Dress to impress

stroller

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Somerset UK
A good friend of mine went to pick his daughter up from a fairly posh public school, he turned up in the farm pick up complete with a layer of straw/muck in the back topped off with various tools , bits of string and a dead calf, apparently she was so embarrased she wouldn't come out, so he drove off and left her.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Most places of business around here just have a sign on the door asking people to remove muddy boots. Its quite normal to see people walking around shops in clean wellies. You're also just as likely to see folk wandering around in bare feet, which I still haven't fully got used to.
I lived in the US for a while and many of the shops said, No shirt No shoes No service.
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Around here there is one dairy farm which ‘hit’ the local supermarket for scram every morning.

I witnessed them as I parked up to go to the dentist.

They drove in the car park like Starsky and Hutch, three of them got out of a freshish Range Rover wearing gear straight from the parlour including slurry covered flexothane pants and walked in like John Wayne to a bar.

You could imagine a swarm of flies following them inside in the summer.🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰🪰

Fascinating to observe.
 

Ffermer Bach

Member
Livestock Farmer
Quick run around my local supermarket this afternoon. Chap in there wearing red overalls covered in sh1t. Filthy wellington boots and to top it off a dear stalker hat….he was one of our local farmers. Is this reasonable behaviour, walking around in public like a mental patient? I know it’s his job, but I doubt a surgeon would walk around in blood splattered scrubs would he. I’m not suggesting he showers and wears a suit but he could have taken his overalls off and slipped a pair of boots/trainers on his feet.
I worked in the Cotswolds for a grain harvest, working all hours, I used to stop the tractor in Stow on the Wold, nip into the shop and buy my food/supplies (to cook, I was living in a caravan in the farmyard). What would you have me do? Keep a change of clothes in the tractor?
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
I remember walking along the high street and seeing my cousin at the front of the queue at the cash machine. There seemed to be a fair gap between him and the lady behind him in the queue. I said hello as I walked past and noticed his underpants had dropped down out of his shorts onto his wellington tops, skid marks and all.🤣
 
Mum used to say you should always wear clean grundies in case you were knocked down by a car and needed to go to hospital. I was knocked out by a cow during a TB test and was carted off to Salisbury hospital in the ambulance The worst bit of it was the embarrassment of being examined in the clean ward with cows>it up my legs and wearing the normal Beverley hillbillies rags that should have gone on the bonfire.
 

Bruce Almighty

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Warwickshire
I worked in the Cotswolds for a grain harvest, working all hours, I used to stop the tractor in Stow on the Wold, nip into the shop and buy my food/supplies (to cook, I was living in a caravan in the farmyard). What would you have me do? Keep a change of clothes in the tractor?
A grain harvest on the Cotswold brash surely is nothing compared to sh!t / slurry / blood / cleansing etc
 

stroller

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Somerset UK
Mum used to say you should always wear clean grundies in case you were knocked down by a car and needed to go to hospital. I was knocked out by a cow during a TB test and was carted off to Salisbury hospital in the ambulance The worst bit of it was the embarrassment of being examined in the clean ward with cows>it up my legs and wearing the normal Beverley hillbillies rags that should have gone on the bonfire.
My other half often remarks that even a tramp wouldn't wear some of my work clothes.
 
Location
southwest
Mum used to say you should always wear clean grundies in case you were knocked down by a car and needed to go to hospital. I was knocked out by a cow during a TB test and was carted off to Salisbury hospital in the ambulance The worst bit of it was the embarrassment of being examined in the clean ward with cows>it up my legs and wearing the normal Beverley hillbillies rags that should have gone on the bonfire.

I had to go to A&E once after a cow kicked me in the head (explains a lot) knocking me into the slurry channel.

No triage, no waiting, straight in to see a Doctor.
 

Radio

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Radnorshire
When wife worked in the local bank , there would be a couple of wives come in at lambing time in wellies and old coats to make sure everyone knew they had taken time off to be at home lambing. Dressed to impress at all other times though. An old boy going to town used to be told by his wife to change , his answer was if they know me it won’t matter and if they don’t doesn’t matter.
 

slackjawedyokel

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I thought that in this day and age we were all supposed to feel at home in our own skin, and that we should all be able to wear whatever we feel suits our self-image. My self-image is ‘Farmer’, and if any prejudiced folks have a problem with my faded T-shirt and old, faded ex-army combats, they should just have a word with themselves.
 

shumungus

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have no hesitation in wearing work clothes any where there is no shame in our occupation but it is only common courtesy not to take sh!te into someone else's premises especially those that sell food or will have small children about with the chance of them sitting/crawling on the floor occasionally.
Had to stop at a filling station for diesel with the jeep and trailer one evening heading home with a load of heifers, came out of the shop to witness a pee fountain coming out of the side vents over the petrol pump 😳
 
If you went for a post-silaging pint not covered in grease, dust and looking like you were pulled through a hedge backwards.. were you even at the grass that day??

Like how would your neighbours and other patrons of your local otherwise know that you were flat to the mat all day, I would hate for my neighbours to think that I was bluffing and even had time for a shower and a change of clothes.
 

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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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