Scanning 2021

[Nithsdale]

Not hanging about is fine if your still making the same standard of job as you would make if you were going steady … but going like f**k making a mess when I’m paying you too make a decent job just because the weathers f**ked your plans up doesn’t wash with me… if you can’t do the job right don’t do it at all.. if I wanted the wool ripping of sheep I’d message one of the many Facebook hero’s offering to come clip sheep ect ect for half the price I normally pay

Easy answer to that is find a better shearer then

 

[Mc115reed]

Easy answer to that is find a better shearer then

Not a problem Iv got anymore but I don’t see why people stand for it… would you be happy if you booked somebody too come spread your fertiliser for you and they came and spread it at a high rate on the fields near the farm and then barely spread anything on the far away fields because they needed too get on because the weather was against them??

 

[Nithsdale]

Not a problem Iv got anymore but I don’t see why people stand for it… would you be happy if you booked somebody too come spread your fertiliser for you and they came and spread it at a high rate on the fields near the farm and then barely spread anything on the far away fields because they needed too get on because the weather was against them??

What you're talking about is incompetence. Mark him/her/them down as bad and move on from it and get someone else in.

You don't bitch all contractors are sh!t, tarring them all, just because 1 stroker can't spread fert - in your example...

 

[neilo]

Maybe they took the view that they weren’t being paid enough so ‘they can get what they’re given’. No point in making a tidy job if you’re not getting paid for it.

A bit like selling lambs?

 

[Nithsdale]

Meanwhile, somewhere in Montgomeryshire

 

[Mc115reed]

Maybe they took the view that they weren’t being paid enough so ‘they can get what they’re given’. No point in making a tidy job if you’re not getting paid for it.

A bit like selling lambs?

I don’t choose how much contractors charge how much they’re being paid is there problem I paid what ever they ask me for … just don’t get why people go contracting when they’re always in such a rush too get too the next farm before they’ve even started your farm

 

[Ysgythan]

So this is a shearing thread?

 

[Nithsdale]

So this is a shearing thread?

It's whatever you want it to be

 

[Mc115reed]

So this is a shearing thread?

Christ if that change of subject has gotten you baffled don’t come over too the beef and lamb price tracker thread nobody’s mentioned a price in there since 2018

 

[Skintagain]

‘f**k the buyers’ was the first expression that came to mind reading though

 

[Estate fencing.]

I don’t choose how much contractors charge how much they’re being paid is there problem I paid what ever they ask me for … just don’t get why people go contracting when they’re always in such a rush too get too the next farm before they’ve even started your farm

Of course they are in a rush, your being paid per sheep and got to get through a lot a day if on multiple farms, you shouldn't do a bad job but sometimes sheep aren't ready to be shorn and people who have never shorn a sheep in there lives pester you so much you just go and do them, that when you get grumpy shears and an untidy job. Same as scanning I imagine, turn up and the sheep aren't in and haven't been off food for the night you might get a grumpy scanner if he is trying to do a lot of small farms in a day, the old boy who scans mine is pretty relaxed and doesn't do that many because has a flock of ewes, turns up at 11 and just does our 500 and 450 in 2 days a month apart.

 

[Ysgythan]

It's whatever you want it to be

Personally I’m eternally grateful that there’s still shearing contractors to be had, especially ones who’ll come and do ours on their way home. We would forgive them a lot, but thankfully rarely have to.

 

[Mc115reed]

Of course they are in a rush, your being paid per sheep and got to get through a lot a day if on multiple farms, you shouldn't do a bad job but sometimes sheep aren't ready to be shorn and people who have never shorn a sheep in there lives pester you so much you just go and do them, that when you get grumpy shears and an untidy job. Same as scanning I imagine, turn up and the sheep aren't in and haven't been off food for the night you might get a grumpy scanner if he is trying to do a lot of small farms in a day, the old boy who scans mine is pretty relaxed and doesn't do that many because has a flock of ewes, turns up at 11 and just does our 500 and 450 in 2 days a month apart.

I just don’t get why people do jobs they don’t want too do… went too a different market a few weeks back and everybody in there sorting sheep out and at the weigh scales looked suicidal like they all hated there lives and wanted too end it… just thought I’d you don’t want too do it why do you do it

 

[ilyria]

Scanned at 170% overall, including a disaster with a pedigree group and a non working shearling ram. Hopefully they're just too early to tell though, they had a couple of rams in with them since

 

[Purli R]

I just don’t get why people do jobs they don’t want too do… went too a different market a few weeks back and everybody in there sorting sheep out and at the weigh scales looked suicidal like they all hated there lives and wanted too end it… just thought I’d you don’t want too do it why do you do it

Hells Bells,must of been a fun day out! You going back this week?

 

[Mc115reed]

Hells Bells,must of been a fun day out! You going back this week?

Think I’ll stick to what I know Lot of people say bad things about Bakewell but every time I try another market I have a bad experience

 

[Jonp]

Had 100 ewes scanned this morning, mules and about 20 SWM.
2 empty but well down on twin bearing.(only 26)
Scanner man has done 20,000 so far this year and says it is the same everywhere.
Still, no triplets or quads to deal with so I'm happy enough.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Had 100 ewes scanned this morning, mules and about 20 SWM.
2 empty but well down on twin bearing.(only 26)
Scanner man has done 20,000 so far this year and says it is the same everywhere.
Still, no triplets or quads to deal with so I'm happy enough.

How well do your mules usually scan?

 

[TGM]

To wander off the thread subject a bit further, is anybody using an eid reader at scanning to record the results in real time? - a hidden agenda in that question as we provide the readers and software for that purpose. Problem I face as supplier of readers and the software on the reader is to enable the recording to be done fast enough to keep up. To improve that, we'll have a fast scan option on reader for next year's scanning, but missed getting it ready in time for the current season.

 

[Jonp]

How well do your mules usually scan?

Usually between 150 and 160%, they feel in much better condition this year so am at a bit of a loss as to why they're down. Weaned lambs off them early and they had plenty of grass, scanner man thinks they weren't flushed as summer grass too good.??