Oh I just hate having to do that...

[Drawbar]

What is the ONE job around the homestead or Farm that you just hate to do. The absolute worst thing, the one thing that just has to be done, but oh mother of pearl you wish you didn't have too...even going so far as to put it off forever until finally it just has to be done?

(Just thought this might make for an interesting discussion)

[Drawbar]

I think for me its cutting the trees back around the edges of the fields. It has to be done so the tractors can harvest the crops without the windows being broken out, but man is it hard work.

First off the trees are less then ideal. Being so close to the fields,they grow lots of branches so the trees are short and stubby. That means I have to cut wayyyy more then I want to make up a truck load of wood, or a few cord of firewood. They are also full of limbs and heavy on one side (towards the field). This makes it all but impossible to fell them and not have to pick up the branches so the equipment doesn't get fouled up by them.

Last year I finally starting cutting an area that needed to be cut 15 years ago. It was located between the road and a field...a small strip of woods that shaded the roadway in winter so the snow never melted there,and the field which caused problems for the tractors. I had put it off forever, and about three trees into the job, one went backwards as I felled it, and landed on the power lines. It didn't take them down, just lodged on the line and grounded it out.

I waited for a few seconds, then heard the big bang from the seeker charge as we have limb chopper circuits on our power lines here. With a big bang, I knew it had grounded out and that the town was without power. I went to the neighbors and told him to call the electric company and then thought over my problem. Not wanting to get nailed with a heavy fine for landing a tree on the lines...and knowing the power was off, I hooked the tree up to my tractor and dragged it off the lines. Luckily the lines never broke as I did this.

Luckily nothing was ever said, but I have not gone back there to cut those trees anymore.Probably will be another 15 years before I do so. That's the one job I really hate doing. Its required so the fields remain fields,and the woods remain woods,but its a lot of work for very little payback.

[Deberosa]

Butchering - specifically the killing part, but the whole process is alot of work and a real mess. This year we are going to be able to rent a total poultry processing setup for 10 dollars a day so that should make it a little easier. I also need to get my cleaning area up on a deck that can be hosed down more easily I think.

[DaleK]

Cleaning out retained placentas. Or cleaning a long-dead calf out of a cow.

[QueenoftheFlock]

Breaking ice in winter so the critters can drink (before it freezes again)! :D

[jen_in_southtexas]

I hate cleaning up the shredded up pieces of small trees, branches scattered all over the property after they have been runned over by a tractor mower or brush hog. If you dont pick them up they are trip hazards then if you run over them with your lawn tractor its not good for the tractor. I just hate doing it. Too many pieces to pick up and one just cant seem to get done.

[flatwater]

Setting irrigation pipe
Flatwater

[TNDadx4]

It would be butchering, too. Deberosa, from where do you rent total poultry processing unit and what's it called?

[walls0stone]

honestly, this place has come so far and improved so much in the last 12 years...I don't hate anything..sure I have those days..last week 3 pipes brust on a sunday morning..eh' could be worse, I could be dreaming about farming, not actualy farming. *I remember when the tractor building didn't have sides, this house had bad insulation and the equipment was held together with string, gum and prayer.

now feeding takes 10 mins compaired to an hour...I don't have to use starter fluid to start tractors or get fuel on my hands in january...the fields are productive so we do less work and make more food for the cattle. *

We send out our beef to be done by a pro, but cutting up deer is part of the farm comunity, in some cases..it's fathers, sons, old friends after two weeks of hunting... learning how to do important stuff like cutting up and packing up Venison, *cuss words, how to spit tobbacco juice with out soiling the front of ones shirt... and how to handle a knife.

aahhh I've got it good :)

[EarthMother]

HOUSE WORK. It seems like a waste of good time. I could be outside improving the farm, painting a picture, playing with kids, down at the creek searching for fossils. I'd rather do anything besides house work.

[Deberosa]

HOUSE WORK. It seems like a waste of good time. I could be outside improving the farm, painting a picture, playing with kids, down at the creek searching for fossils. I'd rather do anything besides house work.
I can identify with that!!! I still get the flylady.net reminders but seems she only wants 15 minute sections of time - about 20 times a day!!!

[WileyCoyote]

Ditto on the Housework.
"You clean the floors, make the beds, do the dishes - and a week later you have to do it all over again!" ;D What's the POINT??? Arrrgghhh... the point is clean dishes and the whole house not looking and smelling like a whorehouse the day after payday... but STILL!

I'd rather do something constructive, not repetitive.

[Northern_bushrat]

...doing laundry. We don't have running water, so it has to be done by hand. It's bad enough in the summer, but worst of all is doing it in the winter. The procedure of hauling up endless buckets of water, heating it up, the bending over and wringing stuff out...ugh!

[flatwater]

I have had to drag my wife away from house work just to have a little fun and she hates house work also but she says nobody else does it so I have to. Theres only the two of us. So I offerd to do the house work for her if she would do the fixing , building, heavy hauling ,sharpening the lawn mower blades , fixing the truck , etc. etc. We tried it but it didn't last long. she does not mind the house cleaning anymore. For me it's about a system and organizing the work day.
Flatwater

[bookwormom]

I guess it is not so much that I hate certain chores, it is that there are too many of them, or I am one person too few or lack a few arms and hands. Okay, some things I do not exactly relish, but i do not have to do them everyday, like ironing. but I do get mad that the porch is so dirty all the time, due to three dogs not wiping their feet. I hate the feel of a dirty floor under my bare feet and sweeping almost every day.