Buzzer:
Wrighty we had a little soft rain last night but barely a dust dampener and today had intermittent showers coming out of Frome but we need a good deal more else there wont be a lot of grass. like I said I bought 50 bales of last years haylage and given the chance would buy a bit more as it could be short.
Good news about your calves selling well eh, that’s what makes the job worth while and I bet Alice will get a new dung fork to boot if she is lucky, Buzzer,
Evening Buzzer
Went one better than a muck fork for Alice tret her to a new spreader, granted I have to use it misel but it’s no hardship better than using a fork all day!
Wrighty don’t know why they don’t paint muck chuckers brown to start wi, anyways nice presi for Alice bet she’s chuffed. Last day tomorrow before me shoulder op but can still type with one good hand tuther will be in a sling, Buzzer.
Buzzer:
Wrighty don’t know why they don’t paint muck chuckers brown to start wi, anyways nice presi for Alice bet she’s chuffed. Last day tomorrow before me shoulder op but can still type with one good hand tuther will be in a sling, Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
Good luck with the shoulder op hope all goes well on Tuesday, hopefully you will be back farming before too long and will have Mrs D running about after you doin the daily chores…
Carlisle for me in the morning for a vehicle inspection and then off up to Kelso with concrete panels so should keep us out of mischief…
Just watching the Country File weather forecast and it looks like our prayers are going to be answered tomorrow, plenty of rain coming.
Well Balders in & out like a fiddlers elbow, job done but a wi bit o pain but got morphine tabs for later, Then all hell broke loose as a woman called to inform me the 20 steers on the marsh grazing had walked right along and got out into a boat yard, this at 5pm as I just got home too, so rallied some troops as you do and went on a roundup which never went to plan and they ended up in some ones garden 1/2 a ■■■■■■ mile away, blocked the lane off much to the annoyance of the locals. The end result we contained 19 of em but one got separated which we went after, found him but he was not havin any of that and cleared a five foot gate into the hay field, could not find him after that so either he’s on the nose of a train heading for Southampton central station or he’s bloody good at hidin seek, any ways light failing after 4 hours we come home and will go again tomorrow.
This we me arm in a sling after me shoulder opp today, one man had a hernia opp two weeks ago and the third has had two heart attacks and one able bodied and three woman you could not write stuff like this but it occurred here tonight, now to take me morphine tablet and bed which will be great wee a sling on no doubt.
Wrighty sends his regards and says thanks for the rain, who would be a farmer eh not all joy and big roast dinners that’s for sure, cheers Buzzer
Of all the nights for em to make a bid for freedom tonight wasn’t a good one eh, it’s hard work rounding em up especially when one gets split off.
Oh well better get dosed up on morphine and see what morning brings, thanks for the rain Baldrick it was much appreciated trouble is it won’t know when to stop now…
Parked up tonight just outside Ayr, cracking sunset over the sea aye this jobs hell sometimes.
DEANB:
Found this pic on a french forum apparently taken in Bosnia.
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Taken outside Kupres camp in 98/99 I’d guess.
The British army were based there in an old wood treatment yard and we used to stop there for a bite to eat and during the winter a road report before heading up over the mountain to Bugojno where we tipped in a cold store. Not sure if this pic was taken then but I can remember a few lads stuck there for a couple of days when the road conditions were too bad to get over the mountain. I’m pretty sure I posted a couple of pics of the road over the mountain back on the early pages of this thread.
Well today me, able body and twin heart attack returned to the marsh to see if we could spot the loan steer, all were laid down chewing there cuds so just me went up to them as they know me, counted five times and all 20 back together, no sign of re entry as we checked all fences and looked for fresh foot prints but no evidence but pleased it was resolved as it was fair peeing down.
The morphine is as much use as a NSU Quickly up the blanc and had no sleep at all last night and the pain has not eased at all so not looking forward to tonight. On another note saw this and had to share with you all, cheers Buzzer.
Hello all, first post so don’t be hard on me, have followed this form for about 14 years but only joined this year, so here goes. I’m retired and a carer, started farm then contractor and in my mid twenty HGV, Have done livestock, bulk and tankers. I’ve followed this thread since it started, and enjoy it so much it’s the first one I go to, and get annoyed when no one’s posted for a few days. I have been happy to just read what others have to say, mostly with a chuckle, but while out for a jaunt in the car who should I spot, Wrighty or one of his stable mate’s, coming off M90 Broxden roundabout Perth heading North. Buzzer hope your feeling better and have the herd under control and settled again. I recall a few year’s ago it was reported, cattle crossed the Solway below Carlisle. and if my memory serves me right some were drowned. regards sheepman
sheepman:
Hello all, first post so don’t be hard on me, have followed this form for about 14 years but only joined this year, so here goes. I’m retired and a carer, started farm then contractor and in my mid twenty HGV, Have done livestock, bulk and tankers. I’ve followed this thread since it started, and enjoy it so much it’s the first one I go to, and get annoyed when no one’s posted for a few days. I have been happy to just read what others have to say, mostly with a chuckle, but while out for a jaunt in the car who should I spot, Wrighty or one of his stable mate’s, coming off M90 Broxden roundabout Perth heading North. Buzzer hope your feeling better and have the herd under control and settled again. I recall a few year’s ago it was reported, cattle crossed the Solway below Carlisle. and if my memory serves me right some were drowned. regards sheepman
Welcome aboard sheepman, glad you enjoy this thread and it certainly has its followers, obviously it started as more transport but has deviated a little towards the farming bit but most seem to enjoy the mix of topics, by the way typing now wi one finger as still pain in me left arm. Finished the morphine now but aint slept for two days now and did me first no. two today but that’s all the tablets givin me constipation.
Feel free to post any pictures if you can the more the merrier, cheers Buzzer.
Transition time in the States with a sodbuster unwilling to give up the reins.
Oily
Hi Oily,
Sod buster! The Black Country for that is Clod Boster, i can remember my Dad using that expression so I used it to a farmer i was delivering to and when i got back to the mill i had a telling off for usi g it, it was a term for the ploughman behind the horse stamping on the unbroken earth the p!ough had not broken up, i have a pic of my Grandad horse p!oughing i will find it and post it, Cheers Pete
Another busy day today set off from Stirling this morning, tipped Selby and Immingham dock then loaded straw for back home tomorrow.
Evening Sheepman glad your enjoying the trucking/farming theme on this thread, you can’t beat a bit of variety.
Wrighty the load of tractors looks tidier than the straw load and looks like it was stored outside, with those big bales you can certainly get the weight on as well not like years ago wi the small bales that went about 50 to the ton if you were lucky and them bigguns all done by machine. Always thought there was a skill stacking them littluns 8 high on a truck so they wuzz straight and never fell off, of course we roped back then as no straps in sight, cheers Buzzer.
