Classics Earning their keep.

[oakleaf]

We used to do tens of thousands of straw bales like that. Then all in a barn on top of the silage right up to the roof.

Likewise

 

[Muddyroads]

Hard work in those days , stacking bales in the top of a barn, especially so in the summer of 1976, when it was so hot and dry. Can anyone else remember those good old days!! The upside was that when my late father bought a new tractor or piece of kit, he could afford to write a cheque out for it, and that was as a tenant farmer. Oh how finance’s have changed.

As a 10 year old in ‘76 I was the smallest on the farm so had the job of packing the last bales tight under the black tin roof of the Dutch barn.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Been there, done that. And bloody loved it!!!

 

[hendrebc]

Been there, done that. And bloody loved it!!!

I've done a bit of it and enjoyed it at the time but no way would I I back to it now
I think being itchy was worse than being hot though.

 

[CPF]

All of you was lucky I use to push wheat sheaves under hot tin roof when we grew wheat for thatching

 

[7610 super q]

Hard work in those days , stacking bales in the top of a barn, especially so in the summer of 1976, when it was so hot and dry. Can anyone else remember those good old days!! The upside was that when my late father bought a new tractor or piece of kit, he could afford to write a cheque out for it, and that was as a tenant farmer. Oh how finance’s have changed.

Apparently, back in '77 if you had 20 acre, and you're neighbour had 43, you could group together and buy a brand new combine harvester....

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Ooh arh ooh arh…..

 

[Lincsman]

Apparently, back in '77 if you had 20 acre, and you're neighbour had 43, you could group together and buy a brand new combine harvester....

About £9k got you a brand new NH1530 with 10' cut.

We made ours do 300 acres though, back in the day a combine could do more than a weeks work/ year.

 

[Pilatus]

All of you was lucky I use to push wheat sheaves under hot tin roof when we grew wheat for thatching

Oh well I hope your hard work has enabled you to buy the car in your Avatar

 

[Lakes Nash]

Oh well I hope your hard work has enabled you to buy the car in your Avatar

Need a fair few roofs I would think for one of those,

 

[Lowland1]

About £9k got you a brand new NH1530 with 10' cut.

We made ours do 300 acres though, back in the day a combine could do more than a weeks work/ year.

£60.000 today. My uncle replaced our M reg 1530 with a new one for the 1977 harvest first round he hit a telegraph pole so swapped for a new 1545 being flush with cash from the 1976 potato crop.

 

[7610 super q]

About £9k got you a brand new NH1530 with 10' cut.

We made ours do 300 acres though, back in the day a combine could do more than a weeks work/ year.

300 acres ? were you some sort of barley baron, hobnobbing with the likes of David Richardson on Farming Dairy every Sunday ?

 

[Farmer Brendan]

Picture of Massey Ferguson with the Chain Harrow in 2004.

Picture of Contractors Making Hay in 2004.

Picture of MF 35 about to collect Hay with trailer in 2004.

 

[Lowland1]

300 acres ? were you some sort of barley baron, hobnobbing with the likes of David Richardson on Farming Dairy every Sunday ?

Obviously a close personal friend of Oliver Walston.

 

[Soon_60]

So this is a a JD 2040S from 1987.
The first owner got the stickers replaced for 2650 to make neighbors more jealous.

I'm now the third owner and got we also the Amazone sprayer from the second owner some 4 years ago.

This Deere did get up to 4000 hrs just some days ago. Came to me at about 3200 hrs.

Years have made their things and some rubber hoses and gasket issues have happened, but other than than that it has been ok.

Slow on the road, but I only farm in near home.

Trimble EZ-Steer fits perfectly to the long steering column and RTK keeps it well enough between the beet rows.

 

[Lincsman]

300 acres ? were you some sort of barley baron, hobnobbing with the likes of David Richardson on Farming Dairy every Sunday ?

Not at all!... the cropping was all sorts, winter barley and wheat, spring bean, oats, later years OSR and sugar beet, thing is the combine stopped for a lunch Hour, hardly ever worked with lights, yes crops were lighter but why does it take so much more power and rushing about nowadays to do the same job?

 

[Scholsey]

Holiday for the old girl, usually mauling a strawblower about the yards.

 

[Martyn]

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Holiday for the old girl, usually mauling a strawblower about the yards.

Maize or fodder beet?

 

[Scholsey]

Maize or fodder beet?

Fodder beet

 

[Deerefarmer]

Still working here locally....don't see too many around here