Pet hates in farming?

farmerjj

I was passing a farmers place today and saw 2lots of bales stuck in the corners of fields with there plastic ripped off almost, these were bales he baled last year and didn't bother to fence off correctly,why do fellas bother to make bales if they don't wanna put a bit of wire around them to keep the cattle away?! Just a small pet hate but really annoying, what pet hates do ye have?

Username John

farmerjj wrote: »

I was passing a farmers place today and saw 2lots of bales stuck in the corners of fields with there plastic ripped off almost, these were bales he baled last year and didn't bother to fence off correctly,why do fellas bother to make bales if they don't wanna put a bit of wire around them to keep the cattle away?! Just a small pet hate but really annoying, what pet hates do ye have?

Lads passing my place, looking in over the ditch with their judgey little eyes...

RightTurnClyde

Username John wrote: »

Lads passing my place, looking in over the ditch with their judgey little eyes...

Smartarses
:):):)

Muckit

Inside my own gate. .

1. Seeing something small to be fixed and not having the tools to hand to do it.
2. letting cattle out in the spring and they running blind through electric fence.
3. Being weak with the hunger and trying to finish a job before it gets dark!!
4. Galloping to the hardware/garage before it closes only to realise at a minute past 6 that you got the wrong part!!
5. A vet that doesn't speak a word all through the herd test!!!

The list goes on!!!

onyerbikepat

A bitch of a cow that keeps running round and round the ring feeder, when you're trying to get her into the shed. Happened to me late last night.

_Brian

Those who don't leave the knife back on the hook where bales are opened... I mean it has a loop and all to hang it with, your standing there beside the hook, you took it off the hook... how damn hard is it to put the damn thing back on the hook !

And wellington boots, hate the bloody things !

Charliebull

calving cameras, no more fun with the vet

mahoney_j

My main pet hate is begrudging fookers who think they no it all snd comment on everyone's set up even though there own place could be run into the ground.anotger one is lads out working till 8 or 9 o clock every night.slwsys wonder what they do be at all day

Kovu

Username John wrote: »

Lads passing my place, looking in over the ditch with their judgey little eyes...

Farmers catching me trying to gawk into their fields

I've actually a real disgust for farmers who allow bales to go into shoite in the field like farmerjj said. All they're at is wasting money, they could at least do it out of public view.

- People who shout at, roar and wallop cattle constantly. How a farmer treats stock is a good judge of the man himself imo.
- Neighbours who allow their dogs to roam around. There's a black dog on his final warning this year.
- 'Borrowers' who return things with no fuel/broken.
- Lads who don't maintain fencing and have horny bulls with heifers on their minds.....

Cavanjack

Making such a poor return on all the money that's tied up in the place.

foxy farmer

Huntsmen and dogs marching across the farm. Luckily I don't have to contend with the horsey set here. Had an incident involving a pack of hounds that came in here that had no permission to hunt and the head of the local hunt. Shirt collars were pulled and words were exchanged. They went home quiet boys.
Drag hunts are another curse. Total strangers 30-40 maybe coming into the place.
Personally i wish they'd all feck off with their dogs. Around here I'd say hunting with dogs will die out in next 20 years. Young crowd have no interest in that type of thing. Heres hoping.

whelan2

getting a high tbc /scc on the last collection of the month:mad:
people telling you they have something done when they dont

kay 9

Charliebull wrote: »

calving cameras, no more fun with the vet

Lady vet?

tomwaterford

People not looking after animals properly....leaving them go half hungry the whole time and wondering why there doing bad ???

Reminds me of one time I was in a place getting a second hand part of a baler

He had a load of animals out wintered....no feed with them....I said where do you feed them???
Answer ; they have a big run!!!


It's not fcuking exercise they want!!!

frazzledhome

Negative people, I totally avoid them

ellewood

kay 9 wrote: »

Lady vet?

Once she is of the female varity charlie's happy - I dont think she actually has to be a lady as well..

Bullocks

ellewood wrote: »

Once she is of the female varity charlie's happy - I dont think she actually has to be a lady as well..

I think as a rule of them he doesn't like them to have a bigger Adams apple than him !

Pet hate is tags falling out and having to buy replacements

Willfarman

Today I hate sheep, rain, scutter, ****e, having no cash in my pocket,dead sheep,dying sheep, mad cattle, disabedient dopey thick sheepdog, and judgmental gob****es looking over my hedge

raypallas

My list in my own place:
Not turning off the lights in the sheds
Not locking sheds
Not washing trailer/tanker after using it

Outside
Lads stacking bales and making a total balls of it!
People doing jobs when it's just as easy to do it right in the first place!

Greengrass1

Going to be wrote up on white board in dairy when I get it in PERMANENT marker
"if your not going to do it right don't do it at all"
Every one who comes into the yard will see it

rushvalley

Badly hung gates..

Muckit

frazzledhome wrote: »

Negative people, I totally avoid them

I tried running away from myself once

djmc

I hate rain

Miname

I better keep my head down cause I'd say I've done a vast majority of those pet hates in some small way or another. I try not to but I can't be perfect all the time.

stop animal cruelty

farmers with very little patience herding/loading cattle....roaring and shouting at them, then poking and wallaping with sticks...acting like tough men with loads of control, dopes.

my biggest pet hate is the smell of silage and ****e on my hands, even after a shower still doesnt come out. And gloves are no good!

And l guess when your farming too it can be very isolating...like even in my free time (when lm at work either) ld be too wrecked to meet up with friends or do much...

mf240

Lads treating cattle or cows badly.

Having to reverse tractor and tanker / bale trailer 1/4 of a mile to a gap because the ould one in the micra/corsa/ polo is too fukin thick to reverse a few feet.

Lads calling in trying to sell stuff that i dont want and talking sh1te.






Oh and sheep . I hate sheep:pac::pac:

farawaygrass

Mine are-
•Badly stacked bales, looks terrible.
•Badly hung gates/dragging off the ground-you should be able to swing a gate with your baby finger.
•people not rising gaps in stone walls, a little and often is the key.
•electric fence earthing and smacking out loud
•neighbours not pulling their weight with boundaries.
•have no problem f**king a lad out of it at the mart if he is belting and stock of mine. Your body position can do a lot to move them.
•paying lads to do jobs and they not to turn out as planned/expected.
•people who borrow stuff constantly but have nothing worth borrowing or is in such bad shape it would probably break when you have it.
•negative people(I sound like one with this list!), especially relations who you can't avoid.
•people who don't work as a lifestyle choice. I don't care if my sons go on to be president of Ireland of sweep the streets as long as they work and earn their existence.
•lists being made on boards!😄

raypallas

stop animal cruelty wrote:

my biggest pet hate is the smell of silage and ****e on my hands, even after a shower still doesnt come out. And gloves are no good!

Have ya tried the black nitrile gloves? There ten times better than the blue 1's

Jimlh86

Rough treatment of stock, they'd wear your patience but no sense roaring or beating them!!
Bad fencing!!!! An old pallet in a gap doesn't count as fencing!!!
Not having cash to expand and modernise!!!!!

Capercaillie

Paying somebody to spray/plough/rotovate. Then you find out they never bothered to spray when grass starts to grow all over the place.

whelan2

ragwort and rushes

CowMeister

All the paper work you have to do

joejobrien

1.Lads that know everything and it flowing out their h.....!
2. Lads dishing out advice that they read from text book and no concept of reality or experience
3. Dirty and untidy farms and Farmyards

Feckthis

did you ever get the feeling someone has a opinion of you. You have done noting wrong and try to be nice to the person but you can't change the way a person treats/thinks of you. I have learned how to deal with these people now, If you don't show me respect. I most certainly won't show you any!! I was a bloody ejit for far too long chasing people who I felt I needed to change their mind about me. The Farming community is ridiculous for talking and bitching about others. And the worst is the people believe what they hear.

Mad4simmental

Ring feeders, I fcuking hate ring feeders.

The boss man mad to pull out the jack a few minuets after the bag is out. Slowly getting better at that.

topgeas

raypallas wrote: »

Have ya tried the black nitrile gloves? There ten times better than the blue 1's

plus 1

Robson99

Neighbours borrowing stuff and not bringing it back. Drives me nuts

satstheway

fooking sheargrab open fully 1m up mast and lift half up.
and just 4 feet in shed door
great for prowlers though.

f140

1. leaving machinery out in the weather and it pouring rain up on it. this goes for small items as well. hat seeing even brushes/ wheelbarrows let out as the handles are going to rot/ metal is going to rust etc


2. hate some fellow borrowing machinery and bringing it back in all ****e. I have an ifor Williams cowbox and keep it spotless. I wash it after anytime animals are in it and one could eat there dinner. (I know most people don't do it but I just like to keep things clean). the someone borrows it and doesn't wash it out afterwards/leaves the muck inside and they can clearly see they were given it spotless.


3. hate seeing waste in the silage pit as I spend a lot of time covering it well with sand bags in the side along with lorry tyres and the rest full with car tyres.

4. hate when I spend a few hours fixing lights in a trailer and then come to use it again in a few months and the bloody things don't work. also hate looking at other trailers on the road with no working lights as I spend so much time making sure there right


4. hate when I take shortcuts and end up breaking something. went to move two loads of water one day with the slurry tank and was too lazy to move arms as they were set for the fert spinner. in any case the arms caught the pto shaft of the tank and bent it. ended up buying a new pto shaft.

ulleJ1

Gates hung up side down

Cavanjack

Farmers not pulling in on the road to let cars by. I Spend a good bit of time on the road with work. Last week I sat behind a tractor with a plough attached ( with no lights on the plough) for 15 mins. It was 6pm and dark. My blood was boiling.

AP2014

Cavanjack wrote: »

Farmers not pulling in on the road to let cars by. I Spend a good bit of time on the road with work. Last week I sat behind a tractor with a plough attached ( with no lights on the plough) for 15 mins. It was 6pm and dark. My blood was boiling.

He probably was starvin and heading home for the tea after a long day.

Muckit

So starving he ate the lights off the back of the plough

keep going

I hate silage bales and driving a tractor drawing anything on the road , ill mow buckrake spread fert or what ever but drawing on the road does my nut

severeoversteer

I hate

• people who begrudge those who have made big achievements, just because you pissed away your life and have a sh1te farm doesn't give you the right to moan about me and how well I have done/doing

• driving all the way to the yard and forgetting the gloves to clean the ****e out of drinking troughs, as im too stubborn to drive back to the home yard to get the gloves ! in I go with bare hands !
• not having the keys to a machine that I f3ckin own because one of the lads has drove to the other end of the country with the keys in his jeep!:mad:

tomwaterford

ulleJ1 wrote: »

Gates hung up side down

Being fair I deos this at times as a kinda primitive creep grazing gate for lambs

Kovu

People who put the torch back with the batteries almost gone but with enough power to shine bright at first but it's completely useless when pointing it at a cows rear end :mad::mad:


*rants on for another ten minutes while walking back to the shed again*

foxy farmer

EU & Dept of Ag rules and bureaucracy.
Bord Bia inspectors and inspections
Merchant employees who haven't a clue about the goods they're selling.
CoOps that are closed on Thursdays.

Bleating Lamb

Enjoying a few days or weeks of good weather,watching lads going mad saving and baling hay successfully.....then passing a lovely field of small square bales or round bales of hay a few weeks later nice and wet after a weeks rain and the after grass growing up through them cos the owner was too lazy to gather them up!
Why bother making them in the first place FFS.

Base price

I don't really have any pet hates - live and let live is my motto.
However the one thing that drives me mad is when I drive into a dairy yard and see some asshole farmer mistreating his jex bull calves by not bothering to give them a decent sup of milk and a straw bed to lie in. Some of these asshole farmers are considered to be the bee knees in dairying & media circles

lab man

running dry on daesel at 9 at nite while baling/mowing and having to ring someone to bring out 10 gals ,,,, with rain on the way

going to the mart and seeing all that goes on,cattle being knocked down to to buddies before going on the market..:mad: