Today at work

[Flat 10]

Dry and still enough to broadcast grass seeds today but the clods refuse to get smaller, I took a second picture of the rolls whilst working with dust pouring off them but it was even poorer than my usual standard so I haven't posted it.

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That’s a great seed bed on heavy land

 

[v8willy]

Was ploughing yesterday, blocked front board on a headrig so got out to clear it, tripped on a bit of raised soil & fell over, did what I had to & got back in, no major drama...
About half hour later noticed my phone missing, I had it when I started as someone rang, went & got another to call it but it's dead so must of got the wheel too...if I'm lucky it'll take root, anybody know the average yield of apples?

 

[Kiwi Chick]

My test tube babies finally arrived today after much drama, hopefully will be doing this with them in 3-4 years

I think they broke the destoner at this point as it did not move for a couple of hours

 

[Pan mixer]

That’s a great seed bed on heavy land

I agree, nasty pug ploughed wet and slimy 8 weeks ago. Plenty of time and the big man upstairs helped a lot.

Pressed twice, rolled, harrowed 4 times with a roll in the middle and at the end, a straw rake was surprisingly effective at making soil without bringing up more clods unlike traditional harrows, left rolled for a week, harrowed twice yesterday and rolled after.

As good as I could do, I wouldn't normally plough before grass but we made such a mess with harvest (the combine was stuck in one place), baling and muckspreading that there was no other option.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

The list of things in my day is slowly getting larger
Usual morning jobs - feed the hungry mouths, got my puffy steer in for the vet; she suggested I just let the pressure out with a needle for the next few days while I'm giving him peno- will see how he goes by Monday,

then mouthing and weighing lambs while the kids were occupied

Then, home James
Pick up the boys, cook a couple of bacon egg pies, lambing beat, fart the calf, eat, and off to fire brigade practice.
Just home, eating pie, and then I'll shoot out in the tractor for a few hours give some clods a drag around.

 

[JD-Kid]

fart the calf

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[Philip Watkins]

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Stick a needle in and let the gas out.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

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He's got a weird bloat thing at the moment.
Not a frothy bloat, maybe a partial blockage the vets think.
But he won't fit up the vet race so I have to jam him with a gate and let some pressure off and then he'll fit up and I can let the rest go with a couple of 14g needles in the rumen. Poor guy, but he's very calm about it all.
Will unroll some baleage for him and his mate to eat as I'm thinking there may be less gas formed from good haylage than fresh tucker in my yard

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

I agree, nasty pug ploughed wet and slimy 8 weeks ago. Plenty of time and the big man upstairs helped a lot.

Pressed twice, rolled, harrowed 4 times with a roll in the middle and at the end, a straw rake was surprisingly effective at making soil without bringing up more clods unlike traditional harrows, left rolled for a week, harrowed twice yesterday and rolled after.

As good as I could do, I wouldn't normally plough before grass but we made such a mess with harvest (the combine was stuck in one place), baling and muckspreading that there was no other option.

These folk on boys land don't know their luck! That lot must have cost you at least £10/acre in cultivation

 

[Wilberforce]

First trance of Maize harvesting today. Crops looking like a solid 17ton/acre according to the yield monitor, if accurate?! Crop really dried down a lot in the last week.

 

[JLTate]

Made and fitted 3 Yorkshire sliding Sash windows. Fitted last one on Monday.

Then went over to Addingham Tuesday delivering son more door surrounds. Took Shiloh

On with making pair of patio doors in workshop this morning.

Due to this year been abit manic and starting a pain in the arse job next Monday we decided from this afternoon to give joinery a break for a few days so spending rest of week leading top soil.

Overloaded it slightly but it pulled it well enough

 

[Great In Grass]

@Cows 'n grass up close and personal today with one of his new found friends the cows quite like the Brigadier fodder beet too!

 

[Kevtherev]

About halfway through the round now

 

[mixed breed]

No buggering about this morning, load of fert from the docks.

Obviously someone else fetched it, but the artic nature of his chariot meant he couldn't get down the lane, hence a roadside exchange.
Came back home to father In a rage.

last outing for the rake the yesterday, so found a spot to put her to bed.

still upset about his incident, dad went to market. so I baled and wrapped.



Then a little of this mornings fert onto the corn ground

 

[milkloss]

@Cows 'n grass up close and personal today with one of his new found friends the cows quite like the Brigadier fodder beet too!

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I might be a bit dim here but how does that work? You strip graze the tops off and then lift them with a machine?

 

[Cows 'n grass]

I might be a bit dim here but how does that work? You strip graze the tops off and then lift them with a machine?

Just strip graze the whole lot, it works best with low DM varieties that grow mostly out of the ground and the cows will happily eat the bulb straight from the ground.

 

[Norfolk Olly]

Night out on the clod basher

 

[Chae1]

Snapped beam on plough in spring so stripped it down today. Well I helped someone else much more capable than me.

 

[DRC]

Up early to start ploughing the maize ground for the rye. Lost a couple of hours when the Mrs informed me that the septic tank was blocked at the cottage we rent out, so plough off and vaccy tank on and draining rods out .
I’m normally mild mannered, but rodding some one else’s poo doesn’t put me in a good mood.
Started drilling at 5pm and got one field drilled tonight .

 

[Shovelhands]

Totally forgot to take pics of today's job, let's just say there was some digging, lots of rain, concrete and swearing...

Anyway, got back to the yard and thought it would be a good time to get these number plate brackets fitted, I bought a bunch of them the other day from eBay, brilliant, and a cheap idea, got a few that needed doing, so left our hapless employee to it....

was all going swimmingly until he drilled right through the back panel of one of our compressors, and straight into the fuel tank