satisfying jobs/tasks

MFdaveIreland

What have use lads and lassies done recently that u have said , 'well that worked well'. It's nice putting your mind to things and seeing them done

Nekarsulm

Put down concrete posts in a few places and hung good gates off them. Also built two piers and hung gates on them as well. Dug up a gateway between two fields and piped and stoned it. Been a quagmire this last few seasons.

Kevin McCloud

Building dry stone walls and restoring an old lime kiln beautiful piece of history.

nashmach

Has to be a nice ploughing job.

MFdaveIreland

I find it nice doing a job that you aren't supposed to know how to do, eg, some people say, u need to get such and such to get that sorted. It's nice finishing it and proving them wrong!

I'm a sucker for straight lines too. So ploughing it satisfying, also a nice layer of slurry with no gaps. Call me mad

buffalobilly

Washing out sheds when cattle go out

just do it

MFdaveIreland wrote: »

I'm a sucker for straight lines too. So ploughing it satisfying, also a nice layer of slurry with no gaps. Call me mad

With you in that one. Some people call it OCD! Due to an injury I got a lad to drive a load of stakes. Couldn't bear looking at them so lifted them and drove them again, this time in a straight line.

Last year put in a short roadway across wet land that has opened up the place. Also a reseeding job with chain harrow only that autumn calves will be creeping out to graze by the end of this week

delaval

Fencing is my favourite of all jobs, would love to do it full time. I often get a call from neighbours to set them up and show how to tie joins and tighten wires. I am about to have a stone of porridge now and head off till evening doing repairs.

Fert spreading is another job I love.

jersey101

Rearing calves. Lovely too see them out in the field in the spring and looking strong and full of beans

Timmaay

Spraying and reseeding! Well the contractor does most of that, but fair bit of effort involved yourself also! But anyways nothing like seeing a field of nice lush green grass afterwards, and knowing that every penny you spend on it was totally worth it!

just do it

Calving cows. Never fail to get a sense of excitement from it and a great sense of satisfaction with a healthy cow and calf as the end result.

bbam

Turning cattle out to field after the long winter is mighty satisfying.
Seeing them kick their heels in the air with the new freedom of being out in the bright days with lush grass.

Killing rushes is good karma too !

Conor556

Powerwashing sheds when cattle go out.

Whitewashing walls and painting sheds,,, the difference it makes to them is unreal!

Best thing I ever did was learn how to weld, great feeling when you stand back and look at what you have made or repaired

Marooned75

Any job that saves time or other things easier around the place.

Muckit

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bbam

Muckit wrote: »

If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this tread, call the Powerwashers helpline on 1800 555 WASH ME

I expected Biddy to be the first on in about the power washing.
I don't really enjoy it myself.

ABlur

Drainage its like playing God with bad land! Love to watch the water going where I want it to go.

Omniscient

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Can't beat the satisfaction in getting a sick animal back to full health though. Doesn't always work out that way though.

stanflt

delaval wrote: »

Fencing is my favourite of all jobs, would love to do it full time. I often get a call from neighbours to set them up and show how to tie joins and tighten wires. I am about to have a stone of porridge now and head off till evening doing repairs.

Fert spreading is another job I love.

I've 40 acres reseeding that' needs fencing- I'd give you food water and shelter

Sharpshooter82

I love baling whatever, only got small square baler this year and was like a child with it. Madness but thinking of round baler now

jersey101

stanflt wrote: »

I've 40 acres reseeding that' needs fencing- I'd give you food water and shelter

How about 70 acres?? I've the straining posts down for ye

biddy2013

bbam wrote: »

I expected Biddy to be the first on in about the power washing.
I don't really enjoy it myself.

ah i wouldnt class powerwashing as a satisfying job , but its nice to have the sheds clean. I like letting the cows out to grass for the first time and seeing stock coming into parlour from my best cows

Brown Podzol

Calving cows. It's like opening presents.
A row of cows in the springtime bursting with milk.
The recording sheet, going in the direction you set out on years previously.
Full silage pits at end of the summer.
A good repair or new creation I have done myself.
Growing two blades of grass where only one grew before, 2015 on should allow us to express ourselves. It's not always about the money.

delaval

stanflt wrote: »

I've 40 acres reseeding that' needs fencing- I'd give you food water and shelter

You know my thoughts on shelter

Kovu

Finally getting an animal to walk on a halter without lifting you off your feet!
Seeing calves line up in the creep feeder after it's put out in summer.
Getting a heifer to accept a calf after she had looked at it for a day thinking it was some form of alien.

Birdnuts

Love everything about making Hay and what a summer it was for it. First time I got 2 cuts out of the place(July and September):)

Livestockmad

Getting a calf or a lamb going in the first few hours..or curing a sick animal.. after that when two bigish lambs run over to the ewe and nearly lift her off the ground suckling. When i had more time on my hands i loved training a dog for 20mins a day especially a dog that someone give to you and says its the most useless dog under the sun and with a little time and patience he gets the hang of it .I get a kick out of doing the simple things nneatly like someone said about spreading slurry without gaps I have been told my a neighbour that I have to have a small strain of ocd ;-)

sea12

Love rowing up hay when it's fit to be baled and the baler is coming and there's no black clouds in the horizon. Doesn't happen too often buts it's fabulous when it does.

Bizzum

There's something shocking satisfying about making good hay. Right from mowing a good clean crop to rowing it up for the baler.
There's also something nice about a heifer calving down, particularly a heifer you bred yourself, and have several generations of the line.
A real good crop of spuds coming out of the drill is a joy to behold too.
I could go on....

Juniorhurler

Clipping cows backs and tails. Love how it tidied them up.
Love looking at the striped fields after rolling silage ground every spring. Hate rolling it though.
Love getting the hedge trimmer on and scutching the ditches every year.
Love looking at a stack of timber cut and in the shed stacked and drying.
Love moving cattle to fresh grass.
Love looking at the cattle on long fine summer evenings stretched out with a belly full of grass in them.

Miname

anything to do with farming, calving cows and letting them out in spring has a special buzz. Every menial little task brings overall satisfaction when they all accumulate into another years progress. I dont think ive ever stepped into a yard where the farmer didnt have that child like glint in his eye where they had gotten some new mad cap idea or satisfaction from trying something new.

KatyMac

Killing rushes and blackthorns - difficult buggers to get rid of but most satisfying!

3 the square

always find getting the milk cheque is a good buss ..

Farmer

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Building dry stone walls and restoring an old lime kiln beautiful piece of history.

Maybe sometime you're out there with the camera, stick up a photo

biddy2013

3 the square wrote: »

always find getting the milk cheque is a good buss ..

for few hours til you work out what you owe

loveta

Reseeding, not a tractor man at all but just love land leveling esp if the ground was rough and doing a good job then seeing the lovely even green shade when it strikes knowing/hoping its going to grow like mad the following year

Zr105

Turning cattle out to grass.

Loading up a lorry load for the factory, and also watching them move through the line till they hit the scales/ grader

Looking back at a nicely rolled silage field when your done.

Standing back to look at some building job that you've just completed.

When you've changed the layout or made up something new to try make day to day tasks easier and it works, even if its just hanging a gate the other way round!

Nekarsulm

Zr105 wrote: »

Turning cattle out to grass.

Loading up a lorry load for the factory, and also watching them move through the line till they hit the scales/ grader

Looking back at a nicely rolled silage field when your done.

Standing back to look at some building job that you've just completed.

When you've changed the layout or made up something new to try make day to day tasks easier and it works, even if its just hanging a gate the other way round!

Is there anything more perplexing than driving along the road and seeing a gate hung upside down. I have been passing one example for two years, would love to take it off and put it on right way up, but knowing my luck would be caught and accused of stealing it!

Zr105

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Is there anything more perplexing than driving along the road and seeing a gate hung upside down. I have been passing one example for two years, would love to take it off and put it on right way up, but knowing my luck would be caught and accused of stealing it!

Haha i more meant hanging from left pillar rather than right! But that would amuse me, if i knew them id prob try poke some fun out of it tho

cosatron

Getting a heifer calf from your best cows when your DIY ai is very satisfying.

Sharpshooter82

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Is there anything more perplexing than driving along the road and seeing a gate hung upside down. I have been passing one example for two years, would love to take it off and put it on right way up, but knowing my luck would be caught and accused of stealing it!

That would drive me mad looking at that

MFdaveIreland

+1 on the rolling. love the stripes afterwards

also nice getting things working after about 30 years of not working! eg tractor lights haha,

mikefoxo

Love rebuilding stone walls - my family seem to think there's something wrong with me! It's so satisfying to look at something that was once a big mess but because of you and you alone it's now lovely and neat

blue5000

Lodging a cheque is nice.
Letting the lorry ramp down at the meat factory and seeing 4 U grade bulls lined up with another 10 behind them.

But it's also the simple things like seeing a fox in the yard, or finding an oak tree in a hedge that I didn't know about before. Or watching a flock of wild geese flying overhead, or seeing a buzzard for the first time perched on the roof of the tractor. Or the smell of fresh cut grass on a sunny day.

Other satisfying jobs are

• Unblocking a drain
• Giving a neighbour a hand to start the combine/idle tractor etc.
• Making a tool of some sort in the forge, like a chisel or punch.
• Ploughing, when everything is well set up!
• watching a good crop of barley flow through the combine or good crop of maize:cool: putting the harvester under pressure.

But the most satisfying job a few years back was tying two fcuking dept vets up in knots in their office.:cool:

49801

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Is there anything more perplexing than driving along the road and seeing a gate hung upside down. I have been passing one example for two years, would love to take it off and put it on right way up, but knowing my luck would be caught and accused of stealing it!

We've one here. Reason is gate sagged and was hitting the ground so was put upside down and works perfect now.

mikefoxo

blue5000 wrote: »

Lodging a cheque is nice.
Letting the lorry ramp down at the meat factory and seeing 4 U grade bulls lined up with another 10 behind them.

But it's also the simple things like seeing a fox in the yard, or finding an oak tree in a hedge that I didn't know about before. Or watching a flock of wild geese flying overhead, or seeing a buzzard for the first time perched on the roof of the tractor. Or the smell of fresh cut grass on a sunny day.

Other satisfying jobs are

• Unblocking a drain
• Giving a neighbour a hand to start the combine/idle tractor etc.
• Making a tool of some sort in the forge, like a chisel or punch.
• Ploughing, when everything is well set up!
• watching a good crop of barley flow through the combine or good crop of maize:cool: putting the harvester under pressure.

But the most satisfying job a few years back was tying two fcuking dept vets up in knots in their office.:cool:

Do you mean a proper blacksmiths forge?Because that would be very cool:D:D

MFdaveIreland

Another thing along the ocd theme is nice clean silage clamp face looks well nice and tidy

Reggie.

sheds all powerwashed out is a great feeling

Mad4simmental

Doing the scanning and getting a better than expected %

blue5000

mikefoxo wrote: »

Do you mean a proper blacksmiths forge?Because that would be very cool:D:D

Yes. But I'm still only learning.

Dont be daft

For me its getting an animal back from the brink of death.
Its not an instant gratification kind of thing because its often touch and go and it'll be a process of a few weeks at least.

But someday I'll be out in the field and I'll spot him grazing away looking perfect and I just think " Fcuk ya, I did that, he was fcuked only for me.":)

Cleaning stuff is satisfying to, or nice tidy fencing with all the ends tied off.