The Weighbridge.
A trailer goes on, a number appears, the trailer comes off. Do that two hundred times in three weeks and you have the year’s result, which is why this is the most consequential camera on the estate and the least interesting to look at.
- Angle
- Fixed · 24 mm
- Live
- Harvest · July to September
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.3%
What it is actually pointed at.
Every load of grain leaving a field crosses this plate. The weight, the moisture and the field it came from go into the harvest record, and by the end of August the record is the only honest account of what the year did.
In 2025 that account was grim. Wheat down about thirty per cent, barley down about forty, durum under two tonnes a hectare against an expected six. A planned thirty-seven thousand pound profit became a loss of roughly five thousand. This camera watched all of it happen, one trailer at a time.
That is the argument for the whole of Gawping in a single frame. A television programme is cut. A weighbridge is not.
Worth watching when.
| When | What you get |
|---|---|
| Harvest, 09:00 until dark | Loads crossing. Perhaps one every twenty minutes on a good day. |
| A wet afternoon | Nothing. The combine stops when the moisture goes up and so does everything else. |
| Late August | The last load, which nobody films and everybody remembers. |
| Out of harvest | A stamped still, and the season’s totals under it. |
Across the year, on this camera.
Idle.
The plate gets swept and that is the extent of it.
Barley first, usually, and the first real number of the year.
Wheat, and the three weeks that decide the whole thing.
The tail end, then the totals go up on the archive page.
The rig on this one.
The Weighbridge
- Mount
- Grain store corner, 4.4 m
- Lens
- Fixed, 24 mm equivalent
- Stream
- 1080p at 25 fps, 2.2 Mbps
- Overlay
- Load count, published after the fact
- Live when
- Harvest only
- Uptime, 90 days
- 99.3% in season
Uptime is the rolling ninety-day figure. When the stream is not available this page shows the last good frame instead: Out of harvest it is a still, with the season’s tonnage printed underneath.
The four things every camera here promises.
Fixed
No pan, tilt or zoom for anybody outside the farm office.
Silent
No audio on this camera or any other.
Pointed at us
No footpath, no neighbour’s land, no public highway in frame.
Fallback
Out of harvest it is a still, with the season’s tonnage printed underneath.
The other cameras.
Nine others, all fixed, all silent, all pointed at this farm.
What is worth watching this month.
A table of the whole year, camera by camera, so you are not opening ten tabs to find the one with something in it.
