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Did a fair chunk yesterday all osr that’s worth doing all barley and most second wheats , yes it was windy I am also of the opinion a stripe or two is better than it not getting any at all now as particularly wheats are really going backwards looked ok a month ago but Christ it’s gone to...

After Saturdays deluge and a miserable showery morning yesterday and just so Monday didn’t feel left out another heavy downpour this morning It’s blown up really well this afternoon albeit with a cold wind but hey ho We decided to venture out an hour ago Extase 17.5 bushel 72 It’s...

Same here Reaseheath day release various subjects started 1982 stuck it for 3 or 4 years , pretty hands on back then lots of farm visits doing practical stuff Never did me any harm , mind the hour plus liquid lunches with pretty well all the rest of the year probably didn’t do me much good...

Yes some of ours have where a cracking crop as well , they’re on some kind ground broadcast and ploughed down , ploughman made a decent job nice enough finish really , turns out it would be the year I didn’t knock the furrow tops off Can see a painful experience coming up 😥

👍👍 All autocast on with the chaff spreader as well 😃

Knocked all of our winter barley off yesterday Every species of brome , and volunteer hard cheesy ripe wheat definitely helped push it to just about 3t / acre all over weighbridge horrible sample is what it is glad to get it cut right up side of drive looked a mess all year Tinned...

Used to drop 10 acres one day then another 10 acres the next morning and so forth Then the first lot picked up with 72 hp and a jf 90 trailed used to fill half dozen various wheelbarrows mostly made of wood corrugated tin and mesh then drop chopper off and ferry all back to clamp Buckraked...

The ones named after particular ford car models alway seemed to be the most prevalent

First day harvest 21 , 20yds along headland first field barley Hell of a weird banging noise coming from top of feeder house hard to describe it the noise was like a noisy wheeze Fair cacked me up and as we undid the drum plate had that horrible thought of what it could be Sorry it’s a bit...

Big thunderstorm around 6pm came rumbling up out of Shropshire and into our south west part of Cheshire torrential rain with it lasted a good hour or so was in the car on a chippy run and it brought the traffic down to a crawl ( bloody chips where cold time I got home 😢) , probably all...

When I started chopping everything was trailed and the trailer was towed behind Back then the main gripe with ferry lads was dropping empty trailers nowhere near the chopper or the odd ones who committed the cardinal sin and dropped the empty behind the full one you’d just unhitched 🤔 and then...

Vespa beans getting on towards 5ft That great thing hindsight tells me I probably sowed them a bit heavy least they’ll lean on each other🙄 and the big plant stands helped no end with weeds Sowed on the stubble and ploughed down my mate hindsight is also saying despite me saying that’s a pretty...

Not just as straightforward as I’ve got a shed let’s ring a merchant / mill up and fill it For combinable crops or straights off the docks you’ll need auditing to become TASCC assured and then yearly thereafter certain merchants / suppliers probably will want to audit it themselves as well...

cant see that being a problem to tip in for most drivers Your always going to get the odd one that just won’t have it everyone else gets in ok and makes a drama out of it

Our procedure with grain collections from farms we are not familiar with is 1 What time you load from and to ( learnt long ago not to push how flexible are those hours , we can usually work round most times ) 2 How much notice do you need ( or if you notice 10 missed calls on your phone is...

Cracking sunrise and the last run of harvest 22 completed at 8.45Am Pleasing crop of Vespa 2t/acre at 14%all over weighbridge Goes a long way to make up for normally thruching away mid September in a crop with fat hen taller than the beans

Lichfield staffs ? Tascc product ? What sort of tonnage ? Might be of interest to us Ardens Haulage Chester

Ah yes or the boat missed the tide and no one thought to tell anyone Cue mad scramble to find an empty shed that could hold a few loads of grain that’s rocked up first thing of a Monday morning

In no particular order Delays at point of tip Delays due to traffic / accidents Delays at point of loading Breakdowns Covid 🙄 ( has to be in there somewhere ) Drivers getting out of bed wrong side Farmers getting out of bed wrong side Dockers getting out of bed wrong side ( every day )...

Same here , quite sharply as well Apart from one field that’s died on its feet I reckon ours is only just there , got no osr this time so I’m not overly worried