This film gives a good overview of farming in 1969...

[Danllan]

... and really makes one think.

 

[Still Farming]

Never easy.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

... and really makes one think.

Aged ten. I can remember most of it clearly although from a child's perspective.
No horses except pets.
SS

 

[PSQ]

£12 a week in 1969 roughly equates to £169 a week today.

 

[Yale]

Aged ten. I can remember most of it clearly although from a child's perspective.
No horses except pets.
SS

I was just a twinkle until ‘71.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

... and really makes one think.

if that tractor was E reg, does that date the film as 1967?

 

[Devil's advocate]

if that tractor was E reg, does that date the film as 1967?

Sometimes tractors in fields are not brand new.

 

[Danllan]

if that tractor was E reg, does that date the film as 1967?

No, but it dates it as not being before 1967.

 

[Danllan]

Sometimes tractors in fields are not brand new.

Arable lads often forget this.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

I was thinking that it must have been 50s, but obviously my observation of the thread title, and my grasp of concept that not all tractors are brand new have slightly let me down this evening. Thanks for posting the film.

 

[thorpe]

£12 a week in 1969 roughly equates to £169 a week today.

i left school then £5 a week unlimited hrs no overtime

 

[Devil's advocate]

I was thinking that it must have been 50s, but obviously my observation of the thread title, and my grasp of concept that not all tractors are brand new have slightly let me down this evening. Thanks for posting the film.

I thought it looked very old fashioned for 1969. I was only 5 then, but big County tractors were available & JCB 3C's. People were using trip loaders into the early 80's.

I was bought a ladybird book farm machinery when I was 7 so !971, that seems very old fashioned, Apart from the dairy farm where everything is transported around the farmyard by conveyor belt, which must have not caught on.

 

[mixedfmr]

i left school then £5 a week unlimited hrs no overtime

Did that ten years on "one day all this will be yours my son"
Doubled up to £10 till 84, all in though

 

[Pan mixer]

I started work full time (school holidays) when I was 13 in 1974, I was pleased with the £11.50 I received for a 40 hour week, no horses but old Ford Force 4000's and a Nuffield 10/60

 

[thorpe]

I started work full time (school holidays) when I was 13 in 1974, I was pleased with the £11.50 I received for a 40 hour week, no horses but old Ford Force 4000's and a Nuffield 10/60

i started on a nuffiild DM4 and then on hand me down's till a jd 7700 then my brother came out of semi retirement

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

... and really makes one think.

Markstig Harrow and catchpole cage wheels on a 2wd tractor......nice . We still do that here

 

[Danllan]

Markstig Harrow and catchpole cage wheels on a 2wd tractor......nice . We still do that here

You've advanced that far over there, really? Fair enough, if you say so...

 

[Cab-over Pete]

£12 a week in 1969 roughly equates to £169 a week today.

What would a farm worker with a house be paid these days?

 

[Pan mixer]

What would a farm worker with a house be paid these days?

Round about 500 a week

 

[Devil's advocate]

Some white faced Dexters.

Still using binders in 1961, wow.