Lunch in the field, is it just me.

Greythundercloudys · Jul 22, 2022

Is it just me but is having your dinner or supper in the field in beautiful weather not still a great thing, always reminds me of being young in the 80s with mum n dad and the guy that helped us, this summer has been a great year for that, a pic of Facebook says it all

fred.950 · Jul 22, 2022

Are you sure it’s not just broken down?

Yale · Jul 22, 2022

Battered sausages.

20 mins later Rennie required.

ollie989898 · Jul 22, 2022

It is nice to be able to stop for a bit to eat and drink. Something quite therapeutic to be sat on the steps/wheel or cab floor and watch the world go by. I used to enjoy lunch when cultivating, I'd stop and turn the engine off, open the back window and I'd have that lovely smell of fresh dirt drift in.

Wellytrack · Jul 22, 2022

Yale said:
Battered sausages.

20 mins later Rennie required.

More like a secluded hedge with plenty of big broad docks.
Once was a time sure. A nice fresh cool drink and a sandwich that’s not dog eared and 5mm thick is a welcome visitor however.

A beer is nice too

Dave6170 · Jul 22, 2022

Yale said:
Battered sausages.

20 mins later Rennie required.

I was helping a contractor at silage yesterday, got handed a double sausage supper, that’s 4 sausages!

enjoyed it and grateful for it though

ewald · Jul 22, 2022

We always stopped in the field for tea - now we have bigger machines, can’t spare the time for a 10 minute break!

Greythundercloudys · Jul 22, 2022

A guy l know who gives a contractor a hand says they have a Chinese delivered to the farm, just phone it in, also fish suppers, not like mum with the cold meat sandwiches. But you have to move with the times.

glasshouse · Jul 22, 2022

ewald said:
We always stopped in the field for tea - now we have bigger machines, can’t spare the time for a 10 minute break!

Nonsense

glasshouse · Jul 22, 2022

My wife always brings out tea and sandwiches or hot food around 6pm and brings the children too so they can see what their father looks like.
Any helpers or contractors also get fed, and are very grateful usually

ewald · Jul 22, 2022

glasshouse said:
Nonsense

It isn't nonsense, because we don't stop - the pressure we all feel doesn't make sense.

So I agree and disagree with your post.

Still Farming · Jul 22, 2022

The "healthy brigade",be along soon!

deere 6600 · Jul 22, 2022

Worked with a contractor years ago many evening meals up against a tractor wheel usually chip shop always a bit of a laugh time

glasshouse · Jul 22, 2022

ewald said:
It isn't nonsense, because we don't stop - the pressure we all feel doesn't make sense.

So I agree and disagree with your post.

Workers who get some nice food at the right time and fresh tea are more likely to keep going later and be happier at work.
Does that not count nowadays?

JeepJeep · Jul 22, 2022

Mates farm when we were kids would be at the silage. Same Tiger on the chopper and an array of Nasher's on the trailers. We'd pile in the back of the L200 and go the back way to the furthest fields.
Ham Buns Cake and Crisps and everything stopped for a while.

Changed to another contractor with bigger Kit and that went out the window... I'd often hear a 3650 JD mowing at 2 am from home and often in the rain... Doubt they stopped for breakfast let alone tea

Two Tone · Jul 22, 2022

I got called in to help harvest a large farm in North Suffolk 30 years ago. At one point we had 5 combines going plus Christ knows how many tractors and trailers.
Every night at 9 o’clock, fish and chips from Yoxford would turn up and a can of pop.
We didn’t stop, but ate and drank on the move until we stopped. Usually sometime between 1 and 2 am.

Never did fish and chips ever taste so good!

Yale said:
Battered sausages.

20 mins later Rennie required.

If you’re over 55, might as well ring 999 as you’re probably having a heart attack!
The pain from each is identical.

Woolless · Jul 22, 2022

glasshouse said:
Workers who get some nice food at the right time and fresh tea are more likely to keep going later and be happier at work.
Does that not count nowadays?

It certainly would with me! Ridiculous that folks don't have time to stop for 20 minutes even and eat properly.

glasshouse · Jul 22, 2022

I have cine film of my granny giving tea out to grandad and about six workers who were putting hay into rucks hay with forks

nails · Jul 22, 2022

Greythundercloudys said:
Is it just me but is having your dinner or supper in the field in beautiful weather not still a great thing, always reminds me of being young in the 80s with mum n dad and the guy that helped us, this summer has been a great year for that, a pic of Facebook says it allView attachment 1051258

Goodness me, do combines have cooking facilities as well now?

puppet · Jul 22, 2022

In 1978 I combined at a farm which stopped at noon for fried lunch, no matter what weather was forecast. I took sandwiches as the previous year was told that the frying pan was picked up from the floor where the cat was licking it.
Plenty memories of a squad of people working in hay fields having a tea break at 5 to keep going into evening. Certainly no fish suppers or Chinese carry-outs.
Some farms were variable at providing food when the threshing mill went in winter. My mother recalled one place where the farmers wife asked how the men had enjoyed the stew. One responded that he could not comment on the meat but the gravy was good.

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