Excerpt from To the Falklands at the Toss of a Coin
As the winter was now starting to set in it was time to start cutting tussock to feed the farm cows. The tussock grass was quite rich and the cows enjoyed their morning feed. When the gang turned to in the mornings, the first job before breakfast was to put the long blades of tussock through a chaff cutter, each man taking in turns to turn the wheel. The sacks of chaff would then be carried up to the cow yard and emptied into boxes for the cows to eat. One of the good things about Fox Bay East was that we always had plenty of milk and cream and, of course, the women could also make butter.

After seeing that the cows had been fed and having a break for breakfast, it would be back to work. All the gang, clad in oilskins with knife and steel in their belts, would then set about lowering the dinghy from the davits on the jetty. The pram would then be launched from its usual place where it was berthed in front of the carpenters shop doors, the pram being a flat bottomed boat and rather heavy was always pulled up after use using an old hand winch, which stood permently in position. Mike and five of the gang would then be rowed out to the big boat which was always moored to a buoy about fifty yards from the beach. The big boat was an old lifeboat that, it was said came off of one of the old sailing ships that was wrecked on the Islands. It was in pretty good condition for its age. It was about twenty five foot long and required a crew of five with a man on the tiller.

Mike the foreman, usually the man at the helm. When leaving the tussock island after a mornings cutting, the stern of the big boat would be stacked high with bundles of tussock, leaving just enough room for three pullers to row the boat back to the farm jetty.