It's easier to save a quid than to earn a quid.

[michael N123]

Grease is cheap

 

[mx110]

I don't remember a huge amount from my school days but i have often thought of a quote from my old history teacher he used to say "change is'nt always progress".

 

[Ducati899]

Problem is some people think they can save themselves rich. By this I mean the people who underfeed cattle and take 3 years to get them to a decent size rather than 18 months. But they didn't buy cake so that saved money..............

But yes the waste of grub and bedding that I see out and about never mind the abuse of machinery by laziness and refusal to grease or oil anything because of the "if its new it doesn't need greasing, if its old its not worth greasing" attitude needs a serious rethink. Even more so today than ever before.

oil and grease is cheap

 

[Y Fan Wen]

We have changed calf feeds to a blend in dumpys £40 per ton saving. Brought beans into the ration,no actual savings by the book but i have the beans on farm so its keeping out goings down. Cut £3000 out of my fert bill. (Thats negated by the shoite grain price). Erm bought my mum and dad a diesel corsa that dropped the fuel they were using by £60 a month. All filters are now spurious. Shop around for oil. Only have the farmhouse heating on on a night. The farm fire is on all the time (its amazing what u can find to burn on a farm). Trying constantly to look at the job to cut costs but improve what im doing.

I've highlighted a sentence above. What does it mean?

 

[J 1177]

I've highlighted a sentence above. What does it mean?

Ah. I mean using spurious filters (vapromatic, donaldson) for the tractors rather than buying branded filters.

 

[jackp]

I've highlighted a sentence above. What does it mean?

It means he buys cheaper non genuine filters

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

I tip last years grain samples for farm assurance on this years heap...... those extra kilos mount up...

When the local grain merchant used to collect samples they took a few kilos . These were tipped in a skip , weighed & the proceeds used for their Christmas night out .

 

[Fendt516]

Only thing wasted here is rain water, but hopefully that'll get sorted when we have some money spare

....or sunshine

 

[Ashtree]

Get 'em to calve at 24 months. These ladies wasting time and cash waiting around to get laid is money down the swaney[emoji15]

 

[tanker]

"change is'nt always progress".

..as someone said along the same lines,..''just because we can doesn't mean we have to..' and the example he gave was the Jumbo Jet still going strong and the new fangled supersonic Concorde,now found in museums..

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Ah. I mean using spurious filters (vapromatic, donaldson) for the tractors rather than buying branded filters.

Ah, right. Generic is the word I would have used.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I have my breakfast at night to save time in the morning

 

[PSQ]

It sounds like an excuse to get out of work to me. You wouldn't hear grandad saying it!

I dont know about that. I found Grandad's diary, started the day he was de-mobed in 1919. He hunted twice a week (though he always complained he couldn't afford a decent horse), played a lot of cards with his pals, bought a new 1921 model Norton 16H and rode it to Aberdeen faster than you could legally drive it now on a modern motorway ("3 hours 20 minutes"). The old boy worked hard and played hard. But he did it with 6 full time employees and a half the village at harvest. The end of harvest parties made the local paper: "the band played until the sun rose"...

Fast forward the thick end of a 100 years: We are all trying to farm on our own. Never see the neighbours. Too busy to see friends. Haven't enjoyed our old hobbies in a decade. Always saying we should get back together with 'the old gang' (never happens). Working old kit into the ground. Family complaining that you're always "too busy" to go out.

If your Grandad heard you say that you're "too busy", he'd tell you to "get a feckin' life"...

 

[S J H]

I dont know about that. I found Grandad's diary, started the day he was de-mobed in 1919. He hunted twice a week (though he always complained he couldn't afford a decent horse), played a lot of cards with his pals, bought a new 1921 model Norton 16H and rode it to Aberdeen faster than you could legally drive it now on a modern motorway ("3 hours 20 minutes"). The old boy worked hard and played hard. But he did it with 6 full time employees and a half the village at harvest. The end of harvest parties made the local paper: "the band played until the sun rose"...

Fast forward the thick end of a 100 years: We are all trying to farm on our own. Never see the neighbours. Too busy to see friends. Haven't enjoyed our old hobbies in a decade. Always saying we should get back together with 'the old gang' (never happens). Working old kit into the ground. Family complaining that you're always "too busy" to go out.

If your Grandad heard you say that you're "too busy", he'd tell you to "get a feckin' life"...

Things were good back then though weren't they? I'd rather work harder now, than be working hard when I'm older.

 

[Osca]

..as someone said along the same lines,..''just because we can doesn't mean we have to..' and the example he gave was the Jumbo Jet still going strong and the new fangled supersonic Concorde,now found in museums..

That would be a better illustration of "it may be better but that doesn't mean vested interests and backward thinking won't kill it..."
Concorde was superb.

 

[tanker]

Concorde was superb.

Most certainly was..flew over the farm in daylight just the once(often heard the 'boom' at night) awesome looking thing, but pretty hard to make the hi tech pay was my point..

 

[PSQ]

Things were good back then though weren't they? I'd rather work harder now, than be working hard when I'm older.

Grandad died at 66.
His son, my Dad at 64.
At 44 I'm not too worried about saving for a about a pension, if you catch my drift. Life is for living.

It's a rare day that I agree with 'Forage Trader', but there is a lot of truth in this:

Yes the best farmer is a lazy one

Lazy farmers always find the easy way to do a job. Or to put it another way they "work smarter, not harder".

 

[Old Boar]

I blew a fortune last year - I bought a new wheelbarrow AND a new pair of wellies. There is no stopping sometimes!

 

[Osca]

Most certainly was..flew over the farm in daylight just the once(often heard the 'boom' at night) awesome looking thing, but pretty hard to make the hi tech pay was my point..

...especially if there's nowhere on the other side where it's allowed to land.

I see your point though. I suppose the pushbike will probably outlast the Jumbo.

 

[Goweresque]

Lazy farmers always find the easy way to do a job. Or to put it another way they "work smarter, not harder".

I'll work really hard to try and avoid work............half the things I do are aimed at making life easier at some undefined point in the future...........so far I don't appear to have got there though...........