suffolksmallholder
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I wonder where & for who? PM me if you like. I'd love to know being from them thar part of the world.
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The family farm
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Only 1 way to solve this. We reconvene in 35 days and see if GWT still has a barn. Loser buys all other contributors a 6 pack of cider.
Ron Jenkins of Home Farm Stowe. Did my sandwich year there in 1982.
Sadly he is long dead and the farm is now in the possession of National Trust who are using the house as an HQ. All the hay sheds now looking very sorry and redundant.
Used to time taking a tractor up the drive to coincide with the girls walking up to Stowe school from Dadford so i could give the prettiest a lift.
Happy days
suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
Lovely place to visit in those days with many derelict temples & etc. Now pristine with the restoration. I knew of the fellow you worked for although I never met him.
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Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Barn dried hay. The farm I first worked on at 16 years of age used to do it. We stacked them in the barn loosely so as to allow air circulation. The outside bales were stacked tighter. They weighed like lead and it was bloody hard work.
Then a Lister fan was sparked up, proper job with the big Lister Diesel engine, and it roared away day and night for several weeks as long as the air was dry.
It made fantastic stuff.
A few years later my Dad bought the Lister fan from another local farm, but this time it was pto driven from a tractor. He had a go at barn drying hay with mini Hesston bales, again stacked not too tightly under our Dutch barn.
He set the old MF 165 to work driving the fan. The smell was fantastic and within a day the moisture was running under the curved tin of the Dutch barn and dripping on the ground all round the shed. It made some lovely hay if I recall correctly.
It only works well if you have reasonably dry weather for days afterwards. If it rains a lot you can’t be forcing all that damp air into the stack.
I think wrapping is way more reliable.
Really, and the above is called for why?
You don't say
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- sw scotland
If you needed dry days then best thing is to leave it in the sun longer
beefandsleep
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- Staffordshire
Relax, startinghandle is on a wind up
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...........or seeking to publicise the forthcoming book launch...
It was done (to good effect) to preserve feed value...
michael N123
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I’ll tell you his identity for £5000
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neither
Danllan
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Feeling fine, it isn't my quarrel and doesn't involve the EU...
Not feeling yourself today?
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- Montgomeryshire
Really, and the above is called for why?
You don't say
A shame I can’t like that more than once.
A ridiculous response imo, which does the spirit of this forum no favours at all.Bloody daft thread anyway, so the OP can hardly be surprised when he is called to account, surely?
wasted years
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I thought you would do it for a lot less .
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Feeling fine, it isn't my quarrel and doesn't involve the EU...
Are you sure? Was there such a thing as a wrapped bale before the UK joined the UK? Surely there must be some thinking that the lack of hay making opportunity over the last 40 years has all been down to the EU?
Anything on "telly" will have been filmed 5 or 6 times and edited to death.
Hanging someone out to dry over something they said on "Take 1 " that was probably voiced over onto "Take 6" is, frankly, ludicrous.
And I`ve done a fair bit of telly work....................
Hanging someone out to dry over something they said on "Take 1 " that was probably voiced over onto "Take 6" is, frankly, ludicrous.
And I`ve done a fair bit of telly work....................
Funnily enough, when I went back on a visit a few years later they were busy bagging big bales (as the technology was then) and the small bale was no more.
IIRC we survived on a diet of lager cooled in spring fed water troughs and pork pies. At the end of summer, I had lost two stone and was a racing snake. A long & distant memory now
Danllan
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On the contrary, the EU has most definitely been making hay while the sun was shining - with never a thought to what was next...
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