Is your farm clean and tidy?

[Netherfield]

Over the years we'd had 4 or 5 trucks fitted with Eaton 2 speed axles.

Three we scrapped and I saved the 2 speed changers, then bought the ERF in my avatar, now this was operated by air, the others by electric, so I scrapped the parts out the workshop, inevitably the ERF wouldn't change and no dealers kept parts anymore, even ERF had nothing left.

The part required was common to all air or electric, took around 6 weeks to track one down from a scrapyard.

 

[DrWazzock]

I keep it fairly tidy. I try to mow the grass round the shed walls when I do the garden to help keep vermin down and keep any obstacles visible. Plastic waste goes for recycling. I dint have many old tyres about. Some scrap for parts and metal but it’s tidy. It’s my home as well as my workplace.

 

[capfits]

Multisite farm here.
Some sites better than others.
Tennant on the bit I live so it pays to keep tidy, power brush a couple of times a year, cattle sheep sh!t scraped timely as possible, machinary parked smartly.
Personally like it tidy, less liklihood vermin as others have pointed out, easier to send folk to get stuff, more presentable and above all professional.

 

[spin cycle]

Happy medium

 

[Poorbuthappy]

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

Wish mine was as tidy as yours is!

Do try and keep on top of it, but it's a battle many would say I'm losing!
New workshop has helped - a lot of things actually have a home now.

If you have staff it helps too - tidying up is a good filler job for the odd spare 1/2 hour.

 

[Guleesh]

No tolerance for plastic rubbish, dunno how people can leave empty lick buckets and feed bags blocking up their ditches. Biggest bugbear is nearby houses recycling bins blowing over and the loose contents being scattered across fields by the wind, this is a very regular occurrence. Have also had continual issue with building site waste blowing about, I'm on constant litter pick thanks to careless people and it does annoy me, some neighbours even watch me walking my fields from their windows, picking up all the empty cement bags, building paper and broken kingspan pieces blown from their site, but don't ever think to go tidy it up themselves and a few days later there's more of it.

Other than that there's a place for everything when everything's in it's place. Metal or wood I don't mind sitting in a heap somewhere, it doesn't offend me. Got a few scrap vehicles round the house that I need to get cleared up someday, but I do often find them convenient if I need a bulb or a bit of hose or wiring or whatever, we're far enough away from the shops.

 

[nails]

Absolute Pickle here , Wrap, Bags , string , Old tyres , various piles of disintegrating machinery and metal but the Cattle look a picture so i could not give a toss.

 

[Bald Rick]

If you've got time to keep it clean & tidy, you're not busy enough.

Once a week we have a bonfire , once a month a run to the plastic recycling facility and once a year to the scrappy.

Mind you, I can never find a tool and I have a visceral loathing of mud but concrete doesn't pay the bills

 

[topground]

Hanging on the kitchen wall inherited from my late mother.
The same principle applies to a pristine clean and tidy farmyard in my view.

 

[David.]

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.

I reckon that is why fen farms used to always look untidy, nowhere to hide the junk.

And I know it's a lazy stereotype..

 

[David.]

Hanging on the kitchen wall inherited from my late mother.
The same principle applies to a pristine clean and tidy farmyard in my view.
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I prefer the one that says "Never trust a skinny cook"

 

[Hilly]

Wish mine was as tidy as yours is!

Do try and keep on top of it, but it's a battle many would say I'm losing!
New workshop has helped - a lot of things actually have a home now.

If you have staff it helps too - tidying up is a good filler job for the odd spare 1/2 hour.

Its actually a fair bit if work keeping a farm tidy ! Anyway just been to kelso and what a beautiful afternoon the crops are looking amazing imo , difference a bit decent whether makes to the feel better ‍ factor !! Even bought a tim of easy start and got the lawn tractor fired up so some tidying up grass after tea !!

 

[britishblue]

Its actually a fair bit if work keeping a farm tidy ! Anyway just been to kelso and what a beautiful afternoon the crops are looking amazing imo , difference a bit decent whether makes to the feel better ‍ factor !! Even bought a tim of easy start and got the lawn tractor fired up so some tidying up grass after tea !!

Last weeks made a big difference,amazing what a little heat does and wheat got a hold of the fizz! Agronomist was telling me the Borders is looking aswell as anywhere in the country!

 

[puppet]

Too much stuff gathered up but now winter feeding is past there will be a reckoning. Scrap pile and recycled fencing always useful to have rather than buy new for every repair.
My grandfather used to say you never made money by tidying up. Not entirely accurate

 

[Hilly]

Too much stuff gathered up but now winter feeding is past there will be a reckoning. Scrap pile and recycled fencing always useful to have rather than buy new for every repair.
My grandfather used to say you never made money by tidying up. Not entirely accurate

This is a messy time for stock farms end of of a clarty winter as well .

 

[serf]

I know a guy called his place Horoshima.

Thought that was here ...
We must be Nagasaki then

 

[wanton dwarf]

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?

All relative, arable farms will never be as dirty as livestock farms - although some try very hard

Whilst IMHO livestock farmers have the least time available to tidy up

Having said that one mans rubbish is another mans gold mine - told the old man once I'd tidy up the workshop & after looking through the piles of old metal & parts decided it was too valuable to junk

 

[sustainable24]

Too much stuff gathered up but now winter feeding is past there will be a reckoning. Scrap pile and recycled fencing always useful to have rather than buy new for every repair.
My grandfather used to say you never made money by tidying up. Not entirely accurate

I beg to differ you may not make money per se (unless you are selling scrap perhaps) but having everything organized ie useful stuff where you can find it, scrap out the way so it doesn't get in the way later on, all the little jobs that save you time later on mean less time wasted later on and the ability to make money easier further down the line.

 

[sustainable24]

Mind you, I can never find a tool and I have a visceral loathing of mud but concrete doesn't pay the bills

Well there you go then if you can't find a tool you are wasting time finding tools and aren't being productive your argument falls flat on its face.

 

[Bald Rick]

Well there you go then if you can't find a tool you are wasting time finding tools and aren't being productive your argument falls flat on its face.

pfft … one has staff (the tools)