What are Farmers doing working in middle of night?

Lucyfur

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

yep - cars polluting they put catalytic converter on em - cows release all that methane into the environment and its changing our weather system apart from anything else . I will never get farming

Oh give over.

Andy From Sligo

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

a rumble of thunder or 2, very close/humid - no rain yet

... spoke too soon it poured!

sheesh

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK - was gonna put this is Farming category but thought I might get lynched by a bunch of farmers - mind you knowing the nature of Boards I am most probably gonna be called on this anyway wherever I put it.

But I went to bed at 2.30am last night (/morning, whatever way you look at it) and i could hear a drone of a tractor going around a field in the Distance.

Yep , I know "You choose to live in the shticks, what do you expect? yada, yada .." business - but come on, why cant the farmers do their work on the fields in daylight hours (most probably can tell I am not a farmer, do not come from a farming family, have not got one iota what farming is all about. - I do know milk comes from a cow though and rashers come from pigs )

anyway, yeah is their no rules about them and what hours they can work and keep people awake with their noisy farm machinery?

Bloody townies!:mad:

Your Face

They stay up at night to fight aliens. That's why they're subsidised.
Those brave boys.

Andy From Sligo

you know when cows sh!te in the field , and that seep's into the ground and water table and into the rivers and then into drinking water - what does that do to us humans? - just wondering like?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

OK - was gonna put this is Farming category but thought I might get lynched by a bunch of farmers - mind you knowing the nature of Boards I am most probably gonna be called on this anyway wherever I put it.

But I went to bed at 2.30am last night (/morning, whatever way you look at it) and i could hear a drone of a tractor going around a field in the Distance.

Yep , I know "You choose to live in the shticks, what do you expect? yada, yada .." business - but come on, why cant the farmers do their work on the fields in daylight hours (most probably can tell I am not a farmer, do not come from a farming family, have not got one iota what farming is all about. - I do know milk comes from a cow though and rashers come from pigs )

anyway, yeah is their no rules about them and what hours they can work and keep people awake with their noisy farm machinery?

Farmers generally work when there's work to be done and while the weather allows.

In spring, spreading slurry in short daylight hours and land being barely able to hold machinery and ploughing/planting while soils are dry enough to enable crops to be set so they have a good chance of germination.

In summer, cutting silage and again spreading slurry and spraying crops to protect against disease.

In autumn, harvesting crops and baling straw while it's dry so they don't heat/sprout in storage when they are damp and setting crops again and, again, spreading slurry.

In winter, feeding cattle in the yards and buying/selling feed/silage/straw from farm to farm.

And in spring it all starts all over again.

Tbh, farmers would prefer a nice 9-5, 5 day week farming job but, while the weather and regulations are stacked against them, they take whatever opportunity to do the job when they can. They don't actually just drive on the roads at 40kph just to annoy you, they have a job to do further on the road and are just trying to get the job done as efficiently as possible so they can get onto the next job.

Lucyfur

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

you know when cows sh!te in the field , and that seep's into the ground and water table and into the rivers and then into drinking water - what does that do to us humans? - just wondering like?

A hell of a lot less than eating shyte in McDonalds, I would imagine.

Andy From Sligo

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

you know when cows sh!te in the field , and that seep's into the ground and water table and into the rivers and then into drinking water - what does that do to us humans? - just wondering like?

You get big bushy eyebrows and hair grows from your ears.
You can look that up.

looksee

I'm still trying to work out a catalytic converter for a cow.

The Backwards Man

They thought that we were quittin', oh when the sun went down
With the flame from the pipe we drove all night til the fuel it ran out

Ted_YNWA

Lots of stuff to be done tBM

Towing liftin' sowing baling, drawing hauling and buck raking
Backin' stackin' plowin' crashing, tippin' rappin' tail doors flappin'
Sucking diesel Cuttin' trucking, spreadin' piping double clutching
Spinning slidin' diggin' raking, rareing tearin' loosing weight.

Del2005

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

But I went to bed at 2.30am last night (/morning, whatever way you look at it) and i could hear a drone of a tractor going around a field in the Distance.

How do you know it was a tractor? Could have been people out diffin in their Red TDI Passats.

Cee-Jay-Cee

The cheek of them!!! Imagine trying to make the most of the dry fine weather before it breaks and the ground is soaked again

OP you should make a complaint, that'll learn them.

The Backwards Man

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Lots of stuff to be done tBM

Towing liftin' sowing baling, drawing hauling and buck raking
Backin' stackin' plowin' crashing, tippin' rappin' tail doors flappin'
Sucking diesel Cuttin' trucking, spreadin' piping double clutching
Spinning slidin' diggin' raking, rareing tearin' loosing weight.

And I tell you one thing, if any youngfella on a front loader thinks he has time to be snapchatting with most of the bucks round here, he'll be straight out the fcuking gate!:pac:

coffee_cake

Ted_YNWA

They could also be playing Pokemon Go, cover more ground in a tractor than on foot

Buford T. Justice XIX

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

you know when cows sh!te in the field , and that seep's into the ground and water table and into the rivers and then into drinking water - what does that do to us humans? - just wondering like?

Probably less than human waste entering the treatment systems:pac:

Cattle dung and urine is broken down very quickly once it hits the soil. There is millions of years of evolution involved in selecting micro organisms like bacteria and insects who consume and breakdown the products and recycle them back into nutrients for the plants to consume and grow and be eaten and passed back into the soils again.

Ruu

Serenading the cattle.

Andy From Sligo

Lucyfur wrote: »

A hell of a lot less than eating shyte in McDonalds, I would imagine.

A big beefy McDonalds is much more tastier tho ...

Andy From Sligo

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Lots of stuff to be done tBM

Towing liftin' sowing baling, drawing hauling and buck raking
Backin' stackin' plowin' crashing, tippin' rappin' tail doors flappin'
Sucking diesel Cuttin' trucking, spreadin' piping double clutching
Spinning slidin' diggin' raking, rareing tearin' loosing weight.

sounds like a Christy Moore song that

Andy From Sligo

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

They could also be playing Pokemon Go, cover more ground in a tractor than on foot

haha - yeah, course thats what it is, they are catching them all at 2.30 in the morning

Most probably looking for a rare farmander! ...

Lucyfur

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

sounds like a Christy Moore song that

If you're gonna live in the country you need to know the difference between Christy and Marty

Ted_YNWA

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

sounds like a Christy Moore song that

Not quite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1JIgtX5pCk

Andy From Sligo

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Probably less than human waste entering the treatment systems:pac:

Cattle dung and urine is broken down very quickly once it hits the soil. There is millions of years of evolution involved in selecting micro organisms like bacteria and insects who consume and breakdown the products and recycle them back into nutrients for the plants to consume and grow and be eaten and passed back into the soils again.

thanks, thats put me mind at rest ... im going to get a glass of water now ..

Andy From Sligo

Lucyfur wrote: »

If you're gonna live in the country you need to know the difference between Christy and Marty

what happens if you dont? - I know who I have heard of the most and it isnt that Marty one - never heard of the buck, and I listen to OceanFM and Midwest Radio...

Buford T. Justice XIX

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

thanks, thats put me mind at rest ... im going to get a glass of water now ..

Enjoy:D

Lucyfur

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

what happens if you dont? - I know who I have heard of the most and it isnt that Marty one - never heard of the buck, and I listen to OceanFM and Midwest Radio...

The farmers will hunt you down for complaining and not knowing Marty. But mostly the complaining.

s4uv3

If you were any use of a neighbour you'd be out there helping him.
It's a rare country man that's inside before 11pm in this weather.

Andy From Sligo

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Enjoy:D

its got bits floating in it :eek: - I tipped it away .... poured meself a glass of whisky and it was clear, I'll have that instead Sláinté

Andy From Sligo

s4uv3 wrote: »

If you were any use of a neighbour you'd be out there helping him...

What hunting Pokemon's ?