Nostalgia, how far back can you remember ?

[bumkin]

Anybody remember making silage and adding molasses?

yes and cutting it out with a hay knife

 

[bumkin]

Drum roll... Nostalgia is a seductive liar!

the difference is we were young then we didn't know what joint pain was we weren't worn out then we had no responsability's. i can remember the cold days ploughing day after day getting off and walking alongside warming my frozen hand on the exhaust coming in and my face so cold i could not talk. but i don't want to remember those things,i want to remember the long summers days the smell of hay the warm cow shed in the winter being a child and taking my lunch to the stables so i could have bagin with the men,and they were real men !

 

[Celt83]

I know I'm only a pup but I can remember being 8 years old and begging my mum and dad that I was old enough to drive the tractor. This went on for weeks and I couldn't get my head round that they said I was too young.

Then one day my grandad was over bailing our hay and it was a hot day. Dad decided to leave the carting until later on in the night so grandad and my uncle went home to milk which left us short.

Dad put me on the seat of our MF35 and told me to press the pedal down and hold it down while he threw the bales on the trailer while the man in the cottage at the end of the drive stacked. I felt like the king of the world!!

I remember my leg trembling under the strain of the pedal and letting it go a bit sharp and the old man going crackers on the trailer at me so the next time I stopped I let the clutch out real sharp and he ended going on his ar$e with hay all over him.

My mum came running over and said if I did that again I would be banned from watching the A-Team.

In them days I would be willing to work all day with a pick and shovel if I could drive the fergie 50 feet in the field to the gateway.

 

[Gomer Pyle]

Anybody remember making silage and adding molasses?

yep wet summer 1985- barrels of molasses on the buck rake- punctured holes in the barrel on its side with an axe then drove up and down clamp
did a barrel every couple of layers
id only be 8 then , friends and I would lie on ground near buckrake before holes were put in the barrels ready to drink the spouts of molasses straight from barrel
covered in the stuff and a bad dose of diahorea the next day if I remember correctly!!

 

[devonshirekiwi]

I can remember the last 3 drought threads ending up as slagging matches ?






Do I even need my coat? ?

Don't need your coat, it's a drought!

 

[Agrivator]

I remember being at primary school, where we didn't even have an abacus for counting.

To do addings up, we had to use our fingers. To do take-aways, we had to have some of our fingers amputated. But it didn't do us any harm.

 

[Vizslaman]

Born in 1947 and as said previously I remember being allowed to go along to the Ovaltine factory to collect the grains after malting which were used for cattle feed. There was of course the broken slabs of Ovaltine to munch on the way home.
I doubt anyone on here remembers Warren Farm, Windmill Lane, Southall.
I see it is now a leisure centre but back in the 1950's it was owned by St Bernard's Physhiatric Hospital.

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[Lowland1]

My kids stuck plastic dinosaurs to the sunvisor on my pickup to remind me of how things were when i was younger.

 

[Veryfruity]

Sitting in the back of a Willys Jeep pulling a muckspreader (Ferguson?)

Seeing my grandfather Ride on the plough instructing my father

Washing leeks in winter, early eighties, dad built a tent out of tunnel polytherne in the shed to keep the heat in as we washed hand dug leeks, he put a wood burner in there too. Got it was cold. He would heat a bucket of water and bring it round so we could warm our hands.

Dad had sold the last of the petrol/Tvo tractors and was proudly all diesel. But that winter they froze, so he bought a petrol one back. Cold winters meant high prices.

 

[David.]

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My kids stuck plastic dinosaurs to the sunvisor on my pickup to remind me of how things were when i was younger.

Used to tell our girls that their Gran had a pet Pterodactyl in a cage when she was a little girl.

I can remember before the electric was put in at the off lying buildings, there were groups of 3 nails knocked into the timbers at strategic points, into which Gramp would push a lit candle, so he could see a lambing ewe or a pigging sow. I can also remember him being occasionally startled by stumbling over a sleeping tramp who would have split a bale of straw in the feed shed for a bed for the night.
Tramps, that is something you encounter fewer of now, I think most of the ones from back then were disturbed ex soldiers who couldn't fit back into normal life.

 

[An Gof]

I remember a pair of Ford 7000s turning up, 1976 ish? Also remember the aphids in 1976.

you’re some young ??

 

[An Gof]

yes and cutting it out with a hay knife

Yup, done that, the Parmiter block cutter was a revelation ?

 

[David.]

I also remember the aphid plague in 76, if that is when it was.
Gramp had taken the unprecedentedly drastic step of spraying the wheat (so unprecedented that he had no row crop wheels for the 135; PNV156F if anyone knows where it is).
Imagine his consternation, I can remember it, when having made 2x12" tyre tracks every 24 feet through the wheat, there came a huge thunderstorm that would gave washed the aphids off anyway.

 

[Lowland1]

I also remember the aphid plague in 76, if that is when it was.
Gramp had taken the unprecedentedly drastic step of spraying the wheat (so unprecedented that he had no row crop wheels for the 135; PNV156F if anyone knows where it is).
Imagine his consternation, I can remember it, when having made 2x12" tyre tracks every 24 feet through the wheat, there came a huge thunderstorm that would gave washed the aphids off anyway.

I can't remember the aphids so much as the ladybirds. I was carting corn and the trailers were red with ladybirds.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Anybody remember making silage and adding molasses?

Yes, two buckets full thrown on top of each load tipped at the clamp. In fact I think it was cider apple something or other, mixed with molasses. It was delivered into big black tanks by a company named Goldstream.

I remember my uncle and his hoards of brothers from Coventry doing a lot of manual work on occasions, picking mangolds, pitching bales etc. Great blokes.

Visits from the vet. Dad used to let horns get about 5-6 inches long on steers then have the vet remove them with cheese wires and hot irons. I used to swap the irons in the gas flames and hand him the hottest one. One day, the vet sawed a horn off, took a drag on his cigarette, put his lips to the horn cavity and blew, sending streams of smoke out of the bullocks nose!
The same vet would come castrating bulls, in the crush. First round with the jab, then all back through with the scalpel. The vet held the scalpel between his teeth whilst pulling the balls out and I clearly remember his face dripping with blood like Dracula! Hands covered in blood and blue spray!

I still vividly remember being stood in the Dutch barn listening to Dad ploughing on the MF165 in the bottom six acre. I was listening to him whistling a tune, Rod Stewart, Sailing. The field would be 400 yards from the barn but I could hear every note. Blimey, I’m all lumpy throat just remembering.

He really was the best Dad anybody could wish for.

 

[DrWazzock]

They did a lot of draining work here in the 1970’s and the draining machine, big and impressive as it was, featured in my earliest memories here. The little cab fitted over the digging chain, the massive tracks and huge engine fascinated me as a little lad. I remember stacks of clay tiles in the yard and in the fields all hand unloaded with special four pronged forks. And heaps of slag from Scunthorpe to use as backfill. Dad checked the level and the placement of nearly every tile following the machine and tapped down any slightly misplaced tiles with a brush shaft. I think he nearly drove them mad, but most of the system is still working well today so it was worth the care and attention of all involved.

 

[DeeGee]

I remember being at primary school, where we didn't even have an abacus for counting.

To do addings up, we had to use our fingers. To do take-aways, we had to have some of our fingers amputated. But it didn't do us any harm.

You were lucky! We never even had any fingers to amputate! We was so poor in them days us dad chopped off all us fingers, and us toes, just so us to have summat to eat: aye; that’s right enough. So think on!

 

[puppet]

I remember being at primary school, where we didn't even have an abacus for counting.

To do take-aways, we had to have some of our fingers amputated.

Deliveroo must have saved a lot of fingers

 

[som farmer]

how many of us, had our 1st go of driving a tractor in the hay field ?
reading the comments on here, we have seen a monumental change in farming.

 

[Lowland1]

You were lucky! We never even had any fingers to amputate! We was so poor in them days us dad chopped off all us fingers, and us toes, just so us to have summat to eat: aye; that’s right enough. So think on!

Is that true?