5thelement
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Collected little Winny from a rescue centre at the weekend, kids are over the moon and she is settling in just fine.
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After the recent storms here I’ve finally mopped up the last of the windblown trees. This Oak is part of a boundary row and is the second one to go in the last six months. A combination of shallow soil on stone, water erosion and high winds. I will be back tomorrow to dismantle the one closest to the house. All logs and chip staying on site.
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I think the problem is exasperated in marine engines due to the high moisture causing a bacterial build up, maybe chippers etc suffer more in Winter due to similar. Does added paraffin in Winter not just lower the freezing point of the fuel?
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Guy I know is a keen sailor and swears by ‘Fuel Set’ to keep diesel bug out of marine engines.
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Must be a Devon thing, maybe it’s spelt that way in Cider Country.
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Switch to Supertac veg oil for the Winter.
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Have you inspected it to confirm it is dead and rotten? Although valuable as habitat, the farm owner might prefer the value in his pocket, or rather not leave it standing and risk it failing later, damaging neighbouring trees and creating a more time consuming clear up. His woodland, his call I suppose.
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Looks like a capable machine for limited access and preventing long drags, not sure about those boots though, you get them from Circus brothers?
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Had a pretty stiff Jab too if I remember rightly. 😂
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What price did that come in at?
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Made up shit.
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How do the keepers, foresters and deer management guys get to the farm in the first place, walk, bicycle or do they all have crew cabs?
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I saw a clip of this lot on Arbtalk FB the other day, 4 of them faffing around trying to get a hung up Spruce down, Instructor looking on, cringeworthy stuff to watch from my end.
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Check your hardware if you own one of these harnesses. 👍
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I’ve never successfully managed to dry any large diameter Box. I find it tends to split and almost cleave itself apart. I have two 12” diameter lengths at around 3’ long that I have kept to one side for a local woodworker, I have waxed the ends and put them on a pallet in the corner of a dry and pretty dark barn.
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Had to do the same with the last of my Border Terriers a couple of months back, he was two days short of 15 years, the hardest choice but you owe it to them to do the right thing. The house still seems pretty empty, even with the kids, so we are picking up this little rascal from a rescue centre in a couple of weeks. I’ll introduce her to the pack in due course.
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If you’re interested, they also have some Canary Yellow paint going cheep.
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I tried to loan a book out of the local Library, its title was, “A thousand ways to commit suicide”. The librarian wouldn’t let me take it out of the building in case I didn’t return it.
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Had wasps in the ground earlier this year, right where we sit down at the BBQ, they had to go. Thought about petrol and fire, but memories of a previous experience in my youth, where things didn’t end well, persuaded me to back off. I put a large bucket of kiln dry sand over the entrance at night, leaving the bucket on top. I could see the wasps trying to excavate an exit but only gaining access to the clear plastic bucket for nearly a week later. They died off in the end whilst I managed to cut my grass and ate on the patio without being stung.
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‘Military age’ is the new racist slang for ‘Working Age’ you ignorant foreigner, and you only emigrated from a country that was formed in 1830, disgusting 🤮.
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So on 50 acres and single you may pay something, married probably not. It all just looks like another sound bite bollocks headline do distract from more pressing issues, the IHT will probably disappear when the next shower come in, there will be a few unfortunate people who inherit in the next 5 years and lose out. That’s for the future, In the meantime, farmers can look forward to being poor right now.
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Below 50 acres is still more than a million in value? What if the farm has debt including equipment on the drip, surely this lowers the value also?
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20% rather than 40%, wouldn’t you take it? So it’s a sweet deal. I would expect all the farm debt to be involved in the valuing, so highly likely it would bring the farm under the IHT threshold for a married couple. Farms have been struggling for decades and currently are now, this has nothing to do with IHT that may or may not be applied at some point in the future. Supermarket record profits and cheap imports, (30% of UK food is grown in Spain) is what is keeping farmers poor right now.
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How much is this farm worth exactly? From what I understand, a farm has to be worth more than a million to qualify, a married couple would be 2 million/up to 3 million to pay IHT that everyone else in the country has to pay, which is a tiny amount of family farms in the UK. Farmers will be taxed at 20% rather than the 40% we would have to pay. Sounds like they are still getting a sweet deal compared with the rest of us. The way I see it, It’s not the government that is screwing the farmers, it’s the supermarkets with their record profits.
