What do any of you have planned for the summer? Have any of you had any luck getting jobs on farms?

 Yes baling hay for my self and for a couple of other people near-by. With a Massey Ferguson 165 and John Deere 224T baler.

165 wuh get on!

any1 want to employ me ... cornwall please... will work for anything over 3.50 an hour... milk cows.... lol

im still trucking amure around have moved onto driving the MACKs insted of running the draglines thats better i can atchaley go fast.

I help out with my dad when i can but i doubt he would pay me over the summer ..... typical farmer - very tight with his money! I have been collecting application forms for shop assistant work. Not a job i particularly want to do but im skint and need the money.

Working on a 2000 acre farm near Loughborough, corn carting and rolling mainly, but nothing is set in stone. This is the lead in to the start of my management training.
In fact we still may be after a harvest driver for a 4-5 weeks in August.

 

tim.:

Working on a 2000 acre farm near Loughborough, corn carting and rolling mainly

No plans for a holiday then after all your hard work studying?!

Think this summer I am  rolling, carting grain (like tim) and working the dryer over 3000 acres of arable plus about 200 acres grassland (thereabouts).Then probaly sorting pigs out on the other farm (200 acres).

Been a bit c-rap really, had to turn down two well paid jobs already this summer... 1 contractoring/farm hand in wiltshire, and one clearing workshops @ plumpton college, east sussex. but owell, got hay/silageing in bucks 2 do, plus w.e turns up. o and the old gardenin business.

caroline stocks:

No plans for a holiday then after all your hard work studying?!

 

 

Noooo chance. I have been sat in my room doin uni work, with the countryside coming alive outside my window, and not being able to be a part of it. So I dont think I would actually allow myself to have a long break from it. I am 1 week into my allotted 7 weeks off where not much is happening, so I am making the most of that... I'll be starting mid July I think. 

 

tractordriver99:

and the old gardenin business.

You sound like you're going to be busy! Didn't realise you had a gardening business too - do we have an Alan titchmarsh in our midst?!

I do a bit of lawn mowing for people. Also a bit of a hand to the older population in our vllage as a gardener and handyman. 

thats it exactly, £10 for 10 mins wrk mowing. or hedge trimming can be £50 an hour.

Good money in it if you get the right job and please tell me where you go mowing for £10 for 10 min work. I only get paid £4 per hour 

I just got a job corncart/telehandler operator/ grain dryer/ cultivation on a farm near winchester, hampshire. getting paid £6.60 an hour and i get my accomodation for free! Im gunna be working july to september! then hopfully onto a contractors!