Man tries to stop combine because it ruins his meal

I think he must have been about 3 or 4 in this photo with his head in a bucket and with his mum Lauren. I have got some stills of him as a calf, but not sure where.. And some good photos of them all having manicures in the remarkable contraptions they use to do it safely.

As you can see the horns on Highland cattle are very slow growing.

On a nostalgia trip now, these are from when we first got the Highlands, must have been the first year they were here.

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chaparral said:
News story about this here https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offb...vid=d9887aaa71ff4a35b48872d27fdb4ba6#comments
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went there for the comments........... and left disappointed because they all are sensible. (at time of writing)

Despite using the term myself yesterday I am somewhat uncomfortable with the blaming/insulting of "townies" however....... (my bad i shouldn't have) selfish bell ends come in all flavours and am sure there are plenty of people who moved to the country from out of a town/city who are not total twerps.

I suppose when i moved to manchester and then cambridge i was a country bumpkin...... and yet not once have i slept with my sister (i dont have one as it happens) or had desires on a chicken, sheep or goat ;)
 
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bigmike20vt said:
but this is harvest time. you own a house close to a farmers field and that is what you are gonna get. the bloke is a moron.
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And thripps... lots and lots and LOTS of ******* thripps!!!!!
Lost two monitors to them already :(

Participant said:
Hmmm as a country folk with kids I wouldn't like people shooting near my house.
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As country folk, are you not issued a shotgun and a pitchfork by the government?

bigmike20vt said:
I mean to be fair i would not expect a person to necessarily know different farming equipment.......
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Why not?
There are loads of Ladybird and other kids' books that explain all the basics, so even a townie who'd never been to a farm should at least know a tractor from a truck, plough, baler or a combine... plus we have television prorammes now, on several channels!!
 
ttaskmaster said:
And thripps... lots and lots and LOTS of ******* thripps!!!!!
Lost two monitors to them already :(



As country folk, are you not issued a shotgun and a pitchfork by the government?


Why not?
There are loads of Ladybird and other kids' books that explain all the basics, so even a townie who'd never been to a farm should at least know a tractor from a truck, plough, baler or a combine... plus we have television prorammes now, on several channels!!
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Usually they seem to have a fantasy idea of what the 'countryside' is. It's like the people who bought houses on a new estate next to an airfield that had been there since WW2 and then start complaining about the noise from the planes and helicopters.
 
Uther said:
Usually they seem to have a fantasy idea of what the 'countryside' is. It's like the people who bought houses on a new estate next to an airfield that had been there since WW2 and then start complaining about the noise from the planes and helicopters.
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"Not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H.E. Bates novel I'd read. I thought they'd all be out the back, drinking cider and discussing butter. Clearly a myth. Evidently country people are no more receptive to strangers than city dwellers".....
 
arknor said:
farmers think they own the land, even when it's a public footpath
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it is true that some farmers do everything they can to deter walkers from public footpaths which cross their land.... it isnt all of them however, and those who do equally are berks as well.... not just farmers either.

a public footpath near me had a new block of flats built next to it and the path went down the back of them. someone saw fit to put a big chain up through the gate blocking access...... It made me smile when someone (not me) got the bolt cutters on it.

but yeah, anyone who tries to block or damage a public footpath are (insert word which would likely upset the mods and bad word filters here)

in their defence (farmers) it must be damn annoying tho, because the walkers rarely stick to the paths and many times they or their pets end up venturing off and either walking on / damaging crops or bothering livestock... but that is part of the job they must put up with by having a field with a footpath on - much like a resident of a home backing on to a field has to accept a farmer cutting corn and what not may affect them in their garden.
 
bigmike20vt said:
much like a resident of a home backing on to a field has to accept a farmer cutting corn and what not may affect them in their garden.
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This guy probably just moved in... wait till he finds out about the smell at a different time of the year....
smells like liquid poop


I dislike farmers from being a child in the 80s/90s and living near farmland that had public footpaths running across it, woods that had public nature trails etc running through them.
Dood used to come rallying across his field in a car trying to scare us off anytime we were near his fields, other times people would be shooting birds and shoot at us too to scare us off the public land....

I'm talking firing into the air above us so pellets would land all around us and we were only around 8 years old....

We should have told our parents I guess, but you know what kids are like just assuming you are in the wrong and would get told off
 
arknor said:
This guy probably just moved in... wait till he finds out about the smell at a different time of the year....
smells like liquid poop


I dislike farmers from being a child in the 80s/90s and living near farmland that had public footpaths running across it, woods that had public nature trails etc running through them.
Dood used to come rallying across his field in a car trying to scare us off anytime we were near his fields, other times people would be shooting birds and shoot at us too to scare us off the public land....

I'm talking firing into the air above us so pellets would land all around us and we were only around 8 years old....

We should have told our parents I guess, but you know what kids are like just assuming you are in the wrong and would get told off
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that sucks........ AS i mentioned earlier the farmer in my village was a decent bloke, did a lot for the village and allowed kids to play on his land so long as not in his crops. Good job really as his field had the best sledging hill for miles around....... We bent the rules and he got a bit narked when we built massive bases out of the hay bales (35 years ago they were a LOT smaller than they are now). these bases made it harder to pick up the bales and we did damage the odd one, but i think for the most part he was just worried about how stupid dangerous it was. looking back some of the things we got up to around farm animals and machinery would make my hair go grey if i found out my lad was doing it now.

it played hell with my allgergies but it was such good fun.

i learned to drive at 7 years old driving a tractor whilst my dad and a few other farm hands loaded it with bales.................. i didnt know at the time buy my dad was charging for my time :D
 
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