Local Farming Expressions

[4R Man]

Having worked in different parts of the country I aware of different terms used within farming. Some of which still make me smile....

Leading bales - is obvious, but I still see a bale wearing a show collar (like showing cattle) in my head!

Reene - Open furrow left when finishing ploughing a field.

Assbackards - wrong way around.

Endriggs - Headlands of a field

Some of these are disappearing from every day - what does everyone else have?

apologies if I have put this in the wrong category.

 

[celtis man]

Having worked in different parts of the country I aware of different terms used within farming. Some of which still make me smile....

Leading bales - is obvious, but I still see a bale wearing a show collar (like showing cattle) in my head!

Reene - Open furrow left when finishing ploughing a field.

Assbackards - wrong way around.

Endriggs - Headlands of a field

Some of these are disappearing from every day - what does everyone else have?

apologies if I have put this in the wrong category.

Forends or vores down here

 

[betweenthelines]

Lots of local terms around hay making:

Tetch it up-tedding

Larr it in-rowing up for baling

Lade/Ladder/Rack -the, well, lades at the front and back of the hay cart/wagon/trailer

 

[ollie989898]

Reene here I have heard people use to describe any of the drainage channels/streams or ditches found on the levels.

 

[4R Man]

Anyone else heard of the second story of an old farm building where bales were stores a Tollet?

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@robbie

 

[DaveGrohl]

Having worked in different parts of the country I aware of different terms used within farming. Some of which still make me smile....

Leading bales - is obvious, but I still see a bale wearing a show collar (like showing cattle) in my head!

Reene - Open furrow left when finishing ploughing a field.

Assbackards - wrong way around.

Endriggs - Headlands of a field
Headriggs
Some of these are disappearing from every day - what does everyone else have?

apologies if I have put this in the wrong category.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Great In Grass]

The cheques in the post!

 

[Levelsman]

Reene here I have heard people use to describe any of the drainage channels/streams or ditches found on the levels.

Rhyne

Up across, down over - my non-farming b-i-l never knows we are!

 

[ollie989898]

Rhyne

Up across, down over - my non-farming b-i-l never knows we are!

That looks a lot nicer spelling.

 

[Spencer]

Jobs fecked - farming

 

[Jackall]

40+years I’ve only used one of the above terms. Ladders on bale trailers. Never heard of of the others until I joined tff

 

[robbie]

@carbonfibre farmer
Oh the huh.
Going over it sosh ways.....or worse across wort!!!
Scoots.
A lot'u lumber in them ole beet.

If you have a bung up you have to "back back"

You have to roar it up and then pull it down to make a seed bed.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@carbonfibre farmer
Oh the huh.
Going over it sosh ways.....or worse across wort!!!
Scoots.
A lot'u lumber in them ole beet.

If you have a bung up you have to "back back"

You have to roar it up and then pull it down to make a seed bed.

Over wort not across
Well that's how we say it
Any more to confuse flatty?

 

[robbie]

Over wort not across
Well that's how we say it
Any more to confuse flatty?

If it's combining then it's over "he cut the whole field over wort" if your ploughing or cultivating then you do it across wort!!!

When straw or hay starts to get damp it gets "clung" or when combining "I'll have'tu stop soon tha's getting clung in the bottom"

Old prof flatty @flat10 reckons most of my vocabulary is made up......says the man who until a few weeks ago had never had any lumber come up in his beet!!!!

 

[Kidds]

It is sad in a way that some of these old words are being lost but nobody ever seems to mention the new ones such as "more pansies on bikes!" as an exclamation when trying to get somewhere on a tractor or, "for f**ks sake you only had to go back 5 yards in a straight line and now you are up the hedge" when encountering elderly or female drivers who had just passed the only bit wide enough.

 

[robbie]

It is sad in a way that some of these old words are being lost but nobody ever seems to mention the new ones such as "more pansies on bikes!" as an exclamation when trying to get somewhere on a tractor or, "for f**ks sake you only had to go back 5 yards in a straight line and now you are up the hedge" when encountering elderly or female drivers who had just passed the only bit wide enough.

We don't call them pansies on bikes or incompetent drivers, we juts call them c##ts.

 

[2wheels]

40+years I’ve only used one of the above terms. Ladders on bale trailers. Never heard of of the others until I joined tff

hakes

 

[Will 1594]

hakes

Gormers
irish lad calls headlands ,wine riggs

 

[goodevans]

Anyone else heard of the second story of an old farm building where bales were stores a Tollet?

Tallet