Today at work

serf

Member
Location
warwickshire
.....lad that dropped a bit of tarmac off was telling me that their JCB/ minidigger drivers are on £40 before stoppages . The boys using the shovels and picks and suchlike are on £25 .......what on earth are we doing wrong messing about with a few cattle and sheep and getting bugger all except grief off the public for our efforts .


Go and give it a go and let us know how you get on 😉
 

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Don't tell me it's making you think twice about making all your hay?!?! ;)


Or is that a hobby? :p
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Decision made..... hay making it is .
Just go t another few acres down 🙂🙂

Raining now ..😔😔
 

Lincs Lass

Member
Location
north lincs
their JCB/ minidigger drivers are on £40 before stoppages . The boys using the shovels and picks and suchlike are on £25
Doesnt supprise me ,,Back in 2008 ,I was on £25 ph plus shift allowance and travel time both ways to sit on a 360 doing naff all ,,6 months of that was soul destroying ,,only good thing were saturdays,, time and half till 12 and double after that ,,sundays were triple time ,,well worth the bordom when the site manager signed the work sheet as a full shift ,even if was only 5 hrs ,,still got paid the full amount .
I was knocking £800 a week after deduction
 

cows sh#t me to tears

Member
Livestock Farmer
Can I ask why you don't use sky lights?
Seem a dark shed
I want it dark. Sun bleaches Lucerne hay very quickly. The less sun I have in there is more $$
That pic was taken before I went home to milk this afternoon. Sun sets behind the shed. So it looks dark compared to morning. Plus it's mid winter here.
 
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Been quiet on here recently, not because I've not been busy, more so that none of the work I have been doing has had interesting visuals.

My recent projects have included the change of use of an agricultural field and barn for Canine Day Care; Class R conversion of an agricultural building to an accountants office; Class R of an agricultural building to a light industrial facility and most interestingly the diversification of a fruit farm to include an ice cream production facility.

Elsewhere my collegues have secured plannign consent for a house on a builders yard in the Green Belt after 8 years of applications setting a fallback position.
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