During the Spring and Summer holidays, I'd work at the Guinness hop farms at Bodiam. Before picking started, I'd be checking for verticillium wilt, and writing up the affected gardens, and during the long Summer hol, when I was much younger, I'd be working either on their mobile radio base set, taking the calls and sending info etc., (a bit like a forces radio network), or, eventually, fitter's mate on the several big machines we had all over the village and beyond!
All in all, it was great fun, especially on the machines around now!