Deadstock transport. Good image for farming?

Hilly

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My mate who was knacker man had a home made grab on tele for unloading his trailer, when lambing live was on he made a vid of himself unloading his trailer load of lambs with this grab that things hung off called it the Real Lambing live and put ot on youtube :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: i didnt think he would but he did it was not nice to say the least.
 

Henarar

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Livestock Farmer
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I remember a few years ago an artic passing through Newtown taking a load to burn or whatever, having to brake suddenly and his load slurped out over the front of the trailer, on to the cab and down the front on to the road. Think the cops struggled to clear that one up and got the council in to do it.
one done that not far from here, the near liquid stuff he was carrying went over the top of the cab and took the back window out of the car in front and filled the car up, the woman driver wasn't to happy, they had to close the road as it was like an ice rink, took them hours to clean it up
 

Hilly

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one done that not far from here, the near liquid stuff he was carrying went over the top of the cab and took the back window out of the car in front and filled the car up, the woman driver wasn't to happy, they had to close the road as it was like an ice rink, took them hours to clean it up
Bah !
 

Hilly

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When things like dead stock are hidden away out of veiw knackery not shown not talked about etc etc etc etc sometime in the future when everyone who is not involved with livestock forgets about the harsh reality's of livestock ie dead stock it gives some skankey journo an opportunity for a story to bash us with again, where as if its out there for all to see they accept it and are fine with it after all its a fact of life, if its hidden forgotten about swept under the carpet etc it would shock some,alot !. The biggest shock is where it all end`s up ! take 5quid notes for example.
 
Wow!, a most interesting thread; it brings back many distant memories.

Many years ago, in my youth and before bio-security introductions, I worked for a company called "Granox". A great many fallen stock, destroyed animals, and beasts from many other sources passed through the factory gates. Company waggons all passed through the town and no one could see into the high sided tippers but you could sure smell that they had passed by; even after some considerable time had passed.

Cows, sheep, pigs, horses, cats, dogs, and even zoo animals all showed up in the loads to be processed and turned into high protein animal feed stuffs to be sold back to you good folk via the feed mills. I once picked up the lower end of a horses front leg and discovered that it was still fitted with an aluminium racing plate. Poor bugger mustn't have run fast enough!
 

Woolgatherer

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I'm with Mrs Red Fred on this. I'm not precious at all and I've lambed sheep for too many years to be unrealistic about death of farm animals, but I do believe that our animals should be treated with and given every respect. To me, the public "display" of that dead cow, upside down as if it's been thrown in just gives a bad impression of farmers. Most people who work with livestock do care about their welfare and their ultimate end and I think this should be the image that the general public should get. I don't think that we should underestimate people either, being condescending about what our customers understand won't do us any favours either. They're not stupid just because they live in a built up area!
 
I'm with Mrs Red Fred on this. I'm not precious at all and I've lambed sheep for too many years to be unrealistic about death of farm animals, but I do believe that our animals should be treated with and given every respect. To me, the public "display" of that dead cow, upside down as if it's been thrown in just gives a bad impression of farmers. Most people who work with livestock do care about their welfare and their ultimate end and I think this should be the image that the general public should get. I don't think that we should underestimate people either, being condescending about what our customers understand won't do us any favours either. They're not stupid just because they live in a built up area!

Sadly, most of us townies are sleepwalking into oblivion and it sometimes takes something to jar us awake to what is going on around us. Most of us just can't associate the lamb and mint sauce on our dinner plates with a wooly four legged creature in a field of green. Or the rest of the contents on the plate with back breaking dawns, producing all that green stuff.

We are mostly uneducated about the real facts of food production and the hardships of those who produce it. Fortunately no one has started producing "Solent Green" yet! Or have they?
 
Good to hear from the "other side". Best friend from younger years met his wife travelling. Real city girl who had not eaten meat for 30 years. Was keen, or talked into after a few beers, to help lambing during her easter holidays, she was a teacher. Was apprehensive of the odd smelly lambs and likely dead ewe etc etc. She was great, the best lambing help we ever had, could deal with death/ nature / reality, hated intensive farming, thought sheep were farmed like high yielding holsteins, as was all beef, im no model farm but after her lambing experience she tried to eat meat. Body rejected it, until she fell pregnant when she desired it. Funny how the body knows best. Do you think "townies" should know more, be able to see a birth on lambing live where lambs die and mum doesn't make it? Not to be horrible and hopefully the minority birth but open up the reality of nature/ farming?
 
I personally thnk that it is all a matter of balance. Us townies should know the true value and the cost of putting the food on our plates.

I came to the forum by accident and have been on a steep learning curve ever since. I was dismayed by the toll levied on the farming communites by supermarkets, banks, and the "stock market". Open eyed by the problems of getting ai just right; and the dangers of keeping bulls had me shaking in my boots.

Shocked by dog attacks on sheep I posted some graphic pictures on one of my regular visits to a none farming site and had my post removed within hours as being too graphic and children may see them.

I have read and absorbed enough stories in here that would knock "Emmerdale" into a cocked hat. Perhaps the great British public just aren't ready for the true stories of farming folk; both their highs, and their lows.

I have always been a meat eater and as long as it is written on the packet and I get to decide if I should buy it or not. I don't care if it's beef, lamb, horse, or kangaroo. Not sure uf I could manage cat or dog though! Perhaps I already have eaten unmentionables along with the Tesco "horse burgers". Cosidering that the press stated that East European gangsters were perhaps linked to the recyling of horse meat into the beef trade, I was surprised that no one pressed to have the supplies checked for cat, dog, and even human dna. Any one for Solent Green, or veg?.

Looking forward to Open Farm Sunday.:)
 

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