robroy:
Farm buildings for me but same thing same crap.
Had one on Monday near Malmesbury, rang up as usual, prior for artic access info, very nice lady on phone says ‘‘Plenty of room driver, I’ll tell my husband you’re on your way’’ .
Found the farm road very twisty got in to yard farmer takes one look at me puts his head in his hands…absolutely no way was I able to turn around in that yard.
He says ''Why didn’t you tell my wife you had an artic" replied ‘‘I did mate, I did’’ he got on the phone and played [zb] with his poor Mrs.
5 mins to unload/40 minutes to reverse out including around a couple of tight blindsiders where I couldn’t see a [zb] thing.
So Mr Tramp be careful.
I have had this rob, my reversing skills are certainly been put to the test. I couldn’t believe no one volunteered at our firm to cover our regular feed drivers holidays. I can see how some would not take to it. I feel I have finally found my ideal driving position away from the fridges. This in my opinion is real driving. Exciting & exhilarating scenery along with testing your driving skills each place of visit. I now need to nobble one of the regular feed drivers to take his place!
Being! Being!! Being!!! I’ve told you about this before UKt! How do you expect to ever be a proper class 1 driver when you keep making this mistake■■? Naughty step for you chap!
Farm work is great! I’d still be on it if the [zb] paid o/t and got me a Mounty for the crap drops…
Let me know when I can get off this naughty step, its freezing and have learned my lesson. Pay is an issue as I am only covering holiday period so still same money, now been offered full time and will need to negotiate or rather be told what the rate is!!
Colin_scottish:
Trampy farm work is a laugh and always fun also some of the farmers treat you like there best pal.Some will also treat you like a fanny and give no help what so ever but good to see your enjoying it winter is a tad more fun.
I am looking forward to it but at the same time am under no illusion to how bad the winter will be. Your right though some farmers are great but one misery I met today with a face like a bulldog on him.
UKtramp:
Well I am absolutely loving my week on animal feeds. This has to be the best job in driving? I love the roads, the scenery and I feel very lucky doing this. The driving through some of the places I am visiting is one I can only describe as spectacular. I have never done animal feeds before but I would simply love to do more. beats the motorway network which are my regular routes. Does anyone do this full time and if so would you ever go back to general haulage. I am geteting depressed thinking about leaving this behind.
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UKtramp:
Well I am absolutely loving my week on animal feeds. This has to be the best job in driving? I love the roads, the scenery and I feel very lucky doing this. The driving through some of the places I am visiting is one I can only describe as spectacular. I have never done animal feeds before but I would simply love to do more. beats the motorway network which are my regular routes. Does anyone do this full time and if so would you ever go back to general haulage. I am geteting depressed thinking about leaving this behind.
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If you’re thinking of doing this full-time, the best to work for are ForFarmers or ABN. They are about the best paid in that game & probably the best conditions etc. None pay massively.
Thing about delivering feed into bins is that you rarely speak directly with farmers. More often you’ll blow the feed in, band the notes to the inlet spout and be on your way.
If you really want to get into farm work… livestock pays more & you do get to know farmers. Jobs don’t come up that often and where they do… there’s a reason.
On the farm dogs issue… Just keep in mind they’re not pets… and they might not necessarily bite with malice… but a slight nip from a dog that’s just been chomping a rat… you can see where I’m coming from.
Farm work is interesting, but it gets very challenging in winter… you’ll definitely need those. wellies.
ForFarmers have a place in Selby. ABN have mills all over… might be worth giving em a buzz and getting the TM’s details and lobbing an introduction into their inboxes.
Jingle Jon:
If you’re thinking of doing this full-time, the best to work for are ForFarmers or ABN. They are about the best paid in that game & probably the best conditions etc. None pay massively.
Thing about delivering feed into bins is that you rarely speak directly with farmers. More often you’ll blow the feed in, band the notes to the inlet spout and be on your way.
If you really want to get into farm work… livestock pays more & you do get to know farmers. Jobs don’t come up that often and where they do… there’s a reason.
On the farm dogs issue… Just keep in mind they’re not pets… and they might not necessarily bite with malice… but a slight nip from a dog that’s just been chomping a rat… you can see where I’m coming from.
Farm work is interesting, but it gets very challenging in winter… you’ll definitely need those. wellies.
ForFarmers have a place in Selby. ABN have mills all over… might be worth giving em a buzz and getting the TM’s details and lobbing an introduction into their inboxes.
I’ve worked for Forfarmers 12 years. As said, good firm to work for; very strict on compliance and infringements as you’d expect but keep your nose clean and you’ll be fine. Decent pension scheme too.Much of the work is on tankers nowadays and you’ll probably be expected to work shifts. You may also be expected to do nights out which I’m guessing won’t bother you too much. At Burston they service a lot of pig farms which take a bit of getting used to; not the smell so much as the very strict hygiene rules, you have to wear paper oversuits and overboots etc and observe rules on washing vehicles after deliveries.
I do the bagged feed side which is a bit different; multi-drop with a Moffett-equipped curtain-sider, you do get a lot more variety on that plus you tend to have face-to-face contact with the customers. Downside is you also get more of the out-of-the-way farms but as said above you do see some spectacular countryside and best of all, no bloody city work beyond a few pet shops.
I’ve been doing farms a few weeks now liquid feeds and digesters, love it.
one tip about flies in your cab, wack the air con on cold with widows and doors shut, they love the warm engine when my pto is running but they won’t go in the cold cab.
I got stuck on a pig farm the other day, you had to swing sharp right into a shed up a ramp, the usual amount of crap everywhere, then it happened, wheels spin… All the product in the single pot tank was at the rear, 20 minutes of ■■■■■■■ about on my own and about 6 months of tyre rubber and I was in
Drift:
I’ve been doing farms a few weeks now liquid feeds and digesters, love it.
one tip about flies in your cab, wack the air con on cold with widows and doors shut, they love the warm engine when my pto is running but they won’t go in the cold cab.
I got stuck on a pig farm the other day, you had to swing sharp right into a shed up a ramp, the usual amount of crap everywhere, then it happened, wheels spin… All the product in the single pot tank was at the rear, 20 minutes of ■■■■■■■ about on my own and about 6 months of tyre rubber and I was in
That is my only gripe, the bloody fly’s. I made the mistake of leaving my cab window down whilst unloading and my cab resembled a wild life sanctuary.
Last week I was opening a gate to drive through a shed, heard a moo, looked around and saw hooves sticking out the back end of a cow, the plop, calf was born, you do see some sights.
then again you also have to step over dead animals.
Used to do animal feed back when most of it was still in bags, after loads of beet pulp that had been compressed into a 2 inch wide slab the novelty quickly wore off. Later got a job on powder tanks, delivering limestone in an artic bulk tanker, to farms which were designed for horse and cart access was interesting.On the plus side, when on the bags and it was all handball I was a lot younger and slimmer than i am now.On the down side it was suprising(not) how many farmers had to nip down the field when turning up with 6-7 t of feed that needed handballing off.
dowahdiddyman:
Used to do animal feed back when most of it was still in bags, after loads of beet pulp that had been compressed into a 2 inch wide slab the novelty quickly wore off. Later got a job on powder tanks, delivering limestone in an artic bulk tanker, to farms which were designed for horse and cart access was interesting.On the plus side, when on the bags and it was all handball I was a lot younger and slimmer than i am now.On the down side it was suprising(not) how many farmers had to nip down the field when turning up with 6-7 t of feed that needed handballing off.
I cured one of that habit; his farm was up a blind valley, he could see me coming a couple of miles away and you could guarantee the quad would go zooming up the mountain a couple of minutes before I got there. He missed me one day and was still there when I pulled onto the yard; he quickly chucked a couple of bags of feed onto the quad and scarpered. Had enough of this, so instead of stacking the bags in the back of his shed I put them at the entrance, blocking the doorway, so he’d got to move half of them to get at the other stuff in there. For some reason, every time I went back there afterwards he was there to help me.
I had one years ago who used to take forever to turn up to help unload, had to wait for him to open up the shed before we could start. I went there one day and instead of waiting I unloaded everything onto the lip of the shutter to the shed meaning he had to move everything just to lift the shutter and then move it into the shed by himself…he got the message!
Some years ago I was on the bulk blower side of things; we had one farmer who was a notorious grump, gave me grief one day cos I hadn’t filled the two sections of the outer parlour feeder absolutely level; they were about a quarter of a ton difference which is neither here nor there, think he’d just got out of bed the wrong side.
The second load was for the loft, and he had to hold the pipe; rather than blow it steady I gave it full beans, he daren’t let go and eight tons of cake later he staggered out like one of those marionettes on a puppet show, absolutely lathered in dust.
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