Peasgood

As a farmer, often with scant regard to my own personal safety, I wouldn't entertain the idea of running anything with a pto that was not attached directly to whatever vehicle the pto originated from. I would risk no guards on shafts, pullies etc (I do not recomend it though) but not with the above. Having said that, nor would i want to risk a hycrack splitter at all. I know folk get on famously with them but I have it ingrained in me never to be anywhere near a moving pto shaft. And that is exactly what a hycrack is.

Well he's made a fair bit of money at it if he has sold 48. Good luck to him I say. No idea who would buy it but there are lots of things out there that fall into that category.

I can't hardly watch the vid, never mind actually do it. Did the treetop walk in the Valley of the Giants in WA a couple of months ago. paid $30 so my missus could watch me absolutely terrify myself! She isn't bothered but I am just useless when it comes to heights, especially with a sidewind blowing the gantry about. Missus climbed to the top of Sydney Bridge when we were there last year. I went for a walk round town instead. I am hopeless on ladders too, unless I am in an enclosed space. Can work at the top of a ladder if there's stuff around me but no way could I be on the outside and clean a gutter for example. Here's a weird one. My yard floodlight was broken and needed replacing. Last year i struggled to change the bulb never mind the fitting. This year i tricked myself by doing it in the dark with a head light on. I couldn't see how far up I was and wasn't bothered in the slightest. Changed out the whole light fitting no worries at all.

I think that's the reason they are not popular in this country. Most people can't reverse them. Just as a lot of folk can't reverse a two wheel trailer and seemingly 99% of women just can't reverse.

Our straw comes in on a wagon and drag with a turntable trailer, most drivers can reverse them with the lorry. Not sure that I could. I can do it with a tractor, one of them ribbed his mate when I reversed his trailer with my tractor. "Would you look at that, he just reversed it closer to that stack than you can do it going forwards"

That's the one.

I've got oak posts about the place on my land. I've been here 40 years and I didn't put them there, wouldn't be surprised if they were 40 years old when we bought the place. None of them milled though, they are all split. (there's a word for that but it escapes me at the moment) I am quite confident they have more life left in them than a brand new softwood stake has, quite possibly more than me too.

May God bless their souls

Full xmas dinner as well as every other cooked meal on mine. I don't have an electric or gas oven. Have to admit to it being the range type woodburner. Does all the heating and hot water too.

Never heard of a Ferrari Vipar so I googled it.

I took the sideshift mechanism and hydraulic top link off mine and use it without. Mine is on a little SAME fruit tractor and copes with up to about a ton very easily. Have another on a different farm and we use that one on an IH574. Can take them on and off in the same time as any 3 point implement would take, I just lean mine on an upright to the barn and put a chain round it to keep it from falling. I agree they are heavy if you lie it down but they are not heavy enough to bother a tractor. I would say a 35 would cope if it has a diverter valve for the hydraulics.

I have a fork lift on my tractor, make is Ripvator. IIRC it will lift 1500kg so pretty strong. I got mine for £100 off ebay which was an absolute bargain! Much better than the straight forward forks on the linkage as I think you are looking at. You can stack with them as they lift very high, and you can lift a great deal of weight and the wheels will just sit on the floor rather than the front of your tractor lifting up. (oh yes, I am a fruit farmer too )

I didn't know sun cream went out of date until I gave my missus some one day. Bright red even though she plastered herself in it.

Dan Neuteboom is a legend! If you are privvy to chats with him you are wasting your time asking us. Ask him about his appearance on that game show. (You Bet I think it was called)

HPI check will do it.

Can I change it to Alder. Could be Hazel but I'm thinking you would have noticed a Hazel nut in there. Unless you were eating a Topic and dropped a bit.

Frank Mathews in Tenbury. Not really the time of year to be planting though.

Hazel

I would use Grazon in this situation, it has the same chemical as Shield in it plus other.

Colts Foot Dow Shield gets it. I don't think you can get that any more, Grazon 90 maybe (if you can still get that), any cheap hormone will probably knock it about a lot and good old glyphosate if you keep at it. Kurtail should get it in theory.

Or an apple oak? It's in one of my apple trees

You can become addicted to Diazepam in one week. My Grandfather was addicted and he became exactly the same as any other junkie. His only thoughts/topic of conversation centred around when his next fix was. He was a very intelligent man, reduced to sh*t by this stuff. Avoid it if you can. My Grandfather was a research chemist who did an awful lot of work in the development of liquid and plastic crystals, wrote books on the subject and is still regarded as a pioneer on the matter. All your LCD and LED stuff owes a certain amount to his work. He was a farmer and planted more leylandii than you are likely to see and probably produced and sold a great number of the ones that keep many of you in work.

They are very different chemicals. I'm not convinced Grazon did a right lot and Kurtail isn't a miracle cure either. Weedazol deffo knocks it about for a few years.