Evening Buzzer
Well we managed to cash our tups at Hawes today sold 12 with the top price being £600, not a good do but the trade in all sheep has been well down this backend so we have’nt done too bad considering. Back at it in the morning trying to buy a couple of tups, don’t think we will get one for as little as £600 but who knows we may get a bargain.
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty good luck with your buying of tups tomorrow hope you score a bargain.Going to get the remaining 14 steers into the barn tomorrow all things being equal then management is easier from there on in. Did a bit of tractor maintenance today as yesterday I had a problem disconnecting the oil pipes to the sideshift on the topper and had to resort to undo the coupling with spanners, its the push and release type and when the ball bearings get worn it wont let it go, lost some oil in the process so had to top that up as well.
The evenings certainly are drawing in now and with the clocks going back this weekend it will be dark at five before we know it but a cracking day here, cheers Buzzer.
Harvey had a look on the local web and there is a company that do headstones and renovation/cleaning of existing stones you could try them as they are based only about a couple of miles away from Bursledon church there number is 07711 287371 having not used them myself I don’t know what service level they give but you can ring and ask first, Buzzer.
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Thanks John,
Appreciate you help there, will get on to them first thing. Harvey
Hey up Harvey here is a blast from the past and may take you back a bit, Star car transporters who had there yard in West Quay road and did Renault cars out the docks,. Run by Dennis White and transport manager Micky Sheppard both RIP, they ran F86’s then F7’s looked after by Dave Coombes from Salisbury who also did my trucks back in the day, Buzzer
Today me and me mate got to work at 9am first litter up the barn and two bales of haylage in to feeder, fire up the Volvo and went to fetch the last 14 steers off the marsh, got them in the corral which they are used to as been feeding them every day for the last two months. One has to be careful handling these size of steers as they weigh in at about 360 to 400 kilo’s and they can hurt you so caution is the name of the game, took two goes but we loaded ok, much better if you have a leader who goes up the tail board first and usually the rest follow up, got them shut in then we dismantled all the portable gates and loaded on me pickup, as Wrighty knows you cant do the job without the right gear and the good thing is if you look after them gates they will always sell for the same as you paid for them in the first place.
My mate had the job of washing out the truck which was like liquid grass and it staines, then the gates as I like clean gear to work with. All in the shed now for winter so easier to manage daily, just a bit of end of season field work to do and before you know it Cmas will be here, cant bare to write the word, cheers Buzzer.
Hi wrighty, sorry you didn’t have to good a go with them old swales, but you missed the bargain of the year at Lanark, with a blackface ram lamb making £160,000, now that was a real bargain, and theres no money in farming 
ha ha ha. Bobs
Buzzer:
Hey up Harvey here is a blast from the past and may take you back a bit, Star car transporters who had there yard in West Quay road and did Renault cars out the docks,. Run by Dennis White and transport manager Micky Sheppard both RIP, they ran F86’s then F7’s looked after by Dave Coombes from Salisbury who also did my trucks back in the day, Buzzer
Sad to hear Micky and Dennis are no longer with us, good old days.
Dave Coombes went from a central heated workshop at Unit Commercials, Scania, Salisbury to a sheet over two trailers in Stars yard but he did well for himself, good man.
Now then John, I used to run arround a go cart track on the spot of that yard when I was still at school Bantom Major villiers engine and home made frame, back to bed now !!
Great shot, thanks. Harvey
Harvey I can still remember that go kart track IIRC it had lorry tyres round the outside am I right ? Today we went round the marsh ground and lopped back the overhanging branches, nothing more annoying than beating the exaust pipe on the tractor to a degree it should not be so well pleased with todays efforts, now I can get out to the edge of the ground as before I could not.
The picture below must have been about 1979 and judging by the box trailer it belonged to Hocfun aka Colin Wilks, he did a lot of synthetic rubber from ISR at Fawley mainly to Mantova in Italy also we did a lot of Tampax out of Havant to Prato and reloaded out of Albini & Pitigilani with rolls of cloth that went to Wickford in Essex for distribution in Britain. You always had loads of T forms with those loads and never got your papers till 10 or 11 at night but still did a stint out to the top of Cenis, Mary Hopkins moments, Buzzer
Buzzer:
Harvey I can still remember that go kart track IIRC it had lorry tyres round the outside am I right ? Today we went round the marsh ground and lopped back the overhanging branches, nothing more annoying than beating the exaust pipe on the tractor to a degree it should not be so well pleased with todays efforts, now I can get out to the edge of the ground as before I could not.
The picture below must have been about 1979 and judging by the box trailer it belonged to Hocfun aka Colin Wilks, he did a lot of synthetic rubber from ISR at Fawley mainly to Mantova in Italy also we did a lot of Tampax out of Havant to Prato and reloaded out of Albini & Pitigilani with rolls of cloth that went to Wickford in Essex for distribution in Britain. You always had loads of T forms with those loads and never got your papers till 10 or 11 at night but still did a stint out to the top of Cenis, Mary Hopkins moments, Buzzer
Great shot of a proper working truck, i wonder if ton for ton the old 32 ton earned more than the 44 to day ■■? " not because of the slab tank"
Yep !! quite right about the tyres all arround the go cart track. Harvey
PS: Steve, at Botleystonemasons, is on the job cheers for your help again.
Nice little spot next to the river nr Bayonne
Andrew Morrison:
Nice little spot next to the river nr Bayonne 0[/Heyup " snapper " where you bin all these loyal followers and not much to look at as you aint bin posting, must try harder and bet thatwas on ur school report as well Buzzer.
Evening Buzzer
A busy few days up ere buying and selling tups, sold 12 on Wednesday with a top price of £600 a bit dissapointed but at least we managed to get them all cashed. We bought 3 tups on Thursday with the top price being £10,000, £2100 and £150 bought to chase up after the main tups have finished and if anything breaks.
Spent the weekend sorting sheep for the Leicester tups and letting them go, so hopefully we will have plenty of lambs come spring. Back to the day job tomorrow don’t know where I’m going yet, but no doubt it will be somewhere interesting…
Cheers Wrighty.
Wrighty you are brave people spending all that brass on a one ram, who did the bidding was it Alice as usually once a woman sets her heart on summit they don’t stop, did you see what sheepman put on here £160.000 bye a syndicate of four that’s amazing dosh.
On the home front just the 35 steers in barn to cater for now but they can eat, already counting what haylage I got and how far it will run too, they are having half a ton of hard grub a week as well, a mixture of crimped maize & barley and sunflower and they don’t take long to gobble that up fed once a day. Going to try and do a bit of harrowing this week to spread the cow pats and its due to rain a bit next week so I don’t mind now all stock is in. My mate sold his 15 steers in Frome last Friday and hit the tops with Angus, Hereford and Simmental averaging out at £1128 at 18mo so he did really well,cheers Buzzer.
Yes Alice always bids, she had her heart set on one at Kirkby Stephen last week, she took it to £20,000 but we were up against a syndicate of the big boys and they would’nt of stopped no matter what.
But as you know thats the auction game, pedigree livestock is very difficult to value if two buyers want the same animal then the one with the deepest pockets gets it…
Cheers Wrighty.
Buzzer:
Hey up Harvey here is a blast from the past and may take you back a bit, Star car transporters who had there yard in West Quay road and did Renault cars out the docks,. Run by Dennis White and transport manager Micky Sheppard both RIP, they ran F86’s then F7’s looked after by Dave Coombes from Salisbury who also did my trucks back in the day, Buzzer
My first lorry after passing my test nearly 30yrs ago was an ex star F7 VKA861V we had a few of em I think?
Cheers Andrew
Up in Newcastle t’other week
Wine collections in France
More wine collections
When I left it was full
but when I came back it was empty so I just tucked myself quietly in the corner lol
