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Yes, a bad summer usually leads to a hard winterProbably due another one to catch us out. Never be surprised in spite of global warming
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Yes, a bad summer usually leads to a hard winterProbably due another one to catch us out. Never be surprised in spite of global warming
Ditto to the above.I remember starting up the Fowler Challenger 3 and getting out to a major road to get some food & collect the post/Lasted about a month if I remember correctly.The one in the 60's was just outright nuts. I remember older guys telling me that some villages or whole areas were cut off for weeks. You'd have been glad to have plenty of coal to shove on the fire back then.
Thing is though, if we get a major snowfall now, farm equipment has moved on so much it will take no time to clear roads.Probably due another one to catch us out. Never be surprised in spite of global warming
If you mean 1963 I think it started on Christmas Day or Boxing Day 62 and lasted almost until the end of February. There were one or short respites in between, but I think it was basically two months of snow and everything being frozen up.Ditto to the above.I remember starting up the Fowler Challenger 3 and getting out to a major road to get some food & collect the post/Lasted about a month if I remember correctly.
Yes,I do.Lived during daylight hours in the farm workshop heated by a crude /waste oil burner that we lit with the oxy/acetalyn cutter.If you mean 1963 I think it started on Christmas Day or Boxing Day 62 and lasted almost until the end of February. There were one or short respites in between, but I think it was basically two months of snow and everything being frozen up.
Others who are older and had to work through it will probably remember it better than I do.
It cant come quick enoughIt could be interesting to see on how modern kit will cope when we get a decent winter like we were getting in the 80's. When driving to work you'd see burnt out piles of paper or straw on the road where folks had to heat up the diesel lines running under the floor or along chassis rails, bit of a Russian roulette thing in that what happened first, did you get it running before it caught fire
I remember the JD SG2 cabbed tractors we had with the glass rectangular fuel filters up on the cab firewall waxing up due to the cold air been pushed at them from the engine fan, covering them over with plenty of rag kept them warm and the fuel flowing.
The biggest arse is going to be Joe Public, there's a damned site more incomers in the countryside now and they are just going to choke every highway with their stranded, often perfectly capable vehicles, due to their inability to drive when the tarmac isn't black.
The ultra reliance on mains electricity and gas is truly going to feck up a lot of people's ideas of being cosy in the countryside let alone their ignorance when it comes to turning the tap on and it is all frozen
Started my sandwich year from Harper in January 1986, on a big dairy farm in North Shropshire. Grass was all frosted off. We turned the cows out on the first of May to very little grass. But by the end of the month it had grown and we were flat out silaging.The winter of 85-86 hasn’t been mentioned yet. Was on my sandwich year near Telford in Shropshire sharing a house with 3 Harper students. It didn’t thaw at all through February, dropping down to the minus 20’s if I remember correctly. No central heating, we used to open the fridge door to warm up the kitchen.
Did they have cabs?In the winter of '81 our small village was cut off from the outside world by snowdrifts. The biggest farmer from our village and the biggest from the larger, neighbouring village set to with their state of the art rough terrain forklifts (a Sanderson and a Salev) to dig out the snowdrifts and meet in the middle. It took a couple of days.
The Sanderson was a fairly up to date machine and had a fully enclosed cab. I later worked on the farm with the Salev, it only had a frame and a roof.Did they have cabs?
“Europe is effectively cut off from Thetford…!”In the winter of '81 our small village was cut off from the outside world by snowdrifts. The biggest farmer from our village and the biggest from the larger, neighbouring village set to with their state of the art rough terrain forklifts (a Sanderson and a Salev) to dig out the snowdrifts and meet in the middle. It took a couple of days.
Except, as a youth, we lived in heavy land country between Bury and Newmarket.“Europe is effectively cut off from Thetford…!”
“Cobra meets to discuss urgent action!”
And just how well will all these magical low energy heat source pumps work when the ground is frozen down to a depth of several inches??come the day, there will be a lot of cold people! no solar no wind and my feet will be in front of the log burner and the geni ticking over in the back ground