What do you tractor boys n girls like for your “in field” tea

[curlietailz]

This year I’ve (semi) retired from tractor work and I’m going to be lugging more food out to the tractor boys in the field
What’s your top tractor tea
The thing that lifts your spirts when you see it arriving in the field at tea time

 

[Al R]

Chinese or McDonald’s same as when I’m at home mind

 

[Purli R]

Not bothered so long as you can tell what it is & it tastes good!

 

[Will 1594]

Chinese or McDonald’s same as when I’m at home mind

Really , When cutting at other farm ,wife comes over with tea for three of us ,
Lamb @Old Tip and butternut curry ,home made bread , then coffe and wallnut cake ,with either yoghurt or ice cream ,and fresh strawberries and raspberries , , And a dabble in chocolate tin if want owt else
Next night , beef chilli ,and same pudding ,
Get tea brought most nights , and when she comes back from work always calls with ice cream ,if on land work or drilling , will bring tea out if not back by seven , cannot eat late

 

[Al R]

Really , When cutting at other farm ,wife comes over with tea for three of us ,
Lamb @Old Tip and butternut curry ,home made bread , then coffe and wallnut cake ,with either yoghurt or ice cream ,and fresh strawberries and raspberries , , And a dabble in chocolate tin if want owt else
Next night , beef chilli ,and same pudding ,
Get tea brought most nights , and when she comes back from work always calls with ice cream ,if on land work or drilling , will bring tea out if not back by seven , cannot eat late

Crumbs, I used to be delighted with my can of cold beans straight from the tin but trailer drivers used to complain/gag from the thought of it.

 

[Muddyroads]

Crumbs, I used to be delighted with my can of cold beans straight from the tin but trailer drivers used to complain/gag from the thought of it.

Exactly what I used to have. Funny how some people don’t like the thought of them!

 

[jendan]

Exactly what I used to have. Funny how some people don’t like the thought of them!

Jeremy Corbyn s favorite!

 

[Greythundercloudys]

My favourite thing has always been get lunch, delivered out to the field, always reminds me of 40 years ago with the wee square bales in the fields and dad and the guy that helped him and mum with the sandwiches, now it usually a fish supper from the chippy, but still love sitting down on the grass and having abite.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

I take it no one on here makes a butty/food box every morning to last incase till next day then and has a treat if you manage to detour past a shop or garage from time to time!!!

 

[yellowbelly]

Really , When cutting at other farm ,wife comes over with tea for three of us ,
Lamb @Old Tip and butternut curry ,home made bread , then coffe and wallnut cake ,with either yoghurt or ice cream ,and fresh strawberries and raspberries , , And a dabble in chocolate tin if want owt else
Next night , beef chilli ,and same pudding ,
Get tea brought most nights , and when she comes back from work always calls with ice cream ,if on land work or drilling , will bring tea out if not back by seven , cannot eat late

By heck, she does spoil you - I bet she even brings your dog some of them 'Dog-gestives' (went down a treat with ours by the way )

By tea time my snap box usually looks like this.......

....empty

 

[oakleaf]

Anything homemade.
I cant stand takeaways and will chuck in the ditch and go hungry before l'd eat them.
Stews or soups from a flask with fresh bread and tea for me. Lots of tea.

 

[curlietailz]

Really , When cutting at other farm ,wife comes over with tea for three of us ,
Lamb @Old Tip and butternut curry ,home made bread , then coffe and wallnut cake ,with either yoghurt or ice cream ,and fresh strawberries and raspberries , , And a dabble in chocolate tin if want owt else
Next night , beef chilli ,and same pudding ,
Get tea brought most nights , and when she comes back from work always calls with ice cream ,if on land work or drilling , will bring tea out if not back by seven , cannot eat late

Wow
That’s above and beyond !!

 

[curlietailz]

I feed our “man” when he’s on the combine or on the drill
i think it’s the act of taking a hot flask and a bit of hot dinner out to the field and a bit of company and chat for a while which is the appealing bit

 

[glasshouse]

Its a ritual which is important but sadly forgotten in most places

 

[Pilatus]

In the 21st century I find it appalling that despite all the comforts of modern day machinery , I think it is appalling that the welfare of farm/ estate staff is so sadly lacking.
Humans are like animals we all get hungry,thirsty and tired. Preparing ones own food for a 12 hr day is one thing, after that I think management should be prepared to supply fish and chips or similar.

 

[Sheeponfire]

Its a ritual which is important but sadly forgotten in most places

+1

Yer spot on [emoji106]

 

[Two Tone]

As a child In Cambridgeshire, I always remember my grandmother taking harvest tea down to the Combine drivers at 4 o’clock in her Renault 4 car. It was always flasks of tea, marmite sandwiches with the crusts removed and cut into triangles followed by Battenberg cake!

My Grandfather and Uncle’s Combines always worked together, being a Claas SF and a Claydon M133.


Many years later In Suffolk, when driving my Father’s NH M140, I had to go to our local dealer Knight’s of Harleston to get some parts. Whilst there, our neighbour’s Wife rushed in to get some bits for their own Combine. The guy serving her asked what make of Combine her husband had.
She said “ I’ve no idea, but it is blue and I take it tea at 4 o’clock every day.”

”Ah,” he said, ”that will be a Ransomes then!”

 

[kiwi pom]

I take it no one on here makes a butty/food box every morning to last incase till next day then and has a treat if you manage to detour past a shop or garage from time to time!!!

Yep always done that but then I've always been an employee. No nipping into the house for lunch/smoko etc. You also never know where you'll be or how long you'll be, which makes it hard to know how much to take.
Years ago farmers used to bring tea out at silage time but that seemed to fizzle out over the years.

 

[Two Tone]

In 1992 (a harvest very similar to this one, being hot a dry to start with then wet), I was asked to go and help another Suffolk Farmer out with his harvest, our own having been completed. We had a NH TF42 and it was up against 2 JD1188’s.

Every day at 6 o’clock, everybody working on that farm got Fish and Chips to keep us going until we knocked off, usually between midnight and 1am. It worked, never have Fish and Chips tasted so good! But no stopping to eat them - we ate on the move.

The first day, I just followed the JD’s around. We were all on CB, so on day 2, I asked if I could lead and go first.
From then on, every 4th round, they had to pull over and let me overtake them again!

A week passed and by that time another JD came to help and also a NH TX36.
This was costing the farmer a fortune in Fish and Chips each day! Not just for the 5 Combine drivers, but all the Tractor and trailer drivers.
He came and sat with me for a round and said that this harvest was costing him a fortune, but was glad for the help.
He said that if any of the drivers threw any more grain off the back, he would “boot their arses off the farm!“
I said I hoped my TF wasn’t losing much, to which he replied “Your TF isn’t losing a drop. It’s my JD’s that are losing it!”

 

[Pilatus]

Off topic.
Why doesn’t the “Farm Contractor “
magazine mention farm staff in their articles,
it’s implies staff are just taken for granted.
I know staff are not heroes but it would be nice for their efforts to be acknowledged, as ones staff are ones greatest asset especially the larger the business.