Cutting the Wrong Field

Scholsey

Member
Location
Herefordshire
I tedded 20 acres for a chap once with a 6 rotor tedder, met his dad coming into the field with his hay bob. Thought it was the right field as little rows and field I was going to was mowed with a 5m alterana that leaves 2 rows, turns out they just mowed it with a little PZ.
 

Gerbert

Member
Location
Dutch biblebelt
I did forget to clear grass on a field a few times. The joys of having a contractor as a neighbour, just put them in round bales and jobs a good one. Keeping in mind I had to clear 30 ish fields averaging 1 hectare a piece it isn't all that bad I guess.
Come to think about it, we did use a field of grass for a couple of years before we came to discover it was the wrong one. I am not 100% on the details, but it comes down to that the owner, a farmer, relocated and either rented out the field or just gave the use away to a contractor. Somehow somewhere things got mixed up (said farmer fell ill so hey) and either said contractor didn't know he got granted the use or he didn't care and the old user of the field we should have been at continued to use "our" field. Either way, no hard feelings from any party and the owner of the field we should have been using in the first place acquired the other field aswell so we did have a laugh about it eventually.
 
Many years ago I sprayed pre-harvest Roundup in a field of VERY couch infested wheat. Field belonged to a peerof the realm who got very snotty when I politely asked if he would stand the cost price of the Roundup.
 
A farming friend of ours saw a tanker driver putting diesel into his tank .. but he had never ordered it.

Ever being the opportunist .. he then asked "What are we going to do about this ?"

The end result being some considerably cheaper diesel he was "Unwilling" to pay for.
 
Bought some straw in the swath and sent contractor to bake it, simple directions, the field on the left of a drive down to a private school, 15 acres.
Had a phone call, how big is this field?
15 acres
I’ve been once around and it’s a lot more than that.
Well 15 I’ve paid for.

He went around once again, and I’m not sure how it came to light but the field had been divided into two lots for auction but wasn’t mentioned at the sale and had been combined as one
 
Location
Cleveland
I was once bailing a field of wheat straw I’d bought in the swath…it got too late to finish it that night so I left the rest till the next day…when I went round to finish it the next afternoon someone had baled it for me…
 

Mur Huwcun

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North West Wales
It’s easy to laugh but there’s nothing worse than cutting unknown fields for customers and double and triple checking your still in the correct ones etc etc!! Around here a lot of farms have gateways from one to another so you can easily be in to next door field!!
 

PostHarvest

Member
Location
Warwick
Not agricultural but - Many years ago, the parish council had been campaigning unsuccessfully for double white lines through the village. One day a crew turned up and painted them. The secretary to the PC phoned the county highways office and thanked them for the long awaited double lines. There was a silence then they asked, you did say Wootton Wawen? - No, Leek Wootton. The double white lines stayed.
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
I went round the my contractor last week to show him all the fields than needed mowing. He rang on Tuesday evening to ask why I had topped 5 acres, someone must have got the wrong farm and topped it, they did a good job with a flail but no idea who it was!
 
I was on a farm bus tour once and was talking to a bloke who was the development manager for a large corporate farm.
They bought about 20 small farms in an area and had a contractor removing fences. He accidentally removed all the fences on a neighbours place. They had to get a fencing contractor in to replace all the old fences with new fences. A year later the company bought that farm as well and pulled out all the new fences they paid to have put in.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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