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  2. A public "good" must be paid for from the public purse

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    Posted · Edited by timberbear

    Why not offer salaries to farmers to take non profitable farms out of circulation and manage their farms for it's landscape and wildlife value. That way we could have large swathes of the countryside managed by people who know the land and will still have an income. This could be paid for by removing the subsidies from the larger profitable farms. If food prices creep up then perhaps VAT could be lowered as a compensatory measure.

     

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  4. A public "good" must be paid for from the public purse

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    I'm fortunate to own a 70ac farm in the Galloway hills. It has been taken out of it's previous intensive agricultural use. We now graze it with only 30 ewes and two cattle. It will never make a sustainable income as half the land is bog and rush. We currently receive £3600 in basic farm payments just for having the land. We allow the land to be grazed by a local lad on a prescriptive plan. The land is managed for wildlife, mainly wild flower and wading birds, it's frequented by shank, snip and curlew and is used by hen harrier and barn owl and the common red kit. We have otter using our burn and a 12ac meadow which is a carpet if wild flower. This year alone we have blocked ditches, flooded fields, planted 600 trees, fenced off the burns and dug 6 wader scrapes. We applied for a number of grants in total 26k over 4 years for the remaining grant period. I was amazed to have received a letter recently telling us we would not be receiving and funding. It made my blood boil when I know the land owner up the road has leased all his land out for a wind farm but still receives his payments, the very land where Hen Harrier were nesting. I read about grouse moors receiving state subsidies whilst making large profits but still getting away with the mass murder if birds of prey. I think it's important that wildlife is helped and that perhaps the only way is to fund certain farms in targeted areas to turn away from agriculture and instead manage the land for wildlife perhaps even giving farmers a small salary after all if they didn't farm then the tax payer still picks up the bill once their on benefits. Wildlife holds no boundaries and we need to what ever we can to preserve it. I know of folk who live in the country side and have never seen a linnet or yellowhammer, agriculture needs to make amends and we all need to play our part. My view anyway.

     

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  13. Stock fencing Chepstow?

    in Landscaping

    Posted · Edited by timberbear

    I'm up the road from chepstow and use a local fencer, had him in to do my sisters alpaca paddock on a very steep slope. If it's post and rylock (stock fencing) with two barbed on top expect about £6 per metre. Id put

    any rabbit netting behind the rylock to stop them pushing their way through it.

  14. Jersey

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    Lovely place to live and work I imagine. I've been there several times even had my honeymoon there. Lots to do for such a small place, climate is warm but being an island does take a battering in the winter and can be very wet. Easy to drive around but the roads can be very narrow and steep in places. Not cheap to rent and it's expensive for some goods as everything gets shipped in from the mainland. I've got a cuz who runs a H&S training company on the island. He arrived there twenty years ago and married a local! There are lots of rules of who can cant buy a house or land there. Oh and there's red squirrels everywhere!

  17. Bat Boxes

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    Like TGB says ladders are best, most boxes I've installed are usually only 4 to 6m up on the main trunks, this allows for easy inspection. If they are made of timber then there nice and light but the cast ones made of sawdust and concrete can be heavy. I've used a sling and small pulley around the trunk chocked a few feet above installation point and got someone to simply pull them up. Have they said how they want them attached?

  20. Stock fencing

    in Landscaping

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    The main reason people don't like it is because of the way it looks, I think it looks ok and doesn't stand out from a distance. X fence isn't the cheapest but its an excellent very rigid net, so much easier to pull up than hinge joint and goes much tighter. A good clipex fence, correctly installed is like a big elastic band and very tough. The one we are doing at the moment with the beefy posts is like a wall. Its a lot quicker to erect and no stapling. Another factor is how compact the materials are, you can get 4 x the amount of posts in the same space as timber which is good where access is bad. The only thing I don't use a lot of is the strainers as they are very expensive so use creosote ones as they have more hold for turning and are a lot cheaper.[/

     

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    Do you have any pictures of it in situation? How does it hold out when you have runs that follow steep contours and a meandering burn. I like the idea of using it with timber strainers as I think it would be easier to install on boulder strewn land especially where I'm following a fallen dyke. I've managed to narrow my requirements down to about 850m made up of three separate continuous runs.

  21. Show your tractors

    in Picture Forum

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    A good link box might be handy on soft ground too. I've been looking at one for my little AGT but not quote got round to it.

     

     

    Yep they look really handy especially the tipping ones, ive got a spare pair of pallet forks that I'll be using on it, handy to for carrying posts on.

  22. Show your tractors

    in Picture Forum

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    I went for a Hall Engineering 2.25 tonne dump trailer, well suited and comes standard with flotation tyres. Can recommend, well made- British engineering!!

     

     

    I think I've seen that one whilst browsing, could you post a pic? I know it sounds anal but I'm hoping to get one the colour of the tractor! 😂

  25. Stock fencing

    in Landscaping

    Posted

    I work cundy, they are what I call rough rounds,

    Now I'm willing to guarantee they are pine or spruce, the almost certainly won't be larch

     

    Ive no issues with them I tell the customer who they are and leave them to decide if the want to go ahead.

    What diameter my supplier does 2-3.5 inch , or 3-4 inch ones around 40p difference in cost.

     

     

    Been offered 3" machine peeled posts at £1.77 and 4" cundies at £2.10 so yes about 40p, given how exposed the fence line will be I'm edging towards the 4" cundies.

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