This is about as near as we got to being involved in Agricultural work 
, every year we brought about 8 or 9 loads of straw from Sam Smiths farms at Tadcaster over to our good neighbour’s farm adjacent to our depot. They were distant relatives of Smiths and got the straw FOC so it just cost the haulage 
Smiths wouldn’t allow the practice of burning the straw in the fields because it affected the game birds etc. We always had a number of farmers Sons and other handy Lads in our employ so they always jumped at the job when it kicked off. We used to run the job over 2 or 3 days depending on the m/t motors we had over that side and a couple of the good Lads spent the time on the fields loading the trailers with a Flat 8 so it was just a case of sending the M/t 's into change trailers on the fields. Worked like clockwork when the right Lads were on the job !
This is a shot of a couple of loads standing in the depot waiting to go down the the farm to be tipped.
