MikeTM150

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!!!

ring them up, explain, see what they say, if they aren't much help suggest replacement or refund. If still no luck, politely say thank you and goodbye, then erase the number from your phone/memory and move supplier. Vote with your feet, its what all business is based on.

Um not trying to be devils advocate, but which bit of ppe would protect the side of ur neck??

In my opinion do the whole course, i know whats it like to be doing more education thinking i wanna be out working do my dream job. But trust me life may throw some surprises your way and it will help to broaden your knowledge. Learning doesn't stop when u leave, the wider platform u have when u leave makes it alot easier to keep learing when u do leave! Sorry its bit long winded, but stick with it and i think it will pay you back in time!

I brought some of these fencing stakes that our warranty'd for 10yrs, paid the premium thinking it'd be worth it. The stakes came and the driver laughing gave me a piece of paper with some small print on it, quote from said small print 'warranty invalid if any item of any description is driven or screwed into the post howsoever done' I burst out laughing rung my supplier up and asked if i'd got the date wrong and it was april the first....... it was about last september. u gotta love the small print!

it does make u wonder why u bother i will agree with that, but remember he will only sell a few loads once he's realised how hard it is and that the customers are more fussy than he ever gave credit for!!!

the trackers we use are 'farm alert' ones, no subscription just the cost of the texts it sends to alert you to its status, ie within zone or time or its being moved outside zone or time schedule! Its accurate to 1 metre, as i have proved when i couldn't find it when it was knicked and they have buried it deep in a thick hedge.....to me a while to work out where it was! Bloody good feeling when you get it back from them. I'm sure i heard the same voice saying 'cut off their hands' !!!!

having driven a 90 and disco 2 for a few years i can definately say our new tractor is streets ahead on comfort and road handling. Comfort wise it even would beat a brand new rangie sport, but probably not a bentley!!!

wow thats seriously impressive!!!! Brilliant job!

Now thats a seriously difficult problem, china have tried but i'm not sure you could say they've found the ultimate answer. I could get rid of a few of our population with a shotgun and it'd be no more than they deserved in my opinion. We farm organically, and the likes of the soil association (whom i don't certify with!) who claim organic could feed the current population are barking mad. it would leave so much land unviable to food production the level of food production would be well below what is currently required. I wouldn't dispute if we could save 75% of the food wasted every year we would undoubtably be in a better position to reduce the gap between unsustainable food production and feeding the population!

I think we can all agree that the real problem with the human/enviroment balance is huge human population that is increasing still exponentionally with very little control. Personally i believe we will become, or already have become the makers of our demise! Not just because of the poor enviromental effect we have on our own ecosystem as a human species but also the health problems associated with a population expanding at an exponential rate. Science can only take us so far at a given speed, the speed its developing maybe exponential but there are limits to which it can sustain the current human population explosion. I think the program demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that exisit between a species and its enviroment and the effect of outside sources upon that species. For example, they discuss that at one time there was a large popultion of amazonians living in an area of deforestation, however i think its fair to agree that this would have been a much slower growth curve to the populations growth and to effeciency at deforestation. This slower curve would have given more time for ecosystems to change and adapt to the new enviroment and for the population to adapt to their changing environment, and therefore not causing such a detrimental effect on the enviroment. In reality, I believe the human species is setting its own course for it own demise at some point in the future, and the only real effect we can have on our own ecosystem is to slow the population growth down. Otherwise we will further increase the gap between those who can afford a varied and wide ranging healthy diet, and those who are forced to survive on nothing more than the bare minimum. We are now a global species effecting every corner of the earth. Sorry its so long but i, as a farmer feel very strongly about the way our global environment is expected to produce food and energy whilst supporting a natural wildlife ecosystems all at the same time. It cannot do it all for the ever increasing population!

very true, and we rely on global trade for products we can't produce ourselves. Population size is really the problem, and thats not going to stop increasing in the near future! The problem with deforestation these days, is it happens too quickly and too aggresively. But when someones going to make a pound or two there'll always be somebody who'll be there doing it no matter what the ehtics are. Its a great shame and i think your right promoting a trade platform that encourages sustainable use of resources has a higher possibility of effecting a sustainable response.

if we all brought british food and products we'd help this situation. i admit we won't stop it but it'd all help!!!!

some kind of swinging jib on the side of the trailer with a simple hand/electric winch on it so u lift, swing through the rear of the trailer with ramp down the lower........ hopefully u'd be able to keep light and simple and not too high above sides of trailer? I'm trying, even the wifes agrees with that part!!!

we;ve got a wood within a stones throw with about 15acres of hazel coppice exactly like that, but they won't let me touch it.............

should think worth more as firewood........

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