He had a right to be smiling! He ploughed an absolute cracker of a plot, right from opening to finish there weren’t many plots that day in the vintage mounted that looked as good as Bobby’s! @Howard150 Did you win the British that year as well?
Did indeed thanks David. In the bank of plots nearest the road the first 3 plots were covered for the greater part in laid straw. I had the first plot and was lucky that the straw could be thrown sideways off the plot Great sportsman that he is, Stuart Burden came over to me to tell me that I could not move the straw once ploughing had started. Lucky for me I had the end plot. Stuart and Mike Holloway had the next two plots. Both covered in straw. The rest of the field wasn’t too bad. Mike was really wound up and aggravated about it as the stewards soon found out. As if the straw wasn’t enough, the star tube I had for sliding the depth wheel in and out split as I started to chip back in. Ploughed the whole plot with the finishing wheel and no marker. Happy days.
Just as an aside for those faced with a magnitude of laid straw. Always have a good hay rake with you. Look closely at the direction the straw is laid in. Just hope this is the right way round! Any laid toward you rake it off. Any laid away from the work rake it off. If you don’t have time leave that that’s laid away from you or that that’s laid toward the work. If you have any spare time then rake that off next that’s laid to the work. Leave that that’s laid away from you down the plot till last as that will normally plough in unaided, as will that laid toward the work.
hope this saves you some work.
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