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Nothing to lose then. It has worked for a lot of people in similar circumstances. 👍

Certainly true if pulling a trailer but not so bad if dragging logs, pulling rollers harrows etc. Look up "9 hole drawbar", they are made specifically to do just that.

I assume you mean the clutch plate has stuck itself to the flywheel. Two ways to fix it, first is wedge the clutch pedal down with a weight or piece of wood and leave it a week. With a bit of luck it will free itself. Second way is to hold the clutch down and just drive it around for a while, putting a bit of a strain on it if you can by driving it up a hill (be careful buggering about on hills!). They usually give after a while and often with quite a bang.

This is a pic off ebay but I made a set for myself. Very useful, easy to make assuming you can weld or not especially dear to buy. Great for IBC, pallets of allsorts, tree trunks etc. Highly recommended even if you have a forklift attachment as well.

I'm surprised they are worth that much, and also surprised you can take it off in 3 minutes as ours is a lot more involved than that (it's not 3 point linkage). I do have a couple of 3pl forklifts that I use on other tractors, very useful bits of kit.

Got exactly the same thing on one of our 35's. Ours has sideshift too.

I doubt you will lose with either but the 35 is a damned good little tractor.I much prefer to use a tractor with no cab (but wouldn't use one without a rollbar). Ford is more powerful but I too would still prefer a 35. I have a 35, been here since new, recent engine rebuild and used on my farm for what it was made for. Extremely useful little tractors.

A friend of mine once built a canoe. He spent a long time on it and it was a work of art. Almost the final phase was to fill both ends with polyurethane expanding foam. He duly ordered the bits from Mr Glasplies (an excellent purveyor of all things fibreglass) and it arrived in two packs covered with appropriately dire warnings about expansion ratios and some very good notes on how to use it. Unfortunately he had a degree, worse still two of them. One was in Chemistry, so the instructions got thrown away and the other in something mathematical because in a few minutes he was merrily calculating the volume of his craft to many decimal places and the guidelines got binned as well. He propped the canoe up on one end, got a huge tin, carefully measured the calculated amounts of glop, mixed them and quickly poured the mixture in the end of the canoe (The two pack expands very rapidly). I arrived as he was completing this and I looked in to see the end chamber over half full of something Cawdors Witches would have been proud of. Two thing occurred to me, one was the label which said in big letters: "Caution - expansion ration 50:1" (or something similar) and the other that the now empty tins said "approximately enough for 20 small craft" Any comment was drowned out by a sea of yellow brown foam suddenly pouring out of the middle of the canoe and the end of the canoe bursting open. My friend screamed and leapt at his pride and joy which was knocked to the ground as he started trying to bale handfuls of this stuff out with his hands. Knocking the craft over allowed the still liquid and not yet fully expanded foam to flow to the other end of the canoe where it expanded and shattered that end as well. A few seconds later and we had a canoe with two exploded ends, a mountain of solid foam about 4ft high growing out of the middle, and a chemist firmly embedded up to his armpits in it. At this stage he discovered the reaction was exothermic and his hands and arms were getting very hot indeed. Running about in small circles in a confined space while glued to the remains of a fairly large canoe proved ineffective so he resorted to screaming a bit instead. Fortunately a Kukri was to hand so I attacked the foam around his hands with some enthusiasm. The process was hindered by the noise he was making and the fact he was trying to escape while still attached to the canoe. Eventually I managed to hack out a lump of foam still including most of his arms and hands. Unfortunately my tears of laughter were not helping as they accelerated the foam setting. Seeking medical help was obviously out of the question, the embarrassment of having to explain his occupation (Chief Research Chemist at a major petrochemical organisation) would simply never have been lived down. Several hours and much acrimony later we had removed sufficient foam (and much hair) to allow him to move again. However he still looked something like a failed audition for Quasimodo with red burns on his arms and expanded blobs of foam sticking everywhere. My comment that the scalding simple made the hairs the foam was sticking to come out easier was not met with the enthusiasm I felt it deserved. I forgot to add that in retrospect rather unwisely he had set out to do this deed in the hallway of his house (the only place he later explained with sufficient headroom for the canoe - achieved by poking it up the stairwell. Having extricated him we now were faced with the problem of a canoe construction kit embedded in a still gurgling block of foam which was now irrevocably bonded to the hall and stairs carpet as well as several banister rails and quite a lot of wallpaper. At this point his wife and her mother came back from shopping...... Oh yes - and he had been wearing the pullover Mum in law had knitted him for his birthday the week before.

I tried cold sore cream but can't say it seemed to do much. This was at the advice of a pharmacist, not just something I tried on a whim. Zovirax® Cold Sore Cream | Zovirax® WWW.ZOVIRAX.CO.UK Zovirax® Cold Sore Cream gets to the core of your cold sore helping stop the virus and heal your blister. Find out more... First time I had it I had stuff from the doctor that did seem to help a bit. Mine lasted about a fortnight, my Dad has had it for a couple of years and counting! (not suggesting yours will last that long)

My "cheap" copies were over £300

I was watching the news and all the NHS saying they couldn't cope, I wondered then why the Nightingale Hospitals weren't being reopened.

I have two Carharrt jackets, they are really good jackets but not in the slightest bit waterproof.

Could well be, I would expect Ash to be whiter than that.

Felco diamond sharpeners are very good,a bit pricey but fit in the pocket nice. The sort of thing if you do a lot of sharpening regularly.

Pot pourri?

Moved mine on a 14’ Ifor a couple of weeks ago. You will need skids across the deck as there is nowt under there to support it.

I'd say if you are doing enough pruning that rotating handles are worth considering you should buy some electric secateurs. My first pair were "cheap" copies but the increase in speed meant they had paid for themselves in 10 days of use. I do spend at least two months each year pruning apples though.

5 month wait on any new 4x4 I tried to buy recently, gave up and bought second hand and just kept fingers crossed (no warranty) Ordered new doors for house early July, still no sign of them. Wanted new patio doors, mid Jan at earliest with anybody I asked. Also managed to find 2nd hand in right colour and size, well impressed too.

Had a La Nordica range cooker, only source of heating, only source of hot water and only way of cooking food. In a big old non insulated farmhouse. Moved to new place fitted stud walls and insulation on all outside walls, insulated loft, fitted double glazing and have oil boiler for heat in the morning. Main heating will be from a new La Nordica range cooker and with a bit of luck there will be enough heat in the new thermal store to mean the oil doesn't get used much. Missus decided she wanted TWO! hide and slide ovens but I will still be using the range cooker. Not sure why she wanted two because she can't cook beyond mash potatoes and they are crap. Anyway, range cooker linked to radiators is plenty good enough but does depend on someone lighting and stoking the fire. Mine stay in for 3 hours at best on a full load.

I got grinding dust in my eye, the hospital was more interested in where and when it happened than what had happened. They were very interested in it being a workplace injury. I am self employed. I also have a one handled log splitter

I've got some electric secateurs that would be quicker and less medieval than that, but fair play for making a special wooden cut my own finger off box.

My geese decided to start laying, don't usually get the first egg until mid Feb. It is quite normal for apples to have a few flowers on around about now, Bramley nearly always do it. Not full blossom mind,

Thanks for that. I very much appreciate your post but I'm not convinced. Google search suggests young growth also suffers but on these trees young growth is fine, looks very healthy. Maybe it was aphids that have been and gone so will monitor for further changes.

At the moment it appears what is going to die has done so and the younger foliage is fine (no yellowing) I've known the trees for decades and don't recall them doing this before. No damage, digging, waterlogging or anything springs to mind. They grow on the banks of a stream so wouldn't think drought The top pic shows one that is yellowing and the other shows how they seem to end up, at least the rest isn't yellowing so I think they will survive. Change seems to have been in the last fortnight or so. Quite puzzled by this and will feel a right tit if they turn out to do it every year.