Drought buster

[yellow belly]

How To bust the drought

all combines out on the yard spout out header on cab door open Keys in ignition
barbecue for next Friday Inviting one neighbour and relayed on zoom
This week all talk on tff about the impending lack of harvesting And how the dryer will be redundent and all the fuel in stock will not be needed
it usually rains when every one gives up all hope of a change
i cannot see it changing till August

 

[davidroberts30]

I mowed hay?‍

 

[farmerm]

we need an emergency drought committee to be assembled, that will surely do the trick

 

[Chae1]

Our grass is ready for first cut. Should have cut it Saturday, forecast looks rubbish from Tuesday onwards.

 

[e3120]

all combines out on the yard spout out header on cab door open Keys in ignition

Tank lid must be open as well

 

[Devil's advocate]

Our grass is ready for first cut. Should have cut it Saturday, forecast looks rubbish from Tuesday onwards.

Depends on your perspective

 

[Steevo]

Tank lid must be open as well

and a few loaded trailers left in the field overnight at the end of the day.

 

[DrWazzock]

My car door window has stuck fully open so its bound to rain now.

 

[teslacoils]

New roof going on house tomorrow....or rather old roof coming off.

 

[Barleymow]

Combine been outside with header on since Thursday

 

[PSQ]

New roof going on house tomorrow....or rather old roof coming off.

Torrential rain on the way, guaranteed.

- July 2012:

24 hours later a ceiling collapsed under the weight of pooled water leaking through in a downpour. Thankfully it’s one of those jobs you should only do once in a lifetime. Good luck...

 

[Steevo]

New roof going on house tomorrow....or rather old roof coming off.

That’s a good point. I’ve got an old barn due to be repaired shortly but delayed due to virus. Would be cracking weather for it at the moment. Soon as the tiles come off the rain will start.....and that will probably be harvest time knowing how things work.

The drought will only stop when none of us needs the rain any more.

 

[melted welly]

Having put it off until as much water is on the end rigs as the actual crop, I’ve finally got all the bits required to repair our leaky irrigators.

They’ll be in the workshop tomorrow and ready to start again Wednesday morning so expect heavy rain covering most of north east Scotland.

 

[Manny]

The weather is waiting for the first hose pipe ban to come in!

 

[yellow belly]

The weather is waiting for the first hose pipe ban to come in!

Lobby for a hose pipe ban

 

[bankrupt]

Lobby for a hose pipe ban

Hose pipe ban went on for weeks and weeks and was completely ineffective here in 1976.

The eventual Drought Buster turned out to be the Tug-of-War scheduled between our lot and next door parish's best pub's finest for 4pm on Sat Sept 18th.

We'd been in training for weeks and weeks under adverse conditions of drought and severe thirst, only to have the competition cancelled at the last minute due to Health and Safety.

Have to admit that a sudden 4" of rain on grassless turf had made it a little bit slippery but, nevertheless, given the chance we'd surely have slaughtered 'em.

 

[farmerm]

Of course once the rain starts it might stay again... what crops have survived to this point will then get ravaged by Septoria, Fusarium etc etc and have to be combined at 20% moisture.... We should be careful what we wish for...

 

[yellow belly]

Put the combines away and batten the hatches down
prepare for floods

 

[Dukes Fit]

Having put it off until as much water is on the end rigs as the actual crop, I’ve finally got all the bits required to repair our leaky irrigators.

They’ll be in the workshop tomorrow and ready to start again Wednesday morning so expect heavy rain covering most of north east Scotland.

Been raining here since 12 this afternoon.....
Thanks for that, I wanted to take the bike to Inverness, gonna have to take the van now.

 

[Try to succeed]

I know it’s going to rain here tomorrow as started digging footings for house, and ordered concrete for Thursday. Thank me later