Farming Jobs!!

Nutcase · 03-03-2011 05:33PM #1

Just wondering what are your least favourable jobs on the farm, eg. whats the most boring, monotonous or the most hateful job on you have to do.
And on a brighter note what are the jobs you like doin the most?

Personally rolling fields is the most boring job that I can think of its so slow and same thing over and over again. Cutting weeds under the electric fence is the most hateful one, it takes forever!

The jobs I like doin most are letting cattle out to grass in the spring for the first time and moving the cows and calves from each paddock onto fresh grass I like to see them all happy out grazing away!

johngalway · 03-03-2011 07:06PM

Shearing & prolapse! Other than that, I can live with most jobs, just do a bit every day.

I like lambing, especially when the ewes have milk and they start licking right away, when that happens it's usually happy sailing.

Juniorhurler · 03-03-2011 08:56PM

Covering silage pits with tyres:(

Turnout to grass.:D

yessam · 03-03-2011 08:58PM

having to bring in a good calf from the field with pneumonia has me really peeeed off today. antway when he gets better, everything will be alright for a while again, i hope

Bodacious · 03-03-2011 09:18PM

Calving or letting them into fresh piece of grass on Summers evening after work

:mad: Patching up neighbours fence that they should be F**king doing - i like to strip it all and do it right that temporary stake here and there and half-arsing drives me nuts!

bogman_bass · 03-03-2011 09:19PM

There is something very satisfying about topping a field and mowing through a big bunch of nettle. Dont ask me why

scudster · 04-03-2011 04:52PM

Hate: agitating a slatted shed when the agitator blocks up from all the twine/net/plastic/ car bonnets (yes, I did find one stuck to the bottom of the impellor in a guys shed)/dead calf.
Like: Doin a bit of fencing right and havin the wire as tight as a guitar string.

shrubs · 04-03-2011 06:51PM

Hate: shaking fertiliser with the tractor

Like: drainage work and fencing

Dupont · 04-03-2011 08:19PM

this is not really a farming job but was on a farm

using an air compressor kango solid for two days to take out the concrete base of cubicles in old cubicle house

whelan1 · 04-03-2011 08:23PM

hate :finding a cow down in the shed and also ****ing hate snow and ice
love friday evenings when i have saturday morning off

stanflt · 04-03-2011 08:46PM

hate when your trying to save the plastic on the pit and you arrive down in the morning-its p***ing rain or frosty or snowy and the plastic is hanging down covering the face of the pit and it weights a tonne

johngalway · 04-03-2011 08:48PM

whelan1 wrote: »

also ****ing hate snow and ice

Don't visit the weather forum so, every second post is a hope for a return to the blizzard :pac:

whelan1 · 04-03-2011 09:13PM

johngalway wrote: »

Don't visit the weather forum so, every second post is a hope for a return to the blizzard :pac:

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

jeff greene · 04-03-2011 09:23PM

stanflt wrote: »

hate when your trying to save the plastic on the pit and you arrive down in the morning-its p***ing rain or frosty or snowy and the plastic is hanging down covering the face of the pit and it weights a tonne

Hate that as well, usually cut it with frustration then. Had a big plump rat run out of the crimp this morning, first one I saw in ages, God I hate them

Clare Bear · 04-03-2011 10:15PM

bogman_bass wrote: »

There is something very satisfying about topping a field and mowing through a big bunch of nettle. Dont ask me why

And thistles, love getting those feckers!

I help around on the farm at home when I can, I love it. Favourite part is calving. Worst part is being around for dehorning, I hate it

Fencing can be really boring too if you're at it for a long time. Helps if it's a nice summers day though.

sh1tstirrer · 05-03-2011 12:34AM

shrubs wrote: »

Hate: shaking fertiliser with the tractor

I don't know why you hate that job unless you are still using an old vicon driving 4 yards from the last track.

bogman_bass · 05-03-2011 05:34PM

spent an hour and a half pulling twine and wrap off a chain harrow this morning.

Tora Bora · 05-03-2011 06:58PM

Stuck on the old Howard rotovator today, an rotavated the haggard, for the spuds and veg for the house. Great satisfaction out of that. Early spuds going in on Monday. SPRING is here.

Kilmac1 · 05-03-2011 07:30PM

Fencing or dosing young bulls or mad heifers had one jump a 5ft wall

pakalasa · 05-03-2011 09:36PM

:mad: - Dipping sheep, dehorning yearlings (in the old days), disbudding young calves, having to weld upside down, herding cattle in July after 3 weeks of constant rain (2009)

- calving cows, moving cattle to new field of fresh grass, herding in the cool of the summer evenings after a scorcher of a day

funny man · 05-03-2011 09:42PM

:mad: Powerwashing!

Milking!

Birdnuts · 05-03-2011 10:40PM

Releasing sheep stuck in wire fencing and nearly losing a finger doing it a number of times:( - they're certainly not the brightest of our domestic beasts:rolleyes:

PS: I love laying, planting and maintaining stock proof hedges:)

ryanp3 · 05-03-2011 10:54PM

drawing in the silage bales has to be the most sicken job ever,:( plus shearing years ago when we had sheep. Best has to be letting out cattle in spring and cows calving unaided.:)

keep going · 09-03-2011 10:54PM

this year we had to go back to dosing cows as opposed to inject them for fluke and worms. well i hope the fella who brought in that reg is in neg.equity,his wife leaves him,crashes his car into a gards car and gets a nasty desease that makes him scratch and fart all the time. and the fella who invented zanil isnt much better. no dosing gun can suck the stuff. dosing should be outlawed on a cruelty to farmers basis

5live · 09-03-2011 11:04PM

keep going wrote: »

this year we had to go back to dosing cows as opposed to inject them for fluke and worms. well i hope the fella who brought in that reg is in neg.equity,his wife leaves him,crashes his car into a gards car and gets a nasty desease that makes him scratch and fart all the time. and the fella who invented zanil isnt much better. no dosing gun can suck the stuff. dosing should be outlawed on a cruelty to farmers basis

Dont hold it in. Tell us what you really think:D. +1 by the way:pac:

PMU · 09-03-2011 11:04PM

keep going wrote: »

this year we had to go back to dosing cows as opposed to inject them for fluke and worms. well i hope the fella who brought in that reg is in neg.equity,his wife leaves him,crashes his car into a gards car and gets a nasty desease that makes him scratch and fart all the time. and the fella who invented zanil isnt much better. no dosing gun can suck the stuff. dosing should be outlawed on a cruelty to farmers basis

here here!( I thought my zanil was damaged by the frost).pat

johnpawl · 09-03-2011 11:51PM

It was a once off, but spreading dung a good few years back with a side spreader, working for a contractor, and a couple of dead calves that the farmer'd thrown into the slurry pit got wrapped around the chains, getting them out was one sick job.... They were wrapped around so badly I'd to saw em off in places, never forget that one..:mad:

aidanki · 10-03-2011 12:20AM

amazing no one mentioned picking stones yet, espically when they are scattered as thickly as turf

whelan1 · 10-03-2011 06:11AM

keep going wrote: »

this year we had to go back to dosing cows as opposed to inject them for fluke and worms. well i hope the fella who brought in that reg is in neg.equity,his wife leaves him,crashes his car into a gards car and gets a nasty desease that makes him scratch and fart all the time. and the fella who invented zanil isnt much better. no dosing gun can suck the stuff. dosing should be outlawed on a cruelty to farmers basis

i have lost count the amount of times i have deknuckled myself dosing the cows thwy are all cute feckers when it comes to catching them, another job i hate is cleaning a septic tank , makes me vomit , some smart arse decided to put the blue paper towel from the milking parlour down the outside toilet last year ..... they will never do that again after the bollocking i gave them after i cleaned out the tank- our septic tan k is very old and the blue towel blocks it up. Nothing worse that other peoples crap

pakalasa · 10-03-2011 08:25AM

johnpawl wrote: »

It was a once off, but spreading dung a good few years back with a side spreader, working for a contractor, and a couple of dead calves that the farmer'd thrown into the slurry pit got wrapped around the chains, getting them out was one sick job.... They were wrapped around so badly I'd to saw em off in places, never forget that one..:mad:

....and the Oscar goes to.....johnpawl.
That's a bad one alright.

Dupont · 10-03-2011 08:19PM

keep going wrote: »

this year we had to go back to dosing cows as opposed to inject them for fluke and worms. well i hope the fella who brought in that reg is in neg.equity,his wife leaves him,crashes his car into a gards car and gets a nasty desease that makes him scratch and fart all the time. and the fella who invented zanil isnt much better. no dosing gun can suck the stuff. dosing should be outlawed on a cruelty to farmers basis

man i work for dosed all his with the syringe down the mouth.and he has mostly bulls:eek:got the stuff to inject them and what a relief would happily help him now

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