- Location
- SG9
Yes 2nd June 1975
Has anybody mentioned the summer of 1976 yet?!
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glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
It was 76
- Location
- Cheltenham
Summer 1976 was a dry one. As a student (pre college) I well remember grazing a pedigree Hereford herd on country lane verges as the fields were a desert. Also got a good tan doing 2 chains of dry stone walling - and it's still standing!!!
Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
So I believe......Mum and Dad got married 1st June 1976. First night of their honeymoon was in a caravan in the Lakes, sat on the toilet with food poisoning while rain lashed down on the roofDecided to come home the day after, and Dad went mowing for someone for silage.....didn't rain again till September ish?
OMG!!! I got married before @Flossie 's Mum and Dad! I am now officially decrepit!
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Note i said gramoxone, as roundup was not yet invented .
- Location
- SG9
Ok so anyone up for a guess when Roundup first used 1977?
Here I recon I used it in 1979 did one heck of a good job spraying off Couch grass in Wheat on some ground taken over the previous year.
Edited when this found
http://www.roundup.ca/en/rounduphistory
- Location
- Hampshire
I remember when I started on the farm at 16 before I went to college I was about to cultivate a couchy stubble when my uncle said leave it as he was going to try a new spray to kill it. That was 1973/4.
Nostalgia kicking in now...... I vaguely remember the water board cutting off supply for a few hours a day ?
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
celtis man
Member
East wind in kernow today drying the devil chance of some drizzle tomorrow
chance of some drizzle tomorrow 
- Location
- cornwall
You must have too much spare time!Nostalgia kicking in now...... I vaguely remember the water board cutting off supply for a few hours a day ?
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
- Location
- cornwall
They think it might get wet towards the end of next weekEast wind in kernow today drying the devil
- Location
- Hampshire
Typical I'm away next weekend!
East wind in kernow today drying the devil
Blowing a hooley up here in SE Cornwall. Cold as charity, no chance of any spraying today.
Which end of the county are you?
Forever Fendt
Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
thats 8.74 posts per dayNostalgia kicking in now...... I vaguely remember the water board cutting off supply for a few hours a day ?
Dad filled churns when the water was on, and carted them out to troughs in the fields. Uncovered an old well to see if there was any water in it, which there was, but never got round to organising a way to pump it out.
If it turns 1976 ish again, I'll bet some folks will regret filling in ponds / draining springs......
Anyhoo.....my 10,000th post.
My shocking memory of Roundup was my Uncle telling me about being at a meeting , where the rep actually drank some , to show it was unlike paraquat !! I wonder if it really was the chemical.
celtis man
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We are near Newquay nr a village called st Newlyn East
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
IIRC it was around £15 per acre - £35. + per Ha[emoji33] Best part of a weeks wages per Ha .
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
The killer was that there were two scorching years in succession .
Because steam trains were long gone the shrubs on rail side property had grown up and provided opportunities for wildfires (sparks from coal fired engines regularly caused small fires which kept the rubbish at bay).Twice we had the main grazing block on fire as the fire in the 80' deep railway cutting which runs alongside our farm drive jumped the 3.5 metres of that track.
Because steam trains were long gone the shrubs on rail side property had grown up and provided opportunities for wildfires (sparks from coal fired engines regularly caused small fires which kept the rubbish at bay).Twice we had the main grazing block on fire as the fire in the 80' deep railway cutting which runs alongside our farm drive jumped the 3.5 metres of that track.
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