Davies Int. Southampton. With photos (Part 1)

[wrighty]

Evening Buzzer

Wahey we’ve only gone and got a bloody suntan, busy marking lambs out of the fields today in glorious sunshine makes a change for up ere. It’s been that hot I took the cattle clippers to our sheepdog Sam who now looks like a cross between a lion and a whippet. I’d better thank Baldrick for the weather, it sounds a bit daft but we could do with a shower to wash the fertiliser in now please.
The cattle are looking well in the photos Buzzer, give them limi’s a couple of weeks and they will be eating out of your hand (hopefully) and the simmentals look to have plenty of grass to go at, ours is growing but only slowly at the moment…

Cheers Wrighty.

[peggydeckboy]

Aha Wright y is that you in that “speck savers advert then,“when You! give your dog a nice” Yorkshire groom” ,i knew about the simmentals [word breed etc] in cattle but the "limils "i do not have a clue?

Buzzer apart from the oblivious when choosing a Bull, what else puts you off, i realise the breed is important , but i suspect any of them could end up firing blanks so is not artificial insemination the route to go , or is that hit and miss ,and maybe not financial sound ,however it arrives by car…no grazing land needed.

[wrighty]

peggydeckboy:
Aha Wright y is that you in that “speck savers advert then,“when You! give your dog a nice” Yorkshire groom” ,i knew about the simmentals [word breed etc] in cattle but the "limils "i do not have a clue?

Buzzer apart from the oblivious when choosing a Bull, what else puts you off, i realise the breed is important , but i suspect any of them could end up firing blanks so is not artificial insemination the route to go , or is that hit and miss ,and maybe not financial sound ,however it arrives by car…no grazing land needed.

Well PDB they say there’s only a week between a good hair cut and a bad un, mmm I’m thinking this may take a bit longer… Limousin cattle or limi’s for short originate from the Limousin area of France, and have become a popular breed for producing quick growing well muscled calves.

Cheers Wrighty.

[buzzer]

wrighty:

peggydeckboy:
Aha Wright y is that you in that “speck savers advert then,“when You! give your dog a nice” Yorkshire groom” ,i knew about the simmentals [word breed etc] in cattle but the "limils "i do not have a clue?

Buzzer apart from the oblivious when choosing a Bull, what else puts you off, i realise the breed is important , but i suspect any of them could end up firing blanks so is not artificial insemination the route to go , or is that hit and miss ,and maybe not financial sound ,however it arrives by car…no grazing land needed.

Well PDB they say there’s only a week between a good hair cut and a bad un, mmm I’m thinking this may take a bit longer… Limousin cattle or limi’s for short originate from the Limousin area of France, and have become a popular breed for producing quick growing well muscled calves.

Cheers Wrighty.

Reckon them clippers you done that mutt with need a bit of a sharpen up, obviously it’s not entered for a show in the near future.
Chased a Lim bull for sale in Bicester today but when I finally got hold of the chap his brother had sold it to there neighbour £1500 only four year old with calves to see on the ground, would have done me gazumped again. Going to suckler sale on Saturday 5 Lim bulls plus others and lots of cows and calves, Buzzer.

[wrighty]

Evening Buzzer

The problem was the cattle clippers are a bit vicious and it would have been too easy to make him bald, it’s not that hot up ere so i don’t think he would of appreciated that !
There are plenty of Limi bulls about so it pays to find the right one that you are happy with, back to work tomorrow for five days starting off with a Manchester in the morning.

Cheers Wrighty.

[kindle530]

I passed a left ■■■■■■ blue chassis white cabbed Topline today, with a flatbed on, I think it was a 63 reg, looked exactly like one of yours minus the stripes. Have you started replacing the Scanias already??

[peggydeckboy]

Well wrighty the old mutt looks real pleased,good job he cannot talk , i bet he is saying all that running around i do, up and down them hills, and this is my reward ,well thank you, go fetch your own ■■■■■■ sheep…

Buzzer interesting reading on WIKIPEDIA on the "limil "cattle pedigree, pages of it, however the best bulls every year go to Artificial insemination?

[buzzer]

Kindle 530 we sold one about a month ago as we cant find permanent drivers easily, it ended up with an O/D but don’t know who and the trailer went also so got 14 now.
PDB its hard to do AI when the cows are turned out so a bull is the best option.
Bad day I have had, got the vet out to one of me horses as he was not right, off his hard grub and very lethargic and he has his ■■■■ out full extended all the time. he has a high temperature and heart beat is high as well but he has been jabbed now and I got medication to give him. Also have to hose his ■■■■ with cold water four times a day to try and get him to retrieve it. Come to think of it I knew a few drivers with the same problem, cheers Buzzer.

[bullitt]

Buzzer:
Kindle 530 we sold one about a month ago as we cant find permanent drivers easily,…

Really?? Wow, I would have thought you would have had a waiting list of drivers waiting to get on your firm Buzzer. It doesn’t look like your chaps are “pushed” to much and to be honest it looks like a great job to have. Good kit to drive, dinning on the Queen Elizabeth, long weekends on the beach or around the pool in Greece, Italy and various destinations around the Med!
Seriously though, I would never have thought that you would have a problem finding permanent drivers.

[peggydeckboy]

Buzzer it is true you learn every day, Horses .■■■■,water, blimey .the vet should have a pencil and tap it like the old matrons in hospital did…,it obviously means something as for their health…I hope he recovers …

YES a LOT of drivers had that problem ,EVERY COMPANY HAD A LADIES MAN. on one company i worked for, one was nicknamed “wash and go” however after a very serious indecent in Doncaster it appeared he batted for the other side… , when week ended ,i would sit back and watch the new drivers to being away from home /wife /kids…,hung over the next day ,after they had realised what they had done, then i would just quietly start the wind up…crabs 2 days,gone era about the same ,doctors ,blood tests ,no alcohol,passing it on … or you could just stay away from home for 2 weeks extra…some deserved it some did not… yes i do know all about it as nearly every current or ex seaman would,…right of passage… All seamen had a letter of rank, ie D.B. J.O.S. S.O.S. E.D.H. A.B ,ETC the best one was [V.D. and SCAR.]lol.
Snail season seems to be in its full migrate, where do they come from,are they nocturnal ?

[kindle530]

Thanks for the reply Buzzer. As bullit said, I can’t believe you can’t find a chauffeur, mind you there are drivers and dreamers and screwdrivers. If I was single I would be knocking your door down mate!

[bullitt]

kindle530:
If I was single I would be knocking your door down mate!

My thoughts exactly!

[buzzer]

Well here is a picture of my not so well horse, had the vet again at 8am today more jabs still running a temperature and wont put his donger away. This is getting expensive but you do what you can for a good animal so hope he soon shows signs of recovery.
Today I took an old tractor loader and me old chicken house to a collective sale which is held tomorrow, hope they sell well but it is Friday 13th so tread carefully after midnight.
PDB we had several abrieviations in our day, J.F.G.P.O. job’s fu --ed go on ■■■■■ then there was S.M.M send more money, when we had multi deliveries of fruit it was E.F.M.I.T.S.O.E which was every fu–ckin market in the south of England. cheers Buzzer.

[peggydeckboy]

Buzzer say no more,one question i do not know the answer too, is he a "stallion or gelding"or is that just a normal ■■■■ proud horse.do horses get like bullocks somtimes you get the odd bullock will try to mount another, but does not know really why, are horses the same…?

He would have been a handy lad to have been around some of the bars up the "le Ramblers"Barcelona… NO JOKING ,what a bout having a bag of ice slung under his togger and a strap tied to his back and drop his togger in it, might work like the bag of frozen peas on a bruise.pdb

[buzzer]

PDB the horse is a gelding and he wont put it away cos he has a gut problem and he is tender, I wased out his ■■■■■■ and got loads of gunge out tonight then vasalined it, we are now £550 in with the vet and he is coming again tomorrow.

Wrighty checked the cattle tonight and those Lims let me closer, think they are getting used to me a bit as they are more relaxed, will introduce a few nuts in a bag so they know what it is as I don’t fancy a rodeo with them when we move them, the calves look great and are growing fast and they aint had any real bad weather either, Buzzer

[eddie_snax]

See one of the Davies trucks in Coleshill this morning, looking as nice in the flesh as in the photos, thought about saying hello, but then I thought that might just look weird. I was doing a drop and swap container in the same yard.

I like the size of those diesel tanks, My Scania has a standard and a pint size tank, seem to spend my life on diesel pumps

[wrighty]

Evening Buzzer

A few days is all it takes to calm them down, a few nuts in a bag works wonders for winning their trust especially when it comes to moving them. We like em so we can walk round them in the field and give them a scratch and a pet, very handy when we are trying to get a new dropped calf to ■■■■.
Hope the horse makes a speedy recovery, always a worrying time until they show some signs of recovery.
Very surprised you find it hard to get reliable drivers especially where you are, having said that most new drivers nowadays are expecting Monday to Friday and look at you daft when you mention nights out and weekends. As we know this driving lark is a way of life like farming and not just a job, got home tonight made tea and mown the lawns then off to our local for a couple of pints as they are leaving the pub. Back in tomorrow tipping Leeds then loading at Settle for Westbury on Saturday morning…

Cheers Wrighty.

[saviem]

Evening all,

Wrighty how right you are…get them to know where the food is, and the trust comes, and the handling.

The little" head shy" Mare that we are looking after is responding well to a similar therapy. But its hard, and takes patience and time. She came from our “Travelling Friends”, (and what I would do to those people defies description)…they tied her to the back of a truck to see how she could perform behind a cart…BARSTEWARDS…

But she is safe now, and I reckon that it will take a good few months to get her handelable…and perhaps longer…but we will persevere…

The Donkey has been knocked about as well, but despite his name being Mr Whippy…I know him as “Evil Knevil”…but he is now following me around in the yard…next try is up to the Pub!

John, (Buzzer), Woody has not got a bad turn of Collic has he? Those are the normal symptoms, its a right difficult thing to diagnose, and manifests itself as a virus sometimes. A “mucky donger” is a dead giveaway… Good luck, unless you have had the friendship of a horse no one can understand just how they get into your life, and tug at your Heart!

Im so far away from driving today that I can only wonder why the adventure, and challenge ha s gone from the current batch of “steering wheel attendants”, (to coin Bewicks so apt phraseology)!

Certainly I would hate to be in the melee of UK traffic today…but I suppose the rest of Europe is similar? Went past an engineering company in Wolverhampton today, (a rapidly dying breed), and there were 4 Czech outfits parked outside loading up…When will our plonker politicians wake up to how EU Infrastructure development grants are manipulated by the “newer” members of the EU to develop their currency earning road haulage operations by subsidising them with cheap leasing/acquisition deals for equipment…No hope whatsoever…weve got the Politicians we deserve as a country…blooming plonkers one and all…

Good luck with Woody, keep him calm, Wrighty, safe journey.

Cheerio for now.

[buzzer]

Saviem (John) thanks for your concern and you are right about giving animals your best attention as they don’t answer you back just give you there best. Woody my hoss does in my opinion does look a little better, still not eating hard food properly but there is a little hope. Had the vet again today and they are coming tomorrow as well but Mrs D will see to that as I have to go to Sedgemore to try and buy a Limousin Bull.
Went to a collective sale today and it beats me that some people pay almost new price for someone’s well used machinery, they carried away especially woman. Sold my old massey loader and a chicken house so not all bad but it wont cover the expense of the vets, Buzzer.

[wrighty]

Evening Buzzer

Glad to hear Woody is looking a bit better and is hopefully on the mend,a worrying time all the same. What are you going to replace the old Massey with…? Like you say people go daft at farm sales paying way over the odds for something that’s on its its last legs. Well today went ■■■■ up tipped in Leeds this morning ran to Settle to pick up a load of cream, got ere at 13.30 and it’s still being loaded at 20.15 as I write this. Ah well I though I might as well get busy with the polish, so three hours later these are the results…

Cheers Wrighty.