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apologies for the delayed reply. maxam is used for hay/silage aswell. my crops are not particularly thick so copes well. would be slower than a disc mower in a thick crop and I would think use more fuel. you cut round and round which is pretty efficient. i used to be anal about parallel lands...

I find my Maxam mower ideal for this job. Because we have had a wet summer, my swards on light land have kept going brilliantly for the ewes and lambs on a quick skim over post grazing (also controlled docks and thistles). Wouldn`t dare have done it last year in the dry conditions - In that...

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Thanks for the replies so far. I can`t leave it for hay due to BG. Sounds a bit dodgy to wrap it, particularly as they are not my cattle. Blackgrass is flowering so not sure I will get away with flailing re. seed viability? Will leave quite a layer of mulch. Typical of these schemes - will...

Just a quick one for the silage massive please..... I have some first year GS4 ground to mow later this week (after the 5 week period is up) and need to bale it up to remove some blackgrass and brome. It seems a waste to not wrap and feed the silage to cattle - will mayweed make it unpalatable...

I won`t post any pictures of the secondhand silage sheet and secondhand baler twine which I mackle up each year for 6 hours spraying work!

Don`t know where you are in the country, but Sharmans cover the Midlands and currently have offers on new Amazones.

Search ` Hardlife` - they did post on the TFF last year. Look good strong double truss polytunnel roof tops like you need, just not sure of width

Herbal Ley (i.e.GS4) works really well on the light land farm we work. In fact, with paddock grazing I believe I can get more production out this type of pasture than ordinary ley in the drier months. two problems. two thirds of the area of this one farm is ineligible for GS4 because of some...

I didn`t know we had met! Its not made it rain........ Got half the hay beautifully yeesterday afternoon and some more in `night rows` until Friday. Looks like bales will be in the shed for about ten days, before they come out again to be fed to the sheep........... oh well, gives us...

I learned to lay a hedge over 3 winters some years ago. I knew zero about hedging when I started but was lucky to fall into a job as an apprentice/assistant to a competition winner in our locality. We couldn`t lay when it was wet/too windy or frozen so probably averaged 3.5 days a week for 5...

Thank you for that little nugget of information. I lost the clip and spring from one of mine in the summer and rather hoped Mr. Mudge might fit me up with some spare parts given he charged £30 for the second one.....

I agree with this - we had a outdoor furnace in circuit with the old oil boiler. this way the house was still warm if you are not there to stoke the furnace. I looked into it all and reached the same conclusion as @mo! - why cart all the wood into the house and all the ash out. plus you only...

Got mine out the back of the shed yesterday. No joke, the first ewe thru` kicked me in the face! I can see why folks consider it to be a marmite machine... It is absolutely effortless if it all goes to plan, and nothing can be more accessible for foot trimming but, you just think you have got...

Just heard on radio 4, that 80% of pig meat goes thru just 10 abattoirs. This is now proving a dangerous situation...............