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Do you have some kind of competition with each other as to who can create the most unholy, eye watering, vomit inducing stench and still be allowed to spread this filth over fields? Do you ever manage to concoct anything so offensive to the senses that you consider it a step too far and dispose of it or do you just throw it around anyway while chuckling to yourselves? I am guessing the latter. Seriously, some of the smells my nose had to suffer on the way home from Pembrokeshire made my 2 year olds stomach bug s@#t filled nappies smell like roses. Honestly, no wonder vegetarians have a reputation for smelly farts if all their food is grown in this.
Can I go first...?
Makes me laugh when people react like this to slurry though that could be from living in a rural area where my primary school was next door to a farm. Stop being such a pussy... 😆
Chemcials don't smell but will kill you and destroy the environment. Stinking slurry seems the obvious choice to me.
Anyway, hopefully you are safely back in your vaccum packed life now !
Don't even start me on that dreadful cacophony their animals make at all hours of the day....it's intolerable.
I know, did they never consider that city folk might want to move out to the country? Those church bells too!!
Spreads the filth over the fields and then you it the fruits of his labour!!
it cant be good in the quantity ive seen being put on fields around here. how this is right for the environment ive no idea. can i also add why they feel the need to drive on the roads for 5+ miles at rush hour times with tractor/trailer ?
"it cant be good in the quantity ive seen being put on fields around here. how this is right for the environment ive no idea"
Oh so your an expert all of a sudden ?
Farmers eh! Producing food stuff for the country. The bastards.
Just for the record for any that might have not have noticed the tongue in cheek nature of my post, I am fully aware of why this is done and the benefits it brings. However, in the same way a surgeon must get satisfaction from a clean, well done set of stitches, I bet farmers secretly love it when they have brewed up something a bit special - I know I would!
Horseshit
What's going on with the OP's blatant apostrophe abuse, that's what I want to know.
And why are their farms such a dump!?
Honestly, some of the ones we ride through in the high peak area look like a bloody scrap yard. Custodians of the countryside my arse!
I can still remember when they used to spray blood and offal on the fields. On a hot day that used to make me retch. Slurry seems pleasant in comparison.
"Oh so your an expert all of a sudden ?"
not an expert but when humans excrete in the extent we do it goes to a sewage works. how can a winters season of cow manure be concentrated into a few evenings spreading for each farm.
The local farmer had an issue with some travellers on his land. He used his most lethal concoction on a neighbouring field that was downwind.
Sadly so were we 😕
What's going on with the OP's blatant apostrophe abuse, that's what I want to know.
I think that you will find that I have spelt it correctly in my second post thus nullifying the initial error. It will only take one more correct use of the apostrophe to bring me into positive territory. Farmers. So there...
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NSFW (or the infirm)
I can still remember when they used to spray blood and offal on the fields
They still do on the farms around Consett. Fish guts seems to be the general consensus. Impossible to breathe for a few days (I'm posting from the afterlife).
can always smell when they have drained their septic tanks and spread that on the fields too 😈 (yes it's not legal)
Fertiliser they use around here stinks of weed. A couple of summers ago it was so pungent the Police helicopter was out looking for signs of a massive marijuana farm. Might be stuff from the mushroom farm.
I love the smell of it! Think it reminds me of my grans house when I was a little un.
I knew a farmer who covered himself in my shit once.
I kid [s]shit[/s] you not
it cant be good in the quantity ive seen being put on fields around here. how this is right for the environment ive no idea"
Too much slurry can be bad for the environment and cause eutrophcation in water sources. However it will also kill off the grass if too much is used. Manure ( a mix of straw and dung) is much better. I could go on at length but may bore you to death.
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I can still remember when they used to spray blood and offal on the fieldsThey still do on the farms around Consett. Fish guts seems to be the general consensus. Impossible to breathe for a few days (I'm posting from the afterlife).
I thought that was illegal now? I know they banned it in ROI. I used to remember seeing the foxes coming out in the evening and dragging bits of cows stomachs away. Weird memories.
it cant be good in the quantity ive seen being put on fields around here. how this is right for the environment ive no idea. can i also add why they feel the need to drive on the roads for 5+ miles at rush hour times with tractor/trailer ?
How do you know what quantities are being spread? Have you been measuring the capacity of each tankful and counting the number of tanks used?
Or are you just making shit up?
As regards the distances, blame the amount of money many farmers get for their produce, particularly milk, which is cheaper than bottled water, which has caused many farmers to sell up, the land being bought by other better off farmers or farm combines, to expand their production capability, which means farm vehicles, often owned by contractors, spend much more time on the road travelling between the various fields owned by each farm.
It is a requirement that a farm vehicle pull in where practical to allow a build-up of traffic to pass, but that depends on the roads; I followed a large tractor and trailer for eight or nine miles along a Dorset A-road, because there wasn't a single layby or straight stretch of road to pass on or for the driver to pull into.
These, I'm afraid, are facts of life.
Get used to it or stay in the city where you won't be inconvenienced by slow-moving farm vehicles.
Lots of other slow-moving vehicles, but at least they won't be muddy and smelly. Or at least smelly.
well, it's working. That's one less tourist coming down here, clogging up our roads and getting in the way whilst we're out mountain biking or walking the Preselis/coast path.
I hear Cornwall is a good place to visit this time of year. 😉
Oh, wondered what that was every now & then when out on a ride 😳Fertiliser they use around here stinks of weed
😉Or are you just making shit up?
I thought this was going to be bum related.
Dairy industry innit. Stop drinking milk. Simples
Do you have some kind of competition with each other as to who can create the most unholy, eye watering, vomit inducing stench and still be allowed to spread this filth over fields? Do you ever manage to concoct anything so offensive to the senses that you consider it a step too far and dispose of it or do you just throw it around anyway while chuckling to yourselves? I am guessing the latter. Seriously, some of the smells my nose had to suffer on the way home from Pembrokeshire made my 2 year olds stomach bug s@#t filled nappies smell like roses.
Because all the local nimby's object to any application for an AD plant that will knock most of the odour out.
how can a winters season of cow manure be concentrated into a few evenings spreading for each farm.
Nitrate vulnerable zones have restrictions on what and when can be spread, as well as good farming practice
I had a job once to check farmer's slurry.
It was really boring and I'd often day dream . Eventually I got the sack as my boss reckoned I was just going through the motions.
I think that you will find that I have spelt it correctly in my second post thus nullifying the initial error. It will only take one more correct use of the apostrophe to bring me into positive territory. Farmers. So there...
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/apostrophes ]I will find you and I will kill you to death. [/url]
I will find you and I will kill you to death.
Sidebar please ya honour. Apart from the admittedly wrong use in the topic subject (which may or may not have been caused by auto correct), as all uses of 'farmers' have been in the plural sense and not in the contractual or possessive term of the word, I therefore think that I could be excused, or at the very least given the benefit of the doubt. My over use of commas should be considered a separate and unrelated issue.
Now, perhaps we can get back onto why all farmers want to kill us with stench...
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[quote=bentandbroken said]The local farmer had an issue with some travellers on his land. He used his most lethal concoction on a neighbouring field that was downwind.
Sadly so were we
Upwind would have been more effective. 🙂
Sorry, I thought this thread was going to be about the OP having difficulty sitting on his saddle.....
He used his most lethal concoction on a neighbouring field that was downwind.
Just think how much more effective it would have been had it been upwind 😉 (I see @allthepies rather beat me to it)
OP apologies sacrasm was lost on me. My wife isna city girl and really struggles with the smells of the countryside, cuddly lambs are ok but sh.t is an issue 🙂
cuddly lambs are ok but sh.t is an issue
"Cuddly lambs" have a habit of pooing down your leg when you hold them. Putting the tail and castration rings on male ones is usually a lovely experience of getting covered in sticky yellow poo.
Cant beat a bit of slurry in the air, need more to keep house prices down
Farmers / tractor drivers get off your freaking phone whilst driving your tractor on the road! Seems like a very high percentage have a phone glued to their ear whenever I see them...
[i]It will only take one more correct use of the apostrophe to bring me into positive territory[/i]
I think not, young sir:
[i]2 year olds stomach [/i]
Damn it...
The local farmer had an issue with some travellers on his land. He used his most lethal concoction on a neighbouring field that was downwind.
About 30 years ago, one of our local farmers got thrown out of the local pub for having one too many and generally being a pest.
Somehow, he made it home, got his muckspreader and went back to the pub miraculously not killing anyone on the journey back to the pub.
He then unleashed the slurry onto the side of the pub, covering the gable and calmly drove off. Didn't half take some cleaning and repainting after that.
Putting the tail and castration rings on male ones is usually a lovely experience of getting covered in sticky yellow poo.
You come near me with castration rings and I'd poo on you too.