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    540 / R65 x 24 TYRE WANTED

    Looking for a good 540 / R65 x 24 tyre to replace a damaged one.
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    Tyre Wanted - 540 /65 R24

    Looking for a good flotation tyre to replace a damaged one like these.
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    I think the key is having a privately owned vehicle available for your personal use that you can point to if asked the question.
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    It is a real worry what they will look at next, they have flushed untold billions down the pan with the covid fiasco and are now looking at every possible way to recoup some tax £££s. Under the conservatives we were as farmers to a degree sheltered from some of the wilder revenue raising ideas...
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    Dunno some of those crew cab trannys look quite cool and apparently are a nice drive.
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    Well a sales rep doesn't need a 4x4 XXL pickup truck. They are the very people who have abused the system which is now being clamped down penalising the genuine self employed farmer or tradesman.
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    HELP!!!! JCB 531-70 Telehandler STOPPED DEAD!

    Yes and no! I called out the dealer and they traced it to a canbus error caused by a relay failure, the relay is the once that powers up the engine ECU. The relay was replaced and the machine ran fine for a while then it's started again with the same fault, I can get the fault to go away by...
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    I don't know the truck Oyke was on about but I've been driving this one recently and I have to tell you that maybe after my 1990s Ford Granada it is the most comfortable long distance cruiser I have ever driven. Not so comfortable is the fuel consumption but then 70p per litre helps!
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    Crew cab pickups to be taxed as cars from July

    If you have a business owned pickup and keep it at the work premises and it is available to all employees then it's a pool vehicle.
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    Who are these "heroes"?

    https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=3b2c85e71075d6a2JmltdHM9MTcwNTQ0OTYwMCZpZ3VpZD0wMjcwN2JhMi1jMTMyLTY0NzEtMmZiMy02OWM3YzBkMjY1ZDEmaW5zaWQ9NTQ1OA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=02707ba2-c132-6471-2fb3-69c7c0d265d1&psq=daily+express+flooding&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXhwcmVzcy5jby51ay9uZXdzL3VrLzE4NTU1NDkvZmFybWV...
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    I have an undetermined CS application at present and did wonder if that was affecting some of the SFI actions being offered on certain parcels.
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    Buy Land!!! NOW IS THE TIME?

    Round these parts the prices paid for "next door farms" seemingly defy all logic or if not all at least the business school's first lesson about turn over being vanity!
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Got a problem with a particular grass field, Its listed as : Eligible Covers: Permanent Grassland Land Use : PERMANENT GRASSLAND: 3.4096 ha I want to use action LIG01 but all the SFI offers for the parcel is Hedge actions? I've used LIG01 on other fields without a problem. Any ideas why...
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    Octopus intelligent

    All comes down to the battery condition which on an old electric car probably wont be that great.
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    ETA Hack Grate Burn out - AGAIN!

    The chip we get is normally less than 20% moisture, but I had a look at the boiler settings and the fuel moisture is set at 25%, could that affect the grate temperature ?
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    ETA Hack Grate Burn out - AGAIN!

    The boiler is a 140kW and the 2nd tilting grate in 10 years has just burnt out. The area burnt is roughly the same so just wondering if this is a common / design problem. The remainder of the grate and the other half are perfect.
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    SFI - Self Help and Tips

    Is there anyway of overriding a land use that has been wrongly applied by the system?
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    `Heat meter mounting location

    They have to be an a straight piece of pipe. Don't know about other makes but the Sontex Superstatic I just got has the required straight section built in, its size DN 40 and the whole thing including the straight section is about 300mm long.
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    Solar expression of interest

    Looks good, just needs a filling station!
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    Solar expression of interest

    I'll ask the DNO
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