Problems and frustrations in farming

[DrWazzock]

I can never find my waterproofs and my gloves either.

 

[DrWazzock]

A device to warn the driver that the trailer or loader bucket is about to hit the shed roof would help me. Ultrasonic transducer perhaps.

A monitor to tell me when the trailer lights aren't working.

A simple weighing system to weigh each axle of a machine would be useful.

A jack that connected to the tractor hydraulics would be useful.

 

[Slippery Slope]

If you could provide me with serious suggestions

Be serious!!!

 

[ecooper123]

Thank you for you for your responses

 

[Nearly]

You'd gain more from visting @Netherfield @dannewhouse @young bull @masseybreaker or @snipe

I can recommend other characters in the Kirklees council area too.

 

[DrWazzock]

Thank you for you for your responses

Good luck with your design. Spent many a year in engineering design. It's an art as much as a science. Keep it simple and elegant. Minimalist is best. If it gets complicated and difficult you are on the wrong track.

 

[ecooper123]

Good luck with your design. Spent many a year in engineering design. It's an art as much as a science. Keep it simple and elegant. Minimalist is best. If it gets complicated and difficult you are on the wrong track.

Thank you very much for your advice I will definitely take it on board. If you have chance to make a list of any frustrations or think of any products that could be designed to help you on the farm please contact me

 

[ecooper123]

You'd gain more from visting @Netherfield @dannewhouse @young bull @masseybreaker or @snipe

I can recommend other characters in the Kirklees council area too.

Thank you very much. How do I go about contacting them? That would be great thank you

 

[DrWazzock]

Thank you very much for your advice I will definitely take it on board. If you have chance to make a list of any frustrations or think of any products that could be designed to help you on the farm please contact me

See my reply #22 above. A system to warn when tipping trailer or loader shovel is getting too near to shed roof would be good.

As would camera on loader bucket to allow the driver of the loading shovel to see into lorry being loaded.

A system to tell the driver when trailer lights have failed would be helpful.

 

[ecooper123]

See my reply #22 above. A system to warn when tipping trailer or loader shovel is getting too near to shed roof would be good.

As would camera on loader bucket to allow the driver of the loading shovel to see into lorry being loaded.

A system to tell the driver when trailer lights have failed would be helpful.

Thank you so much

 

[Nearly]

Thank you very much. How do I go about contacting them? That would be great thank you

That should send them all an alert.

Most farmers want to produce food and care fir the environment as they know their own farm.
Any rare flora and fauna on land axist in the present time purely BECAUSE of the way it is farmed. Any well meaning outsider body wanting to artificially preserve the environment or turn the clock back will risk damaging the thing they claim to be there to protect.
In busy West Yorkshire things would be improved with interaction between the dwindling rural population and the well meaning general public. Farmers may have missed the boat now as they are engrossed in earning a living in the short term rather than chatting to footpath users and interested neighbours. It's easier to become more insular than try to educate and inform people that have read the latest one sided axe grinding from charity or goverment funded pressure groups whose main interest is increasing their own funding or power rather than looking at the full picture of natural interaction of the different issues of nature in all its beauty and ferocity.
Rant over.

 

[dannewhouse]

done the survey, I left some blanks as couldn't think of anything

 

[ecooper123]

done the survey, I left some blanks as couldn't think of anything

Thank you very much, I really appreciate it

 

[betweenthelines]

90% of the "problems" mentioned here are very easily solved, either by a bit of basic organisation & planning, or by very simply engineered solutions e.g. a strategically placed mirror will allow you to check rear lights on a vehicle.

I knew a farmer who was "so busy" during harvest he didn't have time to top up fuel-until he realised an hour fetching diesel and bleeding a tractor was a bigger time waster than 5 minutes fuelling up every day.

Less moan, more think!

 

[dannewhouse]

just had to go and have a word with a dog walker, 2 spaniels both off leads set off on footpath but then went where they wanted, he wasn't too bad as followed a wall line after going square across a field. at least he had muck in bags still with him! frustrated farmer haha

 

[milkloss]

An app or computer software to cover all relevant legislation according to farm type. A sort of flow chart: employees? Nope so skip, cattle? Yes, so medicine book, movement book etc. Trailers, hyd braked or air... maintenance records etc.

This would enable a farmer to cover the whole farming business without keep checking with the relevant authorities for any updates. When an update arrives the user would be informed but only if useful to them.

 

[LincsLongwool]

A camera on the bucket of a telehandler, which shows you how close you are to a lorries trailer, it'd help a bunch when tipping into bulk lorries, it'd prevent dents and scratches

 

[Bramble]

A solution to the pointless exercise of endless TB testing in a completely closed herd with no neighbouring cattle.

40 man hours wasted every 60 days doing a test

 

[ecooper123]

Hi, if any farmers have time please could you fill out my questionnaires about farming accidents and frustrations in farming for my university research it will be greatly appreciated

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8T7RTS7

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NWNWK9L

Thanks,

Emily

 

[egbert]

I've done the first one Emily, but i'm not sure what you think you'll learn from it.
When you get a minute, pop round to the bio-engineering dept, and get someone to cook up some plant based balewrap, which composts in , say, 10 years.