The I am getting on and it’s hurting thread

[Wood field]

What can I say , I’ve probably ruined the shite lambing thread , with my rambling on about what to do etc so inspired by @Aspiring Peasants I thought yes that’s a good idea , a thread to share your aches and pains, your trials and hopefully your wins.
As we get older things can become more difficult especially if your suffering with ailments , maybe like myself you are at a crossroads not knowing whether to carry on farming or to say enough is enough
I really hope anyone going through a tough time posts , it can be as anonymous as you like but please , don’t be afraid to talk.
I’ve had some incredible private messages and some humorous and sage advise on the shite lambing thread , and for that Thanks to everyone who posted.
Dave

 

[DrDunc]

What can I say , I’ve probably ruined the shite lambing thread , with my rambling on about what to do etc so inspired by @Aspiring Peasants I thought yes that’s a good idea , a thread to share your aches and pains, your trials and hopefully your wins.
As we get older things can become more difficult especially if your suffering with ailments , maybe like myself you are at a crossroads not knowing whether to carry on farming or to say enough is enough
I really hope anyone going through a tough time posts , it can be as anonymous as you like but please , don’t be afraid to talk.
I’ve had some incredible private messages and some humorous and sage advise on the shite lambing thread , and for that Thanks to everyone who posted.
Dave

I've no bothered myself with reading the shyte lambing thread, "feart" it makes depressing reading, so I can't comment on whether you've ruined it

I can comment on aiks and ailments; suffered from farmers lung for near 15 years, have gout often worse during times of stress, and now aching joints, particularly in my hands, that doesn't make it easy to run after and lamb troubled ewes

Why carry on? Because I've improved the cattle pens so I don't now need to run and chase, able to afford a much more comfortable tractor, still dreaming up ways to work without the physical strength and fitness that I once had. The days of me knocking in 100 fence stabs with a 30kg man killer are gone, so today I have a petrol knocker thats lighter to carry. There's aye a way for those inventive enough to stop doing things just because that's how they've always been done

Until farming no longer provides a sense of achievement and accomplishment in the face of adverse weather, failing physique, and basturd thick politicians, I don't recon it's time just yet to join the auld collie dug asleep at the fireside

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

They will need to co operate to survive. The alternative is sell up for trees/another farmer.

Or a long decline into bankruptcy.

@unlacedgecko I transferred this from the other thread now the new one has started.

There's a huge difference between tenants and owner occupiers now, I think tenants are really going to struggle because of alternative land uses and rent levels. An owner occupier who has paid off his borrowings and perhaps has pension has a lot of options.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Away land is owned , we let someone use one bit on a nominal rent but have told them we need it back next April, probably looking to sell that bit .

Why sell it? Grass lets round here go for ridiculous rents and that's just for the summer

 

[Wood field]

Why sell it? Grass lets round here go for ridiculous rents and that's just for the summer

It’s 30 acres but to be fair only 10 or 12 would be relatively good grazing the rest is practically moor / rough grazing

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Just trying to think of something realy hard on me that I would sooner be doing than keeping sheep
Climbing up mount Everest in a Snow Storm does not quite cut it
Will have a think

 

[Wood field]

Just trying to think of something realy hard on me that I would sooner be doing than keeping sheep
Climbing up mount Everest in a Snow Storm does not quite cut it
Will have a think

I’ve done most of the British mountains in winter , I used to think it was fun !
New Year’s Eve on sca fell, we must have been nuts !

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Takes a lot to make my cry , sheep did
On a cold February day when it had been raining solid for 10 days I knelt down in the field and cried
Trying my best to get Ewes and Lambs out of the shed

 

[Wood field]

Takes a lot to make my cry , sheep did
On a cold February day when it had been raining solid for 10 days I knelt down in the field and cried
Trying my best to get Ewes and Lambs out of the shed

I’ve had a few moments this year , I was in a very dark place so to speak, not really the sheep but lambing in the shed on top of other things .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I’ve had a few moments this year , I was in a very dark place so to speak, not really the sheep but lambing in the shed on top of other things .

Someone told me you had to be born a sheep a sheep farmer, as I was an ex dairy farmer he was probably correct, he also said within 5 years I would hate them

 

[Wood field]

Someone told me you had to be born a sheep a sheep farmer, as I was an ex dairy farmer he was probably correct, he also said within 5 years I would hate them

Well I do have a very appropriate surname

 

[Fendt516profi]

I've no bothered myself with reading the shyte lambing thread, "feart" it makes depressing reading, so I can't comment on whether you've ruined it

I can comment on aiks and ailments; suffered from farmers lung for near 15 years, have gout often worse during times of stress, and now aching joints, particularly in my hands, that doesn't make it easy to run after and lamb troubled ewes

Why carry on? Because I've improved the cattle pens so I don't now need to run and chase, able to afford a much more comfortable tractor, still dreaming up ways to work without the physical strength and fitness that I once had. The days of me knocking in 100 fence stabs with a 30kg man killer are gone, so today I have a petrol knocker thats lighter to carry. There's aye a way for those inventive enough to stop doing things just because that's how they've always been done

Until farming no longer provides a sense of achievement and accomplishment in the face of adverse weather, failing physique, and basturd thick politicians, I don't recon it's time just yet to join the auld collie dug asleep at the fireside

How do you mean depressing reading, If the sh!t you read about isn't as bad as yours?

 

[DrDunc]

How do you mean depressing reading, If the sh!t you read about isn't as bad as yours?

Never been a fan of making myself feel better by reading / listening to the woes of someone else having a bad time, be it better or worse than the sh!t getting dealt my way. Bit like watching a corpse rot, and not remembering that one day it'll be yours doing the decaying

 

[Bogweevil]

Pecker up all, those geriatric aches and pains are better than the alternative after all

 

[DrDunc]

Pecker up all, those geriatric aches and pains are better than the alternative after all

Always remember it's best to wake up the same number of times that you go to sleep

 

[Flossie]

Well I do have a very appropriate surname

 

[Wood field]

 

[serf]

New Year’s Eve on sca fell, we must have been nuts !

Yes I think that's a fair sumisation.....

 

[Wood field]

Yes I think that's a fair sumisation.....

It was worse the next morning, my self inflating carry mat deflated in the night . Some where there’s a shape of me melted in the snow after we took the tent down

 

[serf]

And then xx years later you come on the internet telling us your aching....