1976

[Wolds Beef]

@Hindsight 1984 The year of the world Match at Wispington near Horncastle. Several hundred tonnes of wheat stored on the concrete at Poolham store. The world ploughmen could not believe it!!
WB

 

[yellowbelly]

I do remember the green fly though . We did spray, but my father thought it was wicked to drive through the crop even on 6" wheels.

I remember getting off the tractor and walking round the front end - the weights and front axle were absolutely plastered, what seemed like an inch thick, with aphids

 

[The Ruminant]

I remember getting off the tractor and walking round the front end - the weights and front axle were absolutely plastered, what seemed like an inch thick, with aphids

We went on a school trip to Liverpool (I know!!) and I remember seeing the streets absolutely carpeted with ladybirds. I've never seen anything like it and unless you'd actually witnessed it you wouldn't believe it could happen.

 

[yellowbelly]

The year of the world Match at Wispington

Jeez it was wet - we kitted out our first tractor and spreader with Terra Tyres that week.

 

[Henarar]

1976 dad cut some grass for a customer first thing in the morning and baled it for hay the same day

 

[bobk]

1976 dad cut some grass for a customer first thing in the morning and baled it for hay the same day

Hay in a day.

 

[czechmate]

We went on a school trip to Liverpool (I know!!) and I remember seeing the streets absolutely carpeted with ladybirds. I've never seen anything like it and unless you'd actually witnessed it you wouldn't believe it could happen.

I thought you were much younger

 

[Bruce Almighty]

@Hindsight 1984 The year of the world Match at Wispington near Horncastle. Several hundred tonnes of wheat stored on the concrete at Poolham store. The world ploughmen could not believe it!!
WB

Jeez it was wet - we kitted out our first tractor and spreader with Terra Tyres that week.

I was 8 in 1976 so don't remember that much, but we had 2 new R reg 6600s with Q cabs that Autumn

The 1976 national ploughing match was at Dad's Uncles, Fred Deakin at Lichfield. The rain had come by then

I do remember the 84 World match, another hot dry summer followed by a mud bath

 

[Storeman]

We used to all gather at my Uncles in Wimbledon. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, much fun was had. This garden used to seem huuuge to me. Got smaller as I got older. Not much grass though.

 

[Chae1]

We used to all gather at my Uncles in Wimbledon. Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, much fun was had. This garden used to seem huuuge to me. Got smaller as I got older. Not much grass though.
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Is that sand or dead grass ! ?

 

[glasshouse]

I went to cadet camp at retford in 76, it was boiling hot. The soldier that drove us around in the bedford truck lost control due to a sweaty slippery steering wheel and we landed in the ditch.

 

[Chickcatcher]

I was 8 in 1976 so don't remember that much, but we had 2 new R reg 6600s with Q cabs that Autumn

The 1976 national ploughing match was at Dad's Uncles, Fred Deakin at Lichfield. The rain had come by then

I ploughed at that one Tamhorn Park 22-23/10/76 No rain on either day I was on a MF 175 No cab!

 

[Storeman]

Is that sand or dead grass ! ?

It is actually grass. Suffering from a 'bit' of drought stress.

 

[Henarar]

Hay in a day.

Yes hay in a day
A bit over dry I think

 

[Cow1]

Nice work being a cameraman in 1976.

 

[colhonk]

Bl**dy traffic

 

[Bill & Ben Flowerpot Men]

Grassland look as dead as dead. Thought we were going to plough it all up and reseed in the Autumn. But it rained eventually and lo and behold it greened up.

 

[The Ruminant]

I thought you were much younger

Old enough to remember the heatwave, but too young to remember sights like those in the film....

Nice work being a cameraman in 1976.

 

[Simon Chiles]

1976 dad cut some grass for a customer first thing in the morning and baled it for hay the same day

It was like that again in 1990, at the end we didn't even turn the hay, just mowed it and baled the rows. Turning it would have lost what little colour was left in it. I was supplying a hay and straw merchant at the time and we just kept baling, when we were 10,000 bales in front of him he suggested that we stopped and cleared them just in case it rained, however it didn't. I even gave up watching the weather forecast and by the time my son was born at the end of July I was able to take a couple of weeks off because there was nothing left to do. I made 40,000 bales of hay that year all in flat 8's.

 

[Hindsight]

@Hindsight 1984 The year of the world Match at Wispington near Horncastle. Several hundred tonnes of wheat stored on the concrete at Poolham store. The world ploughmen could not believe it!!
WB

Yes, I remember attending. Norman, Hobbit, Mardler feed wheat and Avalon, Bounty milling wheat if I recall correctly. Oh and the blackgrass was as bad as today in places.