Buzzer:
Steve that picture takes me back to when I was a nipper on the old mans farm, we had a petrol/TVO Nuffield and always got a rollicking for not changing it over and the petrol ran out. We had an inline setup with a Lundell forage harvester and trailer hitch behind that, the whole thing stayed hitched together and came to the pit with each load, then we had a little grey Fergie with a buck rake on to get it up the clamp.
In the mornings my job was to roll the clamp with the Nuffield but it had those sticky out stub axles on and got that stuck on the concrete walls more than once, we also used to put molasses on with an old watering can, messy job that but it’s all gone modern now, John D.
Evening all,
John, getting the Molasses down onto the clamp…what a job…I used to have to roll it in with an old Fordson. by gum, bottom gear was so low, I was hardly moving, …then you saw the angle that you were at…oh…(dear)…good job my underwear was not pristine white!!!
Took one of my Kenworths over to the Truck Show at Balleymena some years ago…organised, everso well by John Smith…but she had been in a shed next to the sileage clamp, and the liquor had leached through onto the tyres…
Harold Montgomerys Norse Irish lads were chaining her down on the deck, before we left liverpool, and next to me was a UNFI Volvo, the lad jumped down…sniffed the air…and said…“will you sell my Da some of that grass”…now thats an acccolade for my organic stuff!!!
Cheerio for now.
Hi Saviem you are right about the pong of the silage liquor always had to avoid that when walking down the drive to school else no one wanted to sit with you if you got it on your shoes.
As you know it has been a bad month here for us, first losing our beloved Lab then having to put down one of my horses but today a new ray of sunshine joined us, “Woody” named after the horse we lost came from a shooting type farmer near Marlboro in Wiltshire who is keeping our dogs sister to train up as a gun dog. So pleased to get him as our lives were empty without a mutt around the place and a fair swop as well as I gave a Monkey for a Dog and as you can see from the picture he is so cute, smiles all round here today cheers Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Hi Saviem you are right about the pong of the silage liquor always had to avoid that when walking down the drive to school else no one wanted to sit with you if you got it on your shoes.
As you know it has been a bad month here for us, first losing our beloved Lab then having to put down one of my horses but today a new ray of sunshine joined us, “Woody” named after the horse we lost came from a shooting type farmer near Marlboro in Wiltshire who is keeping our dogs sister to train up as a gun dog. So pleased to get him as our lives were empty without a mutt around the place and a fair swop as well as I gave a Monkey for a Dog and as you can see from the picture he is so cute, smiles all round here today cheers Buzzer.
You got a little cracker there Buzzer
Buzzer:
Hi Saviem you are right about the pong of the silage liquor always had to avoid that when walking down the drive to school else no one wanted to sit with you if you got it on your shoes.
As you know it has been a bad month here for us, first losing our beloved Lab then having to put down one of my horses but today a new ray of sunshine joined us, “Woody” named after the horse we lost came from a shooting type farmer near Marlboro in Wiltshire who is keeping our dogs sister to train up as a gun dog. So pleased to get him as our lives were empty without a mutt around the place and a fair swop as well as I gave a Monkey for a Dog and as you can see from the picture he is so cute, smiles all round here today cheers Buzzer.
He looks a grand en Buzzer, as they say “a home without dogs is a house” too true.
Wrighty how right you are about having a dog about the house, we are both smitten with our new addition and everybody who see’s him want’s to take him home with them, no chance Buzzer.
Here we are up at 5am off to both Frome and then Exeter markets to try and bag some more cows and calves and we have a new alarm clock in the shape of “Woody” our new Lab puppy but so far he has done all his business outside the house so we must not complain, report later Buzzer.
Tidy looking outfit you got there Buzzer, it’s going to be a long day for you by the time you’ve battled home through the bank holiday traffic. Good luck with the cattle buying, I’m tipping in Chester then up to Preston for a Leeds oh the joys of driving on a bank holiday weekend…
Cheers Wrighty.
pete smith:
wrighty:
Tidy looking outfit you got there Buzzer, it’s going to be a long day for you by the time you’ve battled home through the bank holiday traffic. Good luck with the cattle buying, I’m tipping in Chester then up to Preston for a Leeds oh the joys of driving on a bank holiday weekend…
Cheers Wrighty.
Ex Fagan and Whalley?
Correct Pete and very clean for its age done 450ks in her today and prefer it to driving a car, came back MT as the cows I wanted did not show but brought one back for my mate and just finished washing out, pure liquid grass crap like super glue, cheers Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
We had four heifers in at Leyburn auction today three Lim x and one pure Limi all around nine months old, top price was £950 and the four averaged £885 so quite pleased… Parked up at home tonight going up to Aberdeen in the morning, tipping near York on Sunday morning…
Cheers Wrighty.
Aaaw. Nice you got a new pup JD… Nice pedigree too I imagine.
I can’t imagine life without a dog…
Here’s Alice, my faithful fishing and van companion…
Like Wrighty has said… They just want to be with you.
Bloody hell Baldrick i’ve just knocked mi glass o wine oft arm ut chair turning mi laptop over to view your picture…
Cheers Wrighty
Here you go right way up, now we got 2 and 4 legged Alice’s on here, Buzzer.
wrighty:
Bloody hell Baldrick i’ve just knocked mi glass o wine oft arm ut chair turning mi laptop over to view your picture…
Cheers Wrighty
Steady there Wrighty!
Hope weather good for you there… Nice here atmo and the farmers making the most if it with slurry spreaders…
A nice aroma to go with the bbq rib eye last night… 
Just had our tea which was mushrooms on toast with a fried free range egg on top proper lush, this after walking round the cattle. The Sim steers I let into a new bit of marsh and they was in there like a rat up a drainpipe and the Lim’s well they are proper blooming in all that lush grass and I swear if watch carefully like you can see those calves growing, just love my little bit of farming, Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
The cattle are looking well in the photos, there’s nothing better than walking round them on a nice summers night whilst they have their heads down grazing…
Parked up for the night at Abington having done 750kms, feet up supping a can of ale in the sunshine keep it coming please Baldrick it is much appreciated.
Cheers Wrighty.
Wasted journey to South Molton, Devon. yesterday to look at six Lim cows and calves, we argued over £25 per head and he would not budge so I drove away, it will cost him £75 each to send them to market which I don’t understand.
Today did an early morning stock check well 6.45 am so not too early. went to find my Sim steers who I now call marsh buggies. They are loving it down by the river and they have plenty of natural shelter, evidence of this is you can see where they lay down in the loo, talking of which all that walking which is not easy on that type of terrain gave me the urge and I had to have a rural as they say down these parts.
They look fit and well and some times you really have to hunt for them, when they lay down in the rushes and marsh grass you got a job to see them.
The hunt goes on for more cattle so may go to Frome next week to a suckler sale, got a few Charolais with Lim calves on so my luck may change, cheers Buzzer (who is voting OUT)
Buzzer
Cows look great, background suggest So’ton side of River ? hard to get to yes
DISPATCHER:
Buzzer
Cows look great, background suggest So’ton side of River ? hard to get to yes
Hi DISPATCHER there are some decent fields there one which I want to cut later, but let them in there but they do come out for water as there is a worn path now, it is extremely hard to walk over and have fell over a couple of times but you could never get machinery on it far too wet for that.
Got access both ends but restricted by the old fashioned rail bridges which are only 10ft wide which and in the day of horses and carts was fine but no good for big machines of today Soton side of river but it’s like another world when you are down there, cheers Buzzer.
Noticed the Bridges on sattlelite views
