Just one implement

[holywell farmer]

Log splitter

Dump trailer

 

[spin cycle]

hunny cart

 

[Robt]

Hen night? ?

 

[FarmyStu]

Hen night? ?

Was on a farm a while back. They were making very good money hiring out part of the farmhouse and gardens to hen parties for the weekend. They’d organise DJ’s/waiters if required and had popped a hot tub in the garden. It actually all looked a bit rough but they had plenty of clients apparently!

 

[Robt]

Was on a farm a while back. They were making very good money hiring out part of the farmhouse and gardens to hen parties for the weekend. They’d organise DJ’s/waiters if required and had popped a hot tub in the garden. It actually all looked a bit rough but they had plenty of clients apparently!

So that’s why that “farmer” was asking about telescopes the other night! Watching the Hens!

 

[Drillman]

Excellent suggestion. I’ll go and buy the appropriate implement tomorrow.....

When you buy the appropriate implement let me in on the secret cos I haven’t sussed out what it is yet?????

 

[ARW]

Probably nothing!

 

[michael N123]

Hire your tractor out and go drive someone else’s

 

[Highland Mule]

Leave the tractor in the yard and buy a lawn mower and go out cutting lawns, a mate now charges £40/hour for cutting lawns.

I tried that last week but nobody seems to want my services in Jan (or Feb come to that).....

This time of the year you want a cordless dewalt drill and a pile of 'handyman' business cards in your local Ikea - make good money building furniture for those that don't want to. A lot lower running costs than a lawnmower even, but you do have to wear tidy clothes and be nice to idiots.

 

[abitdaft]

Big rear discharge dung spreader. We bring in a contractor every year to load ( with our tractor ) and spread with theirs.. We muck out all winter onto heap, they load and spread. Job is done far quicker than we can do it.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Personally 'man and tractor' is probably one of my better paying jobs. Hitch on their kit, use your diesel and tyres, send bill, get paid, job done. ?‍

It honestly baffles me how anyone goes and spends £30k plus on a drill and covers enough acres to pay for a drill, towards a tractor and earn a living.

Maybe to do with in my job we're rarely in a scenario where we can earn far more by the acre than just charging by the hour.

 

[Dave6170]

Used to regularly go out spreading Nitrogen
£3.50 an acre 500 acre a day without breaking a sweat, tractor using bugger all fuel ?‍

I had someone a few years ago asking me to spread 400 acre with a small dose of fert i said £3/ac. He said mad to expensive! I can get someone to do it for £1/ac! I said go fet him then

 

[Dave6170]

Get a demount sprayer

 

[Barleymow]

Would need something to load it though. No loader of my own.

my eldest drives a fastrac spreading has a loader fitted to it ,so can load himself

 

[glasshouse]

Hedgecutter with saw blade

 

[Hesstondriver]

you say you dont want to do man and tractor, and ive seen the suggestions on a wet weather seed drill which was going to me my suggestion.

but....

how about a fudging wide set of flotation wheels, and then you become flexible and given the weather very much in demand ?

and ROI my well be better than something that will depreciate when sat in the shed

 

[Will7]

Got a 200hp tractor (Fastrac) sat idle at the minute. Soon going to have some spare time on my hands so plan on putting it to work. Don't want "man and tractor" jobs. So what one implement would generate the most return? I'm in North Lincs.

Sell the tractor and invest the proceeds in Troy Trojan global equity. Over the last 5yrs you would have doubled your money

 

[cvx175]

Best paying job.... How about sell the tractor and stick the money in a savings account won't cost you anything then

 

[Goweresque]

Best paying job.... How about sell the tractor and stick the money in a savings account won't cost you anything then

He won't make much either, have you seen savings rates recently? £100k might get you £1500 per year interest at best, before tax as well.

 

[cousinjack]

From what I've seen here, leave the tractor sat in the shed and go and drive someone else's !
Especially if you have any talent driving the things..