Setting up Farm business

[The Byre]

Oh, would that I had been there to see the molasses going into the wellies!

I assume that the molasses was for the cows - I mean, it wasn't your lunch?

How does a storm blow a 6" stream of molasses and is able to hit the top of a wellie? That speaks of a storm with a broad, if somewhat crude sense of humour and good hand-eye coordination!

 

[Mr D]

Oh, would that I had been there to see the molasses going into the wellies!

I assume that the molasses was for the cows - I mean, it wasn't your lunch?

How does a storm blow a 6" stream of molasses and is able to hit the top of a wellie? That speaks of a storm with a broad, if somewhat crude sense of humour and good hand-eye coordination!

God has a sense of humour?

 

[Socio South West]

God has a sense of humour?

God may have had a sense of humour, but on that morning I certainly did not!

@The Byre - Yes - it was preparing a mixed ration for the dairy herd.
The mixer wagon was parked under this platform about 6ft off the ground, and mounted on that platform was the molasses bulk tank. To measure the molasses the gate valve on the bottom of the tank was opened to fill however many buckets were needed.
However on that particular morning the wind - and a biting easterly at that - was sufficiently strong that only about 30% of the molasses went into the bucket.... most of the rest filled my wellies.

It was one of those rare occasions where the level of anger came out as a very cool inner peace rather than a blustering rage of assorted Anglo Saxon with which I was well associated at the time.