Is your farm clean and tidy?

[sustainable24]

Just wondered on the state of peoples farms, personally I strongly dislike a messy farm with junk and rubbish getting in the way but not everyone feels as strongly as me it seems unfortunately. Its improving but not its not as good as I would like. How about your farm?

 

[Still Farming]

All ok until farmers visit farmers and think differently possibly???

 

[Lazy Sod]

Someone said to me once that a farm workshop is not much use if there isn't a heap of scrap outside the door.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Just wondered on the state of peoples farms, personally I strongly dislike a messy farm with junk and rubbish getting in the way but not everyone feels as strongly as me it seems unfortunately. Its improving but not its not as good as I would like. How about your farm?

I keep my place and workshop neat as i can, a challenge when doing alit of infrastructure works.

Place was a mess when i bought it 3 years ago.

Most farms in oz are messy, was at a dairy farm today but and was immaculate.

If its a family show you can get away with some mess, but if you have to ATTRACT AND RETAIN STAFF then you need a tidy show and good gear.

In the usa most farms neat in the midwest.

I worked for large harvest contractors in usa and mines in Australia, i know the value of process and organisation, most farmers dont hence sh*t everywhere.

When the comment is made we cant get staff, im personally not surprised, good corporate or private firms have good conditions and if you dont offer the same then tough luck, its a labour market and you have to compete.

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

Someone said to me once that a farm workshop is not much use if there isn't a heap of scrap outside the door.

Im working at a place that has this atm, temporarily gelping out, and workshop is useless, most stuff hanging up on the floor.

Ant..m

 

[Lazy Sod]

I always worked on the principle that people should clear up as they go. A place only gets untidy if you let it.

 

[primmiemoo]

It's very carefully collated. To many, this won't look shop or factory tidy, or full clinical setting clean, but that's their problem, not ours.

 

[Strauss]

There's an old Chinese proverb, "to have a tidy farm, one must have an untidy farm". Meaning an area hidden away from view for all sorts, pallets, gates, round feeders, ibcs, old or seldom used machinery and so forth. Easy enough keep the place presentable if that stuff is out of the way.

 

[Spencer]

Like to keep everywhere tidy, footpath through yard and often get comments on a tidy spot. I think it could be tidier but obviously plenty of stuff to do. Had a metal skip in last month and a good tidy, bloody annoying tho as was fixing a bracket on a machine this week and could just have do with a bit of scrap steel

 

[Hilly]

Im
Not as tidy as id like to be thats for sure but time is always against me i do try tho ,

 

[Wood field]

We inherited the previous owners mess when we bought the place , mud floors in sheds , no concrete and piles of shite
It’s had years of time and money but it’s still messy The land was rush infested and soaking wet, we put most time into getting that sorted , locals often comment on how much the lands improved
If I could afford to, I would concrete the yards, not sure it’s all going to get done in my time

 

[organicguy]

There's an old Chinese proverb, "to have a tidy farm, one must have an untidy farm". Meaning an area hidden away from view for all sorts, pallets, gates, round feeders, ibcs, old or seldom used machinery and so forth. Easy enough keep the place presentable if that stuff is out of the way.

Thats fine but I saw a farm a while ago that had a piece of scrap machinery in every field.
A pet hate, machines left in the field for next time

 

[Willie adie]

I know a guy called his place Horoshima.
And my brother in law called our place: "Tidytown"

 

[toquark]

Mess stresses me out. I can’t focus on anything when there’s sh1t lying everywhere, tidying up costs nothing and makes a huge difference to mental health and general wellbeing. That said, I still have a hidden corner with some stuff which inevitably gathers on a farm, to be used occasionally but is not the most aesthetically pleasing.

One of the messiest farms in this area is lived in by a farm assurance inspector. I’m not FA but a small part of me would like to be just so I could offer a witty retort on being picked up on some minor infraction.

 

[Hilly]

There is a farm near me its unbelievably tidy ! An absulote credit to the family that farm the place , no stock mind but all the same its out of this world !

 

[goldeneagle]

Old man and uncle wouldn’t throw anything away. When scrap bin comes in always stuff pulled out just in case, when that just in case will be who knows.
Brother obviously wasn’t good at Tetris either as amount of space wasted by poorly placing stuff rather than arranging is evident at times.
I am not advocating I am perfect but taking 5 or 10 minutes at end of job/day to tidy up Saves wasting time and frustration looking for stuff you used the previous month.
Hate the statement ’I’ll sort it out later’ later sometimes means never.

 

[Hilly]

I have a scrap pile and when it get certain size i have a good friend who is a scrap man , he takes it away and halfs the money with me , sometimes its heart wrenching scraping certain things but you just have to or the place would be a sh!t hole ..

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Lets just say I know where everything is.

 

[Hilly]

The dream for me would be 100% steading i side out side and sweeper to drive round in 3 times a week another 200k should get me that dream

 

[Henarar]

I have a fair bit of old machinery and metal about but its kept up together quite well and well away from the cattle, the upside is I can usually find a bit of metal for mending/making something and have spare bits for some machines.
keep on top of the plastic rubbish, that goes for recycling once a year I have a few old tyres I really should find somewhere to take.