MikeTM150

hadn't noticed how close that was!!! I'd have let go of the saw personally, they can be replaced ur arm can't!!

Don't think the chap thought this through before agreeing to do it on camera!! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggdnI3dRo]FAILS WORLD - Chainsaw accident - YouTube[/ame]

Were still using a Honda mower that's a good 20yrs old (i know it won't be built the same quality now!) don't think its ever had an oil change and at best gets a blade sharpen once or twice a year, great mower would recommend but I'm sure there's something cheaper out there!

If i led on a beautiful beach drinking beer like that, i can guarantee that the only wet thing to get put in my face would be the black labs sloppy chops waking me up from dreaming that above!!!! :lol::lol:

Well as i understand it this may not be so simple these days, Customs and Revenue i believe amended the act to allow for us farmers now travelling further with our machines between land parcels. We just rely on not getting caught and ultimately you can just make a declaration at the end of the month to them declaring the amount of red you have used outside the scope and just pay the extra road tax on top....... but have never done it!

2am the tractors start and shortly after the vaccum pumps start 7days a week...... i get out of bed about half 6. Thats the joy of employing a herdsman with insomnia!!!

Just wondered if anybody had any experience of the hybrid elm's available resistant to Dutch elm disease? All elm tree's around get wipe'd out with it and if these hybrids are worth planting?

go in to ur local agriculture spares place (not ur large main dealership type but your cheap any part fits kinda place!) and say have u got something to match this. Or failing that you can get convoluted replacement radiator hose and u'd probably find u'd get a size to squeeze over the one end and tighten down the other with a jubilee clip or two.

incredible is all i can say. In every way!!! Thanks for posting:001_smile:

burn it, it'll produce some heat, won't be the best i'm sure!

they do, u just gotta swap a few minor bits :lol:

your are going down the right route in my opinion, if you can prove that you need residence on site to care for your animals then that will aid your case but not make it a definate. There's a farmer close to here who has tried to get planning for a house on some land next to a new shed he erected away from his main farmyard for him to live in and his parents to stay in main farm yard. But the planners keep refusing it, he's calved his cows and then grazed them in fields next to it to try and increase his cause but the planners aren't budging still. So yes it will help but not make it definitive, how secluded is the property? No option of just moving in, hoping the planners don't get wind of it and after 5years you will have full rights to change its use to residential? Good luck!

thanks for posting that, its made me feel very normal again on a monday morning!!!

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either u don't know what truly dry hands can do in terms of pain and bleeding or ur gonna have some ugly hands when ur older!!! Some good suggestions and i might have to try udder cream as i could buy that and claim the VAT back..............

aahhhhh lisa............

i'm sure many of you like me spend many hours outside in the dry cutting wind and this mixed with wet hands is a reciepe for dry chapped hands.......i've tried every cream under the sun and some from further a field but i've found the ultimate for curing it now......wife's preganant and brought some 'Derma Mum' cream for helping to stop stretch marks. She kept saying how nice it was and how long it stayed on her bump...... so the other morning sat having my first cuppa of day thinking whats about i can put on my hands......bingo there's a big pot of 'Derma Mum' on the side i'll try that. Bingo indeed, brilliant stuff, for the first time i can safely say its the best thing i've used. Kept my hands soft and supple all day, lovely job no more faffing with some fancy cream its the bee's knee's!!!!:thumbup:

this will make you giggle, we have a bridleway right through our farm yard, right pain in arse but mainly just locals use it and are very respectful of it being busy farmyard with large noisy machinery. But our local ramblers group took exception and decided they shouldn't have to put up with walking through the farm yard, i suggested well thats fine we can move it (thinking brilliant chance of lifetime i'll go with this!) but little did i realise they actually meant move the farm yard or stop the farm in it............... i attended a few meetings and was bewildered at what planet they were on. Real shame because we've always got on well with our local authority rights of way officer when there's been an 'issue', but now drives me up the wall when she rings up and says the ramblers have got an issue with something.....usually because i haven't made a track through an organic wheat crop or rolled a track over some ploughing but they can walk up a mountain with no problems!!!! gggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Its been on a few weeks, i thought it would be good, but turned off first episode after 5mins. Its like they've found the most annoying people to drive some lorries and then try and make it exciting with lots of hype in my eyes. Shame cuz i think it could have been good........the rest of the episodes might have been better i don't know......

is that over priced then the one at wilsons, just i am sort of looking for a winch for a few mishap recoverys and that price isn't too far from what i'd be willing to pay for 9t pulling capapcity?

find your local friendly farmer or engineer and off them some cash and they'll get the bottle swapped, i do it for a couple of people if they can supply a spare bottle to exchange. I only charge them what the gas costs so they get and a good deal and it costs me no more to do it!

Thanks. ITs the start of a slippery slope when u let them in the house, but just pop them up stairs for a quick rinse inthe bath with the mrs, i'm sure she won't mind!

been reading this thread since it started and was thinking yeah, guess this'll be me when my old lab has to be put down, thinking well that'll be a good few years yet hopefully. Little did i know that within the space of a week i'd have to make that decision, only 9yrs old but diagnosed with lymphoma. 10days ago she became older very quick, then soon went down hill, went to a specialist encologist vet who said yes they can treat her for a few grand, and it may give her months but she may be very ill during the chemotherapy and not make a full recovery. So i did the best for her and put her to sleep friday night, and buried her under an oak tree i planted last year looking out across the farm. I have never blubbed like a baby so much! I'll miss her so much, she was my best friend and has seen me through a sticky patch or two. She'll be greatly missed by us all. I know how you feel Mr Blair and i can agree it ain;t an easy decision to make. But i know we have both done the best for our dogs!

cripes i thought the 1.2mb we get on a good day was poor, i have to say were not with BT and they weren't much cop at helping with the problem. But eventually they got the BT engineers out to look at it, who were very helpful themselves. But couldn't find much wrong that could be sorted, basically too far from exchange, poor cable with too many repairs in it. But it does make you desperate when you ring up help desk and they keep asking you to try the same thing again and again........i might not be the best with technology but even i know turning it off and on cure's 99%of technology problems!!!