Drinking Tea

Still Farming · May 5, 2019

Use to go with contractors and years ago different farmers attitudes about.
Some stop bang on 1pm ,all in for big dinners , other would bring chips ,etc out other skin flints nothing ,some maybe go in for cuppa ,sandwiches cake end every evening long chats when you wanted to go to bed .
One old boy favorite remark was when we asked are we stopping for dinner or pop to cafe to get or bring stuff with us was ," your here to work NOT have a tea party", classic!

scottish-lleyn · May 5, 2019

Everyone who comes here to work gets there dinner and tea/coffee. If they are here after 8pm i will normally feed them again aswell. If lads are working hard and getting the job done they deserve it.

Agrivator · May 5, 2019

Chae1 said:
Don't know of any contractors that cover pit up here.

Normally have a bbq tea about o'clock and everyone gets fed, When at silage.

I wouldn't want a cup of tea personally, I'm always dripping with sweat after covering pit. We just normally have a few cold beers after its done.

But a hot cup of tea will cool you down better than a cold drink.

A hot drink makes the body lose heat to equalise your body temperature. A cold drink makes your muscles produce heat to bring your body temperature up to normal.
That's why an aspirin and cold water at bed time (if you have a cold) makes you feel warmer. At least that's what my late Physics teacher used to tell us.

oakleaf · May 5, 2019

Its 20 years since l was on a silage gang. Back then you would get grub in 99% of farms.
Some would bring out tea mid morning and afternoon as well.
About half would give either a few beers or a few quid to each driver at the end of a job.
The loader man always got double what everyone else did.
There were very few places where zero was offered and the contractor would arrange for something to get dropped out to us. It was all added onto the bill he said.

Some farmers were warm generous friendly and hospitable. Others were distant gruff and often downright rude and of course many in between. It was a great eye opener to human nature. Anyone studying human behaviour should do a season on a silage gang!

Chae1 · May 5, 2019

Agrivator said:
But a hot cup of tea will cool you down better than a cold drink.

A hot drink makes the body lose heat to equalise your body temperature. A cold drink makes your muscles produce heat to bring your body temperature up to normal.
That's why an aspirin and cold water at bed time (if you have a cold) makes you feel warmer. At least that's what my late Physics teacher used to tell us.

True, but give people choice and most will go for cold drink.

Tarw Coch · May 5, 2019

Chae1 said:
True, but give people choice and most will go for cold drink.

Plus, beer never tastes better than when you’ve worked up a sweat.

shearerlad · May 5, 2019

oakleaf said:
Its 20 years since l was on a silage gang. Back then you would get grub in 99% of farms.
Some would bring out tea mid morning and afternoon as well.
About half would give either a few beers or a few quid to each driver at the end of a job.
The loader man always got double what everyone else did.
There were very few places where zero was offered and the contractor would arrange for something to get dropped out to us. It was all added onto the bill he said.

Some farmers were warm generous friendly and hospitable. Others were distant gruff and often downright rude and of course many in between. It was a great eye opener to human nature. Anyone studying human behaviour should do a season on a silage gang!

The same for shearing gangs too.
Some bring food to the shed, some ask us into the house. Generally it’s the out and out stock farmers that are the more generous and the arable with a few sheep not so much.

ollie989898 · May 5, 2019

When I worked for a chopper crew several customers would provide tea and something to eat (often a very nice spread) even if we were not sheeting up... I remember one farm manager turned up as we had nearly finished sheeting up and promptly gave us all some cash out of his own pocket.

Couple of customers would turn up with ice cold beer or cider although to be honest when I've been sweating for a time in the heat I find anything like that goes straight to my head.

Werzle · May 5, 2019

Sod sheeting pits and getting filthy , i would rather bring my own tea and leave the farmer to sheet his own pit

ollie989898 · May 5, 2019

Werzle said:
Sod sheeting pits and getting filthy , i would rather bring my own tea and leave the farmer to sheet his own pit

A lot of them are going with gravel bags or cut lorry sidewalls purely from a weight and vermin point of view. Also less chance of wire.

Tarw Coch · May 5, 2019

Werzle said:
Sod sheeting pits and getting filthy , i would rather bring my own tea and leave the farmer to sheet his own pit

If a contractor wants the complete job then they should do the complete job, not just the bits that involve sitting on their ass.

egbert · May 5, 2019

'Do unto others' and all that.
I don't know that I'd want to work for someone as parsimonious as to decline to bring lads a cuppa.

Back in headage payments days, the boss of a shearing crew of my acquaint did work for an infamous 'rancher'.
(huge claim, rock bottom expenditure to maintain vast droves of stock....but very slick at it, and buying a farm a year)
The crew were treated exceptionally well, fed/watered, and paid promptly, and hence were happy to keep going back.

Wilberforce · May 5, 2019

Considering the size of most silage specialists the last thing they need is another chippy tea, and as for giving them drink. . . . Fun police have have well and truly landed.

Zippy768 · May 5, 2019

Many years ago we were doing an all day TB test in the pizzing rain.
The same vet went to another farm the week after where my mate happened to work. Vet said to him "i spent all day in cold and wet at one farm and I wasnt even offered a cup of tea!"
My mate thought to himself "I know where that is"

Charolais cattle · May 5, 2019

I remember years ago help out on farm .. (at sillage making)and you couldn't drink the tea, they took the tea out to the field to us... owner of the farm send my younger bro up to get the tea... lady of the house made the tea out of the water she boiled the eggs in

,brother caught her doing it.. we never took tea in anyone house after tat...

Raider112 · May 5, 2019

We used to provide all meals for contractors but it faded away through time, I got the impression that most didn't feed them and that they would rather eat on the move, especially if the weather was iffy and they had a few customers waiting. Never asked them to help sheet up though, I didn't realise that was part of the job.

melted welly · May 5, 2019

At silage in NZ years ago, old farmer and his wife supplied supper. We didn’t stop and the hamper was passed between cabs. I was last and the others kept calling up on radio asking if I liked the sandwiches. Tasted a bit different but it was dark and I was quite hungry. Later they took great delight in telling me it was homemade potted ox tongue. Every one else had taken the jam ones.

bobk · May 5, 2019

This thread highlights my lack of enthausiasm for contracting , picking up grass bores the arse off me , as for throwing tyres on a pit .... wouldn't do that for a night with Cameron Diaz ...

Derrick Hughes · May 5, 2019

Johnnyboxer said:
Any tradesman, visitor, rep or worker gets offered a hot drink before and during the time they are here
Common sense and courtesy to your fellow man

Same here. Kettle is always on

Raider112 · May 5, 2019

bobk said:
This thread highlights my lack of enthausiasm for contracting , picking up grass bores the arse off me , as for throwing tyres on a pit .... wouldn't do that for a night with Cameron Diaz ...

Cameron Diaz? never heard of him!

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