- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Last two years my contractor has done a wonderful job of cutting not my hedges!
Grass stolen
- Thread starter michael N123
- Start date
- Location
- our house, Norn Iron
Was a field local a few years back sitting in big rows with about a bit of a trailer load dumped back in a few lumps, must have been the wrong field.
- Location
- Netherlands
As someone with quite terrible memory for directions, i always send a pic on gmaps on WhatsApp to contractor and request the same from other people.
No excuses these days.
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- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I know not farming, but I used to look after building apprentices as a training officer. Two apprentices (and one ex apprentice) were asked to "kick in or knock down" from above a lathe and plaster ceiling in a terraced house in Llanelli. The loft space for the terrace was one long open run. They went up there and kicked down the ceiling for the neighbour. Neighbour's daughter was going to get married and the mothers wedding outfit was laid out on the bed!
Probably grumbling that it was still too expensive. 
Doing it for the kids
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No excuses these days.
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Not much grass there!?
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Is that where the Fendt and silage trailer went in to the river?No excuses these days.
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- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Heard of a field of barley been cut at night thinking it was another whole crop field of the neighbours.
If I was the victim of this theft / mistake (and remember it could be a mistake) I would be door knocking for maybe half a mile in all directions to ask if anyone saw anything which helps, and ask if they have any badly adjusted cctv pointing far enough into the highway. I don’t think the police have the resources.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Provided the sat nav has woken up properly, Can be miles off sometimes.
Our phones quite often put us 20 miles away When a app is turned on for the first time in the day.
ollie989898
Member
Rowed up somebody’s hay few years ago with 4 rotor and fella pulled in with a little square baler just as I finished.. .. did 3 plough runs of wrong farmers field a few year ago too
Did the guy on the baler laugh or rage at you?
His exact words were “I think I’d better go back and get my round baler hadnt I”
No, he called for shearbolts, a lot of them!
ollie989898
Member
No, he called for shearbolts, a lot of them!
I've not driven a small baler before, I would imagine trying to get it to pick up a swath that big would be interesting.
dowcow
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- Location
- Lancashire
In a thick crop of late June 1st cut IRG hay, a haybob often makes a perfect row for a little baler. Even a decent sized single rotor rake can bull a little baler out in such conditions, and you end up making a swath using half the machine.
Few years ago driving through a farm steading to bale gorgeous barley straw that had been bought in the swath, I stopped to blether
I'd seen the first field coming in and commented on straw quality and the good big size of swath. Eventually we stopped the chat, and I went out to field to make a start.....
A huge fendt and Heston baler had arrived in the interim, and was romping up the rows
""Stop stop, that my straw"....
"Here's the phone, speak to my boss, I'm just doing what I'm told".... (The boss was this fellas brother)
"I'll sell you the straw by the tonne" says the contractor....
"I'll pay you for the baling so far" says I....
Cheeky shyte hung up on me, and there were trailers there lifting bales that afternoon before I'd a chance to gather what was was mine
The contractor had bought the straw from another farm owned by the same man, and had decided just to bale my stuff as well. Unlike the other farm, "my" straw wasn't about to be set alight by the restless urban "natives" (!)
Embarrassed farm owner switched off the combine chopper knives for the next few days, and I ended up with a far greater area than I'd originally been after
I've yet to speak again to the contractor. Therefore I haven't yet thanked him for his rudeness and dishonesty, without which I wouldn't have since been given the baling of so much of that owners harvest over the years
I'd seen the first field coming in and commented on straw quality and the good big size of swath. Eventually we stopped the chat, and I went out to field to make a start.....
A huge fendt and Heston baler had arrived in the interim, and was romping up the rows
""Stop stop, that my straw"....
"Here's the phone, speak to my boss, I'm just doing what I'm told".... (The boss was this fellas brother)
"I'll sell you the straw by the tonne" says the contractor....
"I'll pay you for the baling so far" says I....
Cheeky shyte hung up on me, and there were trailers there lifting bales that afternoon before I'd a chance to gather what was was mine
The contractor had bought the straw from another farm owned by the same man, and had decided just to bale my stuff as well. Unlike the other farm, "my" straw wasn't about to be set alight by the restless urban "natives" (!)
Embarrassed farm owner switched off the combine chopper knives for the next few days, and I ended up with a far greater area than I'd originally been after
I've yet to speak again to the contractor. Therefore I haven't yet thanked him for his rudeness and dishonesty, without which I wouldn't have since been given the baling of so much of that owners harvest over the years