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Hilly

Member
Sick of wood it dosent last so made some concrete gate posts.
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Hilly

Member
Can't you buy them? Concrete posts have been pretty much standard here for decades and every agricultural supplier stocks them.
I’ve never seen any in merchants here ? Never even seen any used , I did enquire with a company that make them but the haulage killed it, they cost me very little to make I have my own aggregate and was just a little experiment to be honest , maybe I should become a stockist in this area as wood is so
Poor these days.
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
I’ve never seen any in merchants here ? Never even seen any used , I did enquire with a company that make them but the haulage killed it, they cost me very little to make I have my own aggregate and was just a little experiment to be honest , maybe I should become a stockist in this area as wood is so
Poor these days.
We use these
but the haulage would make them expensive for you unless they were being added to an existing delivery for your area.
 

Hilly

Member
We use these
but the haulage would make them expensive for you unless they were being added to an existing delivery for your area.
The troughs are Moore and I need more I maybe ask the merchant if they can get me a few o them as well ! Cheers , got to be better than wood , I did a lot of fencing about 7 years ago soul destroying to see posts rotted off ground level I’m so cross about it I won’t buy wood fencing no more .
 

Boohoo

Member
Location
Newtownabbey
The troughs are Moore and I need more I maybe ask the merchant if they can get me a few o them as well ! Cheers , got to be better than wood , I did a lot of fencing about 7 years ago soul destroying to see posts rotted off ground level I’m so cross about it I won’t buy wood fencing no more .
Moore make concrete strainers too
I've no experience of them though.
 

Hilly

Member
Moore make concrete strainers too
I've no experience of them though.
I’m using box barriers for strainers , cut in half bang in with post driver, might just use them as gate posts as well .
 

norse

Member
Location
yorkshire
View attachment 870126 41 is rubber mat and 44 is where you need the pipe
I had to replace the right front rubber on my 7495 as it had disintegrated ,managed to change it without taking cab mount off tractor then removed 31,41,42 & 44 then cut a plate out the same size as 21 and tack welded it to 43 , painted it and rebuilt it all and modified the other side as well,luckily the large round mount was ok as that would involve removing fuel tank,is is now silent with no creaks. one of the lads at the local dealer told me that that is how they sometimes mod them
 

norse

Member
Location
yorkshire
I have a 6499 with cab suspension when on really rough ground it makes a tapping noise at the front left.i cant find anything looked like it might be the spacers 44 need looking at
I will get a picture of the mod on mine it used to tap rattle and squeak ever since i got it 4 years ago,one of the lads at peacocks told me to replace with a bit of plate
 

yin ewe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
I’ve never seen any in merchants here ? Never even seen any used , I did enquire with a company that make them but the haulage killed it, they cost me very little to make I have my own aggregate and was just a little experiment to be honest , maybe I should become a stockist in this area as wood is so
Poor these days.

Moore's have a fair few loads of stuff going to Scotland every week, shouldn't be a problem getting some gate posts on a load. Harrison's from tarbolton are the main agents. Moore's will deal direct with the farmer also ?
 
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Buying on a Small scale is difficult. We buy from Koppert. For peach aphid on a several trees, soapy water, or even just a hose of water, but get on with it before you lose next years wood. Sow mixed flowers at the tree base, and next year you’ll have all the predators you need.
I recently visited a large organic producer near Perpignan who grew band of flowers along the tree rows, very pretty, and clean trees. Sometimes hippy sh!t works !

That just made my good lady cheer right up! We quite like a bit of hippy sh!t [emoji23] she can go out and wash them off and she likes growing flowers(to the point she would like to to grow them to sell if she could find somewhere to sell them).
 

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