Overwort?

[Chris Lockwood]

Just out of curiosity really - is it an East Anglian term to refer to working 90 degrees to the previous pass/normal way a field is farmed as going 'overwort'? Perhaps other areas have different names for it a bit like Scoots/Short Work/Running Land/Gores/Gearings/Cuttings?

 

[Darren]

I used to hear that term in Suffolk

 

[Chris Lockwood]

What would you call it in Lincs then?

 

[Splitpin]

Scoots/Short Work/Running Land/Gores/Gearings/Cuttings?

You forgot 'raps', well that's I would say anyway

 

[Darren]

What would you call it in Lincs then?

Crossways to previous pass. If I were to say overwort to the lads here, They'd look at Me like I had two heads

 

[Chris Lockwood]

Crossways to previous pass. If I were to say overwort to the lads here, They'd look at Me like I had two heads

Ah! Fair to say it must be a regional term then! Maybe we just like going crossways so much that a word was invented for it...

 

[czechmate]

I would call it "back breaker" or "boom buster".
Why would you work across the normal direction ?

 

[Pond digger]

I would call it "back breaker" or "boom buster".
Why would you work across thenormal direction ?

Masochism

 

[spin cycle]

You forgot 'raps', well that's I would say anyway

pikes or pikework in worcs TBH....familiar with 'overwort'

 

[czechmate]

pikes or pikework in worcs TBH....familiar with 'overwort'

A pike to me, in leics, would be the triangle shape you are left with yo finish the field

 

[marshfarmer]

Up and down, overwort or on the huh inbetween.
Scoots, or skewts I imagine it being spelt and it's either this end or yon end you have to work to/from.

 

[spin cycle]

A pike to me, in leics, would be the triangle shape you are left with yo finish the field

in that you'd get short rows i'd call scoots but an old worker when i was a student in worcs called it pikes

 

[dazza b]

If you work the opposite direction your meant to I just call it bloody backwards lol

 

[yellowbelly]

What would you call it in Lincs then?

Cross-roads on.
Short work is called Garerins.

 

[glasshouse]

I would call it "back breaker" or "boom buster".
Why would you work across the normal direction ?

I know a farmer who would roll a field one way, then again at 90 degrees. Some sow grass that way too. Before tramlines came in, I knew a farmer who started one seeder going one one side of the field and another working st 90 degrees.

 

[yellowbelly]

I know a farmer who would roll a field one way, then again at 90 degrees

Before the advent of slug pellets, this was an early form of slug control. Two passes at 90 degrees with a Cambridge roll left a pattern of squares on the ground. The theory was that slugs could only make right turns. A slug would then only be able to eat any seed in one square and would keep going round and round until he starved to death.

 

[renewablejohn]

Cross-roads on.
Short work is called Garerins.

Must come from the same part of Lincs to me

 

[Alicecow]

pikes or pikework in worcs TBH....familiar with 'overwort'

A pike is a small stack of hay

 

[renewablejohn]

Before the advent of slug pellets, this was an early form of slug control. Two passes at 90 degrees with a Cambridge roll left a pattern of squares on the ground. The theory was that slugs could only make right turns. A slug would then only be able to eat any seed in one square and would keep going round and round until he starved to death.

Had a similar tale but the squares would create a moat if wet and slugs would starve rather than cross the water.

 

[quattro]

Short rows =gushet