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It is quite depressing seeing how little 2nd hand tractors were worth 10 year ago. Ditto for new ones I also realise.

I based my remark on a comment I read, made by a farmer last night, on his return from a packed to capacity monthly machinery buyers group, which group apparently comprises a mix of farmers with their own acreage, tenant farmers, contractors and each and every other permutation connected to agriculture. They all were saying that as a result of yesterday's budget, that they were not for buying any machinery, even if they had otherwise planned to so do. If true this has to have major implications for the sake of agricultural machinery. I suppose the auction prices will be the first "tell".

"Every cloud has a silver lining" time post yesterdays budget, with its kick in the teeth to land owners and farmers re IHT changes, which is bound to hit agricultural machinery sales, in the short-term at least. So how do I best take advantage?

I am of the opinion the TR is a thug on the make, shades of Hitler, perhaps, but without the brains, BUT! he has much material to use, wrt the two tier justice system with its total aversion to getting to grips with non white pedophiles, criminals, benefits abusers crash-for cash specialists, or terrorists, let alone those criminal thugs that like to travel about in caravans, all while jumping all over and instantly jailing so-called "far right" activists, or people who offend the all too easily offended on-line, by using nasty rude language FFS! The disparity in treatment is downright blatent.

Btw. I still got the 1490 for timber extraction. So I am not bothered about my "new" tractor being forest proof. It will be saved for road work and other non contact pastimes. But with a loader, preferably. I seem to be caught between non-electronic but shagged done 1990's stuff, and fresher but prone to electronic failure newer stuff. Gerrr I would not rule out the likes of Kubota, Kioti, Tumosan or Armatrac. Cheers

Had a look at a 2013 MF 5455 wi loader, local dealer =36k + V, GULP Prob pop over to Limavady on Mon to look at thissun Case JX1100U Tractor - DA Forgie Limavady Lisburn FORGIE.COM Case JX1100U 2005 4277 hours Quicke front loader (not long on) Simple tidy tractor locally owned Though it should be an x4(bigger) loader for this tractor size!

I watched a very factual Youtube about how wind and solar can only(as yet) follow national grid frequency, since they generate DC which must be changed to A.C with invertors, which must match the frequency they provide to the grid. Except when the grid goes down, these invertor sources muct switch themselves OFF. Which is so really really useful when the dammned grid is needing more juice. Etc etc etc

I would kinda say 50/50 liability. The MEWP should not have been used there(without lane or road closure!) BUT The "professional" bus driver, being held to higher standards SHOULD have seen it. Except I suppose the law looks at the fact that the collision could not have happened if the MEWP had not been there. Simples.

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Was it China or Vietnam, where our unwanted used tyres were exported to, at our some great expense to us, for them to use as free and unregulated or emissions controlled fuel for their ceramic kilns! To produce tat to sell back to us! Thats the hypocritical way, export the pollution.

Thank you Mr Blue, but no loader, and apart from the drivers seat, looks dog-rough and rusty, specially round the back end. Though if I wanted a direct replacement for the DB 1490 to plunder about through the moss and and extract trees with, "quite perfect".

I would probably be good with the 30Km/Hr, being somewhat used to 20 Km in the 1984 1490 DB. And over the 6 miles, mostly on mossy and virtually single track roads, not a lot of odds between 30 and 40 k, sans front axle suspension?

Thanks folks, those suggestions gives me something to mull over. Budget is flexible enough, but the "need" is the problem, being rather marginal, to occassionally tend to a bit of ground 6 miles away. But being fully retired and taking life leisurely, road speed is not that critical of an issue. Thanks again.

I got a mixed bag o shite about me, tractor wise. Non of them are road worthy, either due to advanced age and unattended decrepitude🤗, and dead slow regardless, or too slow and cabless. Or actually tracked! I need sommat for a 12 mile round trip, 100/120 HP probably plenty? And a loader would be nice. Towing capacity, guessing not exceeding 10 tonne, for potentially a "farmers" sized digger on a low loader. Thoughts?

Money talks!

No idea re its past history, except that I bought it through a club, a wealthy farmer in Kildare had had it, and had had it re-engined(by a genuinely gifted engineer) with an OM605 c/w a Dieselmekkan IP, and indeed it goes like stink once wound up, frighteningly so on the somewhat oversized tyres.. But I figure(ed), in hindsight, that after he had had the replacement engine fitted, he took it for a play on a beach, and dropped the pass side in an unseen hole, and the salt water got in the cill and pass footwell, cos the drivers side is not so afflicted, whereas on the pass side the heads of the seat box securing bolts were stupid rusted away as was the very front body mounting bolt head. And playing card sized slabs of rust 4 to 5mm thick falling out of the pass side drop-cill. But the son enjoys driving her, and since she is 1989 reg , a few more years will see her turned forty . . . so I figured I would invest some time on her. P.S. When I get her through the MOT, that will be 3 out of the 4 fully road legal, since I got the van restored professionally last year, and the wee red G turned 40 this year. So only 1 to go!, Another 1989 LWB 300GD, cept this one is origonal and unmolested with very good trim and carpets. Which vehicle the son in law, who is also big into his G Wagens wishes to do up properly with MB parts where required, because she is so unmolested and original. I bought the vehicle to be Senior Management's daily driver, but then got the opportunity to buy the automatic van a few months later. So I simply parked her up. Gibber, mutter an twitch.

The rotten, salt water exposed G Wagen A few random images, the more I look, the more I find. Salt water had got into the cills and the front pass footwell/ carpet, as evidenced by the rust. Though oddly? The floor is sound, other than beneath the floor behind the rear seat. The aluiminium water pump housing was also corroded and perforated, and being "NLA" it has been welded, fingers crossed#. The radiator was also rotten, so it was recored. Etc etc etc. P.S. The wings are over 1 £ thousand each, times 2, plus ditto for the inner wings. Gulp So bodge it it is.

Some, Yes a Cheese plant, a Monstera, which I thought produced breadfruit?, having briefly googled the image. That porch behind the 2 story high glazed front to the house, must have been hitting 30 deg, at head height of recent, and as humid as all get out, since I closed the upstairs windows on the landing. It is probably actually hottest in the Spring and Autumn, with the lower Sun throwing the rays better in through the vertical glass. And other than that, pure benign neglect/ aka survival of the fittest! Though I do randomly feed with Tomarite type fertiliser. Cheers Mth To add, no veggies being grown, pure lazyitis cum some long standing MH issues, but fingers crossed I might make, I intend to make a fresh start next spring. And I have been pondering growing herbs/spices even? In that front porch, like thinking of fabricating weldmesh( & hot dip galv) shelving/racking up both sides, to grow stuff in pots. Better at imagining than actually doing. Currently too busy welding at a rotten, rotten G Wagen to focus on owt else. For now.

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The Breadfruit are coming along nicely! Only problem is getting out the front door. To add, about a fortnight ago, as we were leaving the house I remarked to my wife, that I was going to teach the thug some manners by chopping it off, "just here" and as I indicated where it was for getting the chop, I noticed something different, the beginnings of the fruit buds/shoots. Phew!

As above, I have noticed uprooted bullrushes,i.e. the roots floating, plus no distinctive flowerheads this year. Guessing an otter might be responsible for the uprooting while attempting to dig out a frog? But this is the first year with no flowerheads. BTW The bullrushes seeded themselves and are now well established in the pond. Cheers, mth

Funny enough we have always had a local nut and bolt supplier, in Bendooragh, at the crossroads, Boyds, they used to build threashing mills, a most nondescript small old tin roofed barn as was, I have only had to use them once to source old imperial(of some sort?) bolts for the David Brown tractor, no mystery, he walks in the back and returns with what I needed. The business will prob die with the current owner unfortunately(my notion only) and the ground be sold for housing. And another part of our local heritage will be gone for ever.

Despite being in Northern Ireland, tis now positively balmy here this evening.

Ere mate! Wees is well "oop North" an forby that well out to the West, so more wind exposure. And anyway tha heat is mostly for the wife. Though as I lie here post lunch, tis touching 25 in here in a wee blink of afternoon Sun. I need to summon my willpower and get back to welding at the rather rusty Parsons Egg aka the Black Bollix which is to say a 1989 G Wagen that the previous owner got bogged ( but undisclosed to me) on a beach. Scabs of solid rust the size of a playing card and fully 4mm thick falling out of, what is left of, the cills. So far I have removed the full of a black bucket of underseal, rust and rusty bits of steel. Etc etc etc.

We appear to be 100% O.K.