Born Between '49 & '79 ?

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brought up on a farm in the 60s and 70s ,drove tractors and combines as an early teenager , it was a mixed farm with arable ,cattle,,  and berries  and potatoes so that was the school holidays all fixed , at harvest time i had to follow the bailer and build the bales into blocks of seven , evenings were spent catching chickens in the broiler houses for the chicken abattoir, my last school holidays were spent working there for 6 weeks sitting on a barrel cutting chicken throats, no automatic cutters in them days , the school cleaners went on strike so we had a 2 or 3 day school week , off days i would spend running up and down berry drills with great lenghts of wire to hold up the stalks ,my father was the cattler so i helped with the feeding of the cattle , barrows of sillage 3 times a day and then bring in bales of straw for bedding , no tractors with buckets or long tines for the bales, and still had time for football with my brothers and ,hide in the bales with the farmers daughter but THAT is another story