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<blockquote data-quote="Herdwick sheep" data-source="post: 7486074" data-attributes="member: 71948"><p>Have a full time job (non agricultural ).A certain amount of flexibility if people will swap a day off but no “I’ll just pop home for my dinner hour to look at stuff”. We take 3 weeks off at lambing time to cover lambing and earlies and lates have to manage themselves. Worst thing is when you get home and something has gone wrong and you weren’t there. But, it’s not what pays my wage. My job does and so has to be the priority. To be honest, (dare I say this on TFF!!), its my job that covers my losses in farming. But it is putting money into a land purchase that will be done in time.</p><p></p><p>Days off are spent doing jobs that need doing so days off (relaxing) are rare to be honest. One of the worst things for me is not being able to help gather the fell on gathering days if I am working. We have a decent heap out on the fell (upwards of 100, over once we get lambs out ) and so are dependent on neighbours getting them ,sorting them and keeping them till we can get there.</p><p>I bend over backwards to help them if they ever ring me and say “have you got an hour to spare” or I see a problem over their wall and I know they aren’t about.</p><p></p><p>Contractors do clipping , dipping and scanning, but often work along side different neighbours to help all parties. We add our sheep to the contractors day saving them a moving stuff hassle and we help our neighbours to put their numbers through as a swap for letting us piggyback on their jobs.</p><p></p><p>Would be easier not to do it to be honest but I love days gathering and sorting, watching lambing taking place, and taking stuff to the Auction and the general way of life. And that is what makes it worth doing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Herdwick sheep, post: 7486074, member: 71948"] Have a full time job (non agricultural ).A certain amount of flexibility if people will swap a day off but no “I’ll just pop home for my dinner hour to look at stuff”. We take 3 weeks off at lambing time to cover lambing and earlies and lates have to manage themselves. Worst thing is when you get home and something has gone wrong and you weren’t there. But, it’s not what pays my wage. My job does and so has to be the priority. To be honest, (dare I say this on TFF!!), its my job that covers my losses in farming. But it is putting money into a land purchase that will be done in time. Days off are spent doing jobs that need doing so days off (relaxing) are rare to be honest. One of the worst things for me is not being able to help gather the fell on gathering days if I am working. We have a decent heap out on the fell (upwards of 100, over once we get lambs out ) and so are dependent on neighbours getting them ,sorting them and keeping them till we can get there. I bend over backwards to help them if they ever ring me and say “have you got an hour to spare” or I see a problem over their wall and I know they aren’t about. Contractors do clipping , dipping and scanning, but often work along side different neighbours to help all parties. We add our sheep to the contractors day saving them a moving stuff hassle and we help our neighbours to put their numbers through as a swap for letting us piggyback on their jobs. Would be easier not to do it to be honest but I love days gathering and sorting, watching lambing taking place, and taking stuff to the Auction and the general way of life. And that is what makes it worth doing [/QUOTE]
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