14/03/15

Saturday and I'm seed dressing.  It's a measure of how busy we are that I've been working for the last two Saturdays.  As a general rule, up to now, our company doesn't like to ask us to work Saturdays so for the first time in my working life I don't usually work at weekends.  Because of this I'm quite happy to work the occasional Saturday.  I had three customers, two of which I have been to before and a third that I haven't.  The first was only three tonnes of barley and it takes as long to set up and take down as it does to clean and treat the seed.  The second customer was only a couple of miles from the first and the job was cleaning only of six tonnes of barley.  There was some sterile brome seed in the sample and it's difficult to make a good job of removing in.  I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to seed cleaning and I'm not happy doing a job that I know I can't do well.  But on the good side the customer was happy with the job so I suppose that's what counts.  The third customer was over an hour's drive away and I hadn't been to his farm before.  When I found it I realised that I had dressed seed for him previously but he has always taken it to one of his neighbours and I have dressed it there.  It was a good sample and went through well, the only catch was that he wanted it in quarter tonne bags rather than half tonne bags.  This doesn't sound that difficult and in truth it isn't but it means that I have to work a lot harder.  It was just before five when I got back in the yard.  Everything was locked up, but that wasn't a surprise and I had a key.  The big irritation was that someone had gathered all the clocking cards and I was unable to clock off.  If there is any difficulty with my pay it will be the last Saturday I work.  On that sour note I'll see you on Monday.