How much will you pay to plough ?

[arcobob]

i got tagged at devils bridge, kirby lonsdale about 6 or 7 years ago going to a match at wigton, that resulted in a speed awareness coarse
this isnt turning into another banter thread is it

Do you normally complete your plot within the hour?

 

[massey765]

Do you normally complete your plot within the hour?

No Bob
Usually need all te time avalable to take into account of all the talking
I seem to attract all the questions either about ploughing or my owd 65 in its workin clothes
It's taken 60 years to get it to its present standard.........that usually gets a smile

 

[Roy Stokes]

Bloody hell that's cheap, we get charged £15/rider to enter a Club's motorcycle Trial on a farmer's land
I'd jump at £12 per entry
Ours run from 11am on a Sunday and usually all done by 2.30pm

A Moto X is about £40/rider on farm land

No lunch (bring your own bait)

No trophies

No prize money

Sharon pays between £40-£50 to enter a one day event on Miss Whizz, (the horse) she then pays a start gate fee which is another tenner, all for ten minutes of dressage, ten of show jumping and around 15 minutes cross country jumping, prizes are in kind, so a rug for the horse may be top prize down to a hoof pick for 4th.
She entered Flintshire Farmers ploughing match this spring for £15, came 2nd in the beginners and took a prize of £20 home, she was over the moon, even more so when I told her that I'd paid the entry and was wanting payment, obviously I'm still waiting for the money
last autumn she spent £ 40 on entries to ploughing and prize money came to £50, she has never made any money on the horse in 30 years of competition and she is pretty good at it too

 

[Ley253]

Dont interest her in Golf, Roy!

 

[Mydexta]

Sharon pays between £40-£50 to enter a one day event on Miss Whizz, (the horse) she then pays a start gate fee which is another tenner, all for ten minutes of dressage, ten of show jumping and around 15 minutes cross country jumping, prizes are in kind, so a rug for the horse may be top prize down to a hoof pick for 4th.
She entered Flintshire Farmers ploughing match this spring for £15, came 2nd in the beginners and took a prize of £20 home, she was over the moon, even more so when I told her that I'd paid the entry and was wanting payment, obviously I'm still waiting for the money
last autumn she spent £ 40 on entries to ploughing and prize money came to £50, she has never made any money on the horse in 30 years of competition and she is pretty good at it too

The tractor doesn’t need fed and watered every day like the horse will either.


Cheaper all round!!!!!

 

[arcobob]

Sharon pays between £40-£50 to enter a one day event on Miss Whizz, (the horse) she then pays a start gate fee which is another tenner, all for ten minutes of dressage, ten of show jumping and around 15 minutes cross country jumping, prizes are in kind, so a rug for the horse may be top prize down to a hoof pick for 4th.
She entered Flintshire Farmers ploughing match this spring for £15, came 2nd in the beginners and took a prize of £20 home, she was over the moon, even more so when I told her that I'd paid the entry and was wanting payment, obviously I'm still waiting for the money
last autumn she spent £ 40 on entries to ploughing and prize money came to £50, she has never made any money on the horse in 30 years of competition and she is pretty good at it too

|To be fair to event organisers the cost of providing permanent facilities with no alternative use for a single event per year are enormous. Eventing is a rich person's sport and it is no accident and no conspiracy. The money is made out of sponsorship and trade stands, not entry fees, which leaves the smaller events struggling for existence. Competitors are faced with affiliation to British Dressage, British Show Jumping and British Horse Society at the very minimum. Ploughing is dirt cheap by comparison and anyone who thinks otherwise is small minded and blinkered. Nobody wants to see it become otherwise but if you can't stand the heat, get out of the fire.

 

[Kenham]

I worked it out a few years ago that ploughing with a TVO Fordson , diesel in the lorry, petrol for starting ,etc etc , furthest match 100 miles nearest 10 on average £150 a match. The cost of entering the match hardly comes into the grand scheme of things. You chaps who plough with a diesel tractor don't know how well off you are, lol.

 

[12 bore]

Personally I think £15 is fine, I mean lets be honest you dont get a lot for anything under ten pounds these days! I just looked at football tickets for instance our local club who is in championship and playing pretty poor football is charging anywhere from £25 to £40 a ticket! I know its completely different to ploughing but if you look at the day out as a whole I would rather plough any day!

 

[arcobob]

Personally I think £15 is fine, I mean lets be honest you dont get a lot for anything under ten pounds these days! I just looked at football tickets for instance our local club who is in championship and playing pretty poor football is charging anywhere from £25 to £40 a ticket! I know its completely different to ploughing but if you look at the day out as a whole I would rather plough any day!

That must be Ipswich

 

[12 bore]

That must be Ipswich

How did you guess I wouldn' pay a fiver to go watch them at the moment