- Location
- somerset
because it creates another box to tick.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
If the farms on fire and you have to wait to listen to the rpa automatic answering man the whole fecking village would be on fire
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Finding the bloody phone number for HSE was like trying to break into the bank of England, one of the uk's best kept secrets for some reason
God I despise this sh!t My grandad will be doing cartwheels in his grave watching me fill this sh!t out
God I despise this sh!t
My grandad will be doing cartwheels in his grave watching me fill this sh!t out - Location
- somerset
food was a valued product in his day, today it is seen ad a necessary evil, to be discouraged in favour of rewilding, releasing wild animals etc etc.Finding the bloody phone number for HSE was like trying to break into the bank of England, one of the uk's best kept secrets for some reason
God I despise this sh!t
- Location
- Northumberland
Don`t forget the operators cert of proficiency & the sprayer test cert
Assume you have found these templates ?
Templates - Red Tractor Assurance
Templates are provided to help you meet the record keeping requirements in the Red Tractor Standards. Take a look here.
redtractorassurance.org.uk
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Are you allowed to shoot activists?
Also is "build ark" an acceptable answer for if it floods? Quite honestly if we flood I pray for the rest of the country...
Finding the bloody phone number for HSE was like trying to break into the bank of England, one of the uk's best kept secrets for some reason
God I despise this sh!t
I don't find it that bad to be honest, try and find out something they're interested in and ask them questions as you're going round or just keep chatting to them about general stuff. I find that's better than meeting them in the yard with the graip in my hand
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Ahh the inspectors are all fine, or atleast the two I've met have been, they're only doing their jobs after allI don't find it that bad to be honest, try and find out something they're interested in and ask them questions as you're going round or just keep chatting to them about general stuff. I find that's better than meeting them in the yard with the graip in my hand
It's the bloody stupid regulations that pee me off
honestly why do I need to write that if theirs a fire evacuate livestock and phone 999??? As if there's a major fire going on the first thing that goes through anyone's mind is "best find the emergency procedure folder and find out what it says" 
Sorry been doing this for the past 9ish hours and have had enough for one day
Happy hillbily
Member
- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Promising rain tommorow, and now that I have my tractor fixed, was hoping to get some fert onto the grazing paddocks. I've a bag of protected urea left over from first cut. Any issues with doing the paddocks where the cows are ATM ? Ie spread this morning cows grazing this evening ?
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
Crack on
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Been told urea takes a week to uptake anyway so I tend to spread every fortnight - anything the cows have grazed in the past 10ish days and anything they will graze in the next 5 days
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Can you spread nitrogen after 1st Aug?
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Yep you're right
- Location
- God's side of the border.
Grassman247
Member
silage pit ready for panels now
TB Testing race, panels in ready to concrete a raised floor so we are above the animals. Will be a crush at this end aswell to do our dry off crush work in
Hats off to you, milk price and intrest rates have not made you to steer of plan and cut any corners.
frederick
Member
- Location
- south west
What was the final view on the silage pit concrete floor.
All looks very impressive.
What height will the pit wall panels finish at
Grassman247
Member
Engineer from Manchester came out. Looks to be surface cracks mainly which will wear off. 2 deep cracks which will have to be cut and filled. Structurally the concrete is sound. Too much cement in the RC45 mix so it was cooking before they laid it and water retention additive had been removed because they wanted to power float it and it would delaminate with the additive and power float. Not our choice. Bug roller would of been fine and has been used on the rest. Not really blaming anyone but the contractor and the concrete company didn’t communicate enough/properly. Fortunately when it’s full of silage they won’t be seen.
The new contractor has staff who have been laying concrete a long time. Lessons are it probably should of been done in 6 metre wide strips and it could of been managed better while it was going off.
TBH fed up off talking about bloody concrete now. I’m a dairy farmer not a concreting contractor I shouldn’t need to know all this stuff it’s what we pay others for but there we go live and learn