LeeGray

What machine is it? only seat i've got in decent nick is the new holland tractor which doesn't have a cab and so has a thick plastic one like a ride on mower. All my cloth ones and any i've been in are shredded by 2000 hours. The schaffer loader is no cab, plastic and still worn through at 1500hrs. Telehandlers the worst, down to metal on left cheek only which means a painful kink in your spine when you sit in it for long! I should probably add i'm not skinny.

er..its been sat on for 3500 hours without a seat cover on. Looks like every old digger or loader seat I've ever seen, have i missed something?

That’s what I’m thinking, not sure how it’s a problem. Use the vat money on paid invoices to ease cash flow or bank it until due end of quarter.

I've put my old digger up on ebay if anyone's looking for a cheap thing. Pins and bushes, bucket ram seal and windscreen want doing to make it perfect, it's worked hard for me fencing, digging, loading and been incredibly reliable but it's time to move onto a more modern machine. If it doesn't sell it's going in part ex and off to Iran apparently... I've got a rotating grab that can go with it as per the listing. I've also got a nearly new multec 200kg post knocker if you want one, it'll save me cutting the headstock off and getting another to fit the new machine and i'll just buy another with the right pins on! There's a couple of handy other buckets 100mm trencher and really good almost new ditcher we can do a deal on if needed. Handy set up that'll earn a few quid as it is before you need to spend anything, if i could find someone else to operate it i'd keep it as well as the new one! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292692724822

you are absolutely correct..i have never seen a field of potatoes wiped out by blight or a field of wheat wiped out by weeds. Wouldn't mind the timber house with a turf roof, growing my own veg and making furniture but don't fancy abandoning the car and chainsaw though

I agree with the perfect storm brewing but in a different sense I think. Hopefully those who can’t wait to retire will do so soon. There sons or daughters if not interested will do something else and not carry on the same practice that dad always used to and farms can be made available to more forward thinking, progressive farmers who can survive without subsidy producing ‘plenty’ of good, healthy food in a wholistic, efficient way.

I don't know the facts and figures but according to AHDB winter wheat is the most commonly grown organic cereal in England. Anecdotally I know lots of people who grow them. More than those who don't. Thereby, i include the word 'plenty' as in 'a sufficient amount or quantity'

Plenty of winter wheat organically grown.

Heard the nfu chair on the radio talking about glyphosate and how its safe as we only get permitted levels in products we consume. As previously said peoples view on 'safe' and 'permitted' differs widely. I'd rather just have no level of glyphosate in my food thanks. We've had plenty of concoctions used legally before that were definitely safe and proven, then turned out not to be.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-F550-2005-6-0-V8-Powerstroke-Diesel-4-DOOR-PICK-UP-TRUCK/183377227762?hash=item2ab2226ff2:g:9DQAAOSwRiNbcZm~

I’m on about early 2000 L322 type. Don’t know much about the earlier ones but I think they rot like all Land Rover stuff and the power is well down in the 3.5 compared to the more modern 4.4 Didn’t look at lpg, could never understand getting a big v8 then worrying about fuel costs. If it’s working for a living, it is what it is, if your doing hundreds of thousands of miles get a cheap little van.

I looked into these before I bought a v8 Range Rover and remember something about gross train weights being not as good if you keep it legal. They’re awesome bits of kit and easily plated for 5-8t trailers in the states but I’m sure with the mass of the dually I looked at the trailer could only be 3t gross without anything in the truck bed. Think it’s operators license if you want to get the full use out of the big ones. Would still love one though and if money was no object I’d have one for fun! Id definitely recommend a v8 Range Rover if you could leave the chip with customers instead. Masses of space, well built, cheap, secure, tows with ease.

Data tag was the same reduction and it was £55 for the kit. Obviously no help finding the machine again though.

Know when I asked Nfu about tracker system it was only 5% off per vehicle/item. So £15-20 per year. As your pretty much guaranteed to get the item back if stolen, provided you know it’s gone, you’d think they’d be offering more or buying up the the tech companies and subsidising the service/devices

I line 'em up, you knock em down..Cheers RH

3 days driving and am still an me own land...

and where would spam come on the scale?

That's fantastic, nicely done!

Sure beats shooting people ?

Must be headache enough keeping four of them running smoothly without them stopping supplying new machines and parts. The old stock must have been a good find for you. The rhinos definitely don’t look like a £35,000 machine when you get a days hire for £300 and let someone else have all the hassle!

Isn’t there a Harry Enfield sketch like this somewhere..I’d rip his face off, I’d set his house on fire etc. The two blokes in the pub...

Want one! Any cheaper than the rhinos?

Chasing some smack head who has nothing to lose down the road isn’t going to end well in any circumstances, definitely better to secure your own as best you can and hope the guy next door has left his shed door open. Most work things can be replaced off the shelf, probably the next day...is that worth dying/getting maimed/going to prison for? Not for me.

Thanks Bob, that's extremely kind of you and i would be very grateful. If i get palletways or whoever would you be alright to stick it on a pallet? More than happy to paypal you some beer tokens or I know your a farm but if you don't produce your own let me send you an organic lamb or box of our beef. I'll pm you to check i've got right address and get a date that suits you for collection. Good info too, i'm tempted to have a look inside now.

Looks awesome bob, are you putting a grab on it or something else needing four pipes?