How much will you pay to plough ?

[ploughman61]

At a committee meeting the other night it was proposed that we increase our entry fee to £15 from £12 I was against this move, what is the general opinion?

 

[Mydexta]

What does that include, and what do the winners etc receive?????

 

[Cordiale]

Well I suppose you have to ask what you are getting for your money.

I assume it covers prize money, insurance, a lunch for each ploughman and more.

When you think a pint of beer costs upwards of £4 in a lot of areas, £15 for a days enjoyment isn't too bad in my opinion.

 

[ploughman61]

What does that include, and what do the winners etc receive?????

Sit down lunch, prize money down to 4th place, all cups engraved, and good judges.

 

[Cordiale]

Sit down lunch, prize money down to 4th place, all cups engraved, and good judges.

Two courses or three?

Seriously though £15 does not sound over the top for that.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Sit down lunch, prize money down to 4th place, all cups engraved, and good judges.

In that case I think £12is far to little

And £15 is still good value for money,

thinking about it, you get to do your hobby for a few hours, lets say 4 hours that is less than £4 per hour,
and so its not bad, then you get Lunch thrown in as well for the price, and a sit down one at that,
then on top of that if in the top 4, then you get some prize money,
and if the winner in class, they engrave the cup for you,

bloody hell, where else in other hobbies do you get that, ?

£15 is not dear at all,

 

[Fergie Ploughman]

Everything creeps up I’m afraid. £15 doesn’t sound dear for meal and 4 places. I do think the place quantity should reflect the class size; a class of 5, 3 places ample, a class of 10 it would be nice to see 5. My logics based on the larger classes bring in larger funds.

 

[Roy Stokes]

I will quite happily pay 15 quid, as I've said before I don't like having a can shaken at me in the shopping centre but do my bit by supporting charity matches etc, the dinner put on at the Staffordshire matches would cost towards a tenner if you bought it in a pub so add to that your plot to play on and it's a no brainer, I certainly don't think you will lose many competitors over the price rise, Flint was 15 this time, field was full enough

 

[Roy Stokes]

good judges.

Matter of opinion ................................................................................................only joking Dave !!

 

[rick_vandal]

Chertsey 2018 was £7 with £3 token for the snack wagon. The craigh was good and the bogging entertainment first rate!

 

[wuddy]

Sit down lunch, prize money down to 4th place, all cups engraved, and good judges.

£15 sounds quite cheep for all that. We are £10 which is burger van, trophy’s to 3rd no engraving! (Oh and always the best ground conditions)! All local matches here are the same although some are sponsored and give prize money.

 

[Cordiale]

£15 sounds quite cheep for all that. We are £10 which is burger van, trophy’s to 3rd no engraving! (Oh and always the best ground conditions)! All local matches here are the same although some are sponsored and give prize money.

Out of interest where is your locality?

 

[wuddy]

Out of interest where is your locality?

Scottish borders

 

[ploughman61]

Out of interest where is your locality?

Our match is uttoxeter on 2nd Saturday in September

 

[MrNoo]

£15 sounds fine to me, only gripe I have is that of plot size. A couple of matches I traipsed quite a way for a piddly little plot about 10ft by 6ft, well that's what it felt like but I guess all to do with land available at the time.

 

[Sprayer]

What do you think is the ideal size plot for a charity match, as opposed to a qualifier. Bearing in mind that sometimes field size can be a limiting factor is it a case of more people ploughing smaller plots or turn some away and have bigger plots
.

 

[MrNoo]

I am unsure re exact size but at a recent match, I did my start and then had 2 runs and then I was into my finish. Trumpet plot was circa 25ft long, just get the plough in the ground and it was time to take it out again and you'd have thought it would have been easy to be straight but no-one in our class was straight and 98% of other classes I looked at were on the pee! Morville had the best plot size of late, not sure re size but it was nice to have something to go at.

 

[Roy Stokes]

Land depending, Tern Valley try to fit everyone in with 100x 15 yards, ( the main organizer is yet to go metric ) but at times it's nearer 80x14/13 but a good area to plough, time is of the essence as the committee are not happy if you are much later than 2 pm finishing, which in turn allows plenty of time to get the results sorted and cuts down the pitter pattering of starts , competitors will normally be leaving the field circa 4pm

 

[MrNoo]

A good size Roy, average is circa 40ft at most matches I have been to but it is not great when you drive for 2+ hours to a match to be given a postage stamp, did think to put on the entry that I was using 3 furrows!!!

 

[Sprayer]

I usually aim at 13 / 14mts x 55mts, this usually makes easier marking out on 24mt tram lined field and leaves a 16mt turning headland in the middle. Everyone ends up with the same number of tramlines in the same place on their plots. Obviously horticultural and reversible plots are adjusted accordingly.