DUAL FUEL
Jim Gault’s father owned a modest, 15-acre smallholding near Ballymena, in the heart of Co. Antrim, and combined work on the farm with a full-time job at the local Dromona creamery. “My father started off as a ‘milk tipper’, emptying the cans at the weigh bridge, but ended up driving a tanker on milk collection rounds.
“He milked four cows on the wee farm and sold the milk to the creamery. He grew two acres of spuds and planted corn as a break crop. He made enough hay every year on his own ground (and on some ground belonging to the creamery) to keep the livestock fed over the winter. When I was growing up, he had a Ford-Ferguson tractor, then replaced that in 1962 with a 1947 TE-20.”
Eager to work!
“Before I left
