Buzzer:
Hi Dean New Holland combines are yellow so the driver can hide in a field of corn and take a sneaky 45, no IIRC originally they were called Claysons and think NH took them over but could be wrong, as for the cultivator it looks a bit like a pan buster as nowadays there is a lot of mintill (minimal tillage) so there is no real depth to the cultivations so they use this to break through the pan so to speak, back in my day they used a Bomford super flow which had more legs on it than that one and you could remove some legs if it was hard going.
Got seven more Charolais bought private this time collect next week sometime, looked at the market report for Frome today and the trade for stores is still red hot especially for single suckled cattle but the finished beef price still remains high so this does have a bearing on the young stock prices, cheers Buzzer.
Thanks for the info chap.
I take it the shooting season has started for pheasants and grouse as on one of my regular walks there were hundred’s possibly thousands of
grouse mouching about.
This looked like human waste from the water works that was waiting to be spread on this field. Remember seeing this dark waste at a
water works in Poole.
This looked like human waste from the water works that was waiting to be spread on this field. Remember seeing this dark waste at a
water works in Poole.
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Looks like cake as it’s known in the trade
Buzzer:
Hi Dean New Holland combines are yellow so the driver can hide in a field of corn and take a sneaky 45, no IIRC originally they were called Claysons and think NH took them over but could be wrong, as for the cultivator it looks a bit like a pan buster as nowadays there is a lot of mintill (minimal tillage) so there is no real depth to the cultivations so they use this to break through the pan so to speak, back in my day they used a Bomford super flow which had more legs on it than that one and you could remove some legs if it was hard going.
Got seven more Charolais bought private this time collect next week sometime, looked at the market report for Frome today and the trade for stores is still red hot especially for single suckled cattle but the finished beef price still remains high so this does have a bearing on the young stock prices, cheers Buzzer.
Thanks for the info chap.
I take it the shooting season has started for pheasants and grouse as on one of my regular walks there were hundred’s possibly thousands of
grouse mouching about.
This looked like human waste from the water works that was waiting to be spread on this field. Remember seeing this dark waste at a
water works in Poole.
Evening DEANB
It looks a bit like digestate which is a by-product of an AD plant, they seem to be everywhere nowadays. The three heifers are all pure bred Limi’s, we were selling bulls at Leyburn on Friday 7-9 months old and they made £960,1000,1050 so they did alright.
Here you go Wrighty a bit of raw power for you and up for sale £14K, Chamberlain double think there Australian unless you fancy a little less power and a taste of Italy 9hp, bet you have had plenty rain lately and more to come but every bit counts on the feed front. It did rain today for about 5hrs steady but not heavy which was good only I got soaked, the chap who runs the park where I have 24 Lims has had a fella in cutting the hedges and decided to demolish some bushes but the trouble being the fence has been annialated as the bloke in the big house bordereing has for years been depositing his lawn mowings and garden waste on the fence thus destroying it, called on a couple mates and we did a make shift barrier with gates while he stayed indoors eating his Sunday roast in out the rain, these critters who come and live int country aint got a clue I was proper fuming, Buzzer
robthedog:
This looked like human waste from the water works that was waiting to be spread on this field. Remember seeing this dark waste at a
water works in Poole.
Looks like cake as it’s known in the trade
Thanks for the proper name Rob.
wrighty:
“DEANB”
This looked like human waste from the water works that was waiting to be spread on this field. Remember seeing this dark waste at a
water works in Poole.
Evening DEANB
It looks a bit like digestate which is a by-product of an AD plant, they seem to be everywhere nowadays. The three heifers are all pure bred Limi’s, we were selling bulls at Leyburn on Friday 7-9 months old and they made £960,1000,1050 so they did alright.
Cheers Wrighty.
Thanks for your reply Wrighty. Lovely looking animals.
Well that’s better as we have had a decent soak today and should do some good, did not put me man off with a flail hedge cutter who cam to knock back the growth so we can see the fence that needs some remedial attention, at least we can see the wire now so we can let that go and remove all the broken off posts and rotten ones and put new ones in there place.
As for me I have spent the day cooking beetroot then peeling and slicing and put in jars with malt vinegar for eating later in the year, quite satisfying but a messy job none the less and I have already lost one jar to an egg customer but she does make very nice creme broulais so an sort of exchange really, cheers Buzzer.
Fordson N model Buzzer. had my first driving lesson on one in 1945. Two fuel tanks, one petrol, one TVO(tractor vaporising oil) in other words parrafin. Turn the petrol feed on, get a feel for compression on the crank and once going run for 10 mins turn on VPO turn off the petrol, a bugger to start on a damp or frosty morning when it was a good idea to take the magneto off the night before and leave on the kitchen range overnight. One pedal brake/clutch.
Pic of the fuel system.
Oily
Hi Oily me mother drove one when she was 16 it was brand new also with a two furrow Ransome’s plough, she had to plough for close by farmers for the war effort and said some ground which had not been touched for years was hard going and stony which wore the YL42 plough shares out in double quick time these were usually held in place with a wooden peg IIRC. The Fordson had wide flat mudguards with a handle at the bottom and when me old man was ploughing I used to sit on this with me feet against the handle to stop me sliding off, no elf and safety back then, also entry to the driving position was normally from the rear, also ours had metal spade lug wheels so you could not go on the road without first fitting bands, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Hi Oily me mother drove one when she was 16 it was brand new also with a two furrow Ransome’s plough, she had to plough for close by farmers for the war effort and said some ground which had not been touched for years was hard going and stony which wore the YL42 plough shares out in double quick time these were usually held in place with a wooden peg IIRC. The Fordson had wide flat mudguards with a handle at the bottom and when me old man was ploughing I used to sit on this with me feet against the handle to stop me sliding off, no elf and safety back then, also entry to the driving position was normally from the rear, also ours had metal spade lug wheels so you could not go on the road without first fitting bands, Buzzer
Our wooden pegs were cut from broom bushes and was tough sinewy almost unbreakable I was told that there was method to the apparent madness breaking pegs was cheaper than replacing the share. Remember sitting on the full width mudguards, then came the “War Effort” and metal required for armaments resulting in the mudguard replacement shown in this Martin Pettitt photo.
Oily
Well were certainly getting wet up ere and it’s slowly turning into a bog again, hopefully it will dry up a bit as we don’t want to have to bring the cows in early. Busy week on the farm had a new feed bin delivered on Monday, and we had two calves born last night and another one due today.
I’m putting in a full week behind the wheel next week so that should keep mi busy, there’s a good chance it will involve moving straw.
Hey up Wrighty Winter is getting closer methinks the nights are drawing in and its colder at night, ordered a ton of beef nuts coming next week and will start bag training the cattle as soon as. Seems you had more wet than us but we have some more heading our way early part of the week and it definitely has made the grass grow a tad but not the goodness in it now, moving the feed trailer out of the field tomorrow as they are not showing any interest in the haylage and have wasted more on the ground than eaten. Far too early to get stuff in for the Winter as it will be a long one if you have to do that, needs a long dry Autumn then you can leave em out and feed outside which most cattle prefer.
Today we cleared all the old fence posts on the fence revamp but they wont go to waste as me mate will log them up for firewood so nought goes to waste round here, then its a waiting game for the fencer man with his post knocker to put them in. Despite the rain the ground is still hard and don’t fancy doing it by hand, piece of mind when done and all secure for livestock, cheers Buzzer.
Hi all, this is a question for Buzzer and Wrighty. Why do farmers tip animal feed IE nuts and grain’s out of a bag onto the floor for the animal’s to trample half of it into the ground would it not be better to put it into trough’s. On my Yorkshire farm tonight there was mud up to the sheep’s knees but they still tip the food onto the floor. A bit of a waste it seem’s to me. But i am sure you professional farmer’s will put me right.
gerbil sb152:
Hi all, this is a question for Buzzer and Wrighty. Why do farmers tip animal feed IE nuts and grain’s out of a bag onto the floor for the animal’s to trample half of it into the ground would it not be better to put it into trough’s. On my Yorkshire farm tonight there was mud up to the sheep’s knees but they still tip the food onto the floor. A bit of a waste it seem’s to me. But i am sure you professional farmer’s will put me right.
Kev I am of the modern era and have troughs, beef nuts are £257 a ton so I wont be chucking them on the ground. What you don’t seem to realise is that sheep love eating mud, its full of nutrients and is very good for the wool as well, only kidding got that wrong as well we are on sheep not goats
On another note surely we can find a better place than Romsey for a gathering, also another point this Covid19 is still about and a lot of us are now senior chaps so should be careful so the venue if there is to be one this should be taken into consideration. Another point is we are not supposed to gather in groups of more than 30 and if all else fails my cattle barn has been cleaned out all we need is a bar and we can sort the grub out too, Buzzer
Yes Buzzer you are unfortunately right about this covid stuff.So perhaps it might be wise to give it a miss this year trouble is you just don’t know do you.
gerbil sb152:
Yes Buzzer you are unfortunately right about this covid stuff.So perhaps it might be wise to give it a miss this year trouble is you just don’t know do you.
Horry is gutted he was looking forward to it and he is a youngen to, JD
breaking pegs was cheaper than replacing the share. Remember sitting on the full width mudguards, then came the “War Effort” and metal required for armaments resulting in the mudguard replacement shown in this Martin Pettitt photo.
