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

[Cheesehead]

Still use ours pretty often for sagging up especially when catching one out in the field with flystrike

 

[curlietailz]

Still use ours pretty often for sagging up especially when catching one out in the field with flystrike

A couple of weeks into lockdown my son cut all his hair off with our sheep shears !!!! Literally did

 

[Netherfield]

A couple of weeks into lockdown my son cut all his hair off with our sheep shears !!!! Literally did

Just to get rid of the dags then

 

[yellowbelly]

A couple of weeks into lockdown my son cut all his hair off with our sheep shears !!!! Literally did

I didn't think you were old enough to be one of this guy's parents....

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[holywell farmer]

Mushy Peas heated in the tin with Mint Sauce makes for a good "keep yer going" in Winter.

Used to have the Diesel Heater going most nights in winter to dry coats off and have a tin heated for brew time.

Chips are nice on cold day on site to keep warm and fed I will admit, often I will eat cold sandwiches or sausage rolls for my lunch at work.

 

[chickens and wheat]

When taking snap to the baler driver,it's a good idea to leave it in the swathe so he can't fail to see it.....

 

[Cowmangav]

I can remember hating mill days as a child - about every 6 weeks in winter. They ( Ramsays of Mauchline ) came about 7am to set up , and by 8 were in for breakfast . Three course lunch ( for 8 or ten people ) by 12 noon and back in about 4pm for tea when they'd finished. Kitchen chairs got stripped of cushions because of the dust and oil , and in a house of non-smokers the stink of cigarettes was horrible. No wonder people switched to barley and combines , when it became possible ( instead of oats, binders and stacks ). Mum put up with a lot.

 

[Netherfield]

I can remember hating mill days as a child - about every 6 weeks in winter. They ( Ramsays of Mauchline ) came about 7am to set up , and by 8 were in for breakfast . Three course lunch ( for 8 or ten people ) by 12 noon and back in about 4pm for tea when they'd finished. Kitchen chairs got stripped of cushions because of the dust and oil , and in a house of non-smokers the stink of cigarettes was horrible. No wonder people switched to barley and combines , when it became possible ( instead of oats, binders and stacks ). Mum put up with a lot.

Mother and Grandmother would have done the same, but wouldn't have allowed smoking "If you want to do that you can bugger off outside"

 

[curlietailz]

I didn't think you were old enough to be one of this guy's parents....

Farmer gives himself isolation haircut with sheep shears | How's this for hair cutting technique?! 😂 An Irish farmer has taken to his own hair with a pair of sheep shears - and apparently, it's not the first... | By Yahoo News AustraliaFacebook

How's this for hair cutting technique?! 😂 An Irish farmer has taken to his own hair with a pair of sheep shears - and apparently, it's not the first...

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ha ha
No I’m not old enough to be his mam
But that’s what son did
Looked a right clumpy mess when he’d finished lol

 

[Two Tone]

How did you keep track of acres cut when all working together?

You obviously cut much more acres than everyone else!

IIRC, we settled on me doing the same amount of acres, but he provided all the fuel for my Combine FOC.
The Fish and Chips were also free!

 

[Cowmangav]

ha ha
No I’m not old enough to be his mam
But that’s what son did
Looked a right clumpy mess when he’d finished lol

Reminds me that my brother was said to have told the barber , giving him his first haircut , aged about two " now don't cut my ears off "

 

[simmy_bull]

Jeez, I aint a farmer and I knew what stooking meant! Way back in the seventies I watched Turkish women stooking corn sheaves after having reaped it with cycles; and not a man to be seen anywhere! I also got to watch an old farmer shearing sheep with two pointed blades that were held together by a c shaped spring.

@RedMerle still does clip her sheep like that.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Rattling around on a tractor sausage and chips with a can is ample. We will try and stop if we can but just tickle on a gear slower otherwise. Contract silage/maize jobs I help with most are quite good and some just can't wait for you to leave again.

If it's for us and we've got boys in we will try our best to send someone to the chippy, kebabby, pizza or whatever. I think out of the 50 odd places we go contract hay making, little bales, going like the clappers to put them away as well and wrapping till all hours I think we get fed and watered at 3, watered at an additional 5.

If we're on late on contract work again we will try our best to sort something but then it's coming out of our pockets, could be 6 to 8 of us at a time and at near £10/head several nights a week it soon adds up I'm afraid to say.

Some will literally come out to see you with drink in hand and not even so much as offer. We don't expect it at all (even though it may seem like i do) but to me it's just a bit of an old school thing and plain manners?

Even the diesel delivery I'll offer the driver a brew.

We laid a new concrete yard here back in May/June and we did the mega round of tea/biscuits/cake and sandwiches, wasn't a lot but think it was greatly appreciated.

 

[2wheels]

Funnily enough they're called 'sheep shears' View attachment 901502

bourgon & ball shears.

 

[Cowabunga]

Some kind person thought we'd like nice cool drinks in the field and left me this overnight.


Thing is though, I know who did it, because the dumbos had been advertising it on Facebook and local swop sites and people have rung me up and told me who they were. Also my brother passes their house and saw the damned thing outside last night. The field gate is only 80 metres from their front door for gawd's sake!
Council and police informed. Council will not want to know and the police will only want to tick a few boxes on their forms no doubt. They now know that we know, so unless it's gone by 6pm it will be dumped from a great height back on their drive.

 

[Christoph1945]

Tin hats on lads; cold war starting all over again!

 

[reboot]

It varies really, pizzas, ready meals, burgers, bacon, baked potato and corned beef etc etc

 

[CPF]

It varies really, pizzas, ready meals, burgers, bacon, baked potato and corned beef etc etc

Yes they’re very good, holt Jcb was selling them years ago . Purchased quite a few them for our drivers

 

[Netherfield]

Some kind person thought we'd like nice cool drinks in the field and left me this overnight.
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Thing is though, I know who did it, because the dumbos had been advertising it on Facebook and local swop sites and people have rung me up and told me who they were. Also my brother passes their house and saw the damned thing outside last night. The field gate is only 80 metres from their front door for gawd's sake!
Council and police informed. Council will not want to know and the police will only want to tick a few boxes on their forms no doubt. They now know that we know, so unless it's gone by 6pm it will be dumped from a great height back on their drive.

Don't forget to stand it upright a couple of hours before you plug it in.

 

[Cowabunga]

It has gone this afternoon. Several people made it known to the householder and their landlord that they knew where it had come from and it seems they went into panic mode.
No contact from either police or council yet. Not that I expected any by eight hours after reporting it to them.