Mods move or delete this thread if inappropriate. Anyway listened to a 90s music clip of various songs and realised I was reminiscing of my youth tractor driving late at night getting ploughing power harrowing done etc before having to go back to school and I loved it. It taught me all the skills I have today especially in my younger days when dad would set me a job I couldn't make too much of a mess of but I still felt I was doing a good job and making a dust. Anyway onto now my vision of being 100% no-till pretty much takes out all the jobs that I was allowed to do and timelyness being so important. Going forward with no-till how do we train our youngsters and give them the skills they need without putting them on the drill or combine sprayer etc leaves grain carting which is usually on the road?
90s music memory's my youth and cultivations
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It is totally appropriate and a very good question. I'm just a bit jealous that you had a radio in your tractor. The ones I was allowed to drive were so rattly that you wouldn't have heard the radio (or wireless as it was in those days) if it'd had one.
SilliamWhale
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No tillers surely put on a bit of smooth jazz
SilliamWhale
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Er wasnt that called an Oxen?
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There's always flat rolling or chain harrowing grass still don't think they do any good but good tractor driving training
clbarclay
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Shh..
I'm not sure we are meant to even be doing that now if we can manage pastures just with livestock We have gone back to trimming our own hedges here as we now have the surplus driver hours in the autumn again, but even with that I am wondering whether I should be managing hedges in a different way.
The few tractors here that did have working radios back in the 90's were tuned to the Radio 4. If I heard an old clip of something like I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue or The News Quiz then I might not be able to tell the year, but possibly the field, crop and operation. I should fit a radio in the digger as that is doing far more hours than it used to while the tractors do less.
SilliamWhale
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Shh..
We have gone back to trimming our own hedges here as we now have the surplus driver hours in the autumn again, but even with that I am wondering whether I should be managing hedges in a different way.
The few tractors here that did have working radios back in the 90's were tuned to the Radio 4. If I heard an old clip of something like I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue or The News Quiz then I might not be able to tell the year, but possibly the field, crop and operation. I should fit a radio in the digger as that is doing far more hours than it used to while the tractors do less.
What do you mean?
clbarclay
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At the moment the hedges are sort of just obstacles\barriers that get flailed back every year to stop them taking up too much space and to look nice.
Trying to think of them as an asset instead, one though is to leave most of them growing unchecked each year and "harvest" some of the hedges each year in rotation. Harvested hedge could be sold or used on farm for firewood, compost for fields etc. but should not be just burnt or disposed of as a waste product.
There are a few issues I can see with that though, mostly economic. One is the future of subsides (e.g. field margins and not cutting hedges every year), another is the cost (shredding wood is not cheap). I would like to compost turkey guts (or fallen stock) rather than send them away for incineration, but legally that is a non starter without spending a fortune. There are also hedges that can't be left to grow unchecked for years (e.g. alongside roads and stoned tracks), so I still have the cost of some annual hedge trimming.
Chae1
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Atlantic 252?
Hurdle bunter
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Sad day when that disappeared
SilliamWhale
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1995 spice girls wannabe and sting fields of gold. Constantly...
Chae1
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Rose tinted glasses as usual, but reminds me of long hot summers. Crackly radio!
Hurdle bunter
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Baling at the neighbors with their ford 6600 and ih445d small baler (which we bought at their sale eventually)
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Think most on radio or dj's then ither locked up in jail, out of country or dead maybe alledgedly???
yellow belly
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If you notill you have more time to supervise them and train them more
Just showing them how to operate the tractor and leaving them to it as I was expected to know how to do it all at 13 from years of siting on the tool box
Now with gps switching and steering learning how to steer straight or time sprayer and fertiliser on off is not as important
I remember that! Only on radios without VHF... Helped later on when Virgin started...
Get them to count earthworms or identify other soil life?
Ah the memories Atlantic 252 with Sandy beach, phoned in and won the Bruce springclean album "human touch" got a bollarding when the phone bill came, blamed my brother
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