Cutting the Wrong Field

[ARW]

a contractor went to ted out our hay and got in the wrong field, I went to check and our field was still in rows while next door was spread out nicely
One of our swather drivers on night shift swathed the wrong field, the farmer got there in the morning with a full tank to decicate and found his rape flat to the floor
One year hedgecutting I was told to cut all the wheat stubble fields, you will know which ones as we are spraying them off today, they also sprayed one off for a neighbour but didn’t tell me that!
I was contracted to go and top a little paddock that’s going to be built on, I was given a map and a gate code, I went a topped this little 3 acre, that night the farmer turned up with his mower to make hay to find a topped field and a locked gate! wasn’t my fault, the developers got the wrong field and locked somebody else’s gate!

 

[TripleSix]

The ploughman where I worked had to be kept an eye on when ploughing for potatoes. He'd been known to plough the wrong field.

 

[Exfarmer]

One of my first jobs after passing my test, was to go and mow a field we had bought a standing crop of grass. Fathe told me the name of the farmer, I knew them well through YFC about 5 milesaway. I was told to go and drive to the yard and wait for the farmer to turn up and show me the field. I had to hang about for an hour, impatient to get going , but no body knew except the farmer who had gone out. Eventually he turned up looking very puzzled as he had not sold any grass. Could not get hold of my father but then rang his cousin who had been hanging around waiting for me. Same name, same farm name, ten miles away in the opposite direction
Thankfully had not started cutting any grass, but of course was in trouble as was late home

 

[startinghandle]

I know someone who had been out drinking come home and got in bed with his mother in law

 

[Al R]

I know someone who fertilised 150 acre at the wrong farm
I’ve taken silage to the wrong farm which were also on silage after catching up a silage trailer in the distance which was with the same contractors on a really long haul and the silage pits were on farms next door to each other with fields intertwined so hard to tell which forager and which farm to head to
I’ve cut the wrong field of wheat but in my defence one of the farm workers guided me in there with the header and I didn’t question it, 10+ miles from the farm and it was the field next door

 

[towbar]

Was a short distance from home one day and security camera alert, watched in dismay as an oil lorry delivered heating oil to me that I hadn’t ordered. Problem was I don’t have an oil tank we burn wood pellet so he topped up my water tank in garage with 80litres and popped an invoice in the door. We had being frantically trying to contact him. Luckily got home 10 mins later and closed valve before any made it into house. Oil was 500l for next door.

 

[puppet]

I know someone who had been out drinking come home and got in bed with his mother in law

Possibly more common than ploughing the wrong field.

 

[Kidds]

Many years ago we grew a lot of strawberries under low level plastic cloches.
Was told to go and help uncle open them for spraying, we opened about an acre of them, all by hand of course.
We were ever so pleased with ourselves until we were told it was the wrong field. Uncle had got it wrong.

Not a massive problem but it did mean we had to shut it all again which is a back breaking PITA. I still think he should have shut them not me.

 

[farmerm]

Perhaps just Chinese whispers but I once heard rumors there was a tractor and trailer that spent a day collecting loads from a spud harvester that never arrived back in the yard in which rest of that crop was delivered... no idea if it was by accident or intent

 

[traineefarmer]

We had a 10ha EFA field that was given a dose of lime in the early hours one morning. Never did find out who or where it should have gone.

 

[Tarw Coch]

I know someone who had been out drinking come home and got in bed with his mother in law

Things people have done whilst under the influence is a whole another topic.

 

[Exfarmer]

Possibly more common than ploughing the wrong field.

How many complain?

 

[RmfJ]

Possibly more common than ploughing the wrong field.

Sounds like drilling in the wrong field!

 

[horace]

None of these were done by me but all true. All done by contractors.

Cousin turns up with a quadrant to bale a field, not raked. Rake was a mile up the road and had raked 7 acres that was destined for conventional bales with a 28 foot twin rotor rake.

22 acre field mown, raked, chopped and clamped by a contractor, field rented by another contractor who found out the day before he was going to be cutting it. He never did find out how much damage was done to the mower that went through the unmarked manhole. Manhole was a mess though!!!

Same contractor as story above. Carting grass in, drive past a 25ac field on the way to the clamp ( Long draw)
Why is there a JD and 4 rotor Claas rake in there? (He had 2x4 rotor rakes of his own)
Nearby contractor whose brother farmed nearby had decided to rake it! They should have known because it was second cut and same land has been farmed by both for 20+ years!

 

[Exfarmer]

Perhaps just Chinese whispers but I once heard rumors there was a tractor and trailer that spent a day collecting loads from a spud harvester that never arrived back in the yard in which rest of that crop was delivered... no idea if it was by accident or intent

I have heard that story too, but more local here. I think it cannot be true, to have been happening all day as someone would surely have noticed, it probably has happened with the odd load though, possibly many times.
When you see the boys silage carting, there I do think there is plenty of room for hanky panky.

 

[organicguy]

Not the wrong field but neighbour was drilling at night with Lely? twin hopper drill. Filled up in dark, put barley in one hopper and wheat in the other!

 

[Steel]

A couple of years ago while harvesting wheat, a truck I did not know drove into the paddock. I rang our truck driver to see who he had sub contracting, as he did when busy. Luckily I got him and he told me there was nobody else coming. I was able to tell the driver he was on the wrong farm instead of filling him with wheat.

I do worry at times as we harvest at night until we are full up and the truck driver takes the load early in the morning to be waiting to deliver it when the silo opens. It would be easy for a truck to go to the wrong farm and load up and we would not know who had taken the grain.

 

[2wheels]

I know someone who had been out drinking come home and got in bed with his mother in law

did he?

 

[2wheels]

The acid spaying gang were told to spray off the first field of tates after they'd gone under the motorway bridge.

Unfortunately they had come from the opposite direction to what the farmer had thought and sprayed off next door's tates instead

way back in the late 60s i worked for a spraying contractor. the rep said go to so & so farm and burn off (acid) the field on the right side as you go up the road. i turned up the signposted road and proceeded to spray the tatties in full view of two guys building a corn stack. couple of days later the rep says go back and spray the correct field. turns out there were 2 farms up the same road and rep neglected to say it was the second one. the first one was quite happy to get his done for free.

 

[Fellstoflats]

On a similar note, when the farm we tenant was put up for sale, we discovered we'd been paying rent for a quarter of a villager's garden for time immemorial..