Recent content by Blindside06

Ah good to know! Garmins suite of watches is a nightmare to navigate, bits you want from one etc not available on another etc. From a business point of view they have it bang on as you are almost driven to the higher end for what you want. I am almost at the point of going for the vivoactive 5...

Thanks for the replies! Anyone wear any other watches they would recommend?

I am jumping on this looking for a new watch that will statnd up to farm work and shearing. Had a vivosmart 4 previously which was grand but basic.

He is an average at best auctioneer imo and should not be near the breeding sales. I dont think he would of been in the rostrum had the bull sales not been on. Agree he can sell store/prime lambs as that is his background. Didnt make it as an auctioneer first time round then went to the killing...

Absolutely the gentleman selling the lambs last Saturday made a terrible job in my opinion. Often making mistakes when saying breeding, struggling to grasp the concept of an equal share being retained. Second time I have seen him auctioneer and been totally underwhelmed, the first instance being...

A good one is a good one regardless of the cost. Alot of the best coated tups now are over 1k mark where as you could pick them up for less in years gone by. Which alot of places won't carry the poorer coated ones. Very well done on your trade!

Not exclusively saying that the cost would achieve this. But you would like to hope that is the intention by increasing the tup budget. Really looking forward to when there is a TFF Tup Sale all breeds will be sorted for the better in no time at all.

Surely the commercial hill men you speak of are looking to improve the quality of their female stock, so perhaps in 2 years time their wedders will be bigger.

Ah but the week leading up to it would be unbearable!

Christ there is bad in all breeds. We have folk on here that think Charollais and Lleyns are good sheep.... Only one sale worth going to in Blackies and that is on Saturday, some of the most genuine sheep in the breed will be sold there.

We all need to start somewhere ahaha

Absolutely the whole things seems to have been rather shambolic and embarassing. Even the announcement of the finalists... poor Jack must have been devastated over that mistake. The more the surface is scratched the deeper the failings seem to have been. I had to stand in a pen of bloody swales...

Thanks like to make a job, never going to be the fastest so I like to polish them up a bit.

Some hoggs I done on the 13th of May were cracking shearing. Mule ewes are gerting quite cotty up here now.

Good stuff that! Quite like a couple on a summers evening after finishing Shearing