought....feck me :rolleyes:....unless 'landed gentry' smoke rollies...has evaporated milk in his coffee....has 2 days a yr when he doesn't do any work.....farms with scrap machinery and occasionally downs a bottla toffee vodka in less than 2 hours:scratchhead:...the last thing i shot was poorly sheep (and i nearly missed that fekker:rolleyes:)....never skied and drives a battered old van:scratchhead:......someone said the other day i was worth £3million.....but thats only if i sell up and pay tax....then what?....i don't want to travel and do bourgeois [email protected] just wanna be left alone on my little patch to enjoy the countryside and raise a few sheep:rolleyes:....bitta rant cos accountant reckons the farming bit doesn't make enough money and i'm at risk of being classified as a 'hobby farmer'...the definition of which is someone who deliberately farms to loose money:banghead:...all i can say is what a feckin 'hobby'😭😭

take this afternoon....smeg (a tractor older than @robbie ) has a faulty spool valve....the linkage...2 hours scrabbling under then over to fix...grazed knuckles...muck falling in eyes......holding bracket lost a bolt so under the tractor... poked new bolt thru then scrambled out to put nut on in cab only for bolt to have fallen out:banghead:.....that finally fixed i have senior moments as first i get an 11mm spanner.....scramble under and it needs a 10mm......back out then back....adjust linkage.....crawl out to find i've adjusted wrong way:banghead:

best of it is....it wasn't a 'bad day really':rolleyes:
If it's any consolation I lost the back window out of my tractor, again, despite having a mesh guard up the back of the tractor and a high mesh headboard on the spreader🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Oh and the bottom auger bearing has gone in the drier you sold me!!!!!🤬 Is it still under warranty???????
 
thats what i thought....feck me :rolleyes:....unless 'landed gentry' smoke rollies...has evaporated milk in his coffee....has 2 days a yr when he doesn't do any work.....farms with scrap machinery and occasionally downs a bottla toffee vodka in less than 2 hours:scratchhead:...the last thing i shot was poorly sheep (and i nearly missed that fekker:rolleyes:)....never skied and drives a battered old van:scratchhead:......someone said the other day i was worth £3million.....but thats only if i sell up and pay tax....then what?....i don't want to travel and do bourgeois [email protected] just wanna be left alone on my little patch to enjoy the countryside and raise a few sheep:rolleyes:....bitta rant cos accountant reckons the farming bit doesn't make enough money and i'm at risk of being classified as a 'hobby farmer'...the definition of which is someone who deliberately farms to loose money:banghead:...all i can say is what a feckin 'hobby'😭😭

take this afternoon....smeg (a tractor older than @robbie ) has a faulty spool valve....the linkage...2 hours scrabbling under then over to fix...grazed knuckles...muck falling in eyes......holding bracket lost a bolt so under the tractor... poked new bolt thru then scrambled out to put nut on in cab only for bolt to have fallen out:banghead:.....that finally fixed i have senior moments as first i get an 11mm spanner.....scramble under and it needs a 10mm......back out then back....adjust linkage.....crawl out to find i've adjusted wrong way:banghead:

best of it is....it wasn't a 'bad day really':rolleyes:
Fudging hell @spin cycle , there’s got to be an easier way to lose money!
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
If it's any consolation I lost the back window out of my tractor, again, despite having a mesh guard up the back of the tractor and a high mesh headboard on the spreader🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Oh and the bottom auger bearing has gone in the drier you sold me!!!!!🤬 Is it still under warranty???????

i don't think you bought the extended warranty 😁

Fudging hell @spin cycle , there’s got to be an easier way to lose money!

i know😭....thing is i don't loose money per se..i just spend what farm makes on farming:scratchhead:
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
thats what i thought....feck me :rolleyes:....unless 'landed gentry' smoke rollies...has evaporated milk in his coffee....has 2 days a yr when he doesn't do any work.....farms with scrap machinery and occasionally downs a bottla toffee vodka in less than 2 hours:scratchhead:...the last thing i shot was poorly sheep (and i nearly missed that fekker:rolleyes:)....never skied and drives a battered old van:scratchhead:......someone said the other day i was worth £3million.....but thats only if i sell up and pay tax....then what?....i don't want to travel and do bourgeois [email protected] just wanna be left alone on my little patch to enjoy the countryside and raise a few sheep:rolleyes:....bitta rant cos accountant reckons the farming bit doesn't make enough money and i'm at risk of being classified as a 'hobby farmer'...the definition of which is someone who deliberately farms to loose money:banghead:...all i can say is what a feckin 'hobby'😭😭

take this afternoon....smeg (a tractor older than @robbie ) has a faulty spool valve....the linkage...2 hours scrabbling under then over to fix...grazed knuckles...muck falling in eyes......holding bracket lost a bolt so under the tractor... poked new bolt thru then scrambled out to put nut on in cab only for bolt to have fallen out:banghead:.....that finally fixed i have senior moments as first i get an 11mm spanner.....scramble under and it needs a 10mm......back out then back....adjust linkage.....crawl out to find i've adjusted wrong way:banghead:

best of it is....it wasn't a 'bad day really':rolleyes:
I wasn’t having a dig at you spin it was Robbie with his spas and thespy quotes. Sorry for the miscommunication boss 😳.
 

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