Fergie Ploughman
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Interesting you say every day was a ploughing match, its certainly how I remember it as a kid, it was a skill and you got your arse kicked if you made a mess! If you out and about and you noticed someones messy job, it was talked about. Nobody seems to bother now - brown side up as quick as f***!, that's if they still bother to plough it.
This was of course the whole points of matches (as I'm sure the experienced guys know). Ploughing was/is a skill, if you want to showcase your skill you enter a competition to see whose best, which happens in all 'skills' in life, whether your baking a cake, cycling a race or climbing a mountain. In all these 'skills' you aspire to use the best kit in the best way possible, whilst trying to keep to the rules.
This was of course the whole points of matches (as I'm sure the experienced guys know). Ploughing was/is a skill, if you want to showcase your skill you enter a competition to see whose best, which happens in all 'skills' in life, whether your baking a cake, cycling a race or climbing a mountain. In all these 'skills' you aspire to use the best kit in the best way possible, whilst trying to keep to the rules.
Must have not been long out of primary school when you did that Roy
I ploughed thousands of acres with a TS 78 on a new performance Super Major before we got onto Yellow Hydreins, thousands more with a 5000 and Yellow Hydrein, more still with a 165 and Red Hydrein. Rigs set in a similar manner. Finishes done to leave a single furrow. Reversibles were not long in coming. Every day was a ploughing match. People used to look over hedges then and there were more of them so the work needed to look right in order to avoid the stick that came with bad work.