Farmers earn more from YouTube than their crops
- Thread starter Bogweevil
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kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
The trouble with drivers doing their own stuff is some know what they’re doing some make a problem worse, All the H&S rules and compliance mean things need done right with a paper trail.Lorry driving has changed a lot in last 20yrs, tractor driving less so. Dare I say, truckers have become more “professional” in that they are under far more scrutiny now, be it driving standards or the paperwork side, and they tend to do less of the manual maintenance side involved in keeping a lorry on the road, thus a poorer understanding of that side.
increasing majority of modern truckers now lack basic maintenance skills, they’re more like train drivers, turn up to drive and the maintenance is done when they’re away home. Our lads used to service their own units, but that interferes with mandatory days off so it’s done for them, now some can’t even do a tail/marker light bulb themselves and wouldn’t know what a grease gun does.
Had a chap in last year for 27.5t of potatoes, when I was loading him I noticed on the offside of his drive axle he had 4 studs sheared and of the remainder only 2 weren’t slack. He didn’t even know where the wheel brace was on his MAN, had to google it for him. Then we got the tyre fitters for him coz he didn’t know what to do and thought he’d just chance it home, loaded (Tayside to Yorkshire).
Tractor drivers tend to be more practically minded, but I’m friendly with a couple of guys from the other side of the service counter and they despair at some of the easily solved jobs they get because drivers, and owners can’t/won’t do rudimentary diagnoses.
You can often get away with it on a farm but on the road not so much.
Jemma’s quite a good example of a driver taking an interest in her truck always nice when you get to drive the same truck all the time.
Talking of Ag service, someone on here said the other day they’d asked their dealer to come and show them how to change the blades on a mower. Not just employees who struggle.
s line
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- Location
- Gloucestershire uk
He then spreads it into his new car lagoon.
I think he spreads onto his maize ground
- Location
- DD9.
Nothing annoys me more than the call “there’s a warning light on”
What for?
“Dunno”
Have you checked the book?
“No, what page do I look at?”
I’ll just come over, need me to bring any bogroll to wipe your arse with while I’m there?
Used to have a chap who’d call up to report a “funny noise” and upon further questioning would almost always admit he hadn’t actually got off the seat to investigate yet. Had me drive 20mins to plug in a control box once cause he was totally baffled, despite it being “his” machine on “his” tractor that he’d already been using for a week.
- Location
- South lakes
Tom thinks his new grease gun is the bIzz! wonder if he listens for the grease or just thinks it’s done, 
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
See if you'd a fancy tractor with machine link you'd see the error on your phone and save yourself a journey and some toilet roll!
Or could go back to dark ages and get a picture of error messages and send them on phone!
She will be
With the wet weather plus general downturn in construction, quite a few plant operators are probably on zero presently
whitefox
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- central scotland(the very wet bit)
I watched a bit of Cammy (the sheep game) on farmflix this morning, about 800+lambing ewes,he said he didn't actually know how many acres he has sheep on, but that his annual rent was 80k!!!,I didn't watch much more after that,as I couldn't see the point
If he’s spending £100 a ewe for some of the grass he rents he’s a bigger fool than he looks.I watched a bit of Cammy (the sheep game) on farmflix this morning, about 800+lambing ewes,he said he didn't actually know how many acres he has sheep on, but that his annual rent was 80k!!!,I didn't watch much more after that,as I couldn't see the point
Dave6170
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- Watten, caithness
Surely he can’t be paying that much? Unless he is getting the sfp on it?I watched a bit of Cammy (the sheep game) on farmflix this morning, about 800+lambing ewes,he said he didn't actually know how many acres he has sheep on, but that his annual rent was 80k!!!,I didn't watch much more after that,as I couldn't see the point
Think he’s up over 1000 ewes now. They took on another bit of ground and bought 300 ewes for it.
Grassman247
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He’s getting 40k grant for the rent, if you keep watching it tells you that
Dave6170
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- Watten, caithness
What do you mean a £40k grant? I don’t have farmflix.
I think he is very good. A natural on camera
I did like the sheep game but is unwatchable now as it’s all one big advert. Probably like Tom pemberton though and aimed at kids as they buy the hats and hoodies.
Anyone who shears sheep deserves all the luck to succeed.
How's it one big advert .....I watch them all and never noticed
Te pari, cf Moto and lick buckets are all he mentions and does who videos on how wonderful they are.
whitefox
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- central scotland(the very wet bit)
I didn't understand that either!....after he said 80k annual rent,I did wonder, how many Galbraith agents, came in their pants!..... with phrases like,"set a new benchmark for the area" looping through their minds
