Recent content by Happy hillbily

I do worry about her sometimes !!!! Still cheaper than a horse though 🤣🤣🤣

My Bradbury was 3 phase, but it was only the motor that was 3 phase, all the controls and safety stuff was single phase. I phoned my local electric motor place and told them what I wanted to do, and they matched up a single phase motor for me. Unfortunately they couldn't get single phase motor...

My contribution for the night. Another bull calf, yepee 🙄

I'll see your corn on the cob holder and raise you a britool ring spanner . 😂

The boss (wife) had me going through a pair of old filing cabinets from my dad's time on the farm, as she has a decorator coming in next week, I had to be ruthless with lots of the stuff, no room to keep everything, came across lots of interesting stuff. I think this will bring back some...

Clearing some old filing cabinets for the boss (wife) this afternoon found this 😲

Corn on the cob holder

A 3/8 Socket, extension, universal joint and ratchet will get it off. I put a mhale starter on mine that I got off Andrew (AandR handling) highly recommended. And as Andrew said, smaller body makes it much easier to fit.

It's less hassle just to carry the clusters the 30ft to the dairy. Being 1200ft up a hill when we get cold weather, can be below 0⁰c day and night for weeks on end. Parlour is kept clean with a yard brush. But given a thorough clean once the temps get above 0⁰c. A I inherited a fair bit of...

Yes, and mostly middle aged men as fatalities. But non in 20/30 zones.

Same amount of farms in this area, maybe stock numbers are down possibly.

Bikers paradise. Have a friend who rides at weekends, had put his stats up for one ride, but blanked out his top speed, but if you zoomed in you could make it out . What I saw would be fast on the autobahn never mind the twisty roads of north Wales. Can hear them racing up the A5 on a Sunday...

Last Sunday it was traffic cars along the A5 with radar guns, but not necessarily in 20mph limits

Seen two here today in the uplands of north Wales. A week and a half earlier than last year. Numbers dwindling year on year, used to have loads here, but it was down to two pairs last year.

There's a variety of reasons. Years ago I split the milk line with a butterfly tap and had pipework and jetting heads fitted to the milk line, but took longer to wash than just unplugging the clusters and taking them to the dairy, and also had to carry hot water to to the parlour to wash the...