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Our local farmer is out manuring his fields, and whatever he’s using smells and looks a bit like creosote (proper rank!). I wondered if it’s some sort of highly fermented manure juice - Anyone know?
corvid soup.
Phosphate? Biproduct of paper production I think.
Wouldn’t surprise me ‘round here - especially if they’ve flown in from outside the area😉
I love the stench of silage, reminds me of being at my grans as a nipper, surrounded by fields.
Wife thinks I'm weird. Meh.
Ah, phosphate, that might be it. There’s a few pig farms locally, so wonder if that’s where they’re also sourcing stuff from.
I love the stench of silage
Yeah, silage, maize silage or whatever, is a lovely sweet smell.
Manure & slurry not so pleasant but still don't mind it. Don't hang about though if i get that smell of spraying chemicals... not a strong smell but glyphosate defenitely has a smell for example
Pig manure is heavily nitrogenous and is usually accompanied by your typical ammonia smell as a result. It's usually a dark slurry and is generally 'flung'
Silage liqueur on the other hand has its own special smell and looks like stout/blackwater. It's usually sprayed.
I got deliberately done by some miserable bastard who changed course to pelt me with some crystalline granules as I rode (on the BW) through some meadow grass the other day. What was that then? I'm sure he wished he was hauling slurry...
proper rank!
Anaerobic digester waste?
Looks like it’s probably silage liqueur, as they seem to be spraying it on at low level. Where the trailers have dribbled the stuff on the roads, it looks like black water. I’m hoping they plough the stuff in after a day or two, as it reeks (it’s certainly different to ‘nice’ silage smell).
Black liquid stuff will most likely be slurry. Basically cow muck, pish and water mixed together. It will be ploughed under in the next day or 2 if weather allows prior to a crop being planted (probably maize at this time of year). The granules that Martinhutch was pelted with will be prilled Nitrogen or a compound fertilizer of some sort. Harmless enough. I doubt he deliberately targeted you as the stuff is pretty expensive and getting it down as evenly and accurately as possible is a real art form. You must drive at an exact speed and follow an exact path as possible. Slowing down or changing direction without reason would result in a waste of the fertiliser.
Sewage
Organic farming
I doubt he deliberately targeted you as the stuff is pretty expensive and getting it down as evenly and accurately as possible is a real art form.
He was less Mondrian and More Jackson Pollock. Was doing one bit of the field, saw me enter on the BW, accelerated and veered off line to run parallel with the path for as long as he could!
That stuff stings a bit when it catches the side of your head.
Perhaps farmers are richer/more bored around here!
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I doubt he deliberately targeted you as the stuff is pretty expensive and getting it down as evenly and accurately as possible is a real art form.
He was less Mondrian and More Jackson Pollock. Was doing one bit of the field, saw me enter on the BW, accelerated and veered off line to run parallel with the path for as long as he could!
That stuff stings a bit when it catches the side of your head.
Perhaps farmers are richer/more bored around here!
In which case there is a high chance he was a paid worker not worried about the waste and can probably be fairly classified as being a cock!
I love the stench of silage, reminds me of being at my grans
I’m sure she’d appreciate the sentiment 🙂
Current mix of manure and rapeseed is quite, erm, distinctive
Having spent the past 6 weeks up to the elbows in sheep birth fluids I am not sure if I should market this as a new product...
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(PS I can personally guarantee it won't make you popular with the opposite sex.)
The barsteward farmer where our caravan is, always spreads sh1t on bank holidays. Why the hell he can't do it mid week...
up to the elbows in sheep birth fluids
There must be some kind of placental anti-ageing magic going on. Your forearms are probably 20 years younger than the rest of you.
Why the hell he can’t do it mid week…
Where's the fun in that? 😀
A local farmer empties our septic tank...
There is often muck spreading on the fields around us...
My dad was seriously ill with Q fever.
As he hadn’t been on a farm in years the doctors suggested he contracted it via inhalation of agricultural odours! Yak.
Didn’t kill him* otherwise I would have added it to the nasty death thread obvs.
*Heart disease got him 10 year later.
A local farmer empties our septic tank…
A local farmer used to empty mine, & after emptying it one time he came to have a word with me.
During the spraying of said shite the pump on the tank stopped pumping, or so he thought. Turned out it was a blockage when he looked up the nozzle at what seemed like a very small plantpot, so he grabbed his hammer from the tractor cab to whack the nozzle & clear it, which worked. Trouble was he'd forgotten to turn the PTO off so got covered in my shite at quite high pressure.
My eldest son later owned up to putting the plantpot down the breather of the septic tank, he was about 6 at the time. 🙂
Geeky but if they're in a nitrate vulnerable zone they should be recording the N they're spreading so as not to exceed the max N. Not sure standard values for N in human waste is available 🤔
My dad was seriously ill with Q fever.
As he hadn’t been on a farm in years the doctors suggested he contracted it via inhalation of agricultural odours! Yak.
Sound like something from the 16th Century! I’m not at all sure you can catch anything at all from an odour. You might well catch something that was being carried downwind that accompanies the odour, though.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/q-fever