JohnJames

My farrier gave me a recipe which I now use all the time- any shop bought stuff costs a fortune in the quantities we use! In an old 2litre coke bottle you mix- a very strong cup of cold tea, using about 4 tea bags 1tbls meths (sounds wrong but its ok) 1tbls citronella oil ( can buy it by the 1/2 litre on ebay) 1 crushed garlic clove 1tsp washing up liquid 1 tbls vinegar top it all up with water. I bought a small pump weed killer sprayer to apply it. Works on humans too!

In that particular picture the access for machinery is difficult not only due to the narrow access but because underground springs are constantly flowing on heavy clay, so not necessarily deep + boggy just a very slick surface where wheeled vehicles can't get traction.

Not sure about the Home Counties but down here on Dartmoor where I live and work we are not short of a bog or two. This is the driest spell we've had for a long time and it is still as wet as an Otters pocket. Interestingly the reason we are working on our current job is because tractors in various permutations have all got stuck and made an awful mess in the process of getting unstuck. It would appear that until a machine with four independent legs is designed, four wheels will always spin. whether they "float" or not. At the moment we extract timber to "dry" land where a tractor can take them away. Which keeps everyone in work. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't wish I lived on easier ground!