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  1. Owd Fred

    Keeping the older generation safe.

    Its been five years since I posted on this site, Om still knocking about, and finally retired propa having sold my farm hedge cutter last October 2021. So looking in the mirra, this is what I see and also I "Havn’t got me dad now, to crack the whip and scold," I Will Describe This Man I...
  2. Owd Fred

    Can't get rid of rats

    I have a solution to your problem that I used for around 10 years, no bait , no resetting , no maintenance needed. Find and cut a 40 gallon plastic barrel in half, set a long length of plastics 4" down spouting propped up to it. (You will find rats love to investigate a pipe and go up to the...
  3. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    In the 1930's father told a story of his walking a couple of bullocks down to market about 2 miles away in town. (they always walked cattle to and from market in them days) As he got into town they had to be driven along a street of terraced houses both sides near to the local railway station...
  4. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    Dunt know if any of yo lot raydin this can relate to what it sez, but om a dam sight owder now than when me picture was tecken (on the left.) Conna lift me leg over nowadeez (the tractor seat is too high ya see ) aaaah know what ya thinkin, but yo'll get bloody owd ya sen one dee. When Gravity...
  5. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past--39--Grandma's very strong ‘best’ float

    Grandma Kirby (1920) This is a story about my grandma, who worked against all odds to rear her brood of nine kids, and some of the things she got up to, and realise where I get my temper from, though it takes a lot of provoking these days to wind me up. Mothers younger days In his late teens...
  6. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past -- 38 --The Nottingham Knockers

    ‘The Nottingham Knockers’ My wife defended her decision to feed a hungry lad no matter who it was, it’s always been in her nature to help those who in need, and feed anybody be it animal or human who is hungry, she had always done it, and it’s always been appreciated. In our farm house I can...
  7. Owd Fred

    Can't get rid of rats

    When we had a roller mill and a mixer for the barley beef bulls we got over run with rats, I set up a half a forty gallon plastic barrel , leaned a six foot length of plastic down spouting up against it, held firmly in place (rat love to run up pipes) the top 18inches was on a swing hinge so...
  8. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    The first year I was farming on me own was 1960 and bindered a field and had the old threshing set come round to thresh it, the following year the contractor had a combine
  9. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past-37- The Runaway Boiler

    The Runaway boiler. As most farmer know there’s nowt like going to a good sale, be it farm sale dispersal sale or a general furniture sale. The sale I am describing is a furniture come house clearance sales rooms in town which took place once a fortnight. When we moved to a larger farmhouse in...
  10. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past 36 Unwelcome brush with the Law

    Spose they could but it was a while ago, its only in the last 10years that we were warned on old vintage tractor road runs that they must be on white diesel. Its your own neck on the line if ya found with red on the road run. I run my 1946 TVO tractor on house heating oil, don't know how they...
  11. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past 36 Unwelcome brush with the Law

    A Sunday morning brush with the Law One Sunday morning twenty or more years ago I was taking a load of rotted muck with the tractor and trailer down to an allotment in town, on the way I had to pass the police depot along side the M6 motorway. As I was loaded I did a rolling exit out of a road...
  12. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past-To cut and cart the Kale - 35

    The price you see is the price you pay £8.03 includes postage on Amazon, I don't know about the "second hand" ones. They print on demand and often print a few more than what they want, I think that is where they come from I believe. As for which one to buy, they were printed and published as and...
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    Blast from the past-To cut and cart the Kale - 35

    To cut kale we always used what was then called a banking hook, a two foot six hook almost like a question mark with a handle on it, it was made for cutting grassy hedge banks before the hedge was cut with brushing hooks. Brushing hooks were two handed job and no good for cutting kale, the...
  14. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past-To cut and cart the Kale - 35

    I expect the kale carting incident happened around autumn/winter 1945, it was 1947 when we had very deep and drifted snow, all the farm workmen in the village formed a gang and dug the way out in order to let the milk churn lorry in This was outside our farm The Beeches the drifts not too bad...
  15. Owd Fred

    Blast from the past-To cut and cart the Kale - 35

    This was tale about what happened to my brother and I when I was 9 years old and my brother just over 6years . I was just old enough to work helping the then cowman Philip to load kale for the cows, a job he did every afternoon ready for the following days feeding. Philip had a tremendous...
  16. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    Just been reading down most of these posts and no one has mentioned Humber Fish muck, dries guts heads and anything not big enough to sell on a stall would be ground up into Fish muck. Now that was stinky stuff to handle, came as a powder in bags from Liverpool, okay when fresh, dad put it...
  17. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    This a topical story that happened every Christmas, helping mother make her xmas puddings Mothers Traditional Christmas Puddings We all had a stir, with the wooden spoon, and to make a wish, Four silver thrupeny pieces added, one to each basin we'd pitch. Now on 30 November it is Advent...
  18. Owd Fred

    Old farming men.

    Only just picked up yo thread today, yes I am still around but bin busy hedge cutting, (now that's a job I can manage very well) radio on heater full on and gates all open what better job for an old chugger like me, only do 4 hours a day mind you. In the old horse days they called it One...
  19. Owd Fred

    May hay

    Seems like folk can only learn by experience, it also seems that putting green hay into the bays will very soon be grey hay, better spoil in the field than spoil in the bay, then fire. You have the option if in doubt when its baled, get it wrapped.
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