What is it about farmers.......

[Nearly]

new posts are added at a rate that if you took the average adult reading speed and spent 24hrs a day 7 days a week you would not be able to read every word posted here

I can try!

 

[Clive]

I can try!

judging by the amount of time some spend on here there are several that try to !

 

[phillipe]

i am not much of a farmer most stuff is half assed ,half baked ideas which somehow i make work ,seems i fit right in here

 

[Bogweevil]

I can try!

You soon get to recognise the nutters reducing the task of keeping up by 98%.

 

[glasshouse]

it gets better or worse @yellowbelly ....sunday was the day before the wife's and my birthday (we share the same birthday)....so with 'clans descending the next evening we decided to have a quiet curry takeout the sunday night....lamb bhuna...lovely

next morning ,monday,our birthday, i got up early to look round sheep before birthday breakfast prepared by daughters at about 9:30.....everthing was fine until i got to off lying land and found the electric fence down......the 'excersize' repairing it started a little 'peristalsis'....ghandi wanted his revenge.....realising i wouldn't make it home......i found a furrow other side of fence on grass margin next some arable.......covering my shame in grass + soil....i hurried home to shower .....
......but there's more.....the next day whilst checking my repair...i was flagged down by a tractor driver cultivating the next field....'come look at this' he said ....you can guess what he showed me....'look at the grass pushed over it...i reckon big cat did that'....i wanted to say 'looks more like bear'....but i stayed quiet....'you better watch your sheep he warned'.....needless to say i changed the subject and we went about our work

 

[graham99]

It's because we are all sad and lonely without social lives or social skills

that might be the modern farmer with his cell phone .in my day we used to help each other out across the county.
and you could say farming was a social job.