Recent content by greenman

I am a self employed ‘countryside’ worker. I have experience in Estate Work, forestry, river maintenance and farming (stock and arable). I hold the relevant qualifications and insurance. I would really like to find a farm or Estate looking for regular help, a day or more a week. I have my own...

I am currently employed as a fencing contractor, but I am being let go at the end of this month as my employer doesn’t have sufficient work for a full time employee. I have experience with arable, dairy, beef and sheep. The majority of my experience is in forestry and the Estate side. I hold a...

I wear a lot of swanndri and swazi. Both are excellent, but already available over here, although suppliers are limited. A mate of mine recommended 'game gear' clothing. I'm in the process of ordering a 'tusker' jacket. There are no uk suppliers of this, might be worth becoming the first?

My wife and I are looking to purchase a small parcel of land with an agricultural building and the potential for planning for a dwelling. I am a self employed woodsman/coppice worker, cutting commercial timber, coppicing, tree and hedge planting, hedgelaying and producing charcoal. I trained in...

Which is why you should read your product labels and treat poisons as any other chemical, you wouldn't guess your dose rates in your spray programme. In the event of accidental non target species poisoning you wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they found hoppers with a kilo of poison in. In my...

believe it or not, legally you aren't allowed to fill those tubes or any bait station right up. If you look on the label of the poison it will give you dose rates, the outdoor poison I'm using is a maximum I of 200g for rats at 5m bait points, the indoor is 50g at 5m, obviously it varies with...

I was self employed until April last year when the estate we rent my cottage from offered me a full time position which was too good to refuse for me and my young family. I tended to charge a flat rate for labour and tools of £15/hour. I did a bit of everything, I had regular work with a fencing...