Is your farm clean and tidy?

[Bogweevil]

If I hadn't used something in 20 years I reluctantly accept it must go. Heartbreaking, but one must be strong.

 

[Cocomac]

Digger tidying is awesome

Yes diggers are great things! All farmers should own one!

 

[Flatlander]

My yard is pretty tidy. Have zero tolerance for mud which makes my pee boil if I see it on the graveled yard. Field are immaculate. Pride myself on weed free tidy fields farmed right to the edges. Bought the farm that was a picture post card yard but the field were a disaster. Poor drainage couch patches and every weed species in the book and then some. Workshop I’m not proud of. Various jobs in various stages of completion plus more spare parts than a dealership. Positive side is I rarely get a breakdown that I don’t have spares for.

 

[Red Fred]

For a bit of entertainment, nothing beats coming across the Victorian dump from the farmhouse. I discovered ours when I was putting in a straining post and work stopped immediately, then much of the next week was spent digging up old bottles which were carefully taken to the shed for investigation. My sister called in at one point and asked what on earth I was doing with a prong in an old dump, but within 10 minutes she was digging frantically too.
Fast forward 20 years and there is a stack of milk crates in the shed filled with Bovril jars, whisky bottles and stone jam pots so its time for a tidy up, but what to do with them? Obviously dig a hole and rebury them, so back they went whence they came after a 20 year break in the daylight. Maybe a future Alice Roberts will find them again one day.

 

[Wurzeetoo]

For a bit of entertainment, nothing beats coming across the Victorian dump from the farmhouse. I discovered ours when I was putting in a straining post and work stopped immediately, then much of the next week was spent digging up old bottles which were carefully taken to the shed for investigation. My sister called in at one point and asked what on earth I was doing with a prong in an old dump, but within 10 minutes she was digging frantically too.
Fast forward 20 years and there is a stack of milk crates in the shed filled with Bovril jars, whisky bottles and stone jam pots so its time for a tidy up, but what to do with them? Obviously dig a hole and rebury them, so back they went whence they came after a 20 year break in the daylight. Maybe a future Alice Roberts will find them again one day.

I’ve got several display cabinets downstairs and crates in the loft filled with “treasure” I’ve dug up. Can’t bring myself to part with it

 

[glasshouse]

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

Parts
Notscrap

 

[Jasper]

I always think livestock farming is a untidy business by its very nature just dealing with s#*t and filth on a daily basis is a battle you are never going to win so I think many farmers don’t worry about a bit of mess . I do agree with some comments on here about string and plastic lying around they really do make the place look untidy and need dealing with

 

[Estate fencing.]

Went to a wedding of a friend of mine at there farm a couple of years ago, they are notorious messy farmers (but so of the best stock people in the country), I couldn’t believe how tidy the farm was, in the morning when I went or pick the car up he said go and have a look at the cattle so went round the corner and they had scaped everything up the yard and pulled it up as high as the sheds, the 2 loadalls where being used to stock it moving back into view of the wedding

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I dread to think what comments would be made if some were to visit Hfd Towers!
Scrap everywhere, machinery everywhere, junk everywhere, tools everywhere.....there are 2 chances of my place being tidy ......
1, when I'm dead and gone ...or
2, when we have a farm sale !

.....but I like to think my livestock are in good nick which is important to me .

 

[Jasper]

I dread to think what comments would be made if some were to visit Hfd Towers!
Scrap everywhere, machinery everywhere, junk everywhere, tools everywhere.....there are 2 chances of my place being tidy ......
1, when I'm dead and gone ...or
2, when we have a farm sale !

.....but I like to think my livestock are in good nick which is important to me .

I wouldn’t worry to much if I were you the 5 star welcome we received after a long drive is the only thing we remember (there was a few empty thatchers cans lying about tho ) pups soon be a year old

 

[Hfd Cattle]

I wouldn’t worry to much if I were you the 5 star welcome we received after a long drive is the only thing we remember (there was a few empty thatchers cans lying about tho ) pups soon be a year old

....the old saying about ' you will never be more than a yard from a rat ' gets altered to ' you will never be more than a yard from a Thatchers can ' here

 

[Willie adie]

Does said picture perfect farm belong to a Menzies?

I was just away to ask the same thing

 

[Wood field]

Chap near here phoned my neighbour ( whilst I was talking to the neighbour)
I heard as clear as a bell “ I think Dave needs to adjust that mower , he’s left a few stripes”
So I said out loud “ it’s a shame folk don’t worry more about there own side of the fence”
And that rings true to “ messy “ farms or tidy farms , why bother to whinge if someones farm isn’t up to your standards

 

[kfpben]

Chap near here phoned my neighbour ( whilst I was talking to the neighbour)
I heard as clear as a bell “ I think Dave needs to adjust that mower , he’s left a few stripes”
So I said out loud “ it’s a shame folk don’t worry more about there own side of the fence”
And that rings true to “ messy “ farms or tidy farms , why bother to whinge if someones farm isn’t up to your standards

Depends if their plastic and rubbish blows onto your ground in a strong wind! That gets a bit tedious

 

[Wood field]

Depends if their plastic and rubbish blows onto your ground in a strong wind! That gets a bit tedious

I can understand that

 

[haybob]

I got set up with a large council commercial waste bin and it really helps . Get a piece of paper for the red tractor inspection as well

 

[ARW]

Our yard is reasonably tidy but it’s easy to keep tidy. The only problem is having time, when your working away all the time you never get time for your own jobs so it gets neglected

 

[glasshouse]

Nice tidy farms where sod all ever happens.

 

[glasshouse]

Most important thing on a farm is the soil.
That means dung middens, compost, silage, livestock, etc
I know plenty farms where you could eat your lunch off the yard, but the soil is dead as a dodo
A local estate has “discovered” that a three yr grass ley “ could benefit the soil”

 

[Surgery]

Are yard is not the tidiest by a long way at the mo but will soon be , Several farms nearby are a complete tip and are rt assured with sloppy shite in and out of cattle years , makes a mockery of it all.