Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops

These farmers on you YouTube are good, we all have a neighbors like them. Farmer Phil is the one who is out all hours and always struggling, olly blogs is the one getting on in life, dove farms are the good farmers of the parish and olly farm is the twit whose inherited the farm and has as much work in him as a dead goat!
Farmer Phil seems not to be too fond of the early morning starts and are more like vampires come out when it gets dark. Olly blogs seems to are real hard goer and trying something new doesn’t seem to worry him and fair play to him. The other olly watched a couple of minutes of two videos and that was it for me, twit.
 

Agriimark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Just watched ollys farm whilst searching for a video on how to make my tractor faster, is he for real or acting? 😂 cant possibly think that tractors now quicker from changing km to mph, then said about having a fastrac to 🙈 moves bales for no reason and looking at the hours on the jd he does no more than 2 hours a day. But needs to go over 50 k everywhere as his big in the game. Lads a effin idiot. . Being polite with the words ive used may i add 😂
 

Cheesehead

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
Just watched ollys farm whilst searching for a video on how to make my tractor faster, is he for real or acting? 😂 cant possibly think that tractors now quicker from changing km to mph, then said about having a fastrac to 🙈 moves bales for no reason and looking at the hours on the jd he does no more than 2 hours a day. But needs to go over 50 k everywhere as his big in the game. Lads a effin idiot. . Being polite with the words ive used may i add 😂
I wondered too it is hard to say, especially given the number of people who thought Andy from Farming Fixing and Fabrication was serious about welding a semi wheel back together and sticking it on a tanker. But I don't know the way he said it makes me question it not that I watched the whole video I think I managed 30 seconds of the MF and two long minutes of that before hitting close.

Hour wise on a stock farm I can understand it somewhat as it varies greatly here our loader has about a 1000 to 1500 put on it each year depending if we killed it. While the tractors vary the 4600 probably doesn't do much more than 50 as it basically is used as a run around now and to take the sheep and lambs out during lambing the other two more but nowhere near the level of the loader as they each have their own jobs and don't run every day while the loader usually does but there are still weeks that are purely just stock work that that we won't turn the key on one.
 

Chieftain

Member
Mixed Farmer
Its is some set up, everything is kept in excellent order. I think I've made the right move
I couldn't quite grasp from your video, is your job doing the mixing all year round or is that just something to do between arable work? Pretty decent hours by the sounds of it too, seems like your last place were working you into the ground a bit? If you're washing kit off every day every day it's certainly being kept in good order.
 
I couldn't quite grasp from your video, is your job doing the mixing all year round or is that just something to do between arable work? Pretty decent hours by the sounds of it too, seems like your last place were working you into the ground a bit? If you're washing kit off every day every day it's certainly being kept in good order.
The guy who normally did mixer wagon is the cow man, Iam doing it 3 days a week because hes busy vaccinating, tb testing, pd cows, and various other jobs in the run upto calving and once calving starts he needs to be with the cows. As soon as we can get on the land I will be busy with fert and spraying as well as feeding. We are all expected to keep things washed and well maintained, cabs swept out windows cleaned if needed at the end of everyday. Always felt bloody knackered everyday in last job wasnt enough work home life balance
 

Chieftain

Member
Mixed Farmer
The guy who normally did mixer wagon is the cow man, Iam doing it 3 days a week because hes busy vaccinating, tb testing, pd cows, and various other jobs in the run upto calving and once calving starts he needs to be with the cows. As soon as we can get on the land I will be busy with fert and spraying as well as feeding. We are all expected to keep things washed and well maintained, cabs swept out windows cleaned if needed at the end of everyday. Always felt bloody knackered everyday in last job wasnt enough work home life balance
That sounds good then, you can't beat a mix of livestock and arable work to keep the job interesting. I know I'd soon lose enthusiasm doing your old hours, there's a point where you've got to say enough is enough if you're being overworked and if your old boss wasn't having it then I'm glad you quit with them. I wish you luck in getting settled in and enjoying work.
 

aangus

Member
Location
cumbria
The guy who normally did mixer wagon is the cow man, Iam doing it 3 days a week because hes busy vaccinating, tb testing, pd cows, and various other jobs in the run upto calving and once calving starts he needs to be with the cows. As soon as we can get on the land I will be busy with fert and spraying as well as feeding. We are all expected to keep things washed and well maintained, cabs swept out windows cleaned if needed at the end of everyday. Always felt bloody knackered everyday in last job wasnt enough work home life balance
Did you ever get married?
 

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