Andrew just had 600lbs of sausages delivered back to me tonight and also ordered 40 kilo’s of shallots today for pickling, the jam store is full but still fruit in the freezer to make more, my question is when you coming back ha ha ;
On the farming front put ten bags of nuts in the creep feeder today and what a row of backsides, here are the pictorial accounts.
Morning Buzzer
Looks a nice line up of calves int creep feeder, we had a Lim x bull in Leyburn auction on Friday 12 months old made £1140 so quite pleased with him. Down at Bridgwater this morning and as I came off the M5 j24 I followed R88GEL down to the roundabout.
Tipping as I type this and then reloading reclaim for back up to Holme on Spalding moor in the morning if all goes to plan…
Cheers Wrighty.
Buzzer have you got a sausage and shallot shop on the go, nice and grunchie does it .Wrighty what a job you have are the inside of the tanks coated with a like bronze coat , can you put a spinner inside and do you have to get in side to dry then off…pdb
Morning PDB,
The tanks are just stainless steel with no coating, the trailers are fitted with a CIP system with three spray balls In the tank, and after a wash they are left to drain and don’t need drying.
In the early days they had to climb inside the tank and scrub with a brush, certainly not allowed nowadays with all the elf n safety…
Cheers Wrighty.
Hi Wrighty.
Hope you and Alice are well,as you were in Bridgwater,it wasn’t you I waved to as I came through Westbury yesterday !!
Regards
Richard
Hi Wrighty… Not sure if we’ll get the tail end of Hurricane Matthew but will tip you off if it breezes through Kerry on its way to you…
Re tank cleaning… I remember a driver on C W Vick ( Graham ) telling me of a time when he was in a tank cleaning when a driver headed off to load with him in the back… Cue much waving of the brush going through a Gloucester village just down from their yard 
JD , I recall driving K9 …
Was called in to tip a multi drop of London markets…( Not best pleased as I hate markets and not over keen on nights ! ) was very pleased though to get a chance of driving that beastie …
Sadly I didn’t get far as got a tug on the Winchester By Pass 10 at night…escorted to a weighbridge and found to be a tad over on the pin…was soon back at Andersons Road for a rejig of load and tip was rescheduled…
There’s an outfit just down the road from me ( Daleys ) most of their fleet are those old Skodas…
Am liking those mega bangers from your porkers!
Cheers all, Balders.
Busy day today took water down to cows & calves then hung an additional gate ready to load and bring up the 10 steers from the marsh on Wednesday, got a TB test on week Monday then market Friday if all is well, as I am sure Wrighty will agree its better to spend a little time getting things set up right when you move cattle then hopefully every thing goes without a hitch.
This afternoon me and the Boss dug all the remaining potatoes and put into store, also the beetroot came out so just have to put a little fence round the purple sprouting broccoli and the chicken can go in and clear it just like they did last year.
Balders we road tested some of my new batch of Jumbo sausages and they are cracking, don’t need no sauce we them just fine on there own its a pity you live so far away of you could have a sample.
As for that escapade with K9 the only reason you had that was if you remember you had a brand new FH on an M reg but with the batch of six we had three would not blow the brakes of on the trailers, fault with those new fangled auto couplings. Them coppers were all smarmy when you got back to the yard and I did not expect them to do us but he started reading the riot act and I had a go, the Volvo fitter was in our workshop in the yard trying to sort the problem at the very time and when I said I would fight the case saying there were mitigating circumstances he let us off but he never liked it even after having several cups of our tea, some you win some you don’t.
Remember once we loaded seed spuds in Perth, or Denny Belbin did he got pulled on the A34 at 10.30 at night was a ton over so he called out his Mrs with his Nissan cabstar chucked a ton off got cleared and came back to base where he put the excess back on good old boy, did all this on his own initiative as a rare occasion we had gone out for the evening, had to pay the fine though, Cheers Buzzer.
MaggieD:
Hi Wrighty.Hope you and Alice are well,as you were in Bridgwater,it wasn’t you I waved to as I came through Westbury yesterday !!
Regards
Richard
Evening Richard,
That wouldn’t be me I took a load of organic milk straight down to Bridgwater, he would of been going into Westbury with cream. Well Baldrick were waiting for the storms, it’s going too well weather wise up ere so the first sign of bad weather the cattle will be heading in for the winter.
Once got pulled misel with a 6 wheeler loaded wi sugar, overweight ont front axle and had to handball 2 tons onto the back end to get them to let me carry on…
Cheers Wrighty.
Fenced of the purple sprouting broccoli today and let the chicken on to the veg garden and boy are they in seventh heaven, Buzzer.
H iBuzzer i watched a t v program last week on the fat content of beef ,etc then they moved on to chicken at Edinburgh university they had 5 chickens .free range ,corn feed, organic,ordinary battery hen,one other i have forgotten ,however the price per kilo went from £2.50 up to nearly £6 per kilo it was the fat content and it turned out not “eating the skin” that the cheap supermarket chicken was the most healthy for us to eat,[as in fat content] in fact there was hardly any difference however the plumpness of the corn fed did look good…
Then they stated that offal KIDNEY,any animal, and “liver” also was the most healthy cut of meat out of the whole of any carcass,they gave you every vitamin our body requires …
Especial for all hard pressed milk tanker drivers…who might own a beast or two…pdb
Evening Buzzer
Well that’s it it’s winter, spent all day moving the cows and calves back home into the shed, they were stood at the gate looking glum so we took pity on them.
Some fairly heavy showers today so it’s probably best they’re in, how are you for grass down there are you going to sell yours or are you going to winter them…?
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty your not wrong about winter there is a chill in the air even down here on the south coast, like you got the ten Simmental steers up from the marsh yesterday and they are in the barn ready for TB test Monday and Thursday and if they are all clear to market on Friday, my mate took all ten down in one go in May in his little MAN truck but we did two trips bringing them home as he said they have grown some what which I don’t notice when checking them daily.
Today I refilled the water bowser for the cows and calves they still have grass but this time of year there aint a lot of goodness in it, removed the creep feeder also and now have four long trough’s and in the process of bag training them ready for the corral when we move them up in a fortnight. Have another TB test on the 31st of October for the calves which are to be dehorned by the vet and then they are going as well, at the moment the Lim steers at 6 to 8 months old are topping £850 for gooduns which mine are and heifers a smidgen less so no point feeding and littering them all winter.
Just the cows winter in who will be PD’d at the same time then we will know if Bully has done hid job, some look heavy already so need the calves off to give them a break just hoping they are in calf we shall see and I will report later, cheers Buzzer.
Probably a good idea to get the calves away now, no hassle through winter and you can concentrate on the hopefully in-calf cows. Ours are now dry and chomping some nice silage so hopefully the calves will now romp on so we can get them away in good time.
Sheep are now sorted and some of the tups are out, Alice has decided we need a fresh swaledale tup and for some reason she said that I will be picking it(pressure or what) so will keep you updated with purchases in the near future…!
Cheers Wrighty.
Your chat BUZZER AND Wrighty is better than farmers weekly ,it is interesting ,how you have to think about when and where to move them ,if to then sell them cheaper than keeping and feeding them over winter, not planning on the back of a ■■■ packet,all in all a serious business hard that planning Trucks …Straw,mucking out,mud ,hay ,silage,i m exhausted all ready,not forgetting getting the cockerels for Christmas.and Mr Fox.
As a outsider ,the money side of it comes to me, as if you are chasing the cash,will i do this or that,like roulette with animals,as a gamble…
It has got to be more than a HOBBIE that is for sure.does the home market effect the price in the cattle markets,or if a certain buyers wants certain breed,for killing does he just inflate the price of a beast because they can,also vise -verse.
I can see the buyers now all those years ago hanging over the top rail of the ring well dressed ,■■■ or cigar on ,looking as if they have no interest in whats in the ring just flicking a finger or winking,touching their nose ,it was good entertainment back then…when a shilling was not as good as a two bob…piece. pdb.
PDB I have often wondered what would happen in a cattle market if it was a Dutch auction where every one had a button and they started up really high and the first one to push got the lot, you would have to have balls for that for sure but as is the norm quality always sells itself so if you got good stock it makes the money. Personally I am a hobby farmer but Wrighty is doing it for real but if you work out the hours and effort put in the pay aint that good for either more a way of life but with its ups and downs, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
PDB I have often wondered what would happen in a cattle market if it was a Dutch auction where every one had a button and they started up really high and the first one to push got the lot, you would have to have balls for that for sure but as is the norm quality always sells itself so if you got good stock it makes the money. Personally I am a hobby farmer but Wrighty is doing it for real but if you work out the hours and effort put in the pay aint that good for either more a way of life but with its ups and downs, Buzzer.
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This thread is a must read for me… a wright buzz it is 
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Glad you all like the farming input on this truck thread. Went for a wander round the field that I had direct drilled with rye grass seed a fortnight ago and it has struck so hoping it stays warm in the day with a little rain to let it get a good hold, it is already in recovery just a few clumps of dead grass where I harrowed it but should be fine.
Now the steers are safely at home in the barn I have started bag training the cows & calves and after only two sessions of the trough’s near the gate I put them in the catching pen today and got them all in as well although I never shut the gate on them, the calves especially are very wary but after a week they should be fine when we have to move them, sure does beat trying to drive them, Buzzer.
Appleby Whit bank holiday Saturday 1987 “Dalestar” B.H. 1984. Heat and final winner.
