Today at work

[Steevo]

Well ..the phone went about half 4 .. " hi we have finished with these bales now and are a bit unsure what to do with them. One of our colleagues said they are a fie risk to leave out over the weekend till we can get a skip to remove them....is there any chance you would be able to pick them up and dispose of them? ....we will make it worth your while"
£100 and 5 bottles of thatchers later
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I feel I've been done though ....I took 15 and only had 14 back! .....ah well you can't win every time

Haha, i've been waiting for this post!!!

Not sure how they expected they were going to get them into a skip....or even several skips!!

£40 per bale for 14 bales to buy them for less than 24 hours use - when driving past...!
£100 + 5 bottles of Thatchers to remove them again

I think after some of your recent luck you really deserved that!!!

I agree you've been done - the cost of skips and loading would have been more than your charge....! At least you'll be able to dispose of them in a suitable manner

 

[Steevo]

You may aswell have just carried on into that patch while you had mower on tractor ....
Think you could have done with a few extra bales ....

Get some little bales in stock to add to the "hire fleet".

 

[Celt83]

Well ..the phone went about half 4 .. " hi we have finished with these bales now and are a bit unsure what to do with them. One of our colleagues said they are a fie risk to leave out over the weekend till we can get a skip to remove them....is there any chance you would be able to pick them up and dispose of them? ....we will make it worth your while"
£100 and 5 bottles of thatchers later
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I feel I've been done though ....I took 15 and only had 14 back! .....ah well you can't win every time

Hope you wore a mask and a striped jumper while they were counting the £20 notes into your hand!

 

[Pan mixer]

Few more bales on the heap, I really wanted them as hay to cut down on single plastic use nut with the current forecast it would be ruined by the time it was dry enough.

 

[Jon Boy]

It was painful to watch at times but he’s got to learn some how.

I dont think there is a harder task to do than teaching people how to drive tractors, trying to resist the temptation to just do it your self when they are getting it wrong could at the least be described as character building.

 

[JPB]

Few from the last few days, finished hay making and got it all gathered in. And my straw has been baled so been busy with that today bringing it home.

 

[Adeptandy]

Finally in the field
W Barley, not really fit as the straws green and sappy but 14% so doing a bit just to get used to a Claas again and to see if there’s anymore issues to deal with

Apart from the bracket that holds the straw chopper sensor breaking and turning the chopper off, which resulted in a bunged combine, all has gone well
Pity about the crop so far, not looking like it will be any use down the pub

 

[Cowmansam]

Few from the last few days, finished hay making and got it all gathered in. And my straw has been baled so been busy with that today bringing it home.View attachment 976026View attachment 976027View attachment 976028View attachment 976029

Not seen bales stacked that way before what’s the thinking behind it

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Not seen bales stacked that way before what’s the thinking behind it

Same number on both layers so three extra per trip including the one on third layer

 

[Breckland Boy]

Made a start in spring barley yesterday.

 

[solo]

that seems very early for spring

 

[betweenthelines]

Not ripe, dead

 

[JPB]

Not seen bales stacked that way before what’s the thinking behind it

Yeh just get two full courses of bales, on the bottom. They ride well like that.

 

[JCB_JCR]

I dont think there is a harder task to do than teaching people how to drive tractors, trying to resist the temptation to just do it your self when they are getting it wrong could at the least be described as character building.

Not as painfull as watching people who still haven't learnt even after 30+years of tractor driving!

 

[Breckland Boy]

that seems very early for spring

Yes,
A week ago I thought it was 2 weeks away.
Agree it has died but its also fit. Combining/ Threshing really well. Dead crops are difficult to thrash. It's 14% and a quarter of it is now in the shed ahead of the thunder storms predicted today.

 

[Zippy768]

I dont think there is a harder task to do than teaching people how to drive tractors, trying to resist the temptation to just do it your self when they are getting it wrong could at the least be described as character building.

Once was teaching someone to top a field with quite a steep bank. I was sat in the passenger seat and said to the "driver" to get closer to the fence and I grabbed the wheel to turn only to knock it out of gear at the shuttle.
It was certainly character building for both of us as we hurtled down the bank. Fortunately he was to shocked/experienced enough to not hit the breaks!

 

[Gator]

Last shake for the year, hopefully bail tomorra it the rain owds off till Tuesday

 

[nick...]

All baled up thankfully,now got torrential rain.
nick…

 

[Adeptandy]

Been tinkering about and adjusting things today so popped out and did a couple of tank fulls to see if improvements had been made.

Starting to enjoy harvest again

 

[Al R]

Typical Sunday morning dead on a footpath photo