Today at work

[sclb]

Bed making asparagus this afternoon
(Different field to earlier!)

 

[Goweresque]

Today I discovered something it took some poor bugger(s) a long time and a lot of effort to create:

After quite a bit of digging (not with the spade, thank God for excavators!) got to the bottom of an old stone drain. Must be at least 4'6" deep. Flowing beautifully now, wet spot out in field drying out by the hour.

 

[Adeptandy]

Repaired the Vaddy with a new hub whilst waiting for the MF6290 battery to charge, turned out the stoppage wasn't fuel this morning ( in a way ) but a faulty Fuel Pump Solenoid Valve, thankfully once the brain had worked it out and a trip through TNS quarantine that was 3 hours lost.

Then finally back to the job for the day, trying to break the trailer.........clearing dyke earth back to the farm to hide some more interesting stuff that's been buried in the past.

 

[JWL]

Huge dilemma this morning.

Load of fertiliser turned up, three rows of 600kg bags.

First 2 rows, all the labels faced me, no problem, the furthest row were ALL THE WRONG WAY ROUND.

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Thanks to TFF, particularly @Robert K and @bovrill my usually well hidden OCD tendencies went into overdrive.

No chance of unloading the truck from the other side..... Discussed the problem with the driver who had never had this issue before (like me, I have never cared before)

He solved it in one by twisting all the necks on the offending bags.

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So when I picked them all up they magically turned round.

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Phew. Brilliant, thanks to the Churchill driver 'John'

and relax.

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NB the seed bags on the left were stacked before I realised that this was a thing.

Damn it's a small world, I know John, the driver, quite well. Just given him a bit of a ribbing on Farcebook

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Huge dilemma this morning.

Load of fertiliser turned up, three rows of 600kg bags.

First 2 rows, all the labels faced me, no problem, the furthest row were ALL THE WRONG WAY ROUND.

View attachment 867251

Thanks to TFF, particularly @Robert K and @bovrill my usually well hidden OCD tendencies went into overdrive.

No chance of unloading the truck from the other side..... Discussed the problem with the driver who had never had this issue before (like me, I have never cared before)

He solved it in one by twisting all the necks on the offending bags.

View attachment 867253

So when I picked them all up they magically turned round.

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Phew. Brilliant, thanks to the Churchill driver 'John'

and relax.

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NB the seed bags on the left were stacked before I realised that this was a thing.

Do you stack them all the same way on the bonfire ?
Same driver comes to us ......

 

[JWL]

I had a message back from John the driver this morning, he's enjoying his "hero" status lol

 

[JP1]

Moving cows to fresh grass at dawn and on calving watch is still one of my favourite things

 

[Steevo]

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Repaired the Vaddy with a new hub whilst waiting for the MF6290 battery to charge, turned out the stoppage wasn't fuel this morning ( in a way ) but a faulty Fuel Pump Solenoid Valve, thankfully once the brain had worked it out and a trip through TNS quarantine that was 3 hours lost.

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Then finally back to the job for the day, trying to break the trailer.........clearing dyke earth back to the farm to hide some more interesting stuff that's been buried in the past.

Sorry to hear! You don't seem to be having a lot of luck at present. At least they are all fixable things though I guess, despite being no doubt frustrating at the time.

 

[Pan mixer]

Do you stack them all the same way on the bonfire ?
Same driver comes to us ......

Wash your mouth out with soap, the bags are all sent off to the recyclers.

 

[spanners and hammers]

all folded the same way with even amounts of string and on the same type of pallets ???

 

[Farmer Fin]

Today I discovered something it took some poor bugger(s) a long time and a lot of effort to create:
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After quite a bit of digging (not with the spade, thank God for excavators!) got to the bottom of an old stone drain. Must be at least 4'6" deep. Flowing beautifully now, wet spot out in field drying out by the hour.

We have lots in parts of our farm. Can’t imagine you would get people to do them by hand these days. Although if corona virus continues people may be glad of the work.

 

[Pan mixer]

Damn it's a small world, I know John, the driver, quite well. Just given him a bit of a ribbing on Farcebook

I told him that I was going to post this, he didn't seem to mind a bit, very nice chap.

We have lots in parts of our farm. Can’t imagine you would get people to do them by hand these days. Although if corona virus continues people may be glad of the work.

I think that when they were done people were glad of the work since farmworkers at the time had a shortage of things to do in the winter and hence weren't paid. Our whole farm has 2 inch pipes dug in a chain apart all over.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Good start to this morning ......it seems to be going very thick on the field with a footpath !

 

[Lowland1]

Harvesting beans in full virus protection gear.

 

[bumkin]

yesterday spent most of the day making a claim to the welsh office for fencing and coppicing, bloody hi tech geomapping here's a few of what we were doing in the winter three gateways and about six hundred meters of coppicing

 

[davidroberts30]

1 for @slim shiny (doesn't always rain in crapweathershire)

 

[matthewizod]

Nice to have good weather, finally everyone can get on !

 

[JP1]

Feeders and other essential supplies still going out

 

[JP1]

Recently handed over calf unit with QE Paneltim

 

[AJR75]

Smart looking set up @JP1 . What's the principle behind the sheeting to the underside of first purlin to eaves arrangement?