I have to say one of the few things I hate doin around our farm is haulin to and from the grain bins. Ive never liked it since I was a kid and made it even worse when i flipped a truck on the way to adm when a my brakes went out 12 years ago. Still with not likin that I love farmin and cant imagine not gettin to get up in the morning and know Im doin what I love.
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Anonymous-0
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Plowing. I don't see how anyone could enjoy going to a plow day. Just sitting on that tractor, working the living snot out of it, wondering what's gonna break next, round and round hour after hour? But I've always farmed gumbo river bottom ground, tough soil that had to turned every year.
Anonymous-0
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Funny how ths works... I LOVE hauling grain in to the bin, and I LOVE plowing. Then I read where someone hates each of those.
Jobs I never cared for? Hanging tobacco. Milking cows on a cold rainy day. Building fences.
Jobs I never cared for? Hanging tobacco. Milking cows on a cold rainy day. Building fences.
Mathias NY
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Dealing with customers at farmers markets is my least favorite job. My wife generally handles that end of the business, but when things get busy I get to help. It's necessary for the business, but I don't think I'll ever enjoy it.
Paul from MI
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Cleaning out the chicken house, had to do that every Saturday as a kid. Next worst was first cultivation of corn. Had to go so darn slow!!! Can't really think of anything else I really didn't enjoy, even stacking idiot cubes in the mow.
fixerupper
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When I was a kid the job I hated the most was leveling the auger wagon while dad ground feed into it with the #10 Deere hammer mill. It wasn't a lot of work because it was so slow but because of that it was boring. The cloud of dust from the dust collector didn't help either and I was standing right beside it. Pitching manure on Saturday morning wasn't my favorite job either.
Today there isn't really anything I hate about farming but the thing I like the least is sitting on the tractor for hours on end. I feel like I'm being unproductive just sitting there. Jim
Today there isn't really anything I hate about farming but the thing I like the least is sitting on the tractor for hours on end. I feel like I'm being unproductive just sitting there. Jim
Fordfarmer
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picking rock and building fence
TripleRange
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right now? cleaning grain bins. in two weeks? fixing combine.
in 4 weeks? shoveling corn off the ground out in the weeds from some idiot (sometimes me) that left the hatch open after he dumped the load.
last month? cleaning out the sprayer!
in 4 weeks? shoveling corn off the ground out in the weeds from some idiot (sometimes me) that left the hatch open after he dumped the load.
last month? cleaning out the sprayer!
James Howell
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Reworking ground rooted up by the wild hogs.
730 virgil
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dragging wagons to silos or grain bin seemed like that job would never end. it started about end of sept finished about 1st part of dec.
feeding calves or cleaning up dairy barn after milking. i never mined the milking it was the other jobs that came with it.
feeding calves or cleaning up dairy barn after milking. i never mined the milking it was the other jobs that came with it.
just another old geezer
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climbing the Haylage silo. Dusty, dirty have to wear a dust mask, goggles and a hoodie.
Anonymous-0
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Fixing 100 year old fence in a wooded area overrun with brush and poison ivy on a hot day. Probably close seconds are chasing cattle during holidays after they got out because the fence was poor, grinding feed in extreme cold and with three feet of snow that had to be shoveled before moving the tractor, pitching manure during very hot weather (especially chicken) checking/doctoring/trimming sheep hoofs during hot and wet weather, pulling a calf from a cow, and shearing sheep. All livestock related problems, and all good reasons for not owning any.
Will Herring
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My family's consensus is that it is either:
1. Cutting corn out of beans (by hand).
Or...
2. Turning watermelon vines by hand in the 90+ heat.
1. Cutting corn out of beans (by hand).
Or...
2. Turning watermelon vines by hand in the 90+ heat.
Erik Ks farmer
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I would have to say fencing, it never seems to end and it is always in the cold, the heat or the mud.
Rebuilding the 91 Bean Special every year- when you're 12-14 yrs old and working on it by yourself, those long shafts in the windrow pickup were not fun to slide in and out to change the pickup teeth. Always a few bent bars in the feeder, standing on your head to change them, everything's full of dust, fresh spikes on the cylinder and bars, check and repair all the little dirt sieves on the augers and conveyors, go though the belts, straighten bent fins on the racks, yada yada
Next came the Innes windrower, teeth, u-joints, blah blah
Then install the 4-row cultivator on the 706D (the one that bolted on in place of the weight rack and then swung in to the frame rails), move the wheels all the way to the end of the axles with the old 8N loader, pull off the cultivator attachments and install the bean pullers, pull off the blades to be sharpened...
Yeppers, bean season was tunzafun- I remember combining, IIRC 1971, at 11:30PM, gramps and both uncles asleep in the pickup as we'd been going all day, and it started snowing under the full moon- kinda surreal. Finished the last windrow at 2:45AM and ran out of gas heading for the truck to unload LOL
Next came the Innes windrower, teeth, u-joints, blah blah
Then install the 4-row cultivator on the 706D (the one that bolted on in place of the weight rack and then swung in to the frame rails), move the wheels all the way to the end of the axles with the old 8N loader, pull off the cultivator attachments and install the bean pullers, pull off the blades to be sharpened...
Yeppers, bean season was tunzafun- I remember combining, IIRC 1971, at 11:30PM, gramps and both uncles asleep in the pickup as we'd been going all day, and it started snowing under the full moon- kinda surreal. Finished the last windrow at 2:45AM and ran out of gas heading for the truck to unload LOL
Anonymous-0
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Dont stand the cold to well, I can work through 100+ heat. Frozen water fountains, or broke in the middle of winter. Not on the farm, but family reunions, I have one coming up, makes me wonder if i'm adopted or what.
Tom
Tom
Chris (WA)
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Seasonally? Cleaning calf pens and picking rock!
Daily? Milking!
Daily? Milking!
I would have to say moving irrigation pipe. It always seemed like the hottest day of the year when we moved it. We have 4" aluminum pipe so it wasn't heavy just hot as fire. Carrying it across rows of tomatoes or whatever was not fun. The pipe was usually full of water when you went to pick it up. It always seemed to run out my end and felt like it was scalding you. Dad could walk faster than me so he would get to pick his end up first and let the water come to my end. Hmmm maybe that was his plan all along? LOL
Harold Hubbard
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Picking stones, picking potatoes, fixing fence.
I have some old letters written by my father to my mother before they were married, one thing that he mentioned was, "We will start thrashing oats next week, I hate it , I shall be sick for a month".
I have some old letters written by my father to my mother before they were married, one thing that he mentioned was, "We will start thrashing oats next week, I hate it , I shall be sick for a month".
Goose
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Picking corn by hand.
When I was a senior in high school, fall of 1951, my father got a job off the farm and expected me to pick corn by hand. I lasted all of 2 hours, said, "This is b---s---, went into town, and bought a single row, pull behind picker.
It didn't look like much, but it did the job. I was in hog heaven.
When I was a senior in high school, fall of 1951, my father got a job off the farm and expected me to pick corn by hand. I lasted all of 2 hours, said, "This is b---s---, went into town, and bought a single row, pull behind picker.
It didn't look like much, but it did the job. I was in hog heaven.
Charles Santhuff
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Getting the hay out of a plugged round baler!
Gleanerguy
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Chipping frozen silage off the wall of a silo when its 20 below zero outside and the silo unloader won't work.
Feeding hay when it's cold and wet. Would rather feed when it's 25 and the ground is froze than when it's 35, rain'n, and I loose my boots try'n to move the hay rings.
From days gone by there was one tobacco chore I could not stand. We have always had dark tobacco and it is real brittle when it gets ripe. When I was a kid helping granddad we would cut it, let it wilt just a little and then make piles of 5 stalks. I always hated picking heavy tobacco tobacco plants just to put them back down. When I was in high school I worked for a neighbor how doesn't pile it and spikes it where it was cut, I do it this way now.
Dave
From days gone by there was one tobacco chore I could not stand. We have always had dark tobacco and it is real brittle when it gets ripe. When I was a kid helping granddad we would cut it, let it wilt just a little and then make piles of 5 stalks. I always hated picking heavy tobacco tobacco plants just to put them back down. When I was in high school I worked for a neighbor how doesn't pile it and spikes it where it was cut, I do it this way now.
Dave
The Dukester
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1st-- Mowin' away hay, loose or baled, in the mow near the barn's roof on a 90-80 day. (90 degrees and 80% humidity)
2nd--Pickin' stones by hand with a stoneboat like we usta do.
3rd--castratin' hogs or dehornin' calves.
2nd--Pickin' stones by hand with a stoneboat like we usta do.
3rd--castratin' hogs or dehornin' calves.
Phil in Pa
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Boss used to have me shred corn stalks with a flail chopper with the back opened up.
Boring is not the word.
Boring is not the word.
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