Working hours

[Haggis]

As an industry, we are renowned for working long hours. At what point does it get silly? What is a reasonable amount of hours for someone to average per week over the course of a year?

 

[marshfarmer]

I seem to do most of my work between 7pm and 12am. I've just finished bagging spuds for the day, had takeaway delivered as otherwise too tired to cook/eat, not that there is anything indoors anyway as not had time to go shopping, it's a vicious circle not eating properly which doesn't let me get over my work as quickly as I could. For me that's when it's silly and time to give up something.

 

[exmoor dave]

6am round til any where between 1am and 3am depending on how the sheep are lambing, good sized evening break though where dad keeps a eye on them...........CAN NOT WAIT for night lamber to start this weekend

 

[Pasty]

I get up around 7, get out of bed around 9............

 

[ewald]

Silly hours during a busy period are acceptable with an end in sight.

If you are doing it all the time there may be something wrong.

We all have our own ideas as to what constitutes 'silly' hours!

 

[Headless chicken]

5:30am the alarm goes off aim to be back inside by 5pm in the winter. that's plenty long enough when the weather is awful like this. Although in that we don't look for jobs if we finish milking at 7:30am and there is nothing on we are off until 3pm.

Summer tends to be 5:30am-12/1am depending on what's happening. Anything later than that then dad normally milks on his own.

Someone put it well the other day. Your not just put on this earth to just pay bills and die

 

[Gulli]

9-6 here for most of the winter. I'm just sat having a cup of tea at the moment.

Summer is usually about 8 until 10 or 2 in the morning depending on the weather

 

[newholland]

We try to do a fixed workday with a day off every other weekend.

5.30am - 9am
10am - 1pm
2pm - 5.30pm

Will work on late for silage, unloading lorries and 9 weeks of calving

 

[Brisel]

As an industry, we are renowned for working long hours. At what point does it get silly? What is a reasonable amount of hours for someone to average per week over the course of a year?

It gets silly when you arrive at the point of living to work instead of working to live. To put it another way, it is when you stop living and merely exist. Where this point is reached depends on the individual.

I work from 7.15am until 7pm at this time of year (minus time spent in TFF ) 5 days/week. When the field work gets busy add weekends & later evenings. Harvest is 90 - 120 hours/week for 8 weeks then sub 90 hours until planting is done.

 

[DRC]

It gets silly when you arrive at the point of living to work instead of working to live. To put it another way, it is when you stop living and merely exist. Where this point is reached depends on the individual.

I work from 7.15am until 7pm at this time of year (minus time spent in TFF ) 5 days/week. When the field work gets busy add weekends & later evenings. Harvest is 90 - 120 hours/week for 8 weeks then sub 90 hours until planting is done.

I thought you were an arable farm. What needs doing until 7pm in February ?

 

[Simon Chiles]

I thought you were an arable farm. What needs doing until 7pm in February ?

He's just told you.....TFF!!

 

[Brisel]

I thought you were an arable farm. What needs doing until 7pm in February ?

Crop walking, endless paperwork incuding projects, budgets, bechmarking, CPD, reporting to head office, "estate" stuff... and TFF!

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I'm 7.30-5 this time of year. All paperwork etc done in the evenings when there's some to do.
TFF morning, noon and night!

Adjust hours in the spring,summer,Autumn according to what needs doing.

Only ever work on a Sunday if combining or irrigating.

 

[multi power]

I'm finding it's not so much the hours but the workload increasing. Not doing many more hours than five years ago but having to get a lot more done in the same time

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

work smarter, not harder, work to live, not live to work, all of you will find this out later in life, some to late in life, and some never at all

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

oh and why is it that 9 times out of 10 no matter what time of day, when I get to a farm, the farmer comes out of the house

maybe they are working smarter
and the ones saying they are working all these hours are just waving their willies

 

[Tomjoad]

I get up around 7, get out of bed around 9............

Have you been dancing with Mr Brownstone?

 

[gone up the hill]

Crop walking, endless paperwork incuding projects, budgets, bechmarking, CPD, reporting to head office, "estate" stuff... and TFF!

So basically 25% of the time doing work stuff and 75% of the time on TFF

 

[Sussex Martin]

I'm 7.30-5 this time of year. All paperwork etc done in the evenings when there's some to do.
TFF morning, noon and night!

Adjust hours in the spring,summer,Autumn according to what needs doing.

Only ever work on a Sunday if combining or irrigating.

A rare breed on this forum, a sensible farmer, well done, your dad may be a pain in the butt at times but at least he has passed on valuable advice .

 

[DRC]

Depends what you class as work, as this time of year I'm usually in the house at 4pm, but might sit in the office looking at ag related websites or paying bills etc, until my tea is ready!