MikeTM150

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........

telehandler.........

I'd take loads of wood chip free of charge in return for the firewood sized stuff staying aswell, but i suspect i'm not gonna get much take up on that!

my opinion is electric when u really balls the teeth up.......nice bit of steel or stone, then get the ellecy out and even it all up good. Otherwise its a hand file, i find i get much sharper nicely shaped tooth with a hand file. Its £100 of oregon on bar ellecy system, but i find it just doesn't give such a nice shaped tooth, and time u've set it up on the bar u could have a few teeth done!!! Each to their own, but owning a 48" bar for the 880, hand sharpening isn't a 5min job either way.:thumbup:

we've had loads of them this year, light the wood burner after about 10mins they're flying around half dopey still but soon warm up to full life. I get the vaccum to suck it up, seems easiest thing, while the wife has the preferred method of using the ash shovel to 'swat' it..........not her best moments! Never known them like it before, but we must have had 20 this winter, but less now i've changed wood sheds which was stacked after the first!

they're types of bird calls aren't they?

whilst at uni i used to drive a 14ton roll on roll off trailer with a palfinger on the front of it for a chap to earn some extra cash. The only thing against it in my eyes (and it probably wouldn't be so bad on a smaller trailer) was the extra length of drawbar for the crane to fit onto. Seemed to make the trailer so much more clumsy. Aslo sometimes the extra weight right over the drawbar when the trailer was empty could make it bit more difficult to get the tractor to push the trailer where u wanted when reversing if it was real slippy ground. Great bit of kit, very versatile and found he had me picking up all sorts of wiered and wonderful things with it. he had quite a big crane on it, came off an artic revocery unit if i remember right, would lift something like 3t at 10m. U'll love it, go wireless on the crane if u can!!!

I think you should be treating this as a lesson to everyone to watch out for mistakes like that. You shouldn't make him pay for it, that would do more harm than good. You just have to take it on the chin and lump it. Thats one of the downsides to employing people, if he keeps making mistakes and becomes nonchalant about it then P45 it is but you gotta teach young people and sometimes that costs.

go to your local ag merchants and ask for a long term grass ley, you wanna put about 125kg on 10acres, you can plant now but as above you'd be best leaving till march. We've planted in early Feb before now into cold soil and it took nearly 6weeks to germinate, and hence germination was poor. Plant in early to mid march into warmer soils them it'll be up in a fortnight! Grass seeds aren't cheap this year, poor harvest last year coupled with higher wheat prices forcing growing areas up and reducing grass seed production areas mean big hike in price. And that when i brought 235acres worth of seed it was still a hefty price!

that is the one thing with dogs, but our night dogs only eat food if its in the their day runs, i've been very careful to teach them that so hopefully they won't eat any food outside day runs. But never say never i guess. Good luck getting the food in the yard, there's only two of us here who will put them away or let them out. I wouldn't trust them too far, they like to nip you if u don't feed them quick enough in the morning!