Keeping the yard tidy

FarmersSon

Have spent the past few days doing some maintenance on the yards and buildings, cleaning out guttering, putting away rouge pallets, sheets of tin, and general crap etc etc.

Hired in a 8m3 builders skip this morning, and its almost full already ffs.

However the majority of it is all in vain, as my father who is on the farm full time, pretty much just drops all at his feet. Its beginning to get on my nerves.

I like the place tidy, as in everything his its place. You use something and then put it back, sweep up after yourself etc.

So lads and lasses, how do you go about keeping the farm neat and tidy. Do you have a system in place - a big tidy up twice a year, or clean as you go?

Are you a tad ODC about keeping the place presentable, or happy to wade about in scrap, sh!te and silage?

rs8

power wash it a couple a times a year, and try to keep the auld lad inside! what is it with older people and not throwing out anything

20silkcut

With the current ongoing damp weather everything looks more crap than normal.
I swept the yard last week looked great for about a day or two. Now it looks like I never swept it.

buffalobilly

God I love keeping the yard clean
And tidy. Always go around with wheelbarrow brush and grape for 5
Minutes after putting in silage and
Then once a week power wash yard
Takes no more than 15 minutes and
Always looks good

jimini0

I'm in the same position as you. The ould fella never throws anything away. I spent 2 days picking up silage wrap, meal bags, pallets, buckets, fish boxes, baler twine, scrap timber and old silage.
I put the plastic in pallets and the rest in a pile for burning.
The place was never as tidy.
I came home from work last week and found the bloody old broken pallets and busted buckets back in the shed. Will have to just burn everything.
And just this evening driving home from work I passed the shed and noticed a big white thing in the yard.
He found a small boat on the shore and decided to store it there. The thing is bust and would sink in a puddle never mind the sea.

Reggie.

im a little OCD with the yard but im lucky that im the only one there. I like everything to have its own place as its easy to notice something missing then.
Sometimes tho a clean out is needed as even the best of us can gather stuff without realising it till one morning as your walking across the yard and say to yourself, where did that lot come from.

mikefoxo

There was a big heap of wraps in one of the sheds that had been mounting up for ages, Then I saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW54jPZo_KU Don't get me wrong I didn't actually buy one:D but I thought it was a fantastic idea, and anytime i'm in the shed i'll throw in a few. Even the auld lad thinks it's a great idea!!

Viewtodiefor

FarmersSon wrote: »

Have spent the past few days doing some maintenance on the yards and buildings, cleaning out guttering, putting away rouge pallets, sheets of tin, and general crap etc etc.

Hired in a 8m3 builders skip this morning, and its almost full already ffs.

However the majority of it is all in vain, as my father who is on the farm full time, pretty much just drops all at his feet. Its beginning to get on my nerves.

I like the place tidy, as in everything his its place. You use something and then put it back, sweep up after yourself etc.

So lads and lasses, how do you go about keeping the farm neat and tidy. Do you have a system in place - a big tidy up twice a year, or clean as you go?

Are you a tad ODC about keeping the place presentable, or happy to wade about in scrap, sh!te and silage?

Auld lad used to annoy me to not keeping things tidy, then I got sense and forgot about it as you just can't change them and life's too short to be getting upset over it

MfMan

Easiest way to keep things tidy is ban anyone else, (kids especially!), from entering yard. You never really tidy a thing, you tidy a person, if you know what I mean.

Emptied 1/2 ton fertiliser bags make good stores for loose rubbish, tie up the lifting end with a bit of twine and turn upside down. Holds a load of stuff.

tim04750

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Auld lad used to annoy me to not keeping things tidy, then I got sense and forgot about it as you just can't change them and life's too short to be getting upset over it

Same as that , I'm happy enough to have gotten him to stop strippin' the pit with the loader

jp6470

88 year old ere, who goes out of his way to make things as ruff looking as he can. All string and bags, I burn as quickly as possible.
before he has them tied up as curtains or something.
Try not to let it annoy me,but can't help but shout if see him snooping around something new or shinny in the yard.he can't help but put his stamp on it.

moy83

jp6470 wrote: »

88 year old ere, who goes out of his way to make things as ruff looking as he can. All string and bags, I burn as quickly as possible.
before he has them tied up as curtains or something.
Try not to let it annoy me,but can't help but shout if see him snooping around something new or shinny in the yard.he can't help but put his stamp on it.

The grandfather was deadly for the strings and bags aswell
I made a downspout the last day out of a traffic cone nailed onto the wall , the ould lad came along shook his head , and said the father couldnt have made up something as ugly !

rivaldo2000

moy83 wrote: »

The grandfather was deadly for the strings and bags aswell
I made a downspout the last day out of a traffic cone nailed onto the wall , the ould lad came along shook his head , and said the father couldnt have made up something as ugly !

Thats classic:pac::pac:Can you post a picture

mayota

I think my auld fella is'nt happy unless there is a cow out of the slats ****eing around the place.

moy83

rivaldo2000 wrote: »

Thats classic:pac::pac:Can you post a picture

Ill stick one up at the weekend when I can get a picture in daylight , I cut out a piece of a plastic oil drum for a stop end on it aswell . It was only a short piece of a gutter and I didn't want to drive into town for the bits and bobs :rolleyes:

moy83

mayota wrote: »

I think my auld fella is'nt happy unless there is a cow out of the slats ****eing around the place.

Sure wont she keep the bit of grass and nettles around the yard clipped

bob charles

I like to have the place looking fairly well, Im very proud of what I produce and I think a tidy farmyard puts out the proper signal to our customers. Allot of the tidyness is in the design of the yards and with allot of places its next to impossible to tidy.

Maybe Im way out, but a tidy farm and farmyard usually gives a really good insight on how the business is run and if its making money or not. There are absolutely some disgraceful farmyards about locally and what I often say about the really careless farms is - that if that particular farmers name was on a milk carton there is no way I would drink the milk

Rho b

OH and I are a bit OCD when it comes to the yard. A tidy yard is essential although sometimes when we are busy on the road and relying on workers to keep it tidy then it can get a little out of hand. I get used half ton bags from the local co-op and have them hanging around the place so that we can throw in rubbish, twines etc.
It really annoys me when the main concrete yards are mucky (especially near gateways) and you cannot walk around comfortably in your work boots :mad:

Brown Podzol

bob charles wrote: »

I like to have the place looking fairly well, Im very proud of what I produce and I think a tidy farmyard puts out the proper signal to our customers. Allot of the tidyness is in the design of the yards and with allot of places its next to impossible to tidy.

Maybe Im way out, but a tidy farm and farmyard usually gives a really good insight on how the business is run and if its making money or not. There are absolutely some disgraceful farmyards about locally and what I often say about the really careless farms is - that if that particular farmers name was on a milk carton there is no way I would drink the milk

A very experienced bank manager told me that that on farm visit assessing new business he need not even get out of the car to know the quality of the customer. A clean tidy yard and the finances would be the same.

biddy2013

Brown Podzol wrote: »

A very experienced bank manager told me that that on farm visit assessing new business he need not even get out of the car to know the quality of the customer. A clean tidy yard and the finances would be the same.

yup, my dad always said that even if the yard down further is dirty keep where people can see clean. Ipowerwash the yard about once a month and always have a skip here as a wheelie bin doesnt hold enough, we push the stuff down in the skip and unless there is a big clean up a skip will last about 2 months

bob charles

Brown Podzol wrote: »

A very experienced bank manager told me that that on farm visit assessing new business he need not even get out of the car to know the quality of the customer. A clean tidy yard and the finances would be the same.

you should she the amount of them I have fooled

bob charles

biddy2013 wrote: »

yup, my dad always said that even if the yard down further is dirty keep where people can see clean. Ipowerwash the yard about once a month and always have a skip here as a wheelie bin doesnt hold enough, we push the stuff down in the skip and unless there is a big clean up a skip will last about 2 months

how much does a skip cost and what size, Hate heaping up all the plastic of bales, pit, fert bags

biddy2013

bob charles wrote: »

how much does a skip cost and what size, Hate heaping up all the plastic of bales, pit, fert bags

180 for a midi skip , can keep it as long as i want it, got a new one yesterday, old one was full of plastic wraps from bales etc

onyerbikepat

I'm in the middle of tidying one of our yards at the moment. Took a load of old house doors to the recycling last w'end and had to bring home the ones with glass in them again.:mad:

F.D

we used to have rubbish building up and the father burning it right beside the yard so if we got an inspection, we would have been up the creek, now we have the wheelie bins that are emptyied every 2 weeks and keep them in a little shed, if there is too much plastic over a couple weeks it doesent matter its left beside the bins and there is always a few weeks with less in it so you can get rid of it then..... the way i look at it is if we get an inspection we are complaint and most of all no burn marks in the field anymore

gobnaitolunacy

rs8 wrote: »

power wash it a couple a times a year, and try to keep the auld lad inside! what is it with older people and not throwing out anything

Cleared out the tool shed over the last few months, hapes of worn down grind wheels, duff spark plugs, (broken) tractor and car parts...put back into the boxes the new ones came in, snapped off drill bits and bolts, broken tools and parts of tools. Anything I could flog potentially at vintage sales, I kept, or anything of sentimental value. The rest went into el skippo. There's a century's worth of plastic wrapping fcuked over the wall that I must tackle yet.

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

how much does a skip cost and what size, Hate heaping up all the plastic of bales, pit, fert bags

I send fert bags to recycle with wheely bin lads. Stuff bags into a big bag every 2 weeks. Plastic I also bag and it goes to recycle in the spring. Pallets, guy in local coop collects and sells with proceeds going to charity

I have one corner where everything else goes that doesn't have a place, tidy this a few times a year. I get 2 skips each May and load. 250 for skip and if it goes over 2.5 tonne you pay per tonne. Load to the hole never went over

maxxuumman

biddy2013 wrote: »

180 for a midi skip , can keep it as long as i want it, got a new one yesterday, old one was full of plastic wraps from bales etc

So weither it takes you a week or 6 months to fill it it's 180 and they give you an empty skip when they take the full one??

biddy2013

maxxuumman wrote: »

So weither it takes you a week or 6 months to fill it it's 180 and they give you an empty skip when they take the full one??

yes for another 180.

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

I send fert bags to recycle with wheely bin lads. Stuff bags into a big bag every 2 weeks. Plastic I also bag and it goes to recycle in the spring. Pallets, guy in local coop collects and sells with proceeds going to charity

I have one corner where everything else goes that doesn't have a place, tidy this a few times a year. I get 2 skips each May and load. 250 for skip and if it goes over 2.5 tonne you pay per tonne. Load to the hole never went over

so basically they drop a skip in the yard for disposal of rubbish for 100 a ton?

I have three or four ton of silage wraps and sheets that I want shut of. Done a tidy up of the scrap area the other day and felt like a right piebald when I went to the scrappy. €200 notes for my jeep trailer load. Beer tokens

Odelay

delaval wrote: »

I send fert bags to recycle with wheely bin lads. Stuff bags into a big bag every 2 weeks. Plastic I also bag and it goes to recycle in the spring. Pallets, guy in local coop collects and sells with proceeds going to charity

I have one corner where everything else goes that doesn't have a place, tidy this a few times a year. I get 2 skips each May and load. 250 for skip and if it goes over 2.5 tonne you pay per tonne. Load to the hole never went over

Fair play to him, nice idea to reduce waste, reuse something before it rots and contribute to a good cause.

moy83

Work of a master cratsman !

GY A1

good stuff

moy83 wrote: »

Work of a master cratsman !

Muckit

Nice one Moy!

Brown Podzol

F.D wrote: »

we used to have rubbish building up and the father burning it right beside the yard so if we got an inspection, we would have been up the creek, now we have the wheelie bins that are emptyied every 2 weeks and keep them in a little shed, if there is too much plastic over a couple weeks it doesent matter its left beside the bins and there is always a few weeks with less in it so you can get rid of it then..... the way i look at it is if we get an inspection we are complaint and most of all no burn marks in the field anymore

St. John's Night, Halloween and the odd county final.:D

rivaldo2000

moy83 wrote: »

Work of a master cratsman !

rough rough man:pac:

moy83

rivaldo2000 wrote: »

rough rough man:pac:

Works like a dream though

tanko

moy83 wrote: »

Work of a master cratsman !

Are ya going to patent that?:D

rivaldo2000

im sure it does. just funny. i enjoy goin into yards and seening farmers and their inventions always gives me a chuckle

moy83

tanko wrote: »

Are ya going to patent that?:D

Nope , ye can all copy that model free of charge

Bizzum

moy83 wrote: »

Nope , ye can all copy that model free of charge

Where did ya buy the bollard?:D

Reggie.

Bizzum wrote: »

Where did ya buy the bollard?:D

Wonder what was stamped on the bottom of the base of it

Bizzum

Reggie. wrote: »

Wonder what was stamped on the bottom of the base of it

GCC maybe:)

By the way, good job Moy!

biddy2013

F.D wrote: »

we used to have rubbish building up and the father burning it right beside the yard so if we got an inspection, we would have been up the creek, now we have the wheelie bins that are emptyied every 2 weeks and keep them in a little shed, if there is too much plastic over a couple weeks it doesent matter its left beside the bins and there is always a few weeks with less in it so you can get rid of it then..... the way i look at it is if we get an inspection we are complaint and most of all no burn marks in the field anymore

oh throws the ashes from house fire on the skip a while ago it went on fire, there was an old sofa from the house in it, the smoke was unreal, i thought we would have county council etc at our door. Amazing the smoke that came from the sofa , god forbid if the house did go on fire you wouldnt stand a chance with that

Farmer Pudsey

moy83 wrote: »

Work of a master cratsman !

Your father is right it an ugly thing, cut white reflective band off and paint it. You can get acrylic paint that will stick to anything. Colour will not matter then paint black over it.

maxxuumman

I'm good with the black plastic. I get FRS in with a HIAB every May to take away all black plastic. Usually costs about 120-150. Good job
What I have a problem is the likes of 25 litre drums, packaging, bags, gloves, milk filters, fert bags, etc. I used to cut the top off a 200 litre barrel and fill it, when if have a few, bring them to the dump.
But on the back of this thread I rang the refuse company about a skip. They were charging mad money, so I've organized 2 1000 litre wheelie bins ( the big ones), I ring them when they are full, and they'll collect the next time they pass. 30€ per collection. Bins should last me 4-5 weeks between collection. Happy with that.
Some great ideas on here. Thanks

bob charles

maxxuumman wrote: »

so I've organized 2 1000 litre wheelie bins ( the big ones), I ring them when they are full, and they'll collect the next time they pass. 30€ per collection. Bins should last me 4-5 weeks between collection. Happy with that.
Some great ideas on here. Thanks

Now that sounds like good value, I was looking at my stockpile this morning and there must be 4ton in it. the tractor cant shove it anyway. Might head to the dump next week with it as I sick of looking at it

Another farm tidyness pet hate of mine is seeing bales stacked everyway. Its as easy stack them properly as making a pigs ear of it

Reggie.

bob charles wrote: »

Now that sounds like good value, I was looking at my stockpile this morning and there must be 4ton in it. the tractor cant shove it anyway. Might head to the dump next week with it as I sick of looking at it

Another farm tidyness pet hate of mine is seeing bales stacked everyway. Its as easy stack them properly as making a pigs ear of it

Amen to that, drove by a few farms and the bales look like they fell out of the sky and landed as they might

bob charles

Reggie. wrote: »

Amen to that, drove by a few farms and the bales look like they fell out of the sky and landed as they might

local man has bales stacked that looked like they were tipped off a trailer during the summer

moy83

Farmer Pudsey wrote: »

Your father is right it an ugly thing, cut white reflective band off and paint it. You can get acrylic paint that will stick to anything. Colour will not matter then paint black over it.

Sure who would notice my creativeness if it all blended in
I wouldnt do something like that in someone else's house , but in my own place I like to make and do without spending much if possible

rivaldo2000

off the topic lads. quick question gettting paper work in order,if i fill up bord bia book for quality assurance for wat cattle i dosed and injected do i still need to fill in blue book with same. still using blue book for registering animals