Two days in and I’m going mental ( new book time )

[BenBhoy 4,706]

3 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

My keeping hasn’t been affected thank goodness and all the guns are paying their subs and the poults are ordered. My wife and I foster children , we’ve been doing it for 5 or six years now . It takes about a year from when you first apply to getting approved, so it’s not going to help immediately but since we started we have never had to worry about money. We didn’t get into it for financial consideration but more because my wife loves kids , but I’ve been shocked at the amount of money councils pay you . If you have one child under say 5 it’s nearly £1,400 a month a sibling group of 2 double that , a mother and baby placement £700 a week . If you have a spare room in your house and you like kids . Who knows you could turn some kids life around . We just foster now , I do my keepering and small building jobs and I’ve never been happier . I don’t want to paint too rosy a picture because some kids are damaged and hard work but we both love seeing them make progress and it’s rewarding.

Massive respect to you mate. I have sone friends who do it and I know hard but rewarding they say it is.

 I'm very fortunate too to be in secure employment in these weird times. Although my gaffer has just bough £70k worth of brand spanking telehandler for me to use; never been so nervous moving sheep!! It's even got a radio! Listening to the singer everyone likes to dunk in their brew....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lionel Richtea!!  Stay safe all my mates! 

 

[Stavross 13,787]

That’s an amazing thing to do, the mother in law used to do emergency foster care, mainly babies removed from scum bags, at the time the missus was still at home and the two of them used to take care of them, she remembers social services turning up in the early hours with kids, we discussed it a few years ago because there’s just me and her rattling around in our big house, the only problem would be is she works very long hours at the hospital and according to her I’m way to irresponsible to look after anything more than a goldfish 

[Stavross 13,787]

When you said you were moving sheep around with it I had visions of the forks under the sheep’s belly, good job you put a picture up, I was just about to report you to packham

[Sausagedog 7,381]

25 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

Massive respect to you mate. I have sone friends who do it and I know hard but rewarding they say it is.

 I'm very fortunate too to be in secure employment in these weird times. Although my gaffer has just bough £70k worth of brand spanking telehandler for me to use; never been so nervous moving sheep!! It's even got a radio! Listening to the singer everyone likes to dunk in their brew....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lionel Richtea!!  Stay safe all my mates! 

 

Belting tool them merlo are. How much reach has it got? I need to cut some oak branches!

[BenBhoy 4,706]

21 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

Belting tool them merlo are. How much reach has it got? I need to cut some oak branches!

This model is 6.7M mate  I think not sure if that standard or not. We've always had merlo  be absolutely lost without it but this new one feels bit plasticky not as solid as one we chopped in.

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I use to work a 9m one. The thing would lift 250k at that too.

I don't think 6m is long enough for my job so no need bob over ta .

Enjoy the weather mate.

[Baldcoot 2,352]

We use 40ton overhead cranes to shift moulding tools about and smallr ones used to get shifted with a 4ton forklift truck but overhead cranes aint much use for you Ben 

[Stavross 13,787]

When I’m working around my mates farm I often use the reach truck for loading the trailer, my mates old fella has always had manitou’s and I’m sure he buys them just so when I’m using it he can say “ I’ve been told you like a man a too” before walking off laughing to himself

[Baldcoot 2,352]

So you ask him to get a man out too when u go round so you can use him too ,dont know if id like sloppy seconds 

[shovel leaner 7,648]

7 hours ago, Stavross said:

That’s an amazing thing to do, the mother in law used to do emergency foster care, mainly babies removed from scum bags, at the time the missus was still at home and the two of them used to take care of them, she remembers social services turning up in the early hours with kids, we discussed it a few years ago because there’s just me and her rattling around in our big house, the only problem would be is she works very long hours at the hospital and according to her I’m way to irresponsible to look after anything more than a goldfish 

If you have the room Stavross foster a Teenager . Even you couldn’t neglect one of them !!! Really all you have to do is put a roof over their head and food on the table ( if they chose to eat it ) and maybe a friendly chat and a bit of guidance.  As long as you aren’t beating them or f@@king them , believe me it will be an improvement on what they were used to . Put up two and you will be getting more than you earned as technician. And if you get a strong one they might help shift some pheasant food .  

[si brown 8,486]

7 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Massive respect to you mate. I have sone friends who do it and I know hard but rewarding they say it is.

 I'm very fortunate too to be in secure employment in these weird times. Although my gaffer has just bough £70k worth of brand spanking telehandler for me to use; never been so nervous moving sheep!! It's even got a radio! Listening to the singer everyone likes to dunk in their brew....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lionel Richtea!!  Stay safe all my mates! 

 

You could go into merlo meltdown over this way, this place is just down the rd!

There are loads and he must do descent deals for locals cos nearly every farm round heat has one:)

[Stavross 13,787]

44 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

If you have the room Stavross foster a Teenager . Even you couldn’t neglect one of them !!! Really all you have to do is put a roof over their head and food on the table ( if they chose to eat it ) and maybe a friendly chat and a bit of guidance.  As long as you aren’t beating them or f@@king them , believe me it will be an improvement on what they were used to . Put up two and you will be getting more than you earned as technician. And if you get a strong one they might help shift some pheasant food .  

It is something I think I’d like to do and we have discussed it in the passed, even though we don’t have kids our lass is really good with our nephews and nieces, always helping them in any way she can, they always come to her when they think they can’t go to Mam or dad, on the other hand I’m the one they want to hang around with because they get to do all sorts that other kids don’t and they know if they are idiots they don’t get to come out with me again, the youngest one like to come out because he can say the F word in front of me and I think it makes him feel like one of the lads

[shovel leaner 7,648]

1 hour ago, Stavross said:

It is something I think I’d like to do and we have discussed it in the passed, even though we don’t have kids our lass is really good with our nephews and nieces, always helping them in any way she can, they always come to her when they think they can’t go to Mam or dad, on the other hand I’m the one they want to hang around with because they get to do all sorts that other kids don’t and they know if they are idiots they don’t get to come out with me again, the youngest one like to come out because he can say the F word in front of me and I think it makes him feel like one of the lads

Maybe I’ve planted a seed Stavross! I’ve seen your posts and you seem a good sort with a lot to offer a lost youngster. I won’t go into it too much , but even in the relatively short time I’ve been doing it , I feel I could write a book on it . Some of the kids have had such a troubled past that there is no helping them and it’s sad cos you know how their future will play out . But not all ! For a lot they just need a safe environment and someone they can trust . It could be you who makes a difference. Sod working for a boss who doesn’t appreciate you . Take a different path , and maybe Change some lives. 

Edited April 10, 2020 by shovel leaner

[lllluke1 328]

10 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Massive respect to you mate. I have sone friends who do it and I know hard but rewarding they say it is.

 I'm very fortunate too to be in secure employment in these weird times. Although my gaffer has just bough £70k worth of brand spanking telehandler for me to use; never been so nervous moving sheep!! It's even got a radio! Listening to the singer everyone likes to dunk in their brew....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lionel Richtea!!  Stay safe all my mates! 

 

Do you find they bounce at full lock?  The one in work does.  Used it to lift a lifeguard station onto a beach, kept getting stuck and having to push myself out backwards.  The next year we used a JCB telehandler, much better never got stuck once in the soft sand.

[BenBhoy 4,706]

3 hours ago, Stavross said:

he can say the F word in front of me and I think it makes him feel like one of the lads

Fanny? You'll become Uncle Fanny