Don’t listen my dads 80 in Oct still does the sheparding feeds all sheep with a bag. Carts silage does all the rolling goes round the cows at night. But he’s sensible and isn’t afraid to ask and doesn’t go in with cows likes his own tractor etc.Comments in the H&S thread got me thinking as I’m now within a few months of turning 60.
I suppose I am increasingly a bit of a liability.
I won’t drive tractors unless forced to but any machine has to be hitched on for me; Mechanical jobs take me longer as I like to get everything just so - I do most of the slurry scraping and spend hours over it; I can’t milk as the parlour is too fast for me; I can’t roll a cow on my own any more; I refuse to get up at 5am unless we are staff critical; I wear more clothes than anyone else so can’t get through squeeze gaps (might also have something to do with the tum too); I spend longer fussing cows than others; and so on.
But I do do the monthly VAT; I do take some of the fingering; I am generally around the yard when others aren’t; I moan until jobs get done; i am the gofer to the Ag merchants; I am a sounding board even if I get ignored; I get to wear freebies especially beanies ....
Damn it all, I’m not ready to retire thankee