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<blockquote data-quote="Lowland1" data-source="post: 8201767" data-attributes="member: 66524"><p>My Dad was very old fashioned in his ways but a very good farmer who time passed by in the end however during Covid my two children spent a lot of time with him at a time in his life when he really was struggling mentally but although there were times when he was difficult to deal with such as when he'd call my son downstairs at three in the morning to help him remove pigs from the front room they both gained a lot of knowledge from him. One such piece was be very careful when combining Linseed because it is very easy to set the combine on fire when it wraps. Last year after delivering a combine to a large farm in Lincolnshire that was due to start on Linseed he told the farmer to make sure he has a water bowser in the field just in case. The farmer looked at him nonplussed no doubt wondering how a 20 year old from Kenya could know anything. That night he saw had recieved a call from a strange phone number when he called back it was the farmer thanking him for the advice as his combine had wrapped and started to smoulder luckily they had the bowser on hand.</p><p> Another piece of sound advice was about rolling wheat. We were going round and my son asked me why we didn't roll the wheat in Kenya well I said because we have no frost so we don't need to push it back down like on the fen at home. 'But Grandad said it makes it tiller more" So we started rolling and he's right it does we might be the only farm in Kenya doing it but it really works.</p><p> I don't think farming knowledge has gone it's probably just that people aren't that keen of listening to the old.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lowland1, post: 8201767, member: 66524"] My Dad was very old fashioned in his ways but a very good farmer who time passed by in the end however during Covid my two children spent a lot of time with him at a time in his life when he really was struggling mentally but although there were times when he was difficult to deal with such as when he'd call my son downstairs at three in the morning to help him remove pigs from the front room they both gained a lot of knowledge from him. One such piece was be very careful when combining Linseed because it is very easy to set the combine on fire when it wraps. Last year after delivering a combine to a large farm in Lincolnshire that was due to start on Linseed he told the farmer to make sure he has a water bowser in the field just in case. The farmer looked at him nonplussed no doubt wondering how a 20 year old from Kenya could know anything. That night he saw had recieved a call from a strange phone number when he called back it was the farmer thanking him for the advice as his combine had wrapped and started to smoulder luckily they had the bowser on hand. Another piece of sound advice was about rolling wheat. We were going round and my son asked me why we didn't roll the wheat in Kenya well I said because we have no frost so we don't need to push it back down like on the fen at home. 'But Grandad said it makes it tiller more" So we started rolling and he's right it does we might be the only farm in Kenya doing it but it really works. I don't think farming knowledge has gone it's probably just that people aren't that keen of listening to the old. [/QUOTE]
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