contracting is piss boring.. ok, you get to earn minimum wage & sit in a warm tractor seat, talking cobblers on the cb all day, but it is just like any other repetitive job..
me, i'd love to be on a farm all the time.. my family has been in farming for ever, but it skipped a generation at my dad.. i'll happily do all the farm work there is, but the money isn't as good as what i'm earning driving a wagon..
what sort of farming are you in?? i'm guessing mixed/dairy.
Ive been round this place my whole life, dont really know much different but im a qaulified welder, keep telling myself i want to go into fabrication but i like 80% of the work here too muchOriginally Posted by mowgli
where i work is owned by a now 4th generation family, split into two halfs. One cousin does arable which is the side i work on, and the other cousin does dairy but occasionally i get roped in doing bits and bobs on the dairy farm, had too look after 2 farms of cattle for a fortnight earlier this year on me own & i do pretty much all the grassland work for sarlage (cutting, spreading, rowing up, making the heap only thing i dont do is drive the forage wagon)
then in summer i corn cart/bale cart and this time of year im on a 150hp case puma with a 6m power harrow doing 3km/h across a field alldayvery boring this time of year but i can think of worse jobs. my dad used to be relief cowman on the dairy side but he left because he didnt get on with the main cowman & i nearly left this harvest after coming very close to fistycuffs with our resident jumped up combine driver, been here for 2 years but im on my 6th harvest now i think as i worked during school holidays for them, dont really know what to do with myself tbh
agric engineering??? corn store builders need fabricators/erectors..
look about, in your neck of the woods there are loads of ag engineers (not tractor dealers), and a good welder/fab man is always going to find work.
my cousin is a phenomenal fabricator, he works for a firm on heavy stuff for industry & quarries. he recently got an aquajet machine for his own workshop. we get him to make stuff. my hiab crane needed converting to have folding jack legs, we were quoted about 2 grand for a poxy fitting kit.. so we got him round, designed something on a scrap of paper & he designed a much better setup than the factory & then built it up. he made a few hundred, we saved a few hundred . his dad is a farmer & when he was younger, he would make his own implements to save money..
working for family is not always the best thing.. i should know, i'm into my 18th year working for my brother... we've had times when we were ready to murder each other, but a trip to the pub usually sorted it out...
me & my brother are at our best when doing proper old school farming... like baling( we did 3000hay & 2000 straw conventional bales & i stacked them all cos my nephew & his mates were crap at it) , or doing something with his sheep, we find its great for the soul after a week of stress from haulage & building work..
Spending nearly two ton at the vets
2 words... pet insurance.
3 words-drown the bast&rd, the animal not the vet. Cruelty to vets is illegal.
what happened?
^^^ did you just read that? what a idiot ^^^
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i desperately tried so hard to get an apprenticeship with CLAAS combines, they strung me along until the last minute and then said they werent running it that year, i wrote to them about 4 times & my current boss put in a good word for me as he's freindly with a bloke high up in the local dealership as we've only ever had claas combines & grass working equipment (apart from there round balers, ****ing **** things!) Tried with Ernest Does & thurlow nunn the two main tractor dealers too (new holland & fergie ****e) but had no luck with them either so i chose the farm. I'll keep looking though! Only problem is i dont have much experience, and everyone wants experienced people
there are college courses available all over the place to get ag mechanics papers, but most places want school leavers cos they are el cheapo...
what do you do in the winter months on the arable farm??
she is insured, but the vets dont do direct claims for less than £500.
so is cruelty to animals, doofus.
dew claw removed, she caught it a few weeks back and partially tore it off, its only this last week its become an issue (imagine pretty much ripping the nail off your thumb, and still having to use it as normal every day)
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