Since I am a beginner TIM player; will I have to put a big red "L" on the side of my beat (beet) tractor when I drive it to a session or park it running outside a pub?
Now, will I lose my "TIM Learner Permit" if I'm caught by the Garda driving a tractor on the road back to the barn after having a pint or a Jameson at the pub?
Karate, thats the most practical get up for the moors . Plus fours mean when the grass is knee high, its only your socks get wet. The wool can hold twice its weight in water before it feels wet to wear, it will stay warm even if its soaking. The fact that a 'toff' as you call him wears that means nothing, hes wearing sensible cloths all be them smart and new.
Were you to spend time in that environment in your jeans and T shirt [ Im making an assumption here] you would be wet cold and in danger of hypothermia!" yer toff would be fine.
Hey K W T, how many of us here, actually do earn as much as our employers.
If you do, please tell us how you managed that one?
Maybe you are self employed, so you ARE your own boss?
Or maybe Daddy gives you an allowance, to bring your wages up to par?
As for the dress code, I guess we all conform one way or another, so my plus 4s & ye olde Deer Stalker, was no different than other blokes having to wear a suit to work .... & looking like a Penguin all day!
Put your hands up, everyone here who can just go to work in old jeans a jumper & trainers, if they feel like it?
I'm sat in my office in at the moment in an old vest, jeans and bare feet. Of course I can wear what I like. Yes, I'm self employed, but that doesn't mean I am my own boss. As any self employed person will tell you, it means you have many bosses.
However, I have a Hamish Moor album where he plays his pipes in an old water mill, to the rythmn of the water wheel and various attached machinery. It's very good.
"Of course I can wear what I like" ..... Ah, but llig, do you dress in that old vest & jeans when you meet your customers, who if you are self employed, are your bosses?
I'm self employed too, so when at work on my PC I dress as I like too, but if I were to turn up, to teach a bit of music at a local school in bare feet, vest & jeans, I'm pretty sure I'd quickly be shown the door!
As for my session attire ... yes, anything goes... although I'll be honest, I haven't stooped to a Rab C string vest yet!
Your Hamish Moore track reminded me of track one on this one by the 'Ulster Scots Folk Orchestra, which was ~
"Set to the rhythms of the machinery that drives the light hammer."
I have three suits on a hanger in the office. A nice Katharine Hamnett single breasted with a fine pink pinstripe. A cream linen one. And a posh DJ (but with yellow poker dot bow tie). When clients come round, I put one on. Or not, depending on the client. A lot of my clients who do have to wear suits all day come to visit me just so they can take their jackets and ties off and slob about for a couple of hours.
The only tractors I've ever driven were hazardous wrecks that certainly couldn't be trusted not to conk out if left with the engine on. They couldn't be trusted not to conk out if you were on them going into / across a main road, for that matter. These were Fords, incidentally - the likes of me never got our mitts on the John Deere, the farm's one reliable tractor.
A milking machine might make a nice soothing accompaniment, come to think of it, though the unavoidable element of bovine excreta is an offputting factor.
Where I work, if you turn up in jeans and t-shirt, people ignore you and walk past you - if you wear a smart jacket and trousers or a suit, they smile and say hello. I go for the smart option, it just makes life less complicated, and it means nothing to be rebel. Wierd people, psychiatrists.
When I sneak into an empty room to practise fiddle during lunchtimes at the day job I am often treated to the pounding disco beat from the ladies keep-fit session next door, and find myself falling into rhythm. Bovine references would be inappropriate.
I remember hearing a field recording, on some radio programme, made in a postal sorting office in, I believe, Nicaragua.
The workers had a nice orchestration going by simply syncopating the stamping and scraping sounds of their labours.
Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Here's another use for you old tractor when you have outdoor sessions in your barn or farm out building.
See - www.UK.youtube.com/watch?v=a/thSi1wbgU
Or just look up "Sweet Georgia Brown with tractor" on Youtube - Too Funny!
BTW, some tractors come with their own CASE and you can adjust the number of beats with a screwdriver and the idle screw.
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Cape Cod Struggler
http://www.UK.youtube.com/watch?v=a/thSi1wbgU
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by ceolachan
Well, that didn't work...
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by ceolachan
Sweet Georgia Brown med traktorkomp
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ThSi1wbqU
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by ceolachan
Olle Hemmingsson´s Trio
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UwadWc-QeAg
Makes my feel homesick for gran's ol' Massey-Ferguson...
Get rid of all the bodhran bashers and assorted percussionists and buy yourself an old tractor, eh? What's life without one...
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by ceolachan
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
If you have a CASE tractor it comes with its own case and can use it to haul your gear to the local pub.
If the pub owner won't let you drive it inside, leave it running outside with a real long mic wire going inside to the amp.
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Drive it through the end wall of the pub , make your own door
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Red Robin
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I used to like this sort of thing but now I don't watch it anymore..... .I suppose that makes me 'An Extractor Fan'
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Free Reed
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I liked it more when you were allowed to set fire to the tyres when the tractor was inside the pub. Now, you have to do it outside in the rain.
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Since I am a beginner TIM player; will I have to put a big red "L" on the side of my beat (beet) tractor when I drive it to a session or park it running outside a pub?
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Now, will I lose my "TIM Learner Permit" if I'm caught by the Garda driving a tractor on the road back to the barn after having a pint or a Jameson at the pub?
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Cape Cod Struggler
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
It depends on what targets they have to meet. Or maybe in Ireland the police haven't been inflicted with this nonsense.
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I wonder if I can play a duet with my boat diesel? When it's cold, the vibration gets the halyards slapping the mast with a base effect.
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by oldstrings
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I suppose if you could COMBINE the two it might work...
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by bowburner
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Hey PB, I don't own one ~ but I used to BE one ..... a Beat Keeper that is.
Back then I looked a bit like this guy:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/gamekeeper/ReelMcCoySyndicate/Haddo%20House%20Nov%202007/2007_0101haddo0206.jpg?o=43
On one estate, my company vehicle actually was a Tractor!
Cheers
Dick
# Posted on October 9th 2008 by Ptarmigan
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Karate, thats the most practical get up for the moors . Plus fours mean when the grass is knee high, its only your socks get wet. The wool can hold twice its weight in water before it feels wet to wear, it will stay warm even if its soaking. The fact that a 'toff' as you call him wears that means nothing, hes wearing sensible cloths all be them smart and new.
Were you to spend time in that environment in your jeans and T shirt [ Im making an assumption here] you would be wet cold and in danger of hypothermia!" yer toff would be fine.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by piobagusfidil
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Hey K W T, how many of us here, actually do earn as much as our employers.
If you do, please tell us how you managed that one?
Maybe you are self employed, so you ARE your own boss?
Or maybe Daddy gives you an allowance, to bring your wages up to par?
As for the dress code, I guess we all conform one way or another, so my plus 4s & ye olde Deer Stalker, was no different than other blokes having to wear a suit to work .... & looking like a Penguin all day!
Put your hands up, everyone here who can just go to work in old jeans a jumper & trainers, if they feel like it?
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by Ptarmigan
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I'm sat in my office in at the moment in an old vest, jeans and bare feet. Of course I can wear what I like. Yes, I'm self employed, but that doesn't mean I am my own boss. As any self employed person will tell you, it means you have many bosses.
However, I have a Hamish Moor album where he plays his pipes in an old water mill, to the rythmn of the water wheel and various attached machinery. It's very good.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by ...
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
"Of course I can wear what I like" ..... Ah, but llig, do you dress in that old vest & jeans when you meet your customers, who if you are self employed, are your bosses?
I'm self employed too, so when at work on my PC I dress as I like too, but if I were to turn up, to teach a bit of music at a local school in bare feet, vest & jeans, I'm pretty sure I'd quickly be shown the door!
As for my session attire ... yes, anything goes... although I'll be honest, I haven't stooped to a Rab C string vest yet!
Your Hamish Moore track reminded me of track one on this one by the 'Ulster Scots Folk Orchestra, which was ~
"Set to the rhythms of the machinery that drives the light hammer."
http://www.naegoatstoe.com/spade.htm
Please note that I am NOT, I repeat NOT recommending this CD.
I'm simply pointing out the use of the machinery!
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by Ptarmigan
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Sorry, forgot to mention:
Track 2:
Set to "The biggest, heaviest and loudest hammer in the mill ..."
&
Track 3.
Set to the rhythms of Patterson’s turbine.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by Ptarmigan
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I have three suits on a hanger in the office. A nice Katharine Hamnett single breasted with a fine pink pinstripe. A cream linen one. And a posh DJ (but with yellow poker dot bow tie). When clients come round, I put one on. Or not, depending on the client. A lot of my clients who do have to wear suits all day come to visit me just so they can take their jackets and ties off and slob about for a couple of hours.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by ...
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I must confess, I do not even own a suit & can't honestly remember when I last wore one. Only time I wear a tie, is when I go to a funeral.
Mr Casual ... that's me!
Perhaps that style { or should I say lack of it } goes well with my bald head & beard!
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by Ptarmigan
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Do you not have a mottled brown suit for summer? And a pure white onee for winter?
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by ...
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
The only tractors I've ever driven were hazardous wrecks that certainly couldn't be trusted not to conk out if left with the engine on. They couldn't be trusted not to conk out if you were on them going into / across a main road, for that matter. These were Fords, incidentally - the likes of me never got our mitts on the John Deere, the farm's one reliable tractor.
A milking machine might make a nice soothing accompaniment, come to think of it, though the unavoidable element of bovine excreta is an offputting factor.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by nicholas
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
Where I work, if you turn up in jeans and t-shirt, people ignore you and walk past you - if you wear a smart jacket and trousers or a suit, they smile and say hello. I go for the smart option, it just makes life less complicated, and it means nothing to be rebel. Wierd people, psychiatrists.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by Rudall the time
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
When I sneak into an empty room to practise fiddle during lunchtimes at the day job I am often treated to the pounding disco beat from the ladies keep-fit session next door, and find myself falling into rhythm. Bovine references would be inappropriate.
# Posted on October 10th 2008 by RichardB
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I remember hearing a field recording, on some radio programme, made in a postal sorting office in, I believe, Nicaragua.
The workers had a nice orchestration going by simply syncopating the stamping and scraping sounds of their labours.
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by oldstrings
Re: Tractor Beat Keeper - Do you own one?
I had no idea what I started when I suggested members view the video.
But with the current price of fuel perhaps it would be best to just record the tractor beat and play it though the amp system and let it go at that
# Posted on October 11th 2008 by Cape Cod Struggler