Recent content by Jakem

That’s the problem unfortunately, a lot of people get stock first on a whim then struggle for land to work them on. Then the poor buggers are stuck living in 6 inches of there own shite! That wasn’t aimed at the poster of this thread.

They are wonderful creatures, me and my children spend hours out in the garden watching them, not so fun trying to prize the jaws open of an unruly hob when his clamped down on a small sausage looking finger that’s been poked Into the cage though!

Iv had jills that I haven’t bred for multiple summers and they have been fine, but it takes plenty of work to keep them from losing fur around the tale and looking like they’ve got mange! Ferrets are induced ovulators so won’t release any eggs until they are mated so a season for the Jill can...

Also keeping ferrets will teach young children good animal husbandry pretty quick I found as they require constant cleaning out!

Get at least two as they get bored quick on there own. A reasonable size run would see them happy enough even if your not working them every weekend, I have made mine a wheel out of a cable drum and they spend hours wrestling each other in and out of it. Getting a locater collar and box will...

Not farming related so I hope you don’t mind. Here are some of my repair and renewal jobs on leaking or damaged gas mains in central London, mostly all done within the last couple of months.

Google Talbot grippers, they will do the job, cheap aswell at around 11 pound a fitting.Used plenty over the last few years without problem.

There’s a website called orchard link that you can advertise on, for free I think. Iv used it a few times now to buy and the sellers always seem to be close to sold out to the hobby juice/ cider makers so could be worth go.

Iv run quite a few, always a diy job Iv never seen any purpose sold kits. The easiest way would be to buy a quick set long net then just a few poles a couple of meters high along hedge line.The tricky part is the dripping system and even harder the right conditions!! I would think near the...

That piece of yellow pipe is covering the operating spindle which would be bought up to ground level and a metal lid on to allow for access. We sometimes leave a bit of craic written down and rolled up inside some plastic pipe and a few photos of the lads who are working on the projects. A...

not everyone’s idea of interesting it certainly keeps me looking forward to work most days!

One more there from last week, that’s a 36 inch Westwood and Wright donkin valve, easily 100 years old and still opens and closes like the day it was put in, Holds back up to 2 bar of pressure. Always interesting to go down on a valve because a lot of the time it would of been the end of a major...

We were lucky with this and took the majority of the ground out with the jcb and then a vacuum excavator for getting under, the beauty of having nothing in the way. If there were cables in the way and other utility’s most of that would of been hand dig into the big bucket! We do use cat and...

Unusual for us not to have any other utilities in the way so thought it’d make a nice example of a job! This is the finished result, all bolts exchanged in sequence and due to the tricky location of the pipe an encapsulation muff is placed over joint. I’d rather be working on some of the...