Grass stolen

Tim G · May 27, 2022

Reminds me of a non agricultural story, the guy that helped us here had a chimney fire on his semi detached cottage. The fire brigade were called and a couple of firefighters were sent up a ladder with a hose to put down the chimney, everyone else piled in the front room and the fireman in charge radioed up to those on the roof to turn the hose on. They all stood watching the fire place and nothing happened. A few moments later there was a big uproar heard from the neighbour on the otherside of the wall who's fireplace and front room was getting a good washing!

Gong Farmer · May 27, 2022

This is all turning into a 'I found it, Del Boy!' story

Courier · May 27, 2022

Midnight plough boy said:
Mate of mine as a placement student had the farm manager ask him why he was just pulling into that field with the combine when it’s not ours? Answer - Really? I’ve been spraying and fertilising it all season….

Sometimes it happens.

So that’ll have been sprayed and fertilised twice then ….?

vantage · May 27, 2022

Courier said:
So that’ll have been sprayed and fertilised twice then ….?

How else do you get a World Record wheat crop?!

Will 1594 · May 27, 2022

ollie989898 said:
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.

Depends on the baler , if you took helgar the 830 into it the sledge would be bunged up before baler @onthehoof

Flat 10 · May 27, 2022

Will 1594 said:
Depends on the baler , if you took helgar the 830 into it the sledge would be bunged up before baler @onthehoof

Not quite true. You just need a proper flat 10 sledge. But since helgar has a slip clutch not a shear bolt you can give her some. Maybe @onthehoof s upgraded tractor can boss Helga but I’m not sure the original yoke could…..

betweenthelines · May 27, 2022

Not always done by mistake!

I know of a case near me where the farmer bought a field of grass off the Council . Cut it, tedded it a few times, rowed it up ready to bale the next day, another farmer came in later that evening, baled it, loaded onto a lorry and took it away.

Everyone knew who had done it but how do you prove a barn full of hay has been "imported"

A contractor also put a couple loads of grain into his own trailers and took them home while the farmer was showing cattle at the local show-when the police got involved, he said he had taken the grain in case the farmer didn't pay his bill!

onthehoof · May 27, 2022

Flat 10 said:
Not quite true. You just need a proper flat 10 sledge. But since helgar has a slip clutch not a shear bolt you can give her some. Maybe @onthehoof s upgraded tractor can boss Helga but I’m not sure the original yoke could…..

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1682200882112422

This is the future

glasshouse · May 27, 2022

betweenthelines said:
Not always done by mistake!

I know of a case near me where the farmer bought a field of grass off the Council . Cut it, tedded it a few times, rowed it up ready to bale the next day, another farmer came in later that evening, baled it, loaded onto a lorry and took it away.

Everyone knew who had done it but how do you prove a barn full of hay has been "imported"

A contractor also put a couple loads of grain into his own trailers and took them home while the farmer was showing cattle at the local show-when the police got involved, he said he had taken the grain in case the farmer didn't pay his bill!

Every contractor takes the last tankful home

Bob lincs · May 27, 2022

glasshouse said:
Every contractor takes the last tankful home

I don’t as the lids won’t shut with anything in the tank .

Y Fan Wen · May 27, 2022

I was standing looking at my roadside field wondering how come there was a goodly flock of ewes in it when next door came along looking for an overdue lorry he was expecting. He put his dog round them and ran them up the road and we had a good laugh about it.

unlacedgecko · May 27, 2022

silverfox said:
I heard a similar story a few years ago about potato harvesting and a random tractor/ trailer taking loads away .
because they used all sorts of help, no one questioned who he was

I used to drive out off the Currys warehouse at Newark. Back in 2015 they had an Irish plated artic pull in. With the gift of the gab he persuaded the right people to load his with £200k of laptops, then disappeared into the ether.

carbonfibre farmer · May 27, 2022

onthehoof said:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1682200882112422

This is the future

I think he's still looking for someone to come bale for him?

glasshouse · May 27, 2022

Bob lincs said:
I don’t as the lids won’t shut with anything in the tank .

You need to change your combine!!

JD-Kid · May 27, 2022

grandfather told me years ago at shearing time on a big station 2 trucks turned up for wool they loaded them bit of a yarn etc
a few hours later another truck turned up with trucking co colours name etc they loaded that up guys had a yarn cup of tea etc etc
about a week later the boss got the paperwork from wool store ummm strange rung the store no they were right and here are the bale numbers rung the trucking co how many trucks did you send last week just 2 was the reply
they later found a old wool press in a disused area and all the marked bale caps

glasshouse · May 27, 2022

After the landlords cleared the peasants off thel land over 200 yrs ago, they tried farming on a vast scale with armies of men.
It didnt work of course because everything got nicked.
So they let it out in family farms and told the tenant to build his house at a prominent spot from where things could be watched.

farmerm · May 27, 2022

ollie989898 said:
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.

Not sure if it would be better or worse with a swath of hay or the swath of straw from a 35ft combine....

Weasel · May 27, 2022

glasshouse said:
After the landlords cleared the peasants off thel land over 200 yrs ago, they tried farming on a vast scale with armies of men.
It didnt work of course because everything got nicked.
So they let it out in family farms and told the tenant to build his house at a prominent spot from where things could be watched.

That will happen again, big estates clearing tenant farmers off for trees, strokers

glasshouse · May 27, 2022

Weasel said:
That will happen again, big estates clearing tenant farmers off for trees, strokers

It is happening

ridger · May 27, 2022

silverfox said:
I heard a similar story a few years ago about potato harvesting and a random tractor/ trailer taking loads away .
because they used all sorts of help, no one questioned who he was

I could try that

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