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I'm needing to buy a couple of new loader attachments. When I bought the tractor/loader, I was told the loader was a quick hitch Euro type. However, when looking for buckets, they seem to offer Euro 8 or Euro 3. Photos of bale handler and loader headstock below. I would appreciate if someone...

Can anyone explain to me how we got to the situation where the tax burden is at the highest level for 70 years but our public services are in such a shocking state? The NHS is a black hole for money, councils going bust left, right and centre, the judicial system creaking, armed forces now...

Having done a bit of rotational grazing, I'm going to try a further intensification of grazing for my cattle, ideally once mob on daily moves. Fencing isn't too much of a problem, I have plenty of reels, polywire and posts. Water is the stumbling block. The water infrastructure here isn't...

Does anyone know where I could get a cable capable of downloading data off a Tru-Test XRS stick reader via a USB port into a laptop? IIRC, it was in two parts and the join in the middle had screws either side. I lost mine when the mother-in-law saw fit to do some tidying in the office :mad: ...

Evening! Just had our latest five tonne wood pellet blow in. The wife ordered it, £2600 plus VAT! The five tonnes it replaces generated 15480 kWh. Payment calculated from last quarter is 7.2p, so it's earned £1114 in that time and heat and hot water for that three-month spell has cost £1500...

My 13 year old son has asked for a quad bike for Christmas. I'm not all that keen as I think it might just be a one-month wonder. But putting that aside, any recommendations on size, make, what to pay for a junior one etc gratefully received. Any secondhand ones about? Thanks.

Hello all, Just had a quote of £3800+VAT to repair my Mitsubishi Outlander. It's seven years old and done 100k. The repair is to a major bearing at the bottom of the engine and this follows problems with the DPF, an intercooler pipe, wheel bearing etc 😡. I'm thinking this is good money after...

I have swerved going down the digital route until now, just use a spreadsheet and number the invoices to tie in but I need to bite the bullet now. So can anyone point me in the direction of/give me an idiot's guide? Software recommendations? Will my January VAT return need to be digital or can I...

Grass is gone here now and need to move the ewes onto a sacrifice field for the winter in the next day or two. My plan was to winter them in the same field as the cows (200 ewes, 15 cows). Anyone do this? The cows have been on the field for a couple of weeks along with the tups. The cows have...

Sold a third of the cull ewes shortly after weaning. Went through them again a couple of weeks ago and struggled to find another third to sell. The final third, plus a few extras pulled out before tupping are now getting fed a mixture of lamb finisher blend and leftover ewe rolls and seem to be...

Hello all, can anyone tell me what loader headstock this is? Was sold to me as Euro quick release or similar. Been trying to order pallet forks with little success. Pic of brackets on the bale spike which do fit also below. TIA.

Just heard that there are likely to be brussel sprouts grown right next door to me next year. Anyone on here had experience of grazing the aftermath with lambs? Rough ideas of how lamb days/acre? Just thought it might be a good opportunity.

I have some red clover silage bales which have analysed at 9MJ and 14% CP (slightly worse than that on report but they'll discard some of the stalks so it should feed better). Thinking of feeding in-lamb ewes the silage plus molassed SBP pellets to boost the energy. On paper, they should have...

Exciting times here, as this is the first time that we've had any calves born on the place! So far our three bucket reared AA/Her x heifers have calved unassisted and all three are very keen on their calves. However, all of them have been fidgety/twitchy about letting the calves suckle and I've...

Hello all, Looking for some advic/recommendationse. I need a wi-fi extender which would throw signal from the kitchen window ledge out to the shed 20m away. Getting a calving/cctv camera installed on the grant scheme! Thanks, Woolless.

Anyone got or had one? Been knocked back on the grant scheme for a squeeze crush but looking about for an alternative now. Will be used for about 20 moderately sized, fairly quiet sucklers and their offspring at the moment.

Anyone had word back about their grant application yet? Seven weeks today since the application window closed.

Looking to expand our embryo suckler herd in the next few months. My son is very keen on Highlanders, which weren't part of my plan. While we are hardly the land of milk and honey (700ft, exposed coastal, thin soils), I think they might get too fat and have issues even though they would be...

Anyone on here running them? Her/AA x sucklers from spring block-calving type herds? Thinking about putting a few sucklers on, thought this cross might be a good bet for the type of system I would have in place. Probably calve May, winter cows outside with calf at foot, bales and some deferred...

Hello all, I have standard broadband with BT. We used to get 7mb, now getting about 3. Presumably this combined with increased demand from the kids means that our connection can be irritatingly slow and I often get kicked off the network when using my tablet to surf on here or play tunes on...