peggydeckboy:
Buzzer ,what a good picture the middle horse is out of step,or is it left handed[footed] look like 3 brothers,or sisters, if the middle horse i was on the outside position would it upset the balance of the team and want to go its own way?
PDB your perception is very good as those three horses are half brothers all having the same sire and I sure would have liked to own him, he was stunning in movement etc his name was Manno. You could look him up if you are good on the puter he will be under his name pos Dutch horse, well worth a look at the video.
When those horses get going at a pace its nice to see but of course I don’t when I am driving, I have a picture and one has all four feet of the tarmac at the same time.
Im’e not shy really just the way the shot was taken, Buzzer.
Here is a couple of photos,first one is Alice’s latest toy 500cc with power steering and heated handlebar grip’s. Well its started had about four lambed so far, lets hope this weather lasts for a bit.
Hi Wrighty thought you had got lost up thee -hllis,do you still put the skin/fleece off a dead lamb onto another to be suckled.if a orphan or abandon. have you not got fields of beat for them to graze on or is the terrain no good for root crops…i expect the hills have a lot to do with it.
i bet sometimes you do not know what is the best to get away from trucks or farm.?or does one back the other up, i have no idea,i found just one job on the trucks was enough .i tip my cap to you.made of stern stuff,.i forgot on. if your red or white.pdb.
Wrighty nice bit of stone walling behind that quad bike. The second shot it still looks a bit overcast but at least it aint raining. Went and walked my rented field today to see wot its like and its dried up good so may harrow end of week if it stays fair, amazing really what a bit of feeby does when she shines.
Have you been watching that farming series on BBC2 at 7pm at night about farming in Scotland, makes a change from the usual crap ont telly.
Yes we occasionally have to skin a dead lamb to make a jacket for an orphan we are trying to “mother on”, it’s usually successful just requires patience on both sides…
As for growing turnips up ere it’s just too wet, and they would end up wasting more than they ate. Farming and truck driving are very similar careers, they’re not jobs but a way of life long hours and poor pay, I sometimes think I should have tried harder at school…
I haven’t been watching that series Buzzer,might have to look it up ont i player when I get home,parked up at Stonehouse this evening going to Westbury int morning.
Hi all, this is my first post on here, so not quite sure how it goes. Ive just read through this thread and really enjoyed the story behind Davies Int. Ive seen the trucks up and down the road for a long time and always admired them. Buzzer, you must be extremely proud of what you have achieved and been able to hand on to the next generation, I know how hard it is to keep going in transport, so, well done!! One quick question, earlier in the thread, Pat Duffy (ainacs) was in hospital and then later on somebody mentioned “Pats funeral”, has he passed on? I havent seen any messages on here from him in a while. I dont know him or anything like that, I was just wondering!
irishboy:
Hi all, this is my first post on here, so not quite sure how it goes. Ive just read through this thread and really enjoyed the story behind Davies Int. Ive seen the trucks up and down the road for a long time and always admired them. Buzzer, you must be extremely proud of what you have achieved and been able to hand on to the next generation, I know how hard it is to keep going in transport, so, well done!! One quick question, earlier in the thread, Pat Duffy (ainacs) was in hospital and then later on somebody mentioned “Pats funeral”, has he passed on? I havent seen any messages on here from him in a while. I dont know him or anything like that, I was just wondering!
Yes my friend Pat was involved in an accident with a car walking home from the pub and unfortunately he never made it. You can read more about Pat on the Southampton thread as he more or less kept that on page one on his own, his son Patrick has carried on with a couple of trucks and posts occasionally. Very sad affair indeed and there were hundreds at his funeral some I had not seen for years, this was a couple of years ago now but time fly’s and we are have lost lots of our former work colleges just lately who tramped the same roads in Europe and the UK but it comes to us all in the end.
Thanks for you comments and you are right it is a tough environment to be working in today but its pretty much all I know, cheers Buzzer.
Hi JD . Welcome Irishboy…
I haven’t received your pm…? Anyway. I wasn’t aware that we had a postcode… Very rural where we are and all the post is controlled by " Ger " our amiable postman . What he doesn’t know isn’t worth knowing…
Anyway, I’ve checked and a new system called Eircode came in this year and I’ve looked online. Apparently we are V92 YH05 …
Interesting about the dry walling. It’s mostly hedges here although our plots is surrounded by a now hidden dry stone wall that I’m uncovering at the moment.
Also , just had to have a wall stripped due to damp and its uncovered a lovely old wall with limestone corners… They knew what they were doing back then and as Irishboy will attest, the weather takes a bit of keeping out here
Balders 2 late the Boss sent it with no code on so if Ger appears with a DIT bobble hat on you know he’s bin up to no good. Why you always put pics on Australian style you need some lessons, cheers Buzzer.
PS. is that the garage in the picture ?
Well a busy day I have had Wrighty, sorted all animals and littered the cattle up, then fitted my new acquisition of last week to my trusty 590 Massey and went harrowing, it has dried up a lot this week but one or two wet patches still. By gum it does a good job ripping out all the dead bottom crap, not a lot of grass up one end but a bit up the other. Came back home and did the paddocks and then rolled them in, looks brand new now. Bet you wont be doing any ground work just yet will you.
Driving my team of horses tomorrow with luck, and having a new hen house delivered on Friday, cant keep up with demand on egg sales.
Balders aint seen Keith for yonks, is he still conning people with his faith heeling powers, don’t know how hw gets away with that venture. Has he published that book he supposedly wrote or is that a mythtery.
As for your leisure complex we got one here but the minute it’s not used im’e filling her in and having it as a coach house, cheers Buzzer.
