We no longer feed harvest staff. That’s cos wifey is on corn cart and we haven’t found an oven that will fit in her cab yet!
Especially for your Missus.... https://truckstuff.co.uk/collections/in-cab/ovens
We no longer feed harvest staff. That’s cos wifey is on corn cart and we haven’t found an oven that will fit in her cab yet!
All staff get fed 3 meals a day during lambing.
Work experience students fed at any time of year as they often stay in the house for the fortnight.
My shearer gets fed.
My regular part time lad brings his own lunch but it often gets topped up with a slice of cake etc. He gets dinner if working late, say after 8pm.
My wife is a star!
slow cookers very good if I was working in shearing shed would have one put feed on at 7 am before start. and would be done by 12 simple and not alot of skills needed. rich stew. and some bread buns job done.
Why does it have to be the wife cooking. Can’t you do it
Contractor had a deal at one farm that theyd sheet the pit if the farmer got them fish and chips.Neighbour used to bring a chippy tea to the silaging gang. One year the weather was catchy and they always seemed to end up going out for a few hours late in the day.
He had a good lot of silage to make and he said it cost him £2/ac in chips that year!!
Wat u weren't gonna feed him after the poor bloke was humping al those bags off- u tight arse fudger........Years ago, when lorries were handball off, 20 t load of Scotch seed in cwts arrived late morning.
We started unloading, as dinner time approached we were about halfway through, so old man says to driver 'do you stop for dinner'. Thinking driver would have something in the cab.
Quick as a flash driver said 'aye I will, thank you very much'.
Mother had to quickly set another place.
WonderfulYears ago, when lorries were handball off, 20 t load of Scotch seed in cwts arrived late morning.
We started unloading, as dinner time approached we were about halfway through, so old man says to driver 'do you stop for dinner'. Thinking driver would have something in the cab.
Quick as a flash driver said 'aye I will, thank you very much'.
Mother had to quickly set another place.
yea bro works in shearing shed. brought a air fryer gets the shed hands to crank it upPretty certain you can get a 2nd one and do baked tatties in it too...
Pretty certain you can get a 2nd one and do baked tatties in it too...
Even Ruth couldn’t live up to the Jill Archer world so for most that world is long gone.I am just intrigued that there still seems to be a Jill Archer World where farmer's wives have time to cook for a team. I have spent any spare time I had last month, in cooking freezer meals for us to eat at night, because I won't have time for it or am just too knackered now we are calving.
If I start work at 6 am and don't finish until 7 pm (with calving night checks /colostrum feeds as well) then I am not sure where I find the time to clean the house and cook for others! We have a sandwich and yoghurt / fruit at lunchtime.
The silage gang get a beer and an offer of crisps/chocs/fruit (which they usually decline). Sometimes they finish here at 2 pm sometimes at 7 pm so not even sure which meal I would be giving them, plus the boss would not look kindly on too much down time!
Then get a third one to do pudding!
I would get nothing done all afternoon if I had a sit-down hot meal for lunch.
Interesting thread. 'How many feed staff' and then swiftly pass the baton to your O/H and then practically call out the people who don't or can't? Are you the one doing the home made pie and prepping spuds and veg, etc? Probably not.
We try our absolute best to feed and water our harvest gang (albeit casual) as and when we can but unfortunately it's just not always possible. We usually have a 'food fetcher' but quite often they're part of the team as well, including my O/H. Quite often it is just sausage and chips or a burger or a pizza and a crate of Thatchers. If the old girl pops up (doesn't live here any more) she will cook stuff in the day so all we have to do is reheat when we get home. The takeaway stuff so described as 'muck' is at least something to keep the worms at bay, if you don't want it, you can politely decline and not be so ungrateful.
Gone are the days where women are confined to the kitchen, nobody has outwardly said it but 4 pages here most of which suggest as such. We also don't have the summers 'like we used to' so when we do go, it is unfortunately a mad busy rush. I, myself tend not to eat much if at all during the day this time of year, bouncing around on a tractor for 12+hrs a day you don't really want a gut full of grub.
On the flipside I know exactly what it's like to not even be offered when they are stood there talking to you with a mug of coffee in hand. Most of which are good to at least offer, some really are awful and are almost marching you out the drive after you've thrown the last bale in. Some customers will go out and fetch pie and chips or sausage and chips and some cider or whatever, I know of 2 that still do the big cooked dinner but they are old school, couple of others make sandwiches out of probably 3 loaves on bread followed by 10 litres of tea!