How much does your market under declare lamb weight?

[GTB]

It's nothing to do with the sh!t in the trailer. Some marts round the weights down. For easy maths, ten lambs weighing a total of 500kg but sold as 49kg so 10 kilos missing!!!!

 

[sherg]

doesn't anyone else stand in the weighbridge when they're weighing them?

 

[GrannyAching]

So what are you going to do about it? You guys have at least two unions representing you, don't you? Obviously, this isn't a one person stand issue.

Genuine question as the mart in the op is the one my lean fats get put through as stores because they aren't FA Imo.

(Right where's that picture of people eating pop corn?)

 

[ploughman1963]

doesn't anyone else stand in the weighbridge when they're weighing them?

been to Ludlow? You would need a mirror to see the scales there as the screen is facing away from you so you cannot see it!!

 

[yellowbelly]

(Right where's that picture of people eating pop corn?)

What this one?

So what are you going to do about it?

I've tackled my auctioneer about it with the complaints outlined in post #31 above, only to get the answer, "I can't understand how that's happening" and not much else, although my hoggs that week did lose slightly less.
Since October, I've kept records of home weights, market weights, my weight on their scales when sheep are weighed, my weight on their scales later in the day, my weight on our scales, etc,etc and will have another go when my last few hoggs have gone.
I've seriously considered changing markets but bumped into a chap the other week who was trying mine 'cos he reckoned my alternative was doing the same. Seems like you can't win
Don't get me wrong, I think our market does a fair job in other ways - plenty of buyers for all types of stock etc and when trade's crap you have to 'face the music' and take the price but I'd just like to be paid for the full weight.

 

[hally]

been to Ludlow? You would need a mirror to see the scales there as the screen is facing away from you so you cannot see it!!

Same at longtown

 

[MRT]

been to Ludlow? You would need a mirror to see the scales there as the screen is facing away from you so you cannot see it!!

I can see the same innovation coming to a market near me soon, it would sort the problem!

 

[joe soapy]

Old chap near here used to have a special stick for market days, was just right to lean on when weighing his lambs..
works both ways, how many contractors have found fields grow when measured by sat nav

 

[GTB]

works both ways, how many contractors have found fields grow when measured by sat nav

Honesty is important. I told a contractor a field was 'about' 14.5 acres and suggested he did a lap with his GPS to check. It came out as 14.35. He probably would have checked anyway when I wasn't looking.

 

[Henarar]

Old chap near here used to have a special stick for market days, was just right to lean on when weighing his lambs..
works both ways, how many contractors have found fields grow when measured by sat nav

Sat nav would make them smaller than they are if they are on a slope

 

[Forever Fendt]

see my lambs weighed and then calculated correctly and sold at the correct weight no messing about ,just wish they would do a ballot as its a fair way to get there now local mart shut and always seam to be near end