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    When did a UK prime minister ever congratulate a police officer for shooting a criminal?

    I applaud the Australian Prime for congratulating the police officer for shooting that guy who stabbed all those helpless people while enjoying a day out . Can’t see a UK prime minister doing that, :banghead: :banghead: Those in authority get weaker by the day over here.
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    Hope you like the attached, if you like trees.

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    Agricultural video.

    Has the video “ Six inches of soil”, been discussed on TFF.. Perhaps someone can down load it .
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    Grain Maize gross margin compared to other spring combinable crops.

    I have just seen the attached article in the farming press, so I was wondering how the gross margin for grain maize compares to other spring combinable crops as no financial figures mentioned in the article. Around here ( Cotswolds) it seems to late to get a winter wheat crop in after it, so...
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    When do bees start being active in the spring??

    I know nothing about bees ,so when do they start being active in the spring, is their activity governed by day length or mainly by outside air temperature? With rape well out in flower in some areas I was wondering if bees aren’t very active to pollinate the rape whether that will have a...
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    I assume these are a scam?

    I have started receiving voicemails supposedly from Microsoft, I am assuming they are phishing emails so I just delete them as I see them . Am I correct and are you receiving them?
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    Certificates required to operate 360digger on a new road construction site?

    I am asking the above on behalf of someone I know. Thanks
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    Any one else on or been on Amlodipine for high blood pressure?

    Due to my blood pressure being slightly high , my doctor has put me on a course of Amlodipine medication, to hopefully lower my blood pressure. May be coincidence but a few days after taking it, I have felt like I have a continuous slight hangover, most unpleasant as when walking I sometimes...
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    Cereal drill for very stony land these days.

    When farming( tenant farmer),a lot of the farms soil was very stony as per pictures attached. Strangely enough I think the Amazone combi drill with Suffolk coulters straight behind the plough press gave us the most even seeding compared to other drills we had, had. Just wondering what drill you...
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    Exothermic cutting torch ????

    I have just seen a picture showing a guy using an “ exothermic “cutting torch cutting through a huge metal box section on the Baltimore bridge. What are the virtues of Exothermic in cutting metal??
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    Suggestions please for long lasting house back door

    As above, due to rot the back door we have needs replacing. I am very concerned about the quality/durability of the wood used in windows and doors these days, that’s why I will never have wooden window frames. As our back door faces West it gets a real hammering from the rain. So any suggestions...
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    Best way of doing graphs on spreadsheets etc

    Suggestions please how to do a graphic presentation to show varying gross margins for various SFI schemes, that one is considering for different fields and also to show what effect over the whole farm scenario. The above will be shown to family members who are not connected with the daily...
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    Entrance splays dimensions for longest artic trucks.

    I am after some practical splay measurement suggestions for the following situation. To gain access for timber trucks to collect cordwood that will be felled shortly, the entrance to the wood needs to be significantly enlarged to allow timber trucks to reverse along the new hardcore track, to...
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    Don’t seem to hear about starving people around the world ?

    I have to admit I don’t tune in to the news on TV but I do look at the BBC News app each day. That said I haven’t seen any media articles recently about “X” countries population starving because of drought etc,etc. Does that mean that there have not been any crop disasters etc worldwide...
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    Dismantling loader joystick?

    I think a cable has come disconnected on the joystick in my old MF 390. Are they reasonably easy to dismantle so I can reconnect the cable?
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    Removing green algae from paving slabs?

    We have some paving slabs outside our back door,some becoming dangerously slippery because of a thin coating of green algae acting like grease. Apart from pressure washing the slab’s clean, is there any way of cleaning them, with any type of “ acid”. Once cleaned what’s the best way of...
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    Question for 36mtr /+ wide sprayer operators ??

    How do you ever judge whether the end of the 36mtr or wider sprayer boom is not overlapping the grass margins around the edges of fields, especially when spraying glyphosate!!! I am only asking out of interest as years ago I found it hard enough judging where the end of the sprayer boom was...
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    Video conferencing / chat computer programs?

    I would like to be able to have a video chat to friends in Canada, and my nephew in Australia. If any of you talk to friends, relations , and to people across the world in connection with your business what computer program do you use. Many thanks.
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    Why is the Environment Agency so against cleaning, maintaining UK rivers??

    I ask the above as @Farmer dyke and @Gerbert, have explained in answer to my thread “River/dyke cleaning,Question for farmers in Holland/Netherlands, that the “Waterboards”, dictate how waterways must be “Cleaned”. So repeating my self, why is the UK Environment Agency so so opposed, hell bent...
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