Saw first swallow in the workshop on Sunday morning (meaning I had to remove the window so they can have free access at all times), followed by hearing the first cuckoo in the afternoon.
I had a Trading Standards inspection last week where the lady noticed I had 5 pet ducks on a pond in the garden. She made a note of them and said she would add them to my records. So I won't bother saying anything more as as far as I am concerned they are now on the register ;-)
I got a pretty tidy NH 376 (I think, might be a 276? would have to check) sat in the shed doing nothing. Had it over 20 years and only does a few hundred each year just for lambing pens. TBH now I have a bale unroller I don't even bother and haven't used it past 2 years. Always kept under cover...
I've had the same Warrior one as mx110 for over 10 years and it has been faultless. Bought as the fabrication place I did some part-time work for had switched over to using them exclusively (having previously had big separate spool 3 phase machines). They are 100% duty cycle at full power...
Hardest wind ive heard in along time about 11pm here last night. And it gets very windy here in the hills anyway. Went for a check around buildings ans see it has blownthe side out of the wifes' greenhouse.
Not sure if doing this is going to help or harm the value of the old girl but I got fed up with the old hook end attachements and not being able to have a universal set of loader attachments. So I have cut off the hook ends and converted it to Euro 8.
As an aside, if anyone needs an almost...
You just need to find a neighbour doses a flock around the same time and see if you can get the left overs to jab same day. It is very rare that there won't be a fair bit of wastage when doing 100+ sheep.
We just dose the ewe lambs 6 weeks before the ewes and then do them all (ewe lambs and ewes) 6 weeks later (about 4 weeks pre-lambing. Do the same every year
A timely thread having just read this article in the Guardian. Grab a cuppa and have a read. I think a lot of what it means to be a farmer can be found in those lines...
I moved a 20 year old apple tree in my orchard last winter as I wanted to enlarge the paddock below it and refence the whole lot. The tree would have been left the wrong side of the fence. I dug a 2 foot deep square trench all round it about 2 foot from the trunk then dug a 4 foot square hole...
Hmmm, careful here. IU had a text (supposedly) from Lloyds to ask if I had made a payment of £100 to some unknown company the night before. I hadn't as our internet was down and I was home. So I text bacvk NO as asked. Then a new message saying they will need to stop my card so rng the number...
I mapped this one on Google earth to be 320 acres but on various historical images it sometimes gets more cropped, sometimes less. Depends on greening/setaside etc I guess. Anyway, it is just to the East of Devizes if anyone wants to check it out.
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