No time for a brew...

[multi power]

Video about this on Facebook. Guy walks into a pizza cafe acting homeless asks people to spare him a slice , they all refuse.

He gets some of his friends to give a pizza to a man on the street. He then asks this man for a slice and he agrees.

This is my first year on silage and what I have seen is the ones that want the most give you the least and the ones who are just happy to get there grass in make sure your well fed.

We don't stop in the day but try to have enough trailers running that there is 5 mins on a field change for leg stretch and a slash. We do go long hours 8am until 2-3am is not uncommon. If the farmer doesn't feed us the boss will always.

I make enough food to last me from 8am until 8am the next day if needs be. If making silage late at home everyone gets offered good. Mostly chips because many prefer to drive on if it's going to be a late finish. Last time it cost me £40 to feed everyone ..... The buck rake stayed on for an hour to make sure the pit was right and another hour the next morning. £40 doesn't buy you a lot of silage when you've got crap in the pit because your too tight too look after the people who make it.

the poorest people i know are the ones who will give n share the most

 

[Headless chicken]

The best one we do silage on is a big farm with a lot of money behind them and 3 people plus boss working. We have to drag sheet off before picking up whilst they ride around on the quad bike. Also expected to sheet after regardless of how many more acres we need to do that night.


We are never even offered a cuppa there.

 

[stuart]

The best one we do silage on is a big farm with a lot of money behind them and 3 people plus boss working. We have to drag sheet off before picking up whilst they ride around on the quad bike. Also expected to sheet after regardless of how many more acres we need to do that night.


We are never even offered a cuppa there.

Hope you tell them to feck off

 

[Headless chicken]

Boss stays to help. The only reason he goes there is because it's a big job. Forager driver doesn't take any sh!t tells them he's off and he is taking all the trailers with him.

 

[jonny]

the poorest people i know are the ones who will give n share the most

They pay the fastest as well

 

[nick...]

On the same theme the richest are the worst payers.thats probably why they are rich.seen this loads of times.especially doing digger work then chasing money for months afterwards.
Nick...

 

[Gulli]

The best one we do silage on is a big farm with a lot of money behind them and 3 people plus boss working. We have to drag sheet off before picking up whilst they ride around on the quad bike. Also expected to sheet after regardless of how many more acres we need to do that night.


We are never even offered a cuppa there.

One of the biggest farms we go to has a long drive with hedges down both sides, farmer stopped my mate who was doing some verge trimming to get him to cut the hedge. Cut all the way down to the house (1/4 mile) and the farmer came out with a two pound coin...
Said mate folded the trimmer up and drove back out the gate.

But I guess you don't get rich by spending it.

 

[Spud]

Some interesting experiences here. As an employer, I could use a few opinions, if you'd be so kind.
Take taty harvesting for example. Yard gang, harvester drivers in the field, trailer men anywhere between, drill man might be miles away. What's best? I often feel its better not to fetch any if it means missing people out. Sometimes I'm running about, sometimes I'm doing any one of the above jobs. It's hard fetching the bait when you're a part of the team, and the job would stop/be more difficult in your absence. Equally, were not that close to the takeaways. Wife would need to fetch kids (not good on a school night etc) or get a sitter, pita for a few buttys, and she's plenty to do. Mother not interested.
If we get say rained off on a Saturday morning, I'll get the fish and chips in for dinner, or ice creams if its hot. Similar at harvest, if we're burning midnight oil, or fixing a breakdown late on, I'll chop some taties up and make some chips if nowt else.

 

[grumpy]

Some interesting experiences here. As an employer, I could use a few opinions, if you'd be so kind.
Take taty harvesting for example. Yard gang, harvester drivers in the field, trailer men anywhere between, drill man might be miles away. What's best? I often feel its better not to fetch any if it means missing people out. Sometimes I'm running about, sometimes I'm doing any one of the above jobs. It's hard fetching the bait when you're a part of the team, and the job would stop/be more difficult in your absence. Equally, were not that close to the takeaways. Wife would need to fetch kids (not good on a school night etc) or get a sitter, pita for a few buttys, and she's plenty to do. Mother not interested.
If we get say rained off on a Saturday morning, I'll get the fish and chips in for dinner, or ice creams if its hot. Similar at harvest, if we're burning midnight oil, or fixing a breakdown late on, I'll chop some taties up and make some chips if nowt else.

tattie place i used to go to with a trailer,the wife of the farmer had big flask things and she would make stovies with sausages and hand them to the first trailer in the yard at 5 to hand out to the troops we were running 3 harvesters so that was a lot of folks to feed every day.

 

[Gulli]

Some interesting experiences here. As an employer, I could use a few opinions, if you'd be so kind.
Take taty harvesting for example. Yard gang, harvester drivers in the field, trailer men anywhere between, drill man might be miles away. What's best? I often feel its better not to fetch any if it means missing people out. Sometimes I'm running about, sometimes I'm doing any one of the above jobs. It's hard fetching the bait when you're a part of the team, and the job would stop/be more difficult in your absence. Equally, were not that close to the takeaways. Wife would need to fetch kids (not good on a school night etc) or get a sitter, pita for a few buttys, and she's plenty to do. Mother not interested.
If we get say rained off on a Saturday morning, I'll get the fish and chips in for dinner, or ice creams if its hot. Similar at harvest, if we're burning midnight oil, or fixing a breakdown late on, I'll chop some taties up and make some chips if nowt else.

What we tend to do on silage is get food delivered to the pit man who hands it out as trailers come in, and the first trailer runs it out to the rake and chopper drivers. Granted its a bit different to potatoes but works ok.
Lot of pizza places will deliver to the farm.

Do you not get a bit sick of chips on a potato harvest?

 

[Tim G]

My old employer used to send out a small flask for three of us to share if we worked an evening.
Self employed on own place now but do harvest for neighbouring farmer/contractor and when combining we all stop for a hot meal which is brought out to us in the evenings, quite often they cook for about 10 of us and its always appreciated. Just breaks a long evening up nicely. Also have a good meal out when we've finished harvest.
When employed I always had to deliver silage to a lady who had a few cows locally, she would always offer a cup of tea which I always refused until I met her daughter. After that I always accepted the offer and she's now my mother-in-law.

 

[multi power]

My old employer used to send out a small flask for three of us to share if we worked an evening.
Self employed on own place now but do harvest for neighbouring farmer/contractor and when combining we all stop for a hot meal which is brought out to us in the evenings, quite often they cook for about 10 of us and its always appreciated. Just breaks a long evening up nicely. Also have a good meal out when we've finished harvest.
When employed I always had to deliver silage to a lady who had a few cows locally, she would always offer a cup of tea which I always refused until I met her daughter. After that I always accepted the offer and she's now my mother-in-law.

very good post

 

[yellowfrog]

Some interesting experiences here. As an employer, I could use a few opinions, if you'd be so kind.
Take taty harvesting for example. Yard gang, harvester drivers in the field, trailer men anywhere between, drill man might be miles away. What's best? I often feel its better not to fetch any if it means missing people out. Sometimes I'm running about, sometimes I'm doing any one of the above jobs. It's hard fetching the bait when you're a part of the team, and the job would stop/be more difficult in your absence. Equally, were not that close to the takeaways. Wife would need to fetch kids (not good on a school night etc) or get a sitter, pita for a few buttys, and she's plenty to do. Mother not interested.
If we get say rained off on a Saturday morning, I'll get the fish and chips in for dinner, or ice creams if its hot. Similar at harvest, if we're burning midnight oil, or fixing a breakdown late on, I'll chop some taties up and make some chips if nowt else.

Ithink that when you are spred about like that it is difficult.you don't have to do it every night ,just occasionly that way everyone will feel appreciated . I know from plenty of exsperiance that a flask of tea made 7am resembles something you put in the sprayer to kill weeds at 9pm

 

[Oaklake]

Do you not get a bit sick of chips on a potato harvest?

That kind of remind me of this

 

[Gilchro]

Had it both ways.
Have worked for a good few folk who would feed you, a couple even treated you as part of the family.

When we used to employ a couple of men at home, they ate at the table like the rest of us.

I have, however, sat in a farmer's kitchen with him and his son, working out rations for them, while they ate their breakfast and had a cup of tea and never offered me a thing. Never went back.....

 

[Hesstondriver]

Some interesting experiences here. As an employer, I could use a few opinions, if you'd be so kind.
Take taty harvesting for example. Yard gang, harvester drivers in the field, trailer men anywhere between, drill man might be miles away. What's best? I often feel its better not to fetch any if it means missing people out. Sometimes I'm running about, sometimes I'm doing any one of the above jobs. It's hard fetching the bait when you're a part of the team, and the job would stop/be more difficult in your absence. Equally, were not that close to the takeaways. Wife would need to fetch kids (not good on a school night etc) or get a sitter, pita for a few buttys, and she's plenty to do. Mother not interested.
If we get say rained off on a Saturday morning, I'll get the fish and chips in for dinner, or ice creams if its hot. Similar at harvest, if we're burning midnight oil, or fixing a breakdown late on, I'll chop some taties up and make some chips if nowt else.

there are worse bosses to work for than you,

whilst I agree a break is a needed etc etc , we are not in the 1950s ! people do haver fridges at home and can pack up for them selves

sometimes its not about what you do its about you doing it, the odd ice cream on a sunny day or bacon rolls on a wet harvest morning go a long way, its not easy looking after crews all over the county either

I worked for a chap one summer the combine ate itself and turned its self in to a heap of spares, boss came down the field at 100 mph climbed on the combine jumped up and down with some bad language, climbed of and said there's only one to effing do now , ' lets go to the pub' and he treaded us to an afternoon in the beer garden!