Bri963
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Prayers are with you, mate.
Simon edwards
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Very sorry to hear this,life is brutal sometimes, my thoughts are very much with you .
CPS
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You give him a great send off, says alot.
I often think if people could see how people feel, and what they leave behind they would think twice
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Monkeybusiness
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That’s such sad news Ruben. It looks like a lovely well thought out send off.
Stay strong mate xx
Stay strong mate xx
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Stroppymonkey
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Rare moment waiting for dumper. Bucket will pick up enough to easily lift a track when over the side and will tip it over the front if it’s a really big scoop of clay , so guessing 1500 kg of material plus bucket? Maybe a little more. Can get 3.5-4 in the 6t dumper.
Burning some diesel across the 3 machines.
Getting 15-20 loads an hour so between 600-900 tons shifted today. Starting to enjoy it till we had a smattering of rain and the clay starting sticking to my boots.
Found a few trenches showing up when stripping yesterday. One there that dad didn’t recognise. Dug it out to have a look and it’s a very early stone/rubble drain. Lots of quartz in it so imported stone. 18th or 19th century (that’s what mother reckons from agri history pages) Given the fill stone not looking immediately local
I would guess mid to late Victorian earliest as that’s when the railway came through - old station only a mile done the hill. Strange to think about the lads that hand dug that, and hauled it with horses. They would marvel at todays machines for sure.
Well its been a solid 7 days for me and my cousin. She has moved about 4000 ton with the 6t, so has improved her skills over the week. BIL has done his 5 days as promised (55 hours on site) with the 590. I have put 65 hours on the 130. Just a couple of short weekend days to tidy up where we can, then I can walk away from it for a couple months. Still LOTS to do, plenty of ground that can be built up in height if needed, its good to have somewhere to lose material in the future. Finally found some stony stuff in the deep corner. Pulled about 300 tonnes out so that has made a considerable saving. Got a pile left to play with, big enough to hide the 590! There is more down there as well, so might quarry the front yard at some point and pull out 500 tonnes if I get a spare weekend with a big machine. Perimeter hedge will be planted up in late Autumn. Probably a thick double row of Hawthorne, with trees every 6-8m. Burnt about 2000 litres of diesel this week.
William127
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Box all finished, not bad for a week on site really. Then everything that came up by crane had to go down by hand/rope. Some decent views, London has an impressive skyline, shame about the hellhole at ground level...
Home by 5.30, tractor on and away by 6 to the Whitwell steam fair
Then back to the barn to pick up my Ransomes MG5 but that was a no go due to failed fuel pipes unfortunately.
Loads here, so much better being a part of events than just a visitor
Home by 5.30, tractor on and away by 6 to the Whitwell steam fair
Then back to the barn to pick up my Ransomes MG5 but that was a no go due to failed fuel pipes unfortunately. Loads here, so much better being a part of events than just a visitor
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6feetdown
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No it actually jump started the 9ah battery. It would not take a charge watched a video guy had same problem it is now charging to 3 bars not 100% but better than throwing the battery out.bet that killed it in some order
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6feetdown
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Life can be cruel.Yesterdays job was bittersweet. A funeral for the lad who’s worked for me on and off the last ten years and full time the last six months, who I’ve known since he was 15 and came down the yard looking for work. Such a wonderful lad, would help anyone but sadly couldn’t help himself or ask for help
This is on top of another lad taking his own life a day apart. He worked weekends on my landlords farm. Both smashing lads, both cases unrelated but Jesus it’s hit the farming community hard.
We gave him a great send off. I had the churchyard looking great, we had a convoy of thirty trucks follow him. I drove ahead and stopped traffic (with his wide load sticker that he used to love using) whilst the convoy took the back roads that he used to love to the church in the village where he was born.
The sun was shining, I gave the eulogy and then we went to the rugby club and then the pub where I got disgracefully drunk.
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RIP both
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
thought you were running the fuel tank pump off the battery ?
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6feetdown
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Yes did that off the 1 battery, worked great tbf
Simon edwards
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Storrsy
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Done your best Doob
They reckon it's 3 a week in farming this brings some reality to those figures.
Unspeakably horrific and something needs to change in an industry we litterally can't survive without.
Don't mean to sound ignorant but wonder why it's so bad in the farming community? Expectations to take on a struggling family farm, perhaps feeling of no-one to turn too? don't get me wrong I know it's a tough and at times lonely way of life, but to get this bad??
Terrible waste of life- so sad that this is the only way out for some. Sorry to hear about your mates Doobin.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
what the government is trying to do to the farming industry and farmers is scandalous ATM ... hardly surprising some're feeling suicidal TBH
I have a lot of sympathy for them .. but NOT for their cavalier, cowboy behaviour in some areas of what they do/get away with.
Could tell you a few stories going on around here ATM that'd make your hair curl ...
and IMHDO wing nut is leading the charge from out of plain sight, in the wings ....
Him and his WEF mates
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6feetdown
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They want warehouse farming controlled by the corpswhat the government is trying to do to the farming industry and farmers is scandalous ATM ... hardly surprising some're feeling suicidal TBH
I have a lot of sympathy for them .. but NOT for their cavalier, cowboy behaviour in some areas of what they do/get away with.
Could tell you a few stories going on around here ATM that'd make your hair curl ...
and IMHDO wing nut is leading the charge from out of plain sight, in the wings ....
Him and his WEF mates
doobin
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I think it’s more a case of farm lads are handy lads.
A ‘job’ needs doing they just get on and do it, whatever it is.
They don’t do ‘cries for help’ with two packets of Paracetomol and a Facebook post.
Lancs Lad
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Absolutely. Two farms out the back of us are absolutely pitiful...one lot they lost their dad when the lads were young so battled on their own it's now an absolute state the other the dad is a nutjob and all his kids are not in a funny way proper bad and deffo not the type to ask for help ...but who is gonna help them ? Honestly a stroll through the yard makes you weep...very sad and I bet similar situations throughout the nation. Hardly be earning enough to put tea on the table without subsidies of some sort
Lancs Lad
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Oh and 3rd lot are goodness knows how long generation tenants but been screwed over by supermarket contract and told them where to stick it...now in a very uncertain state place again is a right state .
Loveliest folk you'll ever meet do anything for anyone and work the longest hours known to man.
Loveliest folk you'll ever meet do anything for anyone and work the longest hours known to man.
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6feetdown
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At the end of last series of Clarksons farm what they made was rubbish
Simon edwards
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I think it’s a very sad reality in this country that a solid work ethic and a reasonable level of practical aptitude is not praised and encouraged throughout the secondary school ‘system’,a lot of amazingly gifted hardworking youngsters in my experience are completely overlooked by a horrendously biased education system purely focused on exam results and academic achievment.
There are still a huge amount of youngsters working very hard in what is now considered a mundane occupation,agriculture, construction ,transport etc. I fear they probably don’t get the support they may need as easily as those that may work on ‘softer’ professions.I as most of us on this forum are from a very different era and probably grew up ‘proving ourselves’ as a very normal matter of course.
Doobins recent experience is heartbreaking and I speak as someone having gone through the suicide of a loved one .
Apologies if this has swerved off topic a bit, but I think as a collective group of hard working practical folk we can hopefully just try and encourage and keep an eye on the next generation as best we can in very difficult times.
There are still a huge amount of youngsters working very hard in what is now considered a mundane occupation,agriculture, construction ,transport etc. I fear they probably don’t get the support they may need as easily as those that may work on ‘softer’ professions.I as most of us on this forum are from a very different era and probably grew up ‘proving ourselves’ as a very normal matter of course.
Doobins recent experience is heartbreaking and I speak as someone having gone through the suicide of a loved one .
Apologies if this has swerved off topic a bit, but I think as a collective group of hard working practical folk we can hopefully just try and encourage and keep an eye on the next generation as best we can in very difficult times.
Storrsy
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Good post. I must say that some of the careers you mention. Agri, construction forestry etc. there's an attitude in some circles that you have more of less flunked it in life if you end up doing this kind of thing. So much emphasis at school and society in general put on "doing well" in a white collar job. Think Agri especially being so much at the mercy of government policies, plus pressure from supermarkets etc- it hardly makes it an enticing career choice. I'm honestly so grateful for what I have now, cos looking at youngsters leaving school these days- I wouldn't want to be in their shoes tbh. Times are definitely changing and fast, think a lot struggle with that.
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