Today at work

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
BBC still at it filming Father Brown here. Late night tonight means they need to light the car park.
Good for helping service the baler though!
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Beats me why they want to film a night time scene during the shortest night of the year!
Brilliant when we watch it i'll be able to annoy my wife by pointing out more historical anomalies such as they didn't have yellow new Holland balers at that time or the 40 series Ford's didn't come out until the early '90s that's even more annoying to her than 'there weren't any Indians in the countryside then so why do they pretend there were'
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
@Lowland1 is the grain bulk inside the box van or do they bag it as you fill them?
Grain is usually sold by the bag. A bag being 90 kilos on smaller farms the only way of knowing the weight is to bag it and weigh it so usually the grain is augered onto the floor and bagged. That's too much work for us and we have access to a weighbridge so smaller lorries are usually filled from the combine but as we were trying our new machine I didn't want to do that so we trailered it to the shed and loaded from there but I don't have an auger hence the Heath Robinson method. It all gets shovelled of by hand at destination even when we load 30 tonne artics.
 

Two Tone

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Mixed Farmer
Grain is usually sold by the bag. A bag being 90 kilos on smaller farms the only way of knowing the weight is to bag it and weigh it so usually the grain is augered onto the floor and bagged. That's too much work for us and we have access to a weighbridge so smaller lorries are usually filled from the combine but as we were trying our new machine I didn't want to do that so we trailered it to the shed and loaded from there but I don't have an auger hence the Heath Robinson method. It all gets shovelled of by hand at destination even when we load 30 tonne artics.
The program is set in the 50’s. It is afternoon TV here, but Prime time viewing in the USA and Australia.
The actors cloths are very smart, especially the women’s.
They cannot buy women’s stockings with the seem at the back any more, so they paint a line down the back of their legs.
There’s plenty of them that ought to be on the Oooohhhh! Thread!
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
The program is set in the 50’s. It is afternoon TV here, but Prime time viewing in the USA and Australia.
The actors cloths are very smart, especially the women’s.
They cannot buy women’s stockings with the seem at the back any more, so they paint a line down the back of their legs.
There’s plenty of them that ought to be on the Oooohhhh! Thread!
It’s on rotation on the BBC channel here at 8 or 9 in the evening when it comes on the kids usually decide its time to go their rooms usually shouting ‘There’s been a murder’
My son is waiting for the episode where Father Brown is caught molesting kids but that’s probably when they want to end it.
 

Little squeak

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Location
Lancashire
I have a New Holland baler just like that Two Tone. Have you ever had trouble with the knotter Pawl rivit breaking? I replaced it only 2 years ago and it went again this year. it was the 4th time it has broke since the baler was new but it's going more often now.
 
Walking the ewes back to the buildings ready for shearing this afternoon.
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Celt83

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Livestock Farmer
Rowing a bit up
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Fed up of the single rotor rake .....gonna make a few phone calls !!
Meanwhile OH busy on tedding
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You better keep her under lock and key HC before someone tries to nick her from you!!

The nearest my wife has come to tedding on her own was when she brought my sandwiches out and put them in the tractor while I was bailing!😂
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
Rowing a bit up
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Fed up of the single rotor rake .....gonna make a few phone calls !!
Meanwhile OH busy on tedding
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Crikley hill tractors have a tidy looking secondhand trailed krone double rota rake for sale and although its a fair distance away james pryce tiverton has a new vicon which is on the three point linkage, both at similiar money to the show deal
 

adda

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Livestock Farmer
Location
mid wales
You better keep her under lock and key HC before someone tries to nick her from you!!

The nearest my wife has come to tedding on her own was when she brought my sandwiches out and put them in the tractor while I was bailing!😂
The first time other half helped me on harvest I got her to move round bales and put in a line to wrap them she drove up to first bale with loader and dug spikes in ground and broke my bale handler a few choice words were said by me and she jumped in truck to go home she was so upset that she reversed into a wall at-home trying to park truck not a good day that
 

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