What are Farmers doing working in middle of night?

Andy From Sligo

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?

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Ya gotta make hay while the sun shines.

longshanks

Making hay while the sun shines. At night.

Mint Sauce

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?

I dont know much about farming my self, but isn't it silage season, amd too hot to work during the day. Plus I think the noise rule only applies to urban areas.

gifted

DOGGING.....farmer style...

WesternZulu

Making silage or hay...they have only a limited window to harvest with many reliant on only a limited number of contractors who can't get to everyone in daylight hours when there's weather like this.

For Forks Sake

They've scheduled their working hours purely to annoy you. Canny lads, them farmers.

Andy From Sligo

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Ya gotta make hay while the sun shines.

sun weren't shining at 2.30am

I thought the Angelus was put in place to tell the farmers to knock of at 6pm originally ?

muddypaws

Its been dry, they have to get the silage cut and in while they can, there's thunder across Sligo bay at the moment, is it raining where you are yet?

Move to the city if it bothers you, I'm sure you'll never hear any vehicle noise at night then. Anybody that thinks the countryside is quiet has never lived in the countryside.

Andy From Sligo

For Forks Sake wrote: »

They've scheduled their working hours purely to annoy you. Canny lads, them farmers.

Ah typical! - as if my blood pressure isnt raised enough already! :mad:

RebelButtMunch

I thought it was to avoid birds eating whatever they are planting/digging up.

gctest50

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Ah typical! - as if my blood pressure isnt raised enough already!

Wait till they start spreading slurry in this heat




LgP 2400 going for gold :

Sounds like a dedicated farmer.
I'd say he's outstanding in his field.

bpmurray

They were cutting grass for silage/haylage/hay aand they needed the few dry days for this. The rain comes back tonight, so they'll be working like crazy to get it all in before that happens, although given the humidity it's probably wet already!

KatW4

Like everyone said silage/hay etc. They may have started earlier in the day and got broken down and now they're trying to get it done.

Andy From Sligo

muddypaws wrote: »

Its been dry, they have to get the silage cut and in while they can, there's thunder across Sligo bay at the moment, is it raining where you are yet?

Move to the city if it bothers you, I'm sure you'll never hear any vehicle noise at night then. Anybody that thinks the countryside is quiet has never lived in the countryside.

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

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

sun weren't shining at 2.30am

I thought the Angelus was put in place to tell the farmers to knock of at 6pm originally ?

You've to get meadows knocked so the sun can dry it when it does shine. Then you've got to bale it, turn it, etc. If the contractor was coming at 6 or 7 to bale it, then maybe it needed to be turned or put into rows.
Plenty of time to sleep when you know the cattle will have food all winter

Ted_YNWA

Bam Bam Mickey wrote:

Sounds like a dedicated farmer. I'd say he's outstanding in his field.

He better be careful or he could turn into a field.

NiallBoo

People work late when they have tight deadlines.

SEPT 23 1989

They are making crop circle markings for landing guidance for the mother ship

Did you not hear the chanting?

Andy From Sligo

gctest50 wrote: »

Wait till they start spreading slurry in this heat




LgP 2400 going for gold :

ooh yeah lovely, and we all like to have our widows open in this heat and washing on the line ...

What the **** did I just watch?

A big tractor spreading ****e at a vast rate to the tune of the Country and Western version of Kurt Cobain.

shar01

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

ooh yeah lovely, and we all like to have our widows open in this heat and washing on the line ...

I'll see your "minor inconvenience for a few days" and raise you "living beside sewage works".

Andy From Sligo

LexieOnRale wrote: »

You've to get meadows knocked so the sun can dry it when it does shine. Then you've got to bale it, turn it, etc. If the contractor was coming at 6 or 7 to bale it, then maybe it needed to be turned or put into rows.
Plenty of time to sleep when you know the cattle will have food all winter

lot of hassle - who'd be a farmer eh? , seems like hard work! :eek:

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

ooh yeah lovely, and we all like to have our widows open in this heat and washing on the line ...

Imagine the cheek of them. You should have sent out a notification when you moved into the area alerting all the farmers to your presence and how your comfort and enjoyment trumps the nessessary jobs they need to do.

muddypaws

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Imagine the cheek of them. You should have sent out a notification when you moved into the area alerting all the farmers to your presence and how your comfort and enjoyment trumps the nessessary jobs they need to do.

Lol I know, but it is very annoying on a lovely sunny day, put a line of washing out, then, if you have to go out, come back to your lovely washing stinking of slurry, or having to run out and get it in before he starts.

Andy From Sligo

shar01 wrote: »

I'll see your "minor inconvenience for a few days" and raise you "living beside sewage works".

no , i'll pass thanks - sounds sh1te ...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

muddypaws wrote: »

Lol I know, but it is very annoying on a lovely sunny day, put a line of washing out, then, if you have to go out, come back to your lovely washing stinking of slurry, or having to run out and get it in before he starts.

None of that carry on in an urban area

gctest50

LexieOnRale wrote: »

None of that carry on in an urban area

?

The Liffey , Dublin ? be like one of them open sewers in India

SimonLynch

Pokemon infestation, worrying the sheep

Andy From Sligo

LexieOnRale wrote: »

None of that carry on in an urban area

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

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:

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