Turn back the clock

[Grouse]

Like hell I'm going back to 1984!!!1985 scared me for life!!!
[Don't even ask!!!]

You got trashed and had a "moment" with a rather well endowed coloured gentleman ?

 

[90hp farming]

@Kevtherev Get your self down to the Oxford Real Farming Conference - they are already on the case.

 

[Kevtherev]

@Kevtherev Get your self down to the Oxford Real Farming Conference - they are already on the case.

They wouldn't let me in wearing a boilersuit and wellies

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

They wouldn't let me in wearing a boilersuit and wellies

Dressed for the occasion .

 

[Nearly]

sorry i meant in New Zealand..


1985 was one of my favourites actually, i was on the ferry from wellington to picton watching live aid on the big suspended telly .......happy days.

Big telly, 22"?

 

[neilo]

Mmm, 1985, the last year that the college would let me go. I'd near enough done all the courses that they had on offer and wouldn't let me go on any of the equine ones
Yep '85 was the year of Live Aid, we had a white South African on our course and when we started in the November he wasn't overly happy with the amount of aid that was going to be given to the indigenous peoples and what very few remember was that there was a natural disaster elsewhere in the world with a volcano erupting in Columbia killing over 20,000 people he turned round and said "God looked down and saw that the bloody Westerners were saving all the starving in Africa so to balance things out we'll have a volcano go off somewhere else"
There wasn't a lot of political correctness in a lot of the South Africans back then

You can say that again, nor from the Rhodesians (as it was then). You could certainly understand why the majority eventually rose up.

 

[holywell farmer]

Now then all the brexit doom,talk of hard times,farmers fed up etc
Should we go back to basic traditional farming add value to the produce before it leaves the farm as shown on the BBC milkman programme.
Reduce inputs and go back to production of as much home grown food as you can on the farm.
Sounds a bit idyllic and rose tinted I know but it could be the way forward for many folk?

Farming has had some rough times over the years think can ride this current tough time and be ok

 

[Cowgirl]

was that tractor new in 85?

Don't know for sure - my husband says 1983 he thinks. We only bought it about 10 years ago. Great little tractor but not sure what we'll do if any more falls off it...

 

[FonterraFarmer]

You got trashed and had a "moment" with a rather well endowed coloured gentleman ?

No!!! Did you?

 

[Grouse]

Na don't do blokes

 

[czechmate]

You can say that again, nor from the Rhodesians (as it was then). You could certainly understand why the majority eventually rose up.

Zimbabwe from 1979.

 

[Lazy Sod]

1985 was not a good year for me, a horrendously wet harvest and my father died.

 

[glasshouse]

1985 was a shocker, rained all year, deisel tripled to 25p litre, grandad died. interest rates 18%
hay had to be imported from canada,
bad winter followed, 8 wks of snow

 

[GTB]

We bought an MF290 4wd in 1985. Came with two years 0% finance and 500 galls of diesel IIRC. £13,800 sound about right?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Zimbabwe from 1979.

And it's been all sweetness and light since then...

 

[glasshouse]

We bought an MF290 4wd in 1985. Came with two years 0% finance and 500 galls of diesel IIRC. £13,800 sound about right?

we got a ford 7610 fwd, new @£15k

 

[Henarar]

We bought an MF290 4wd in 1985. Came with two years 0% finance and 500 galls of diesel IIRC. £13,800 sound about right?

sounds to much you should have screwed them down a bit more
I remember dad getting free diesel with his 690 must have been around the same time

 

[glasshouse]

100 tons of barley bought a new tractor

 

[neilo]

Zimbabwe from 1979.

I think you might be right, but the 'colonials' still referred to it as Rhodesia when they told of 'Kaffa hunting'.

 

[czechmate]

And it's been all sweetness and light since then...

I never said so, just said when it changed its name.