diary of a comedy sheep farm

[spin cycle]

Sod that for a game of soldier!!! Lifting beet this last couple of years has been enough of a ball ache without fudging about moving sheep, chasing sheep, doing all things sheepy.

Long live the flail topper

and thats why there's no money in beet....you lads are lazy.......consider this.....the reason lifting beet is a 'ball ache' is because BS has got you all mesmerised by 'just in time harvesting' meaning you often ignore good lifting conditions cos haulier isn't due

if you've a clamp of 100t i bet you don't loose more than 1% sugar/month.....thats 1t/sugar or 6t beet....£120....this is easily saved feeding tops or going in better conditions....or lifting your own beet

going thru windrowing tops ahead of the harvester and selling the 'tack' for ewe keep should earn you £14/t

flail toppers arn't cheap to run

 

[Will 1594]

You know why spin wont put a pic up ,of his ,digger




















cause its one of these

 

[spin cycle]

'jdp'......my initials jd....and plant p..........you've rumbled my new sideline...jdplant


you'll get photo's plus a chance to name her once i'm less fraught

 

[Will 1594]

'jdp'......my initials jd....and plant p..........you've rumbled my new sideline...jdplant


you'll get photo's plus a chance to name her once i'm less fraught

Dilraba dilmurat

 

[robbie]

and thats why there's no money in beet....you lads are lazy.......consider this.....the reason lifting beet is a 'ball ache' is because BS has got you all mesmerised by 'just in time harvesting' meaning you often ignore good lifting conditions cos haulier isn't due

if you've a clamp of 100t i bet you don't loose more than 1% sugar/month.....thats 1t/sugar or 6t beet....£120....this is easily saved feeding tops or going in better conditions....or lifting your own beet

going thru windrowing tops ahead of the harvester and selling the 'tack' for ewe keep should earn you £14/t

flail toppers arn't cheap to run

I'm probably the exception to the rule but I lift my own so have full control over when to lift for the best ground conditions and I have a very good haulier who'll come when we want(give or take) and take a few loads if that's all we've lifted, many won't and only want 30 load minimum heaps at a time.

I'm not sure how I could get a modern type harvester to windrow tops that and I'll be buggered if I'm going back to a single row armer.

 

[spin cycle]

I'm probably the exception to the rule but I lift my own so have full control over when to lift for the best ground conditions and I have a very good haulier who'll come when we want(give or take) and take a few loads if that's all we've lifted, many won't and only want 30 load minimum heaps at a time.

I'm not sure how I could get a modern type harvester to windrow tops that and I'll be buggered if I'm going back to a single row armer.

i know you do...grazing in situ would work well on your ground i think....BUT you've got pigs so enough to do......if you don't want an armer you could.....always go back to a standen

 

[Sharpy]

i still lurch crisis to crisis.....get depressed about it sometimes.......very different to my arable past

Its just farming breeding stock Spin, the fact that you have to deal with problems instantly (particularly obstetrics) can make small things major sources of stress and worry. I personally don't think I could cope with the carnage of a major lambing.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

i know you do...grazing in situ would work well on your ground i think....BUT you've got pigs so enough to do......if you don't want an armer you could.....always go back to a standen

Do you know where there's one in a hedge spin???

 

[johnb5555]

Plan Plan

You have a plan

I take my hat off to you, Spin - we just lurch from one crisis to another here

A plan as cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University

 

[Flat 10]

Do you know where there's one in a hedge spin???

Why aren’t you using it then?!

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Why aren’t you using it then?!

It's seen "better" days

I'm slowing clearing up where it's hidden. Trees growing through it etc! James saw it last time he came as I'd uncovered it's resting place

 

[spin cycle]

caught a bitta break ....last nights check and all quiet.....was able to go to sleep early safe in the knowledge my wisdom about beet top utilisation had been imparted albeit to an ungrateful audience......woke at ten to six ....clothes over pjs.....lambing shed....all quiet.......straight to the drill....fettlin....experimented by taking seed pipes out of holders thus converting to broadcast drill

drilled an awkward corner which is gonna be a paddock for strawbs.....25kg did acre and half....16kg/ac.......back to yard 8:30am and filled drill.....K there to take charge....i'm off drilling......10am admiral comes get me....ewe had one but just head on second showing.....i get there....push head back...get legs forward but head disappears...in the end i try my left hand and head has slipped down to left......manipulate out ok....a grateful ewe deposits coupla pints of ectoplasm fluid on my left knee

back drilling my trouser slowly dries and an 'aroma' develops just as and ad for home covoid testing just comes on radio based on the 'loss of smell symptom' i'm completely clear.....get on well and just headlands by late lunchtime

after lunch pull up headlands and drill.....drill off and about to put fert spreader on when i spot hurdler in distress.....fekkin breach.....but comes out ok.....a grateful ewe deposits coupla pints of ectoplasmic fluid on my right knee

trousers in wash....me off for bath....bhuna ordered

finally had a little look at new digger handbook at lunchtime...'gleeting value customer you make good luck choice johnny boy buying xn08 digger'......i mustn't critiscise cos i couldna write mandarin.....but when i got to 'pump nipple daily with slippy lube' i thought i'd save the rest of the read for another day

 

[primmiemoo]

You washed your lambing trousers?

One of the greatest labour saving elements of lambing time is the point from which the trousers stand up by themselves, letting the shepherd leap into them with a single bound in the style of Wallace!

 

[redsloe]

You washed your lambing trousers?

One of the greatest labour saving elements of lambing time is the point from which the trousers stand up by themselves, letting the shepherd leap into them with a single bound in the style of Wallace!

Exactly my thought! What makes spin think tomorrow maybe different?
I actually like the smell of drying ectoplasm. Sweet.
Did you wear your pjs all day?

 

[Lodekka]

Well there’s an eclectic mix of statements...

I think I may have joined an alternative universe with people who ....

A) Bare their torso at passing tractor driving women
B) Like the smell of drying sheep afterbirth
C) Ah So - new digger love you long time if you use plenty lube on nipples -you velly handsome one!
D) Plus, the unheard of situation of actually washing clothes.

The only sanity was the Bhuna...

Happy Easter all..

 

[primmiemoo]

☘ [easter eggs emojis]

 

[Will 1594]

Spin botly .
500 getting a roasting today
And one mongrel
Other 250. Just been out. Been chewing a bit of wheat , then 5 decide to jump ditch and get stuck

 

[spin cycle]

drilled up for now .....only about 100 ewes to lamb...resta april's gonna feel like a holiday......finally some family time...roast tea

whipped round with camera for quick entry

 

[Tomr10]

Did you have to put digger together yourself



They look like there worth a punt for the money

 

[spin cycle]

Did you have to put digger together yourself



They look like there worth a punt for the money

no all assembled...greased...full of fuel