Well WRIGHTY, I have got it all wrong, [ most unusual]lol for some reason reading these post, I have got it all mixed up I was .under the impression that you lived down here [SOUTH] and worked for BUZZER and was a fridge man DRIVING HIS TRUCK AND NOT A OWNER DRIVER, …that is why I! thought you must have a small holding farm, the odd beast or so, .I thought you would not live [UP NORTH] AND WORK DOWN SOUTH] AND LOOK AFTER CATTLE…
although I did for years, lived in BLACKPOOL AND WORKED DOWN SOUTH. . not looking after cattle, I had a good farm/hand /education .cattle truck 1968 /meat fridge man 1980, also I do understand, -ish animal husbandry , and yours looks top notch…
SO the dry stone wall! i ruled lanc s out or york s because I thought you were down here… I have just looked on the map, and know where you are ,lovely area do you pull a cattle box, or, and, straw and hay flat , or a milk tanker,or contract spot hire .farmer /haulage contractor .normal progression ,why not if you have the room…dbp
Sorry for the confusion DBP,I live up in Wensleydale Nth Yorks and I am an employed driver for S J Bargh at Lancaster doing milk re-load work.
On my days off I help on the family farm, so share an interest in livestock with Buzzer. We farm around 350 acres plus grazing on the fell, and have approx 110 head of cattle and around 450 swaledale sheep, so this keeps us busy all year round…
As Buzzer says the farming adds a bit of variety to the thread, oh well I’d better go and get the wellies on and get some work done…
Well DBP glad we sorted out that little misunderstanding and you now know where we are in the country, we do all have a common interest in and around trucks but as Wrighty says we like a little agricultural input as well. When I started out it was a farming life being born in said establishment and thought that’s what I would end up doing, but our farm was rented and back then it was not automatically handed on to the son so I took a change in direction first doing straw with a TK Bedford moving on to artics doing round timber haulage first as a driver then with my own outfit, did a lot of fruit out the docks after that then started pulling third party trailers on traction but in 1988 decided to get me own trailers and go at it on a stand alone basis. We had a couple of sticky patches but we are still going today only I don’t have anything to do with it now, life back then was hectic but when you are younger you don’t take any notice you just do what needs doing but glad im’e out of it now, cheers Buzzer.
Excellent pedigree Buzzer ,I know where you are coming from, However I have no idea where you are, Southampton -ish I have seen and read Tracy island, Thunder birds, in the posts MAYBE NEW FOREST Dorset-ISH anyway non of my business .
I LIKE THE MIX OF agricultures and Trucks ,markets ,stuff that brings the old memories back ,and the home farm foodie bits, ,it is a good mix, like beetroot, cheese, nice crisp shallots, old speckled hen .or fullers OR a nice Indian pale ale…
Wrighty is that a milk tanker being washed out in the back ground?
However one of the very best things that came in to my life, after work is this, that there computer. if I had had the knowledge and the assistance like they do now days with this aid, I would have been up there with the best of them I would have been a retired MASTER MARINER . The luck of draw…dbp.
The tank in the picture was an old re-load tank that had three compartments, it was being used as part of the effluent system in our old yard.
In 2013 we moved into a new purpose built yard at Lancaster near to J34 of the M6 as shown in the photos…
Funny old thing this tie between Farming and Haulage. Maybe its because so many farmers had the odd old lorry, then that grew to a couple, then a few more, then Bingo…lots more. Or is it that the way we deal in Farming in buying and selling? Or was it as we travelled across countries watching the seasons change, and the produce ripen for market… I really do not know, but the link is there .
I just know that my good lady keeps shouting at me for constantly watching our new tennant about his work…sprays at the wrong time, neglects the hedges, neglects “my” gates and fences…Really he does not, its just me,…Gets into your blood, or is always in your blood and now I am feeling the pangs of not being out there bucking along in a Deere, doing, (often not correctly), what needs to be done…but the body will not let me. Never been a livestock man, (years as a youngster chasing Ewes across the Shropshire Hills killed that), but my cousin she farms well up in the Lakes above Kirby Lonsdale, and loves it. Me I was an arable man, loved just getting it right, and doing battle with those “so urbane Graduates” from the Supermarkets, and giving the Housewife vegetables that our European cousins could only dream about!..and eventually getting paid as well!!
Buzzer, its one of the things that I love about your thread, long may it continue…
And DBP, I agree totally with you, this box, (and I struggle using it), really opens the horizon for us all, and long may it continue!
DBP the place that I live now is called Old Bursledon which is on the upper reaches of the Hamble river, if you find J8 on the M27 we are about a mile of the motorway and our yard since 2001 is just of J9. Funny how we communicate on these threads and talk as if we have know everyone all our lives , it certainly feels like that to me and all because of a common interest.
Saviem (John) thanks for your comments and glad you enjoy our ramblings as many do on your thread as well, it must be hard for you to watch some other person till the ground you nurtured and not do it in the same fashion, I kinda get the feel you are a very tidy person and I am no different out side that is but my wife says different when im’e in the house, but when I was at my home before marriage the house always came second especially as my mother did a lot of work outside but that’s how it was and I don’t think any of us would want to change that. They used to joke about running the baler in once a fortnight to have a bit of a clear up but I know it was not that bad and always good food on the table that’s for sure, cheers for now Buzzer.
I don’t post much but I follow a few threads most evenings and your right Buzzer, it does feel like we know each other. This thread is a favourite of mine and when I see a “Southampton Davies” fridge as you were known as I often do especially in Portsmouth, 7 in the port together last October, I think well done Buzzer.
Bit odd really but I like it
wrighty:
Sorry for the confusion DBP,I live up in Wensleydale Nth Yorks and I am an employed driver for S J Bargh at Lancaster doing milk re-load work.
On my days off I help on the family farm, so share an interest in livestock with Buzzer. We farm around 350 acres plus grazing on the fell, and have approx 110 head of cattle and around 450 swaledale sheep, so this keeps us busy all year round…
As Buzzer says the farming adds a bit of variety to the thread, oh well I’d better go and get the wellies on and get some work done…
Cheers Wrighty.
Hello all, on the farm and on the road.
I’ve not posted much lately as have recently moved from County Cork to Kerry and am in the midst of renovating an old cottage so much to occupy my time.
I’ve been speed reading through the latest posts and pics ( great shot of Alice , Wrighty ) and noted the pic of the tractor " mowing the rushes " so, with apologies to the ■■■■■■■■■ trucking fans, I have a question…
Part of the land I now have is extremely boggy ( well, it is Ireland ) and infested with rush. The land slopes down to a trout stream and I have had a bit of an exploratory dig and there’s rock about 6 inches down. I’m assuming that part of the problem is drainage ( or lack of ) but I’d be interested to hear of any possible solutions to make the land a bit more usable and attractive to look at. So, Wrighty, JD , Saviem and any others. Over to you! I attach a pic…
That looks like it wants cutting with a scythe just think of the health benefits, I must thank you for the nice weather you sent us yesterday. It was a pleasure being outside dosing and horn burning horned gimmers, sat in the sunshine at Lockerbie this morning loading buttermilk…
Baldrick, I have family in Perth[ AUS] if we get the coordinates, they could start digging, , they have big spades there ,that Is why they were called DIGGERS and drain it that way, I think you may get a subsidy to drain your field proply ,well they used to here .
ALSO Buzzer if you say when ,and what time you get your dinner on, ill poke my old head out, ill pretend I am roofing ,and sniff you out as I am in Littlehampton [migrant].dbp
DBP you can call in anytime you want if your in our patch just let us know when your around even if its only for a cup of tea you are most welcome anytime. Aint it nice that other people enjoy this thread and this because we all put a bit in which makes it all the more readable so keep it up boys as its better than the telly, Buzzer.
Well thank you very much Buzzer. I would not call unannounced, give you timer to hide all the goodies, you don’t keep BEES by any chance . i used to read all the bee keeping books , when on weekends away ,[as my beer tolerance got lower] but never been able to keep any… BEES.
just like transport you could and would get stung…me personally by transport managers ,who thought the truth was a lie…got some photos of tonight’s dumplings, if I can get the up. “mega lush” DBP.
buzzer , i was a lorry driver all my life and what i know about farming would fit on the head of a pin , but this is the first thread i read of a morning . there is always something , lorries , farming and of course your culinary efforts . what’s not to like ? dave
wrighty:
Sorry for the confusion DBP,I live up in Wensleydale Nth Yorks and I am an employed driver for S J Bargh at Lancaster doing milk re-load work.
On my days off I help on the family farm, so share an interest in livestock with Buzzer. We farm around 350 acres plus grazing on the fell, and have approx 110 head of cattle and around 450 swaledale sheep, so this keeps us busy all year round…
As Buzzer says the farming adds a bit of variety to the thread, oh well I’d better go and get the wellies on and get some work done…
Cheers Wrighty.
Hello all, on the farm and on the road.
I’ve not posted much lately as have recently moved from County Cork to Kerry and am in the midst of renovating an old cottage so much to occupy my time.
I’ve been speed reading through the latest posts and pics ( great shot of Alice , Wrighty ) and noted the pic of the tractor " mowing the rushes " so, with apologies to the ■■■■■■■■■ trucking fans, I have a question…
Part of the land I now have is extremely boggy ( well, it is Ireland ) and infested with rush. The land slopes down to a trout stream and I have had a bit of an exploratory dig and there’s rock about 6 inches down. I’m assuming that part of the problem is drainage ( or lack of ) but I’d be interested to hear of any possible solutions to make the land a bit more usable and attractive to look at. So, Wrighty, JD , Saviem and any others. Over to you! I attach a pic…
Maybe forget the scythe and put up an electric fence along the riverside, then let a local farmer put some cattle on and graze it very hard.
Then spray whatever is left i.e. rushes thistles and nettles,and then a few sheep would keep it nice and tidy.
Hope that helps, took this photo with my phone on mi way home one day.
Ah, Wrighty, that helps a lot! We’d like to get a few animals going here so I like the sound putting livestock out there.
Rush and boggy land goes with the territory here and I’m sure when I get to know the local farmers a bit more there’ll be other solutions… I think there might even be a grant as you say.
The scythe thing isn’t an option mate. My right shoulder is buggared by too many gear changes in a left ■■■■■■. Not something that the new boys will suffer! Thanks for the input…
Rigsby… Welcome.
I’m seriously hoping that you look like Leonard Rossiter and wear a threadbare green cardie. A cat called Vienna would be the icing on the cake.
DBP … The only bee that JD ever kept was a freebee.
JD… You’re right it’s a great thread this and kept alive by many different people and interests… Current drivers, ex drivers , farmers , retired hauliers , lookers in and the odd idiot… Sorry, backloader no offence.
DBP actually our house is called “Beeze Neeze” which is the only connection to bee’s with me, we built it in 97 as a replacement of an old WW 1 construction effort in the first picture we only got permission as I am in a conservation area and as it was it went to appeal and took two years before we could start. It has five bedrooms which is a bit O T T but when the grand kids come which there are 6 they pick where they want to sleep. Originally I wanted to call it the “Mutt’s Nuts” but that one got over ruled as degrading for the area, shame really. This is quite a big house but you have to look at it as an investment better than any pension policy that’s for sure. Later we bought the adjacent paddocks which enables me to follow my passion for keeping and driving a team of four Dutch horses, on Wednesday we went out and we filmed a short clip going through a small village and it was put on face book and its took off, this morning it had over 700 likes and I wish I knew how to put it on here for you all to see, cheers Buzzer.
