Recent content by MikeNeaverson

You're right though, you *could* build one for £105k if you were on good ground and wanted a basic spec. Which I don't and is why your figures are more like it.

Managing individual contractors but not physically doing anything myself. TBF it is on an existing stone yard so no stripping or stone required (saving £8-10k???). No water and the fuse board is 30ft away.

Building a modified version of that kit at the moment. You could do it all in for just over £100k with lighting, doors, concrete etc. Future proofing it with galvanised steel, two doors, additional rear gable posts in the right place to add a tunnel in the future etc, it adds quite a bit more...

If it was wet I often had to put three or four wafer weights on the hood to keep the pressure up. Mine was getting long in the tooth though and the springs must have lost a bit of give

650. You’d think that 2.1m wouldn’t be enough but if you think about the edge of the row and where the disc goes on the harvester, with RTK steering on the sprayer it’s enough. It maybe pinches an inch or two on the bottom of each row either side but you don’t lift those

That will work but obviously will require your tractor and sprayer to be set on a wide track width. For me that wasn’t an option for other crops so I decided to leave unplanted 2.1m trackways which works quite well. Plant 9, offset 2.1m, plant 18, offset 2.1m etc. Less faff and easier for...

I am the same system. I plant 9 on headlands but you have to drive exactly where the 10th would be. If you’re on wides and can’t get tight enough to the row, or if the tops have flopped over into the margin, then it’s not quite enough and i’ve fitted another nozzle on my new sprayer to reach it.

I was a devout Guardian Air man for a decade, then on the advice of Simpers TC I tried BFS Bubblejets and they're way, way better. I have a 03 blue set for nearly everything on 100l/ha, an 05 brown set for 200l/ha (rarely used) and an 08 set of Defy 3Ds for high water rate potato applications.

I have a 2020 model Panasonic ASHP - does anyone know whether the coefficient of efficiency figures from the controller monitor are actually accurate? Where does it take its flow rate readings from, for example? EDIT: I ask because during the very cold week a fortnight ago, the COE on the...

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere. I'd like to put up a smallish turbine, somewhere between 10 and 20 kw probably, to help run my coldstore (still reviewing solar but I think my export grid capacity is weak and my own summer usage quite minimal). I have already engaged planners and they...

Hybrid barley has its place in high yielding situations. 10.2t/ha here this year grown on land that wouldn't have done 8t/ha of second wheat with black grass. Yes, I know, on paper spring barley would be better for BG but I'm done growing crap spring crops in our dry springs and an area of...

I like the look of that but have decided over the years that we're better off drilling OSR with a proper drill after plenty of FYM. Not guaranteed to work but we've had much more success with this thay in the days of subsoiling/Xpressing etc

I never got round to it. In these dry times I'm finding it best to drill rape properly with a decent drill (Vad Rapid in my case) after plenty of muck. I do however need to sort out a liquid placement kit for potatoes this coming spring and might use the same kit for banding every other or every...

Hi, I'm afraid it's sold. I might have another tonne or two I could let go in a few days once a bit further into planting

A combination of decided to tramline and cutting area