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Is Greensand green cos of the unoxidised Fe therin, cos I saw traces of "spa" in one of the shots, i.e. oxodized iron="rust" m

Hold me back Bob! Cos ah love drains, Looks like Springs, also looks like running sand, which is to say sand(of a particular grading) suspended in/by water. Water MUST be rising, ERGO intercept the source i.e. "go deep" and solve the problem. But it would be useful to know the area & disposition of the wet spots. And yes "tramping" about with machinery is generally enough to disturb the soil structure such that the water very soon erupts elsewhere. The drains will almost certainly need Geotextile filter membrane to prevent the running sand infiltrating and blocking the pipes. Would LGP Eddie not have useful input? Cheers M

Pie Eater Pete, If David Tunstall chooses to sell the Solis tractor range, the engineering must be sound. Carraro front axle = "tick" Perking engine = "tick" Renault gearbox and back end = "Tick" all solid proven components. being bought by prudent farmers as "Scraper" tractors, tough and simple. Tunstall's mechanic was just finished removing all but 1st and reverse gears from a brand new 50HP one, ordered by a Diary farmer, for his "gung-Ho" Polish stockman, the only way he could keep the speed down apparently. A bit cumbersome I suspect with the longer wheelbase, and limited? steering angle, but steadier on the road/with a loader or linkbox. PS A source phoned me a few minutes ago that JD are bring on their "free" loader (worth 4k) with the 3036E this winter again (& same offer as last winter, with a cost-of-living few% price rise) I make that about £16,500 incl VAT, unless I misunderstood. So just perhaps I will satisfy myself with 36HP for now, and then trade up if needs be.

Now a MF 430, it is actually still for sale (unlike those other bollocks of WAY out of date(but always cunningly undated) internet adverts) , but MF430 price looking a bit stiff for my limited justification. Kubota MK500 or the wee Hurliman Prince 45 are my backstops (& identically priced too) Santa gonna be good to me:thumbup:

Currently looking at/sniffing around a Deutz Agrolux 65, c/w Trima loader & v low hours.

I note the chrome on the exposed ram still looks perfect, unlike many newer hydraulic rams Sigh!

Unimog 419 Ex US Army for Sale - Agri-Plant S.V. Ltd Eh What! Better run, Cos I see the Men In White Coats approaching

Erm, coughcough. Our "farm" was purchased from PAYE earned salaries, the Mrs. a teacher, me rising slowly from Scale 3 through to SO2(in my 50's), ingesting some considerable shite along the way. And Presbyterian delayed gratification thrift and prudence. And double jobbing.(taxes paid on that too) I actually have to work for a living, well, not really, but I choose to. m

Erm, cough, cough, Wot about ussens, that worked, paid PAYE, saved, paid taxes on that, kept ourselves insured, taxed again. etc etc Then bought property, and paid stamp duty on that forby. Hardly "free" was it, the property we bought, incl farmland.

As far as I am aware, lunch time mins/hrs(Fr/Sp/I) should be deducted, but not tea-breaks. At least that is how LGovt. works.

Statistics, statistics and dammned lies, have a lot to answer for. There is no poverty in this country except that which people inflict on themselves AND their children. If people no longer cook, which they dont, but rely on fast food outlets, & witness the no of them about, supply and demand 'n all that, and spend serious money on lottery tickets(witnessed in our local shop), they may plead poverty, but not sorry, this is not real poverty. Never mind the fags and booze. Never mind the perfectly good usable items of household and especially kitchen and electronic equipment dumped at our local Civic Amenity site, to be replaced by sommat shiney and new, for no good reason. The true poverty in this country is in the rise of post war career politicans who pander to the mostly feckless, who "want it all, & now". Instead of offering true "tough love" leadership. Marcus

(i)Do you know yer inter-axle ratio? (ii) Why are you retaining the origional fronts? (iii)i.e. perhaps consider new matching wider front and rear on the origonal rim diminsions, while keeping the inter-axle ratio correct. There a few good sources giving effective rolling radius/circumfrences out there, primarily Trellborg/Micheln. From the possessor of a way over-shod DB 1490, Fer Da Moss, running at about 12 to 15psi PS With the extra rim costs I cannot see the justification in "saving" 10% sidewall height, which I imagine should be "real-world" insignificent

Meh, am not bigly inta ma politics, ye ken Sur. Perfectly normal word in our NI dialect.

I was admiring a few Biro pen sized holes in the softwood I was splitting last week, again it had been lying 2 or 3 years, most impressive tunnelling work. And yon monster of a Hornet=Woodwasp I observed and mentioned on here. As my ould Uncle Tony would likely have commented; "I am glad she is sticking her boyo into dead trees an not my arse instead" m

That would be like pricing for a Ford Edge, and being supplied a Fiesta, at the Ford Edge price, you have priced for one task, and executed another, therefore the price should be different, especially if a deal of sucking teeth and underbreath muttering were any part of your protracted price calculation, for such a complex task. Which you then choose to do the easy way. To me it is clear that one should keep the customer informed, & explain; (i) Plan "A" is quick, cheap but risky, your household insurance or mine, for any damage arising.(And allowing for an insurance claim has to carry a price cost) (ii)Plan "B" is slower and therefore more expensive, but much safer. Regards Marcus

Well DOH!!! It absolutly never occured to me to use "Ox", in my search. cheers m

Since I near got well-burned by those "*entrepreneurs" at West Yorkshire Machinery. btw/fyi * the word "entrepreneur" is apparently interchangable with "rotten-whore", phonetically at least. Tunstalls Tractors are my reliable back-stop dealer. marcus

World's first 'flat pack truck' revealed | | Honest John I know there was a thread about this vehicle, but could not find it. cheers marcus

I detect a move, by the major brands towards a basic "Africa" spec tractor. Kubota brought out the MK 5000 JD has its 3036E varient et al Iseki has the new LTE 3400, all open station or cabless, limited mech gears(mostly) single speed PTO etc and I also came across a poverty spec cabless NH. So? Is this a fight back against the Kioti/Siromar/LS/Deadong whatever out of Korea and China? m

I am warming to an open station Hurlimann Prince 45 at sub £13k(brand new) or an even 16k with a sigma loader, on fat Ag tyres. A standard gearbox with a mechanical F-R shuttle, & otherwise a "proper" 40HP tractor. Like with a 2 speed PTO, quite a few of the poverty spec compact tractors (from leading manufacturers too) make do with a single speed PTO, CHEAPSKATES! Of course what I really really want is one of the 2 ex demo jd 4049, with fixed loader, cept they are 20k plus VAT. GULP More than I have ever spent on a car, even a new car.

Ok, prob a woodwasp then,(phew!) ah did wonder if it could really be a hornet.

see att doc Renault MAXTER G300 4x4.docx

The wasps here in Co Antrim are shocking small and scrawny for August, plus not many about, so much so, ah near feel sorry for them.

The hornet, the first I recall seeing, & I cant figure out what else it could have been, about 40mm long was taking a great interest in the fresh split sticks, but finally alighted on the mudguard of the tractor, quite a magnificent creature(as long as there is only one!) Then during a breather at the pond, endless smaller reddish dragonflies, and one humengeous blue one, which appears to have been a male emporer. Bloody thing would not let me get a photo though, with its super-fast zooming about. WOW! Life is good.