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HOW FILTHY IS YOUR CAR?
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I feel we been over hard on this poor lad he is just doing his job
and yes i dont agree with everything the bbc dose i will not be hard on an individual
As farmers we are thought being in a dirty environment as we are often covered in mud or sh!t despite producing food
I for one gave up trying to keeping my car clean as you would not know it was washed hours earlier due to the farm lanes and the inside could be alot better at times as i lived off the farm, i had no workshop on the farm but at home and the dogs travelled in it as well and it was know as the dog kennel. One very fine coated terrier would sit outside the car come sun rain or snow waiting on its for the car door to be opened
and you would often find dead rats, crows and mice in the foot well or on the drivers seat
ps strangers if you go near the car you do so at your own risk
ps drove the car for 2 months with no back window
and yes i dont agree with everything the bbc dose i will not be hard on an individual
As farmers we are thought being in a dirty environment as we are often covered in mud or sh!t despite producing food
I for one gave up trying to keeping my car clean as you would not know it was washed hours earlier due to the farm lanes and the inside could be alot better at times as i lived off the farm, i had no workshop on the farm but at home and the dogs travelled in it as well and it was know as the dog kennel. One very fine coated terrier would sit outside the car come sun rain or snow waiting on its for the car door to be opened
and you would often find dead rats, crows and mice in the foot well or on the drivers seat
ps strangers if you go near the car you do so at your own risk
ps drove the car for 2 months with no back window
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
There is a journalist who writes in the Times, who owns a farm in the Cotswolds, I think he may even be doing a TV programme about it, gosh, what's his name? Maybe he would be willing to do something with his car, TV presenter too. I remember Jeremy Clarkson, he would be the man for the BBC to contact
yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
His cars would be very clean as he always has a new one on test
the best candidate I knew for this programme is not with us any more
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
OH traded in her Jimny for a newer one, some years ago down in Wales. We wanted to pick up a couple of small weaners at the same time that were only a few miles from the garage, so put a crate and a tarp in the car. Arriving at the garage we checked the "new" car thoroughly, is that a scratch ? Got a very good deal on a highly polished car (with small scratch) and fully valeted. Got to the farm to find there'd been a bit of a cock up, instead of collecting a couple of two month old weaners, they had three, three month old weaners in a trailer down a very muddy field. There was no chance of getting them in the crate, I would come back next day with a trailer. I was overruled, they had to go in. We collapsed the crate and used it as a pig guard behind the seats and tried to spread the tarpaulin to reduce mess. We got home with mud up the doors, windscreen and snout marks everywhere inside and a certain odour du porcine with only four hours ownership.
Christoph1945
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- Widnes West Cheshire
If stopped by an armed police roadblock, there would be no hessitation in them believing that you were a farmer then!
ricky_rascal
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- N. Yorks
Two cars come to mind reading this thread. A nice few years ago was down at Malton market and parked up the street was a Ford Capri. Even then you hardly ever saw one and it was in days before a camera phone. Anyhoo, the old Ford was in a fair old state and as I walked by noticed the back was bedded up with straw and there was a couple of store sheep sat looking at me. Back seats were folded down and nothing to stop said sheep joining you on the drivers seat.
Near neighbour wanted to borrow our lads ferret. Upon further investigation it turned out his car had a rat living up under the dashboard. He’d ride round in it and feed pheasants and spilled wheat under seats. After running an exhaust into car which didn’t work they put some rat poison under seat and one morning found a dead rat not far from car. Presumed they got their passenger as it wasn’t seen or heard again. How did it get in - through a hole in the boot.
Near neighbour wanted to borrow our lads ferret. Upon further investigation it turned out his car had a rat living up under the dashboard. He’d ride round in it and feed pheasants and spilled wheat under seats. After running an exhaust into car which didn’t work they put some rat poison under seat and one morning found a dead rat not far from car. Presumed they got their passenger as it wasn’t seen or heard again. How did it get in - through a hole in the boot.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
My uncle borrowed my aunts Austin Maxi one day to check the cattle because his Land Rover couldn’t be used.
Next day aunt went shopping. Laden with Sainsbury’s bags, she got back to the car, lifted the boot to find a dead calf in the back!!
Next day aunt went shopping. Laden with Sainsbury’s bags, she got back to the car, lifted the boot to find a dead calf in the back!!
Christoph1945
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- Widnes West Cheshire
Plenty of rats driving around in cars, in town!
ricky_rascal
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- N. Yorks
But giving them rat poison is frowned upon...
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- Durham, UK
Reminds me of a neighbour, when my dad was a young bloke he kept pigs about 25 sows. The neighbour had 5 so couldn't justify a boar.
One day my dad's in the yard neighbour drives in in his old car 'can I bring a sow down to be served' yes ok say my old man ' when do you want to bring it down'. 'Oh it's in here' says the neighbour pointing to the back of the car.
My dad never knew how he got a fully grown sow into that car bit he did.
One day my dad's in the yard neighbour drives in in his old car 'can I bring a sow down to be served' yes ok say my old man ' when do you want to bring it down'. 'Oh it's in here' says the neighbour pointing to the back of the car.
My dad never knew how he got a fully grown sow into that car bit he did.
glasshouse
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- lothians
glasshouse
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- lothians
A very large pig producer drove a rolls royce to edinburgh market every week.
One week there were two pigs unsold and his lorry away home.
He backed the rolls up to loading bank and said to the incredulous stockmen as they stuck them in the boot;
“ pigs bought it, pigs will ride in it”
One week there were two pigs unsold and his lorry away home.
He backed the rolls up to loading bank and said to the incredulous stockmen as they stuck them in the boot;
“ pigs bought it, pigs will ride in it”
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Many a time I’ve heard the story of a mates late father who went to a tup sale in Scotland and fetched two tips home in the back seat of the car, and that as a youngster starting out he borrowed his dads new car and took a sow to the boar standing between the back and front seats.
He was a real character, I never really doubted these stories weren’t true, he bloody well would have done.
This thread seems to be indicating that this sort of behaviour wasn’t that unusual at one time when people obviously weren’t as precious about their cars and presumably saw them as no more than a tool to do a job.
I’ve heard dad talk of when he was starting out they only had a car to pull the stock trailer. One Monday taking a couple of cattle into Welshpool market he got in a right speed wobble by the canal by the showground and bashed both back wings of the car in. Mother would have been with him going to do the weekly shop so I guess he would have got a ear bashing too.
It was the reason they bought a second hand land Rover for farm use.
He was a real character, I never really doubted these stories weren’t true, he bloody well would have done.
This thread seems to be indicating that this sort of behaviour wasn’t that unusual at one time when people obviously weren’t as precious about their cars and presumably saw them as no more than a tool to do a job.
I’ve heard dad talk of when he was starting out they only had a car to pull the stock trailer. One Monday taking a couple of cattle into Welshpool market he got in a right speed wobble by the canal by the showground and bashed both back wings of the car in. Mother would have been with him going to do the weekly shop so I guess he would have got a ear bashing too.
It was the reason they bought a second hand land Rover for farm use.
ricky_rascal
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- N. Yorks
My dad told me about the time he went with my grandad for a boar pig with a small van they had way back in the day. They struggled for ages to get the damned thing in and eventually said boar makes a run up into back of van. Problem was he didn’t stop, fired over seats and smashed straight through front screen. Ended up stuck half in half out, through windscreen.
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
I recall seeing a pack of hounds emerge from the rear passenger door of a small Volvo, when the hound van had broken down, thought either the car was a Tardis or someone was pushing them in from the other side. 
- Location
- North Somerset.
A friend of my Father commented that he had spotted him driving through Bath with his Vauxhall Victor estate packed full of children. In fact it was full of calves bought at Chippenham market.
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ricky_rascal
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- N. Yorks
Imagine doing that these days. Trading standards would have a fit when they spotted no side gates loading them through boot
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- York
I remember taking a girl out one night in my pickup in the early '90s. She did comment quite strongly on the odour even though I assured I had be thoroughly washed before arrival. She then went on to ask searching questions as to why I had a kettle, mug & coffee in the footwell? Maybe she thought I was homeless. Oh the joys of been a relief milker.