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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 8201748" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>My grandfathers were true farmers. They knew stock well. They could handle and use horses. To me that appeared to be a higher level of craftsmanship than much we have done since.They were almost truly sustainable and carbon neutral. They could make a wheel from ash wood and all that kind of thing. My father and uncle were more technically minded. But really they kind of lost the stockmanship side of things especially when the dairy farming went. To be honest they moved into machinery and engineering and weren’t particularity interested in agronomy either and for that matter neither am I. I employ a bloke to do that. Is what I do now farming? Not primarily. I’m an amateur machinery technician. A lot of arable farmers are. There isn’t really time anymore to do everything justice as a one or two man band. If I focus on agronomy, machinery maintenance slips. A funny sort of industry really but if I paid a bloke to do the machinery maintenance I’d be bust.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 8201748, member: 2119"] My grandfathers were true farmers. They knew stock well. They could handle and use horses. To me that appeared to be a higher level of craftsmanship than much we have done since.They were almost truly sustainable and carbon neutral. They could make a wheel from ash wood and all that kind of thing. My father and uncle were more technically minded. But really they kind of lost the stockmanship side of things especially when the dairy farming went. To be honest they moved into machinery and engineering and weren’t particularity interested in agronomy either and for that matter neither am I. I employ a bloke to do that. Is what I do now farming? Not primarily. I’m an amateur machinery technician. A lot of arable farmers are. There isn’t really time anymore to do everything justice as a one or two man band. If I focus on agronomy, machinery maintenance slips. A funny sort of industry really but if I paid a bloke to do the machinery maintenance I’d be bust. [/QUOTE]
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