Thriplow Annual Report

[Foxcover]

50th annual report, as always, honest, interesting and humerous.
Thanks @dontknowanything

Annual Report L - 2023: S Club 7, hose pipes, and the Leporidae — Thriplow Farms

One good wheeze that I came up with in the late ‘90s was that, instead of driving tractors at harvest, I should instead learn how the grainstore worked. On the face of it, this was a good idea. The old manager, Dave Gould, had been doing the job for many years. No one else knew nearly as much as he

www.thriplow-farms.co.uk

 

[Martin Holden]

Interesting reading and very direct about the business!

 

[essexpete]

Interesting as always, some 40 years since I last worked in a grain store but I could recognise some of the flavour!
Thanks

 

[MrNoo]

Very interesting!! My old store was exactly the same!! Yields we could only dream about here on the Cotswolds!!

 

[Enry]

50th annual report, as always, honest, interesting and humerous.
Thanks @dontknowanything

Annual Report L - 2023: S Club 7, hose pipes, and the Leporidae — Thriplow Farms

One good wheeze that I came up with in the late ‘90s was that, instead of driving tractors at harvest, I should instead learn how the grainstore worked. On the face of it, this was a good idea. The old manager, Dave Gould, had been doing the job for many years. No one else knew nearly as much as he

www.thriplow-farms.co.uk

always a great read...as honest an account as ever...like father like son

 

[chaffcutter]

Yes very jealous of the yield averages as well as this years harvest! We‘ll never get near those on our light ground. Does have advantages in easy working though…

I thought he was likely to have a rat in the top of the elevator but the bunny must have had a hell of a ride!

 

[ajd132]

Yes very jealous of the yield averages as well as this years harvest! We‘ll never get near those on our light ground. Does have advantages in easy working though…

I thought he was likely to have a rat in the top of the elevator but the bunny must have had a hell of a ride!

David is on light ground and he is honest that his yields aren’t always this good. Just read reports from last few years.

although I was ‘gifted’ this year yield mug by David, so I have to look at his exceptional 2023 yields every morning!

 

[Martin Holden]

Very interesting!! My old store was exactly the same!! Yields we could only dream about here on the Cotswolds!!

You just need some more stones! You must know the saying locally - “growing crops on limestone”

 

[nick...]

You just need some more stones! You must know the saying locally - “growing crops on limestone”

Great to read an honest update.
nick…

 

[uztrac]

Thanks for an excellent & honest report.

 

[Lowland1]

Not worth reading anymore. They don’t buy any machinery. 1974 was the year it’s all downhill since.

 

[Levelsman]

Not worth reading anymore. They don’t buy any machinery. 1974 was the year it’s all downhill since.

Rehandling bucket
Grain pusher on order
Times is hard....got to tighten our belts(trouser)!!
Based on look of many crops this time, might be able to run to a new broom next harvest if the combine will travel - well, a new handle perhaps!

Alright for you double/triple croppers in Eden!!

 

[Lowland1]

Rehandling bucket
Grain pusher on order
Times is hard....got to tighten our belts(trouser)!!
Based on look of many crops this time, might be able to run to a new broom next harvest if the combine will travel - well, a new handle perhaps!

Alright for you double/triple croppers in Eden!!

2023. I bought nothing. I’ve turned into my Dad.

 

[Martin Holden]

2023. I bought nothing. I’ve turned into my Dad.

That’s an admission right there!! Didn’t you even buy a broom handle?? Shocking!

 

[Danllan]

Mmmm, grainstores... where theories are 'proved' to breaking point & honest intentions go to die...

 

[Stewie]

A good read as always @dontknowanything

 

[Oldmacdonald]

Not worth reading anymore. They don’t buy any machinery. 1974 was the year it’s all downhill since.

From 1974 report:

MACHINERY The following new equipment was purchased this year:- 1 Claas Apollo Mobile Crop Drier, 2 Taarup Forage Harvesters, 1 Colman forage box, 1 Fyson elevator, 1 Bentall rolling mill, 1 Parmiter post driver, 1 John Deere 6 furrow plough, 1 Massey Ferguson 5 furrow plough, 1 Massey Ferguson 1200 tra ctor, 1 Ford 8600 tractor, 1 Ford 3000 tractor and 2 Ford 5000 tractors due later this year

 

[Suffolk Serf]

From 1974 report:

MACHINERY The following new equipment was purchased this year:- 1 Claas Apollo Mobile Crop Drier, 2 Taarup Forage Harvesters, 1 Colman forage box, 1 Fyson elevator, 1 Bentall rolling mill, 1 Parmiter post driver, 1 John Deere 6 furrow plough, 1 Massey Ferguson 5 furrow plough, 1 Massey Ferguson 1200 tra ctor, 1 Ford 8600 tractor, 1 Ford 3000 tractor and 2 Ford 5000 tractors due later this year

I was fortunate to have been taken at the age of 9 or 10, by my father who worked for Claas, to see the Apollo grass drier in action at Thriplow. Complete with the Ford 8600 hitched to a Taarup forager with disc direct cut head cutting Lucerne. The Ford 3000 and Colman forage box were being filled with the dry Lucerne wafers.
It was about that time that I decided that a life in farming was for me. Amazing how vividly I remember that trip.

 

[Lowland1]

That’s an admission right there!! Didn’t you even buy a broom handle?? Shocking!

Absolutely nothing with shiny paint. If we got a new broom handle in 2023 we had to cut it from a tree.

 

[Lowland1]

I was fortunate to have been taken at the age of 9 or 10, by my father who worked for Claas, to see the Apollo grass drier in action at Thriplow. Complete with the Ford 8600 hitched to a Taarup forager with disc direct cut head cutting Lucerne. The Ford 3000 and Colman forage box were being filled with the dry Lucerne wafers.
It was about that time that I decided that a life in farming was for me. Amazing how vividly I remember that trip.

I was never going to be doing much other than farming but visiting my aunts family’s grass drying operation certainly made a massive impression on me at a similar age too.