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He put his number at the bottom of the article. Feel free to voice your opinions lol

Very, very quiet for me. I thought it was down to the Spring being late and people holding back waiting for things to grow, but still not a lot happening for me. Maybe people are really cutting back this year.

Thats a fair price, hold your ground. Also replacing bearings properly or leaks in the case are fairly high skill repairs.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/blossom-wilt @Peasgood is the expert

Well, Saturday, bit of firewood, also got to play with new (to me) 462, and yeh, i likes 😍

Hello forum. First post I have an established apple tree in my small back garden. Last year we got a good crop of fruit. Its dropped its blossom and started producing leaves in the last few weeks but there are quite a lot of dead and dryed out leaves at the end of it's newer spurs and branches. See pics. After a bit of googling I'm wondering if this is fire blight? Or just the tree not getting enough water to it's roots? The garden used to be turf and we recently paved it. I also cut off quite a lot of old and damaged wood in February, but I don't think so much that it would damage the tree. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Richard.

7 words. just saying.

I don't suppose he understands or is interested in crucial details like that. Also, I'm sceptical about this achieving much - "A new supply chain adjudicator, Richard Thompson, will also be appointed, to help ensure fairness in the supply chain". I can't see him wanting to upset big business too much, by forcing the supermarkets to stop screwing the small suppliers. Too little, too late springs to mind. A more considered coverage of the story;- PM sets out blueprint to boost British fruit and vegetable production | News | Fruitnet WWW.FRUITNET.COM Rishi Sunak announces a raft of support for horticulture sector at Farm to Fork Summit as government publishes its first UK Food...

Offer to put the knackered bearings back in ....FOC

Sadly it's the same in pretty much every profession & industry, except maybe dentistry, my usual response is how much do you charge!. Usually they say how they earn XXX and then you glaze over thinking you're charging a quarter of that per hour and feeling like a mug. That's my price, they might argue but will pay it and most importantly don't ever come back!.

Imagine the response would be "how much an hour!". I remember being in my local dealers and someone came to collect a little saw, they were grumbling about the £30 odd repair price as in the end it only needed a new spark plug. The guy calmly explained that they were paying for X years of knowledge to know it needed a spark plug and then fit the correct one, and if the customer had that knowledge they'd happily have sold them the correct part for a fiver, "but you don't" was the end of the grumbling.

Know what you're saying stubby, but shouldn't have to.

If I said OK, I will go and plant a few acres of apples to do my bit it would be 5 years from now before I picked a meaningful crop. By that time he quite possibly won't even be a politician any more. If he said he would guarantee any growers a price that should give them a profit he could be drowning in apples. He won't, we can't. It doesn't take a genius to figure out this country is going to be very hungry in the coming years. It actually scares me as a lifelong fruit and veg producer how bad this supply situation actually is.

We are £50 per hour plus vat plus the parts. And that labour rate needs to go up due to the minimum wage increase recently. That hourly rate has to cover all staff involved in the repair process....the mechanic, the reception staff, the admin etc, plus business running costs. You did well to fix them both in that time as well....and not to find any further issues when you got them apart. If it was in our situation we would always give the customer an estimate of costs before doing the job.....always prevents issues at a later date like yours. Even if you are doing it as a sideline

They are known as road snakes, they are supposed to do exactly what you can’t see them doing, it’s just tar poured into cracks to stop them spreading. Never did any of it myself, the gang I worked on did the major resurfacing jobs, plane and machine lay with some hand lay where the surfacer couldn’t get in.

Rishi Sunak urges Brits to grow more apples and pears, as PM warns over-reliance on food imports could undermine the UK's security | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Rishi Sunak (pictured) will use a food summit in Downing Street to tell farmers they are 'vital to the security and fabric of...

It’s a completely reasonable price. Have you still got the machines?

Me too

I'd have been pretty pleased with the price

Yeah, the government throws in next doors tree as a sweetener.