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  1. Farmerdunk

    Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire/Suffolk/Norfolk

    What size barn? One off project or looking for something permanent?
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    Strength of grain posts.

    Ok. For what reason? Or would it be possible to use grain wall tin, say up to 10ft? Thanks
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    Strength of grain posts.

    100ft 5x20ft bays, by 55ft wide. 25ft to Purlins
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    Strength of grain posts.

    Our straw shed has upright posts of 305mmx165mm. Would these be strong enough to take concrete panels, say upto 3 metres? And then tin down. It currently has just the roof and no sides. To make it more weatherproof and maybe a wet shed at harvest.
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    St. Swithin's Day

    No! Nikname for my name. Year older and and little bigger around the waist lol Sun and showers here
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    Spring Beans

    Ours went in yesterday and today. Into autumn cultivated ground. Went in nice with tine drill. Agronomist want us to get the peas in now, may hang off for a bit.
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    6t Grain/Feed bin on legs

    Condon engineering make hoppers/bins. Parris tractors sell them, around £4750 for a 8t. They do all sizes.
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    Tungsten plough parts

    Sold our kvernland plough, so have an few parts left. Got 5 new tungsten landslides and 2 part used with plenty of metal left. And 2 tungsten points. spoke to a parts supplier yesterday and he quoted £125 what he has got left (17) and the new price will be £180! price for ours is £100 for...
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    Skyscraper this late

    Drilled skyfall this week after the sugar beet Will be interesting to see how it does. Went into a nice seedbed.
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    KV plough metal

    You mention tungsten, just wondering why you not keen on it, stones, rocks etc knock the tungsten tiles off? Had a lot of tungsten on my kv. Points, shares and landslides. Lasted years! Hard faced and tungsten parts saves a lot of down time if you’re changing them regularly. replaced the...
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    Kv number 8

    Put all new boards and other new metal I had in stock on my KV before I sold it. Spaldings no28 cost £95. I’ve got some tungsten landslides If your looking for landslides as well.
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    Very cold in Norfolk

    Glad the beet went Saturday. To hard to plough !
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    Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

    Not sold a bale of wheat straw. Nor barley, got a market for some small barley so re-bailing some 🙄
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    Beet '22

    Finished ours last night. Mouse got 3-4 loads to load then got to level thst ground out somehow! Just started ploughing
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    Beet '22

    Yes pretty sure on 50cm rows. We dug 2 separate 1m square of beet from different areas of the field. In total it came to 26kg. Presume that Would that give the same result from digging a 4m strip?
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    Beet '22

    New to beet growing here. The contractors turned up yesterday and made a start. Crop looked really well until the hot dry summer kicked in. Then the cold snap in December has hit it hard. They are taking a fair chunk off the top to try and get as much frost damage as possible but obviously...
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    What’s this muck worth

    yes straw based. So if there’s 10 ton in a load, pay £400 per load?
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    What’s this muck worth

    Round trip for us to cart it is nearly 30 miles. yes that’s what our worry is, are we bringing black grass back in. he may want some straw in a month or 2 so could sort something out with a muck for straw swap.
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    What’s this muck worth

    Can get this muck from a beef herd on a regular basis. They deliver it with a bin on a lorry. What is that heap worth? It’s one load.
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    Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

    Won’t be any baled here! Not sold a bale yet. Shed still full.
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