90s music memory's my youth and cultivations

[tr250]

back on topic a bit now. When I went to college we had lessons on ploughing etc and this was my specialist subject and have done a lot of ploughing from a reasonably young age and took huge pride in it. But it's a dieing art should we be teaching young uns the art or not and direct drillers would you sacrifice a field to let students etc get some experience?

 

[clbarclay]

Feeling a little cynical today?

I take an optimistic view that this digital age is going to end up just like the tower of babel.

Only in jest.

For my sins (not leaving home and getting a proper job.) I am involved with scouting. Given the opportunity to gut a salmon, shot an air rifle or play wide games in woodland undergrowth and kids are up for it. However I do wonder if some of the scouts do anything other than play on a computer all day when left to their own devices.

 

[oil barron]

Buy a barrel spreader to spread your magic compost. You could get through the entire Atlantic 252 catalogue (5 songs) just waiting for the barsteward to start.

I have very emotional memories spreading muck on Christmas Eve with Mad World just getting to number one.

 

[martian]

Er wasnt that called an Oxen?

No...it's an ox or lots of oxen

message sent from pedant's corner

 

[martian]

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.

I completely agree about hedges, with apologies for going a bit OT, keeping them trimmed takes a ridiculous amount of time and effort. We bought one of those NCD tree shears for our 360 (well we've bought two now strictly speaking, the first one was nicked within a few days, but that is another story) and we can now coppice hedges much more quickly than trimming them, which opens up all sorts of possibilities. Leaving the felled hedge for a few months and then chipping the dried out wood yielded some fantastic fuel for our biomass boilers at a fraction of the cost of buying in chip. If you can arsed to do the paperwork you can get £4.50 a metre for coppicing from the CS scheme.

 

[Chae1]

back on topic a bit now. When I went to college we had lessons on ploughing etc and this was my specialist subject and have done a lot of ploughing from a reasonably young age and took huge pride in it. But it's a dieing art should we be teaching young uns the art or not and direct drillers would you sacrifice a field to let students etc get some experience?

Should teach him the art, when glyphosate gets banned he may need it again.

 

[rusty]

Going to show my age now: everything used to stop for Simon Bates “our tune” 10.30 on radio 1. Replaced ny Ken Bruce and Pop Master these days!

Always remember an old chap who used to help us out part time always commenting when 'Our Tune' came on, "If she had kept her knickers on it would never have happened". Most times he was right!

 

[Billboy1]

Baker Street Jerry rafferty rolling on a mf 135 the speaker on the mud guard held by its own magnet

 

[Billboy1]

Edit Cambridge rolling wheat in the spring biggest job was getting the pups hitched up

 

[puntabrava]

Oh ? and why did he give up on it baby… ?

Have edited that post for you.

 

[SMID]

Going back to the late 70s I wasnt content with just a radio had a stereo cassette player as well used to copy anything popular from the top 30 on a Sunday night onto c90 cassettes , neighbour was out at 3 am wondering where the music was coming from ,,,,, me 1/2 mile away ploughing,,,,, a 590 with the back window open makes a great megaphone apparently

 

[Bury the Trash]

Have edited that post for you.

Wrong decade, that was David Soul in the Seventies....and it was us, not it..........

 

[glasshouse]

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

I remember Robin Banks, not sandy beach on atlantic 252
I always remember the day john lennon got shot, they played beetles all day, ploughing on an ih 674 with a big carry radio balanced on the lower window

 

[David_A]

Put the apprentice on the drill to sow cover crops... mistakes will.be less costly but will still be a valuable lesson. Progress from there.

 

[David.]

You youngsters, everyone knows ploughing at night only worked if tuned into 208.
Roadless 118 growling away in the night, Luxembourg on the wireless, jumpers for goal posts.....

 

[Mursal]

Great thread ...............

 

[jondear]

Sad day when that disappeared

It disappeared most of the time when trying to listen on LW!

 

[Dukes Fit]

Was only alternative to local radio station northsound. Always remember going to royal Welsh show and being delighted getting radio 1 on fm down south.

Last song I remember being played on 252 was OMC How Bizarre, drove me bonkers playing it every 14 minutes lol!

Northsound 1 on weekend nights is pretty good these days.

 

[Chae1]

Last song I remember being played on 252 was OMC How Bizarre, drove me bonkers playing it every 14 minutes lol!

Northsound 1 on weekend nights is pretty good these days.

George bowies pretty good.

 

[jondear]

Too unlimited .No.no.no. no no no no no no there's no limits! always on !