Recent content by Cow1

Flap disc on a grinder

If you want to tag at a few weeks old rather than birth, spray lambs with a good marker and rather than using consecutive numbers and having to cross reference, use the last 3 digits of the EID number of mum instead. I've been doing it for years and it works very well.

Rau did one too and I still have it in the back of the shed. You do need the soil lifting legs if going direct.

Don't worry about ruining the landlord/tenant relationship. All good tenants worry about this as they want to be well thought of. Agents play on this, as well as the emotion you have in connection with the land you farm and treat as your own. The landlord's not worried about your feelings. You...

Just replaced one in an S100 with this from The Component Shop

I purchased 2 Solar energisers on the scheme, but I’ve also purchased 2 of the same model outside of the scheme at a different time. I only had to show 2 energisers not specifically the 2 I purchased and got funding for. No serial numbers were ever required for documentary evidence.

I had an inspection yesterday. All straight forward as all my items were easily accessible and the items were paid for within a month of each so finding the invoices and bank statements was easy. Half an hour exercise but it took 2 Rpa inspectors to do it. They said they had come past my farm...

Glad I'm not the only one to have received that email. I stupidly put it in my cash flow for the first week of December given the payment track record over the last few years. That will teach me!

Get a Mzuri instead, consistent seeding depth and contour following. No open slots either

This was my post last year.

Get off your own farm, go drive a big farms modern kit for a short while. It will give you a reset, be a paid holiday and make you realise what skills you have and what other people are prepared to pay for them.

Can you devise a plan to rotate your existing stock to get the most out of it and save some for later in the year? When talking about excess grass, someone once said to me, "See how much you've got on Christmas Day"

We thought the same how we drove it but it got us exactly the same last year with the same symptoms. One new valve block later :cry:

Was it a genuine slip clutch you replaced the old one with? Have you got a parts book with the diagram? It can be easy to put them back together in the wrong order and the little spacer ring in the centre can sometimes break up. After not using for a while, advice is to slacken the nuts to free...

I can’t fault the Gallagher S100. I’ve got 4 now and have never had to touch any of them even in mid winter. They keep cattle and sheep in on 3 strands. I paid £235 plus VAT and got 2 of them part funded through Countryside Productivity Small Grant Scheme. On the Gallagher website they are...