Taking Liberties

[sheep&cows&stuff]

Just thinking - do farmers take more daring liberties than any other kind?

1 - I made a quantity of real good 1st cut silage. Put in a serious effort (time off work) etc to get it a good. Neighbour is in a bigger way of going than me and made pit silage. With the year it was, neighbour had to house 12 or 16 cattle early. Came and asked could he use a few of my bales as he hadn't enough cattle in to open the pit. Said he would replace with his bales once he makes them. I said 'hmmm suppose so' (I'm too soft). Turns out he used 20 of my bales, and the bales he says he will replace my good 1st cut with is 20 bales of 3rd cut made at Halloween!! The cheek of it!

2 - Dad doesn't farm - but I bought a tractor a few years back - a fairly fresh model. I was at home one day this week (working from home). Next thing I see is an old neighbour pull up in his 2wd tractor. Him and dad head off in my tractor (my diesel) to start setting in round bales for said neighbour. I challenge dad after about what the hell they were at - he says 'ah so and so's tractor isn't fit to set in the bales - she wont lift them'....only I was at home by chance I would never have known - my bloody diesel and all! God knows how long that has been going on for.

3 - I got some good asphalt screenings when a road was being resurfaced close to me. Had to call in a few favours to get it. 2 neighbours land asking can they have some to fill in pot holes in their drives - of course dad tells them to work away!! The stuff is as good as tar & like hens teeth to find. I need far more than I have yet dad tells them to work away!

4 - Years ago I was only a teenager and to pay off some farming debt I was selling firewood. Worked bloody hard at it. Anyway, an older cousin of mine moved into a new house. Said cousin is a useless fecker - wouldn't work on batteries. Of course dad tells him to call and get some firewood as a house warming present. Didn't he land and take around £100 quids worth with him. I was fair pee'd off that day haha

I'm too soft by not putting an end to it, dad is too soft for not saying no. I blame the people who take the liberties!!

Doesn't really annoy me - its just laughable!!

 

[Scholsey]

Sounds like it’s your dad you need to have a word with!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So what you got to say for yourself Dad ? Dont be shy !

 

[roscoe erf]

So what you got to say for yourself Dad ? Dont be shy !

i'm not your father

 

[Derrick Hughes]

i'm not your father

Did you ever have a bread round

 

[roscoe erf]

Did you ever have a bread round

milk

 

[Jasper]

worthless fellows FARMERS are often I think worthless fellows .Few lords will cheat and when they do they will be ashamed of it .Farmers cheat and are not in the least ashamed. They have all the sensuous vices too of the nobility with cheating into the bargain. Life of Samuel Johnson 1790 . its not a new thing

 

[Purli R]

Some days your the pigeon.......................Some days your the statue

 

[hendrebc]

My grandfather used to let people borrow stuff or come shooting here all the time. Fair enough he knew them and got plenty back in return, mostly drinks at the local pub he was in a lot
Dad carried on this borrowing stuff and letting people come and go as they pleased with a gun and never paid much attention to what was going on. Never got anything in return though apart from a few good friends and plenty take the pee over it
I'm not so nice. I'm still waiting for a set of draining rods to come back. Whenever I ask for them I get told they left them by the door to the workshop. Did they f**k! A vaccinator gun thst has the bottle on the top not on a pipe has gone to someone but dad can't remember who and isn't coming back now. A stack of buckets and hay baskets for sheep pens have gone walkabout too. This is all fairly recently. Plenty of things have come back bit in much worse condition than they left. The 4 foot painted hurdles that were like new when they left come to mind. They came back covered on cow sh!t and rusty as hell and with broken end loops after several months. Someone borrowed a shovel to put grit on the hill to get up the road in the snow. It came back with a broken handle. Someone borrowed my new stock trailer and left it parked up tight to a wall in the dark. When I moved it I realised they had bent the loop things on the ramp that touch the ground. Someone else borrowed it and didn't wash it before it came back. Someone borrowed our tractor to do a job and didn't bring it back for a month we had to go and get it! I could go on and on. People shooting are the worst though. They proper take the pee. I don't mind someone coming to have a pop at some pheasants if they will come and shoot some pigoens or crows for me when I need it. They never bloody come. So now I've gotten very good at telling people to f**k off! Some pr*ck phoned us up not long ago asking if they could borrow a thing that went from a PTO to a belt pulley drive to turn an old roller mill or something. I didn't know what he was on about but apparently my grandfather used to let him borrow it 30odd years ago and he needed it now. He got quite arsey when I said we didn't have it anymore and being mostly a nice polite person I started apologising for not having it. He got even more arsey then I realised... Hang the f**k on I dont even f**king know you you pr*ck go f**k yourself and hung up the phone.
One neighbour went and helped himself to a branch that had come down in a field near his house. Not on the boundary it was off a tree in the middle of a field away from his house. He left the small branches and twigs all over the field and when I went to ask wtf are you doing as he was driving out of the field he tried to make out he was doing me a favour! After an argument his father in law paid me for the branch and they cleared up the mess.
I've had few people i dont know very well if at all phone me and tell me they needed a tractor/loader/chainsaw/welder for an afternoon when I wasn't using mine. Now my answer is well go buy one!
Had an argument not long ago with someone who comes shooting pheasants here (and never comes to shoot crows when I ask him several times even though he promised to come every time) because I got someone come to lamp foxes here and he shot 6 in a month or something. He didn't like it because he had been digging foxes out of an earth here for years and now he probably couldn't anymore and it was my fault for letting someone with a rifle come and ruin his fun. So I let the estate next door have the shooting this year
I'm well and truly fed up of people taking liberties here just because my grandfather did. There isn't a pub here anymore I'm not even going to get a pint out of the deal so now it's no.
I'm not always a miserable f**ker though I will let good friends borrow things but they are always good about not breaking things and bringing them back. And they will let me borrow things in return. Why can't all people be like that

 

[yin ewe]

Just thinking - do farmers take more daring liberties than any other kind?



3 - I got some good asphalt screenings when a road was being resurfaced close to me. Had to call in a few favours to get it.

Would your examples be called favours also? Maybe the people who you called in the favours with are posting on another forum?

 

[sheep&cows&stuff]

My grandfather used to let people borrow stuff or come shooting here all the time. Fair enough he knew them and got plenty back in return, mostly drinks at the local pub he was in a lot
Dad carried on this borrowing stuff and letting people come and go as they pleased with a gun and never paid much attention to what was going on. Never got anything in return though apart from a few good friends and plenty take the pee over it
I'm not so nice. I'm still waiting for a set of draining rods to come back. Whenever I ask for them I get told they left them by the door to the workshop. Did they fudge! A vaccinator gun thst has the bottle on the top not on a pipe has gone to someone but dad can't remember who and isn't coming back now. A stack of buckets and hay baskets for sheep pens have gone walkabout too. This is all fairly recently. Plenty of things have come back bit in much worse condition than they left. The 4 foot painted hurdles that were like new when they left come to mind. They came back covered on cow sh!t and rusty as hell and with broken end loops after several months. Someone borrowed a shovel to put grit on the hill to get up the road in the snow. It came back with a broken handle. Someone borrowed my new stock trailer and left it parked up tight to a wall in the dark. When I moved it I realised they had bent the loop things on the ramp that touch the ground. Someone else borrowed it and didn't wash it before it came back. Someone borrowed our tractor to do a job and didn't bring it back for a month we had to go and get it! I could go on and on. People shooting are the worst though. They proper take the pee. I don't mind someone coming to have a pop at some pheasants if they will come and shoot some pigoens or crows for me when I need it. They never bloody come. So now I've gotten very good at telling people to fudge off! Some plonker phoned us up not long ago asking if they could borrow a thing that went from a PTO to a belt pulley drive to turn an old roller mill or something. I didn't know what he was on about but apparently my grandfather used to let him borrow it 30odd years ago and he needed it now. He got quite arsey when I said we didn't have it anymore and being mostly a nice polite person I started apologising for not having it. He got even more arsey then I realised... Hang the fudge on I dont even fudgeing know you you plonker go fudge yourself and hung up the phone.
One neighbour went and helped himself to a branch that had come down in a field near his house. Not on the boundary it was off a tree in the middle of a field away from his house. He left the small branches and twigs all over the field and when I went to ask wtf are you doing as he was driving out of the field he tried to make out he was doing me a favour! After an argument his father in law paid me for the branch and they cleared up the mess.
I've had few people i dont know very well if at all phone me and tell me they needed a tractor/loader/chainsaw/welder for an afternoon when I wasn't using mine. Now my answer is well go buy one!
Had an argument not long ago with someone who comes shooting pheasants here (and never comes to shoot crows when I ask him several times even though he promised to come every time) because I got someone come to lamp foxes here and he shot 6 in a month or something. He didn't like it because he had been digging foxes out of an earth here for years and now he probably couldn't anymore and it was my fault for letting someone with a rifle come and ruin his fun. So I let the estate next door have the shooting this year
I'm well and truly fed up of people taking liberties here just because my grandfather did. There isn't a pub here anymore I'm not even going to get a pint out of the deal so now it's no.
I'm not always a miserable fudgeer though I will let good friends borrow things but they are always good about not breaking things and bringing them back. And they will let me borrow things in return. Why can't all people be like that

HAHA great! This is the kind of response I wanted! Some people properly take the mick. I used to sell cattle in the mart for a neighbour because he was too odd to sell his own. Literally load them, take them, sell them, and take the cheque home. Got a few quid. Anyway, when I was starting out as a teenager I had no cattle trailer so I started borrowing his - I thought it was fine (he had 2 trailers). One day I rang to see could I have it and he told me sorry but another neighbour has it. I thought this was funny, and happened to meet said neighbour on the road - not a word about it! Your man was just trying to get out of lending me the trailer. I was that pee'd off that I never sold cattle for him again.

Be different if I was taking the pee, but I was a young lad who was trying to make a go at farming. Would have appreciated him telling me to my face that he didn't want to lend it - instead of making up lies!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

No

 

[David.]

You will never be short of friends if you have something they need to borrow, or are relaxed about who you allow to shoot.
The test is whether these friends ever help you out...

 

[davieh3350]

weekend call from a lad down the road, farmers son...I
I said ok, take the oxygen bottle if you are really stuck. There's a wee bit out of it but not much, get me a new bottle next week and bring it back up to me, my other is nearly empty.

Great, thanks. You've really got me out of a pickle...

8 months later the wee sh!te still had the bottle and I had to go for it myself. It was full though.

 

[Scholsey]

Stop making bales put a silage pit in and ask everyone that shoots/borrows stuff to help you sheet/tyre the pit, solves neighbours ‘borrowing’ your bales and will sort the wheat from the chaff with friends.

 

[hendrebc]

Edit: I wrote this and said horsey twit because the 2 people in the story are twits. Not all horse people are before I start an argument about horse people again
My sister is a horsey twit so is naturally friends with some horsey twits too.
Horsey twit asks sister if she can have a bale of hay because she is stuck for some over the weekend. Horsey twit woman had seen me doing a very rare field of small bales a few months before
Me: NO! I worked bloody hard carrying them by myself I'm not bloody giving them away to anyone!
Sister: he's a twit I'll ask dad
Dad: no not for free
Sister: small bales are £3 in wynnstay.
Me: no they f**king well aren't they're £5 but still no f**k off! Or £20 seeing as she is that stuck
Dad: don't be stupid. Horsey twit woman bring me another bale in its place on Monday when you have a chance
Horsey twit woman: it's ok I'll manage somehow

She just wanted a cheap bale of hay and trying to get some local idiot to supply her. She couldnt be arsed bringing one back. Dad knew what he was doing that day
Said horsey twit friend has asked if she could ride around in our fields seeing as the roads are so dangerous. Sister said yes of course. Guess what my answer was. If rhymes with duck and ends in off!

 

[hendrebc]

Edit: I wrote this and said horsey twit because the 2 people in the story are twits. Not all horse people are before I start an argument about horse people again
My sister is a horsey twit so is naturally friends with some horsey twits too.
Horsey twit asks sister if she can have a bale of hay because she is stuck for some over the weekend. Horsey twit woman had seen me doing a very rare field of small bales a few months before
Me: NO! I worked bloody hard carrying them by myself I'm not bloody giving them away to anyone!
Sister: he's a twit I'll ask dad
Dad: no not for free
Sister: small bales are £3 in wynnstay.
Me: no they fudgeing well aren't they're £5 but still no fudge off! Or £20 seeing as she is that stuck
Dad: don't be stupid. Horsey twit woman bring me another bale in its place on Monday when you have a chance
Horsey twit woman: it's ok I'll manage somehow

She just wanted a cheap bale of hay and trying to get some local idiot to supply her. She couldnt be arsed bringing one back. Dad knew what he was doing that day
Said horsey twit friend has asked if she could ride around in our fields seeing as the roads are so dangerous. Sister said yes of course. Guess what my answer was. If rhymes with duck and ends in off!

I did not write twit that is a new one on me with the swear filter
I really am coming over as a miserable get orf my land type today

 

[7610 super q]

Neither a borrower nor lender be.
And after 4 years looking at TFF.....
Neither a landlord, nor tenant be.

 

[David.]

Nor a Brexiteer, nor a Remainer.

 

[Goweresque]

My grandfather used to let people borrow stuff or come shooting here all the time. Fair enough he knew them and got plenty back in return, mostly drinks at the local pub he was in a lot
Dad carried on this borrowing stuff and letting people come and go as they pleased with a gun and never paid much attention to what was going on. Never got anything in return though apart from a few good friends and plenty take the pee over it
I'm not so nice. I'm still waiting for a set of draining rods to come back. Whenever I ask for them I get told they left them by the door to the workshop. Did they fudge! A vaccinator gun thst has the bottle on the top not on a pipe has gone to someone but dad can't remember who and isn't coming back now. A stack of buckets and hay baskets for sheep pens have gone walkabout too. This is all fairly recently. Plenty of things have come back bit in much worse condition than they left. The 4 foot painted hurdles that were like new when they left come to mind. They came back covered on cow sh!t and rusty as hell and with broken end loops after several months. Someone borrowed a shovel to put grit on the hill to get up the road in the snow. It came back with a broken handle. Someone borrowed my new stock trailer and left it parked up tight to a wall in the dark. When I moved it I realised they had bent the loop things on the ramp that touch the ground. Someone else borrowed it and didn't wash it before it came back. Someone borrowed our tractor to do a job and didn't bring it back for a month we had to go and get it! I could go on and on. People shooting are the worst though. They proper take the pee. I don't mind someone coming to have a pop at some pheasants if they will come and shoot some pigoens or crows for me when I need it. They never bloody come. So now I've gotten very good at telling people to fudge off! Some plonker phoned us up not long ago asking if they could borrow a thing that went from a PTO to a belt pulley drive to turn an old roller mill or something. I didn't know what he was on about but apparently my grandfather used to let him borrow it 30odd years ago and he needed it now. He got quite arsey when I said we didn't have it anymore and being mostly a nice polite person I started apologising for not having it. He got even more arsey then I realised... Hang the fudge on I dont even fudgeing know you you plonker go fudge yourself and hung up the phone.
One neighbour went and helped himself to a branch that had come down in a field near his house. Not on the boundary it was off a tree in the middle of a field away from his house. He left the small branches and twigs all over the field and when I went to ask wtf are you doing as he was driving out of the field he tried to make out he was doing me a favour! After an argument his father in law paid me for the branch and they cleared up the mess.
I've had few people i dont know very well if at all phone me and tell me they needed a tractor/loader/chainsaw/welder for an afternoon when I wasn't using mine. Now my answer is well go buy one!
Had an argument not long ago with someone who comes shooting pheasants here (and never comes to shoot crows when I ask him several times even though he promised to come every time) because I got someone come to lamp foxes here and he shot 6 in a month or something. He didn't like it because he had been digging foxes out of an earth here for years and now he probably couldn't anymore and it was my fault for letting someone with a rifle come and ruin his fun. So I let the estate next door have the shooting this year
I'm well and truly fed up of people taking liberties here just because my grandfather did. There isn't a pub here anymore I'm not even going to get a pint out of the deal so now it's no.
I'm not always a miserable fudgeer though I will let good friends borrow things but they are always good about not breaking things and bringing them back. And they will let me borrow things in return. Why can't all people be like that

And breathe.............