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    Wooden gates

    does anyone know where I can source some 12ft wooden gates. The top rail however has to be 125mm x 75mm minimum. Can find loads with 100mm x 75mm but none at 125mm. Grant specifies that it's got to be that size to pass.
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    Clearing woodland to put to pasture

    As the title says. Got 4 acres of woodland which we'd like to put back to pastureland. just an idea at the moment. What is the process we'd have to go through to do it, if it's possible at all. Mainly made up of hazel, holly, blackthorn, ash. all big trees. Not a conservation area, and would...
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    Highlander on which ewes

    We bought a highlander ram this year with a mind to put it onto our tex x mule yearlings to keep back ewe lambs from. However my dad came back from market with some lovely chev x Welsh yearlings last week and now not sure what to put the ram to. Anyone running highlander Rams who have experience...
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    What round baler would you recommend?

    Our New Holland 835 round baler ate itself yesterday. Been nursing it for a bit. We're looking to get another in the price range of £6000 to £7000. We only do about 400 bales a year, just wondering what people would recommend. Best model for reliability etc. we have a 90 horse power proxima...
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    Cement fibre roof sheet strength

    Got a few sheets to put on a shed, big 6 cement fibre. New bay on a shed. Will they comfortably take a mans weight? I know the old asbestos were very weak but I've been told the new sheets have nylon supports in them so can walk all over with no worries.
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    Cement quality

    Does anyone know what the difference is between red dragon / Quinn cement compared to Hanson / blue circle? Just finished pouring our footings for our new shed using a pan mixer, and opted for the red dragon as came in at £2.80 a bag. Hanson was coming in at £3.50 a bag. The concrete I've mixed...
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    Safety nets

    Putting a 105ft by 35ft shed up that's 18ft to the eaves. Does anyone know where the best place to hire a safety net from is?
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    Digger size

    I've got a site to strip for a 105ft by 40ft shed. Got to remove about 3ft from one side down to nothing on the 40ft run, and then 4ft down to nothing in the 105ft run Will have the use of a 5 ton 360 digger, do you think this will be up to the job or do I need a 8 ton or bigger. Like to do it...
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    Bringing lambing forward

    I'm looking at lambing some of our ewes early next year. Id really like to do half of them, around 150 ewes, at the very start of January, almost end of December. We usually lamb at the end march. Were a hill farm in the West Midlands at about 1000ft. My plan was to lamb them all inside, in a 80...
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    Stock levels

    I am returning to our family farm after 10 years away to take over from my father who wants to start retiring ( but never fully!!) We own the farm which is 130 acres and have just started tenanting another 70 acres near by. It's a hill farm at 1000ft in the West Midlands/welsh borders. We...
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    zwartble x texel

    Been looking into zwartbles as a possible breed to cross with texel rams on our farm. Has anyone crossed a pure zwartble with a texel ram to produce commercial fat lambs? Or would they do better by crossing a zwartble with anither breed, suffolk for example, and then putting to a texel??
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