13/02/14

Off loaded the remainder of the seed barley from the day before and parked up the truck.  Today I am back to seed dressing for a customer on a Yorkshire Wolds farm.  These farms on the wolds almost always give me a good feeling though it is tinged with sadness for what they have been.  The farms are usually fairly large for English farms and the yards are big and easy to drive round, the sadness comes because they are no longer the busy hives of industry they once must have been, instead of a staff of ten or more they are often run by one man or two at the most.  But things change and I suppose it's progress but it leaves these beautiful big yards empty of life.  Back to the job, the set up was great, I chose to set up outside and let the wind clear the dust away even though I endured the odd snow shower I enjoyed being outside.  The work went exceptionally well and I had dressed the whole seventeen tonnes packed up and was on my way back by quarter to twelve, that's some sort of a record for us.  Back at base I had my lunch before letting my boss, out transport coordinator know I was back ;-)  Lunch over I went to see what was next, guess what!  I reloaded the seed I had unloaded that morning and delivered it to three customers.  The seed got the fun of another fork lift journey for nothing.  The drops were spread out and apart from the yard of the second drop being a bit tight to turn in all went well.  The road into and out of the farm is interesting, take a look at the pictures below.

Back at the yard for five having done all three drops and I am in fourth position to load in the morning.  A good productive day and tomorrow is Friday again.  Yes Friday, oh happy driver, weekend again.