discussion A mulching we will go!

[spanner570]

This morning the farming contractors are in 'Our' field, harvesting the maize/sweetcorn.

The machine they are using takes out 10 rows at a time, chews it up and spits it out into trailers. The trouble is, because the blower is so savage, a huge percentage gets blown out again!

I know it gets ploughed in, but what a waste.....

Took these snaps from one of my den/attic windows





Cheers.
Ron

 

[Ian M]

At least its heavy and falls quite quickly to the ground. The one that gets me is when the fields on either side of our house have wheat or the such. When they harvest that it is like a dry dusty blizzard and our house/garden/cars get covered in it!
They joys of country life are endless!

 

[dave]

Back when w3 lived out in the countryside, the house we had needed extensive renovations. To give some idea the Estate Agent described it as « barely habitable ». After all the sash windows had been restored the contractor gave them a final coat of paint..... an hour later they started harvesting the wheat in the field across the lane. He had to come back sand everything down and repaint.

 

[Dave Ward]

The field behind my flat regularly is sown with maize, but when the farmer harvests it, his blower seems to be much more contained & directional. It's often a finish in the dark operation - the tractor lights crawling back & forward, the engine note rising & falling - the latest I've heard him was 11:00pm - competing with the owls!
Dave

 

[Tim Marlow]

Last year I moved from town to country. I used to live right in the middle of Salisbury, but now am well into the Somerset countryside with fields front and back, and a farm next door..... it’s a beef herd that’s farmed there, not arable. We therefore don’t get much dust, but we get a lot of field mud in wet periods, and the cows can be quite noisy. I’d far rather have all that than breathe in invisible petrochemical particulates and live with incessant traffic noise though.

 

[BattleshipBob]

Never seen one of those in the middle of darkest Cardiff lol

Closest is the rabble from the council trying and failing to put leaves in the back of ash cart:thumb2: