Nostalgia, how far back can you remember ?

[bumkin]

my first memories of farm life are in the fifties, i was brought up on a small cheshire mixed farm, dairy, beef pigs, poultry, and sheep.We also grew potatoes cereals and green crop,its hard to believe it all fit in on less than eighty acres! the work was done by horses two shires and a Clydesdale, my father employed a wagoner and a cowman and a woman who used to look after the poultry and was the dairy utensils.What has brought about this look into the past is a program on ty and the fact that we were planting spuds and drilling barley the other day and a neighbour asked me (by phone) if things had changed much in my farming carea, i said when i was first involved with spud planting it was from chitting trays with two people carrying and one following dropping seed and trying not to tread on them then the drills were split by a horse pulling a one furrow ridge plough,and i looked over the hedge and it was a hive of industry with bedformers destoners planter a fork lift

 

[som farmer]

earliest clear memory, we had a DB 900 (?) with a double seat, how I loved that tractor, reg PAM 61, recall lots of 'bits', but riding round on that tractor, heaven.

 

[Highland Mule]

I’m in the middle of lambing but without usual family help. I have no memory of what I ate for dinner last night. ?

 

[Goweresque]

earliest clear memory, we had a DB 900 (?) with a double seat, how I loved that tractor, reg PAM 61, recall lots of 'bits', but riding round on that tractor, heaven.

The DB Cropmaster had a double seat, my father had one. Some of my earliest memories are sitting on that with my mother as she towed a siderake turning hay, which would be early 1970s.
Strangely enough it had an 'AM' number plate as well, JAM 90 if i recall correctly. It should still be around somewhere we only sold it to a collector about 15 years ago.

 

[bumkin]

I’m in the middle of lambing but without usual family help. I have no memory of what I ate for dinner last night. ?

i feel your pain we have just got a few ewe lambs hangers on i recon they must be the ugly ones

 

[bluebell]

i remember back as a kid, unmade side roads, no mains drainage, the 1970 world cup? collecting the esso coins that had the england world cup squad on them? the 2 wheel drive tractor was the tractor and the ford 5000 ruled here in essex, local contractor had a doe triple d and equal size wheel county tractors ? remember the fireengines racing up the unmade road to put stubble fires that had caught the hedges on fire, oh the good old days ?

 

[Highland Mule]

i feel your pain we have just got a few ewe lambs hangers on i recon they must be the ugly ones

It’s been a fast one here too - too fast for the grass to grow in the in bye parks. On day 16 and 80%+ done.

 

[David.]

I can remember the good old days.

Leonard Sachs was a bit of a knob though.

 

[Fendt65]

My last memory was telling the wife she had put on weight since this lock down!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

This little tractor had arrived a few days earlier..... we used to get 8 or 10 thousand bales in with that system .
No wonder we have all got bad backs !!

 

[Hfd Cattle]

My last memory was telling the wife she had put on weight since this lock down!

Brave man !!!

 

[primmiemoo]

V early memories of being lifted up and sat upon a dawdling cow as they went back to field after milking. "Helping" to feed dad's saddlebacks (lifted up to drop pellets for them). Catching stray hens for mum, and the egg buyer putting trays of eggs in his van. Riding on a pet ewe - Devon Longwool - enormous creature! Helping sell calves. All before my 4th birthday.

Watching dad sow grass seed broadcast - a 1 acre field pace by pace, handful by handful. I know I found distraction in looking at sowpigs and millipedes, and watching the birds, because suddenly he'd be at the far end of the field ...

Still got his second tractor. MF35, with the remnants of his Taarup forage harvester.

 

[Wolds Beef]

Is that a Thames trader lorry? @Hfd Cattle .
WB

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Is that a Thames trader lorry? @Hfd Cattle .
WB

Old Bedford TK . We used to have a stock box to go onto it . No power steering it was a dog to drive around the yard .
I was only a totter but I can still see and hear dad grunting as he pulled on the old steering wheel !!

 

[db9go]

Is that a Thames trader lorry? @Hfd Cattle .
WB

No i think it is a Bedford TK

 

[ajcc]

So which is you Hfd cCattle? Lad on load, lad steering 434?

 

[le bon paysan]

Must have been 4/5 years old and sliding down the bag chute of a Massey combine and ripping the are out of my shorts, mum not impressed. The other clear one was riding with dad on a fordson major petrol/ tvo scuffling the ' long park'.

 

[som farmer]

a bad memory, a ################old bitch of a Friesian cow, huge bottle tits, awkward to get the clusters on, with a kick speed of lightning, and a temper to match, named dapper, and me, 10 yrs. Ever since then, 50+ years ago, to now, very, very fussy about cows udders, when choosing bulls, even more so, now looking at fr again.
Even now, sends shivers down my spine, thinking about that old bitch, and the old man saying, 'she's alright, get on with it'. And today, I tell my son, stick a calf on her, ain't worth the risk.

 

[Kidds]

Old Bedford TK . We used to have a stock box to go onto it . No power steering it was a dog to drive around the yard .
I was only a totter but I can still see and hear dad grunting as he pulled on the old steering wheel !!

Never thought to grease the kingpins then?
Keep them well greased and it was almost like having power steering.

 

[Bogweevil]

Early 1960s - we were the last in the valley to use a binder, how people laughed at us, - loved the 'hiling' as we called 'stooking'.