raves, raids, lades, ladders,

[PSQ]

Yolking time - starting the day, when you’d yolk the horse.
Lousing time - finishing time, letting the horse loose.
Bait time - breakfast, lunch or tea, when you’d stop to eat from your ‘bait bag’. To quote this farms version of Gerald: “Thon laddies taen (taken) the hale (whole) loaf fur his bait, he’s gaun tae need anither ersehole”.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Yolking time - starting the day, when you’d yolk the horse.
Lousing time - finishing time, letting the horse loose.
Bait time - breakfast, lunch or tea, when you’d stop to eat from your ‘bait bag’. To quote this farms version of Gerald: “Thon laddies taen (taken) the hale (whole) loaf fur his bait, he’s gaun tae need anither ersehole”.

I would eat my bait in Herefordshire, but if I mention bait time here in Wales, no one knows what I am on about!

 

[primmiemoo]

Digging out moors = digging out roots of unwelcome plants. Stroil has strong roots, from what I remember older generations saying. Moors of rushes were easier to get out. Would it have the same origin as moorings for ships and boats?

Drengway = narrow gap in a hedge that takes a ditch from a road into the farm's watercourses. Always kept carefully steeped across to maintain a stockproof barrier.

Steep = create a stockproof barrier from the trees and shrubs on the top half of a hedge. Steeping is similar to hedgelaying, but carried out at altitude.

Deshalls = creeping thistle. Milky deshalls are dandelions. I wonder how much full on swearing was edited out in all the "desh them all!" -ing at the creeping thistles.

Lades to keep loads of bales on trailers. Also to note the lack of necessary support for the food on a generously filled plate: "You need lades on 'n, chiel!"

Tallet = top storey of a shippon or a stable where fodder, wool, etc, are stored. Loved by Owls, feral free range poultry, and small, semi-feral children.

 

[tr250]

I went to Brymore a farming school in somerset whilst there it was apparent the different names that people from around the country gave to the same machines, animals and equipment as well as disesaes and infections

so what do you call the things that are on the front and back of trailers to stop bales falling off (usually little bales if you can remember those things)

and when preparing hay for the baler are you rollering, rowing up, walling, or laneing

and my favourite was a chap from warwickshire who told me about summer garget

My Grandfather was from warks/Northants border and he used to call the the garg always made us laugh

 

[bumkin]

Cheshire - not the posh bit
Gormers= on trailers
Row up-rowing up
cuttings= short work
Baggin=eating time
Owd- old
Mizzick= a bog/wet hole
Wooden hills= stairs
Fair clemmed-hungry

as a Cheshire boy that brought back memories where is the posh bit?

 

[Grassman]

This thread started on April 10 2013.
Doesn't time fly

 

[Exfarmer]

I would eat my bait in Herefordshire, but if I mention bait time here in Wales, no one knows what I am on about!

Never heard of Bait till came across the fen boys, who suddenly all stopped around 11 for bait. Think it was when they went to catch some fish for supper

 

[Campbell]

I've heard, Bait, Snap, Docky, Tiffin, and in New Zealand it's Smoke-O. Need a full list?

 

[bumkin]

when i was a young man bagin was a lump of cheese an onion and a piece of bread if you were young exchange onion for apple but of course you didn't want to be a wuss so you had onion

 

[Av Gorritt]

Never heard anywhere else where a length of 6x4 or so timber with a chain at each end slung across a gateway being called a stang . I was told it was of Scandinavian origin , but others may have a different explanation . With us , the chains were usually shoulder or draw chains from cart gears that went from the hames on the horses collar to the shafts , and unused for that purpose obviously .

 

[Av Gorritt]

We also had "ginnels" which were narrow passageways , and I always thought it rather expressive for being over busy was being "A bit thrung on "

 

[Cowmansam]

Bing the bit I front of the boozy in a shippen
Yilve a 4 prong fork pikel a pitch fork dunnock the long handle one with the 90 degree bend at the end for pulling it off the trailers

 

[Lowland1]

I remember at primary school trying to explain to the teacher that my uncle had to yock the trailer on and take it down the fen because we were batting. Yock I now realise comes from yoke and batting meant we were leading small density Welgar bales that we put on top of potato pies. This was the same teacher i'd had to explain a corn Auger to. Teaching Lincolnshire to school teachers was a difficult job.