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    Matbro 270 overload indicator

    The overload indicator has never given any trouble in the last 27 years but has started bleeping as I just drive round the yard with empty forks. Is the problem most likey to be the indicator in the cab or the sensor? Has anyone any idea where the sensor is actually situated or how I would test it?
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    animal Health & welfare premises inspections

    I've just had a letter with the above as a heading and the following questionare to fill in, in the past the local council has visited to look at the movement book but this seems rather over the top to me. Has anyone elses local council sent anything like this out or is mine on some sort of...
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    pair of 11.5 15 tyres for 4 tonne cart

    As the title, new or good 2nd hand, NOT 15.3 rims
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    reporting sheep movements

    If someome was going to have sheep "on tack" for the winter months but wasn't going to officially be the "Keeper" of the sheep. what notification would they have to give the powers that be and if they were on their holding on 1st December would that mean they had to fill in a sheep inventory? I...
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    Claas 96 reel not lifting

    As the title, had been playing up the whole of the last field not lifting the reel unless you lowered it a lttle first, now will not lift at all. All other hyraulic functions work OK. I have now finished but don't want to put it away not working and usually store the header away from the main...
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    MF 375 not starting

    As the title indicates, turn the key and nothing happens, “wiggling” the small gear stick which has to be in the centre gets it to start some of the time, other times you have to use a short piece of wire on the starter motor but under current circumstances I do not wish to cause the slightest...
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    Stubble turnips, who grows them?

    I have a field of grass I intend to graze with sheep over winter it adjoins a field of spring barley does anyone successfully sow stubble turnips after spring barley or is it too late? It would be the first few days in September before I could get them sown, this is Lancashire about 40ft above...
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    Whats wrong with this spring Barley?

    Some of the leaves are showing this yellowing, 1st noticed it when I was spraying it with Jaunt on 28th May, it has got slightly worse since then. If it doesn't get any worse from now on it won't affect the yield much but does any one know what has caused it?
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    David Brown diesel leak on pump

    Yes, I know its a 1977 990 tractor and I can expect the odd bit of a leak but this is beyond what I would consider acceptable. it seems to be coming out of the top of the lever connection which controls the throttle which I have pointed at with the pencil on the picture, then running down behind...
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    Glyphosate

    Not looking for a full pallet full, just 4x20litres
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    Tyres 400 70 20

    quote required for 4 new 400 70 20 tyres, usual tractor pattern for telehandler
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    Veg price

    Demand seems to have colapsed this week and no wonder, how can any green grocer offer you a reasonable price for veg when the competition sells for this price https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/17102398/iceland-christmas-veg-1p-sale-supermarket-price-war/
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    hydraulic oil leak claas 96

    when I use any of the hydraulic functions on the combine the cylinder with the flexible hose attatched to it which I have established is a damper squirts hydraulic oil oil out at the other end. Has anyone had any experience of removing this (it's not in a very easy to access place) or any...
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    Weed control in carrots and parsnips

    Hi all, now that the last of my lineron is used up what do other carrot and parsnip growers use on peat land to control weeds pre and post emergence?
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    Has anyone ever used one of these?

    Cleaning out the shed today, found these, has anyone ever used one if so what for? My best guess is that they may have been used in some way to thatch hay stacks. the longest is 11 inches the shortest is 9 inches long.
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    For Sale Stanhay bout markers and electrics (unused)

    Bout markers for stanhay drill a bit rusty but never been used, been in the shed since new, £25+ VAT, electrics to fit drill stored inside in the plastic bag they came in. £100+VAT
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    Did anyone go to Bakewell suckled calf sale?

    I usually go every year just to top up after buying some privately, due to corvid I gave it a miss, for anyone who did go, what was the trade like? Is there a somewhere to give me a comparison to last years prices?
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    SHEEP KEEP

    Can anyone give me a rough idea of the price of sheep keep per week, per ewe, on electric fenced ryegrass ley sown autumn 2019 already had 3 cuts of hay but still growing rapidly with the landowner supplying the electric fencing but not being responsible for the rounding up or welfare?
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    Vetch problem

    In the last few years, the amount of wild vetch in my spring barley has increased from, “nice bit in the straw the cattle will love it” to this year “the barley is out of sight how are we going to combine it, the wrapping is going to be terrible.” I did preharvest with glyphosate which did stop...
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    Temperature of haystack

    As of title. I have never previously taken the temperature of the stack but this is a heap of 1500 small bales baled last Friday and unloaded Saturday. When I went up the stack on Sunday to shake loose straw on the top to stop any sweating out spoiling the top layer found very little sweating...
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