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    Sparrows and Starlings

    I've got fed up with sparrows in an old grain store, every time I fill in a gap in the eaves or door they find another way in. Just as an experiment I bought two plug in rotating LED mirror balls, cheap Chinese rubbish from eBay, think they were 7 quid each and wow, no sparrows at all in the...
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    Combine Knife Rivet Tool

    Thanks @KennyO completely forgot about that thread and spent a fun summer squashing rivets with a ball pein hammer... How much do you want for it @Deere 6430 and would you consider posting it to Devon? Cheers all
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    Owning and old combine

    I've just upgraded to an early 90s TX32 from a 1979 NH8060, cutting 150-200 acres a year. The 8060 was always reliable and if it broke every local belt and bearing stockist could get you going as the parts were so common. I just felt it was getting a bit old - put quite a few bits to the "new"...
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    Fuel price tracker

    Devon Fuels 81.95p for 2300 litres red. Certas about 5p higher!
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    2022 countryside stewardship payment

    @Scholsey thank you for that. A bloke from the RPA just rang, maybe he saw this thread and felt sorry for me. He was trying to make me believe I was paid last Friday so I'll give it a couple of days to allegedly appear in my bank account before I bother your contact... Thanks a lot
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    2022 countryside stewardship payment

    Hope you all got paid. I've done nothing wrong, yet am still waiting for 2022 payment long after their "payment window" closed. The people you speak to on the phone either don't know anything or promise things which don't happen. So if I put in a late claim, I'm fined 1% per day. If they miss...
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    Sustainable farming incentive - handbook for 2023 has been published

    Maybe I'm naive (actually, yes I was) but I was originally quite keen on all this stuff. Got an organic mixed farm, maybe some of the options could work well. However, after taking part in an ELMS trial whose results seemed to make no difference to anything, after receiving an email the other...
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    Plough metal

    Dunn's ploughs in Devon. They can find anything!
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    combine knife rivet tool

    Yes please. I know I'm probably wrong and all the sensible people above have had some very persuasive reasons to talk me out of rivets but if you've got one that would be brilliant. Thanks a lot
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    combine knife rivet tool

    I used to drive a lexion, remember having a cordless drill in the cab and when a riveted section broke, replacing it with bolts, just needed the hole making a fraction bigger. This is my own combine though, vastly superior to a poxy lexion, proper job TX32 (and it's paid for). The man at APH...
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    combine knife rivet tool

    You're probably right, didn't realise you need to remove finger to use the tool in the field, when harvesting I usually put a shaped bit of metal over the bottle jack, push the rivet up with that and drash the top of it with a hammer, with a sharp chisel and the right punch I can change a...
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    combine knife rivet tool

    Thanks for that, got a whole knife to re-rivet, usually knock off the old sections in a vice and peen on the new rivets with a shaped bit of metal under and a hammer but the tool may do a better job and is a lot easier in the field. If all 3 knives weren't riveted I'd probably go for bolts!
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    combine knife rivet tool

    Sorry to drag up an old thread, but if any of the above kind offers of used rivet tools are still going, I'd be interested! Apparently even Sparex have stopped making them, I must be too old school... Thanks
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    MF6400 Air Con Issue

    Thank you all for this thread. My 6480 aircon was playing up, local experts regassed, serviced etc. Think it hit high 30s on the cab yesterday. Last night, quick read of the above, first thing this morning swapped relay 29 and all is good. This forum is brilliant for stuff like this, much...
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    New Welder

    I'm sure if your man's a tip top welding artist he knows what he's talking about... I'm only sticking stuff together on my farm, and single phase seems fine. If I was welding pressure vessels for nuclear reactors maybe there'd be a difference. I asked Western Power about joining me to the 3...
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