MikeTM150
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Funny you say that, just been asked by a customer who's setting up a HLS agreement how tight a curve we could make in the beetle banks across a 60acre field. The wildlife advisor suggested it as it's more natural........... going to be lovely for the next ten years working the bits in between for re-planting wild bird seed mixtures How do you describe the curve tightness of a plough in opposing directions?
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wife's reading it, every now and again there's a chuckle and I get a snippet read out loud to me...... filth pure filth!
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I'm still learning!!! The curve is levelling off slightly but don't think it'll ever stop being an uphill learning curve!! The joys of being in business as i'm sure you well know!
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we farm 1200acres organic, 600conventional, and do contracting on top....... but yes i putting my feet up now I've got a manager to run the day to day stuff!
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ah you gotta love the critics, he could be putting in an AD plant and using that to power the gas engine and half the local village and i'm sure he'd still have a line of critics waiting to tear chunks out of him! IMO he's definately making the right choice, it'll be a lot more reliable in IME and just as cost effective!
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try this side of the country south and its certaintly not dry....... just done a quick tot up of the pounds of kit sat in the shed that should be out working......got to £2million and stopped before i had a heart attack! They finally made touch screens in tractors that you can see, so hopefully they'll apply the technology to laptops soon!
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we've not had as many problems with biodiesel as we thought either, all the choppers and combines seemed to be fine left over winter. After all the hype it doesn't seem to have been half as bad. I reckon its worse at pulling paint off things though, our diesel bowser seems to have lost more paint recently than before where a bit gets spilt getting the nozzle in and out. Looks like your off to buy a diesel then stevie!
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diesel - one cheaper to source second hand units, and two we had a gas one running a forage drier and it was unrelieable and more difficult to repair yourself in desperation on a sunday afternoon. But I hold my hands up I prefer diesel to any other fuel as its farmer proof really!
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did it a while ago......not perfect but 99% reduction in them. The last straw was one call by a chap from italy called Ben with an asian accent......wanting to interview me about italian food and the method I use to pay for it..........
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I think your right!
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Herbicide! I wouldn't bother with Nroso if I didn't have every farm inspection asking to see it, biggest waste of time known to man in my eyes. We all do the bare minimum to keep up the points level and training, I'm BASIS trained but thats whole new another level! Chemical should be stroed and transported in a locked and sealed container.....
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engine size is irrelevant from the point of view of the maximum splitting pressure. What determines the splitting force is the pressure at which the relief valve blows. The bigger the engine the bigger the hydraulic pump, creating a larger oil flow to your splitter therefore increasing the speed of the splitter not actually the splitting force. I suspect what it happening with your zetor is the pressure relief valve is releasing early. I suspect the 'loader' works fine because it has bigger diameter rams therefore requiring less pressure for the same effort. The only way to check this reliably is to get a test gauge and see what pressure it will produce, not having ever worked on a zetor I can't tell you (but someone probably will) if the relief valve is adjustable or if they never actually produced a high oil pressure. Hope that helps!
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sounds like to me it maybe the pressure relief valve stuck, or set at too high a pressure. Resulting in the engine stalling before the valve has returned to the neutral position.
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difficult situation, if one of the fire service or the tree surgeon had hurt themselves everyone one would have jumped on the HSE band wagon and said they should never have been doing it and someone would be sued and sacked after a long winded investigation....... but when they didn't do it that was wrong as well......... no win situation in my eyes!
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new small scale forestry company
MikeTM150 replied to bunnybasher100's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
All I can say, as I know nothing of forestry work, what you have allowed for running and repairs to machinery, take that figure and double it! You will find that machinery will always cost more to run than you think, you'd be surprised at how expensive the smallest item can be and it soon tots up to a huge bill! No trying to be negative, I hope you succeed with it and prosper. But don't do yourself short now, as it'll come back and bite you when you need some cpaital for a new machine! -
I may be wrong, but I think thats the kind of timber a processor hates....... chainsaw and decent log splitter would be the way forward.
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having seen the local beekeeper remove a swarm from an apple tree in our garden last week, that's the best option I can see!
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If you were close enough i'd pick it up for free, but I wouldn't be paying for it and wouldn't be chipping any brash! And if I couldn't get the skidsteer in the garden i'd be long gone! Sounds lazy I know, but I don't sell firewood, so it'd only be for my use and I'd rather cut a dead tree down that I could get machines to than hump logs by hand.........
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Not nice, we had one of the foragers done over last year. All four tyres filled with drill holes........£6500 later 4 new tyres! Good luck!
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I'm not the only one then!!! But brilliant deer and a brilliant inspiration to the kids!!!!
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I planted some sycamore seeds....
MikeTM150 replied to grilling24x7's topic in Tree Identification pictures
i planted some sycamore seeds and they don't look like that at all, myn have small versions of a sycamore leaf on them and as their first true leaves. That almost looks like hornbeam to me............... -
thats about bang on the size i had in mind.......so how many logs on an artic????
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what annoys me about any of these sort of programs is everytime you have an ad break, the first half of the next section is spent recapping on whats already happened..............arggghhhhhh if people start watching halfway through i'm sure its not that hard to work out whats going on..........
