LeeGray

Great post, very interesting reading.

Proper stores! Nice work.

Do supermarkets buy older fuel from store or something? I’m struggling to see how a town centre supermarket forecourts with say 12-16 pumps which are nearly always busy is not using fresh fuel, when the local shell etc isn’t busy and would have freshest. I’d have thought the little garage will have it sat longer.

I’ve done over a million miles on supermarket fuel without problems, but never heard it was bad before. If anything the throughput of the big ones should keep it fresher than little places and as said they’re not going to risk it not being right.

What’s risky about supermarket fuel? Something I should know?

Popped an airbag on front strut of the Range Rover, was worried it was going to be mega expensive and a pain in the arse as everyone always goes on about them as one of the biggest reasons not to buy a range. Set to last night and there a piece of piss, easier than any other strut or spring I’ve done. 1 hour later and £49+vat for new complete unit sorted!

That’s a good deal, can you use in supermarket fuel station?

They are handy but we had a fuel card solutions one for about 5 years and in the end they were about 3ppl dearer than the pump. Who are you with, is the price competitive?

I've only had one vat inspection in 13 years and they seemed alright. Everything was in order (as it should be anyway) they just went through everything I had in paperwork and data records. Didn't have to claim or repay anything. Can't see what the worry is. As has been said before, if HMRC turn up and you've got three lads working for you full time as out of an industrial unit with 2 vans on the road, all the gear and a fancy pick up and not vat registered then it's not going to go well for you but if you're doing it right how can there be any issues?

that's an awesome looking outfit donnk, whats the train weight with the hiab, eng con attachments etc? Can you drive on normal license or operator?

quick responses today lads!

A friend did this for a bread oven/prep kitchen when he started a bakery at home. 2 x 2 bolted though as a mounting for nailing boards to, 4 x 2 tapered on the top for roofing frame work to give you 2" fall over the width. looked really good..provided its sited level on firm ground. He insulated with rock wool as he clad which i think is worthwhile. I've got a 7.5t fridge body here for parts/tree guards/pipe fiiting storage and did the same for roof only but roof started moving around a bit in the wind so had to put braces inside to hold bolts through better.

Very nice set up

From ringing round I’d definitely second the above, it sounded affordable for me but then you look at all the options and think well if I’m spending 7 for a starter might as well get the next bit and make it 8.5 but if I’m doing that should I just spend 12 and full control but then if I’m borrowing it because I can’t go the extra five I might as well go all in at 15 and have the proper job with full control, buckets, grab, oil at hitch etcThen check myself and think am I really in need of all that and just not bother at all. Must be a nightmare for the retailers as so many options. Almost be better if they packaged it up.. basic with 1 bucket fitted £6, mid way full control 3 buckets £10 all singing and dancing £15k

Worse is how many times you put those receipts through the washing machine in your pockets and think ‘f**k that’s a tenner down the swanny!’

Is that on a digger Conor? Like the look of that myself, any good?

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.