Recent content by bitwrx

Thi sis worth reading, of you have the time. PDF available to download free. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/not-the-foot-and-mouth

I thought it was more for the driver to identify the bike/pram/car they're just about to pull out in front of/drive towards. I suspect the regs predate front facing enforcement cameras.

Buy the daughter a present of a custom OS map with their house at the centre. Handwritten note in the cover saying how nice it was to meet her and you hope this helps her keep to the public rights of way. May/may not get the message, but at least you're being nice.

Cheese and cider is a good shout. You could visit the village of Stilton to see why no Stilton cheese is produced there. Farmhouse cheeses/dairy products aren't something I've seen a lot of in the states in my few weeks there. On here, @sjt01 and @onesiedale are involved in processing their own...

I've hauled grain off that one. Nasty bank on it IIRC...

I visited a dairy in northern Italy which produced its own PDO Parmesan. They had a big hay barn with big high concrete bunkers, and a grapple type device on a Palfinger type thing hanging from the rafters. Hay was tipped up into the loading bay and stacked loose into the bunkers before being...

Old man was a bit achy when he was your age, particularly his knees. He put it down to wearing Noras on concrete for 30 years. A friend convinced him to go to the doc who diagnosed anaemia caused by colon cancer. Once he'd recovered from surgery and chemo, his aching knees were much improved...

Stupid question elsewhere, but not in farming.... But have you been to the doctor?

The place where I work has a collective bargaining agreement linked to RPI. We all got 11% last year. Expecting probably half that this year. So 17% in two years, compared to your putative 5%...

Fat hen seems to do well on our old pig paddocks. Self seeding, plenty of green cover, deep rooting. Just watch it doesn't get away from you before sowing in the spring. We got into a helluva muddle in 2019 moving the pigs in the very early summer, and not sowing till late Sep. Fat hen was tall...

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By Christ that would make a nice garage!

Yes, me too. In fact I found them to be very tasty several times during my week away. ;)

Last weekend in the Périgord: Comice agricole à Lanouaille. Whole town was packed out, local fair, cider making, chestnut roasting, brotherhoods of pâté, chestnut and truffle in attendance. Big dinner in the salle des fêtes for the farmers (and us hangers-on) afterwards. Yesterday in the...

It sounds effing unsafe to me. Dumping pressure at the press of a button when you're within striking distance of the implement that could be held out of harm's way only by the hydraulic pressure. Perhaps there's a reason manufacturers only put dump buttons in the cab? To keep the operator...