Keeping the farm tidy.

[Fellsfarmer90]

how much of an effort do people make to keep their farm tidy?
what do you do with your oil drums, fluke/worm drenches etc and all other general rubbish?

 

[oilymuck]

Squash it down and put it in the wheelie bin. Only thing we get for 2.5k council tax.

 

[JockCroft]

how much of an effort do people make to keep their farm tidy?
what do you do with your oil drums, fluke/worm drenches etc and all other general rubbish?

Drench bottles recycling. Baler twine finds alternative purposes. Plastic oil drums get used, reused and "cut up" for alternative purposes. Metal drums 205's get used for all sorts of things until their final journey to the scrapie, filled with all the small metal bits that would otherwise fall out or of the load.
Wood/pallets- no comment.

The bugger is old fence wire. Scrappies up here dont like it.

 

[Nearly]

Anyone carrying a clipboard is sent for recycling, as are cyclists.

 

[Hesstondriver]

the best thing we've done is have a 600l wheelie bin in the yard , emptied once a month .
no saving waste for annual skip / fire
no bags of rubbish
no silage wrap blowing

can get a lot of stuff in squashing down with the loader.

sometimes the bin men come more than once a month when were feeding lots of silage and putting Fert on . coincidentally found a couple of crates of beer left on top at Christmas helps farmer-binmen relationships

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Drench bottles recycling. Baler twine finds alternative purposes. Plastic oil drums get used, reused and "cut up" for alternative purposes. Metal drums 205's get used for all sorts of things until their final journey to the scrapie, filled with all the small metal bits that would otherwise fall out or of the load.
Wood/pallets- no comment.

The bugger is old fence wire. Scrappies up here dont like it.

wish it could go to be recycled, I have a ton bag full of the stuff here

 

[Tamar]

the best thing we've done is have a 600l wheelie bin in the yard , emptied once a month .

Who do you use to get a once a month empty ?

Most firms want fortnightly

 

[deleted user 837354]

wish it could go to be recycled, I have a ton bag full of the stuff here

I'm sure companies will take bale twine if it's clean and kept dry?

If not.

November 5th...

The trick with barbed wire is to cut it up into shorter lengths.

 

[Dry Rot]

The trick with barbed wire is to cut it up into shorter lengths.

Squashed with a tractor bucket, then driven over a few times with the tractor. Did some rylock the same and got the scrappy to take it. Squash it really tight. I've found what they won't tolerate is bits of loose wire that gets tangled in their machinery...which is understandable.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I took a trailer load of Barb and pig netting once and the scrap yard didn’t bat an eye lid

 

[wilber]

Some people are tidy and make a fair effort and some people are utter pigs.

 

[Bucks Boy]

As I use bales, roll up silage wrap and put into used fertiliser bags. String goes straight into another bag. Got a waste carrier’s license and take it all to local landfill in the spring. Can take triple rinsed spray cans too.

 

[bobajob]

We are not perfect here, but some farms are a right mess , i think they just drop things at their tail end! Its like there is no pride in the job?!
They can suit themselves its not really any skin off my nose but i wouldn't like it here

 

[Devil's advocate]

I took a trailer load of Barb and pig netting once and the scrap yard didn’t bat an eye lid

We do too, but the foundaries are only a 20 minute drive away.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Don't buy it in the first place.

When shopping we avoid plastics as much as possible, paper and cardboard cause no disposal headaches

 

[principal skinner]

I manage the in laws farm. I’m OCD tidy, he is the untidiest person I have ever met, no effort at all to be tidy. Does my head in daily!!!!

 

[S J H]

Some people are tidy and make a fair effort and some people are utter pigs.

Some of the tidiest farms I know are tenanted aswell, I think a lot is just installed through the generations. I try to be tidy, but when work is busy things get dropped and left.

There’s one social media person who seems to get more follows the more he batters his truck, can’t really work it out myself.

 

[dun tilling]

To keep the place tidy, I follow the wife around to pick up her " debris" drop and run is her motto , especially cable ties that end up in the midden

 

[Agrivator]

I knew of farmer who donned a freshly washed boiler suit every morning. And there wasn't a wisp of hay or straw around the steading.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I knew of farmer who donned a freshly washed boiler suit every morning. And there wasn't a wisp of hay or straw around the steading.

I don a freshly laundered boiler suit every morning as well…. Mainly because by the end of the day mines up to the eyes in clarts or p!ss wet through