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    Slurry Lagoon liners

    I am looking at putting a liner in my clay lined lagoon to improve its integrity! Has anyone recommendations for companies or ones to avoid. I have spoken to a few and waiting on replies from others. One has already quoted but I think they have under estimated by 10% the area to cover.
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    Drying woodchip naturally

    I have been offered some G50 woodchip direct from where it has been cut down and chipped. Its currently 48% moisture and wonder how long it would take to dry down to below 30% if we just tipped it in a shed. I have room to spread it out about 40 to 50 cm deep until end of August in a grain...
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    Out of spec woodchip?

    I am having problems with my ETA hack 70 woodchip boiler since the last load of chip came. The sticker screw backs up with chip and causes an over current that switches the boiler off. The load was ordered as G50 M25. It was a light load, only 15.5 tonnes on a walking floor trailer when normally...
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    Asbestos survey

    I need to have an Asbestos survey carried out on the farm yard to tick a box. We have 6 sheds with fibre cement type sheets. Oldest one is an Atcost from 1973 then a small mid 80’s shed, one from early 90’s and last 3 from 2002 onwards. Have been quoted £795+vat from the one firm I tried. Has...
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    4M accord DA drill

    Looking for a 4M Accord DA drill to go on my 4M Kuhn power Harrow. Marker arms and tramling not important as I use GPS. Preferably within an hour or two of N Derbyshire.
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    Crimped wheat for dairy cows

    Has anyone got any tips for crimping wheat for dairy cows. I am thinking of crimping 28 acres of winter wheat instead of making it into whole crop silage. I have another 53 acres to go in the pit and a bigger than usual heap of first cut. I have storage in a purpose built indoor pit on a farm...
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    Finishing Dairy bred stores

    I have 45 Lim and Stabilizer cross heifers and steers that are 17 months old and about 420kg. They have been on grazed grass only last summer and high quality silage and whole crop wheat TMR from when they were housed at the end of November. I have sold 9 as stores recently and was a bit...
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    Umbilical pump suction pipe

    Any recommendations for umbilical pump suction hose. Up to now we have been using standard vacuum tanker suction hose but it’s not up to the job. We gravity feed the pump from a pipe and valves through the bank of the lagoon. There can be up to 100’ of head to the fields. If we shut off the...
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    Fraudster impersonating my business

    Last week I had a phone call from a finance company enquiring about a tractor I was wanting to finance. I am not buying or financing a tractor but someone else is using my details. They have set up a fake website using my details lifted from my companies house registration of my Ltd company. The...
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    JCB error 'Data Logger Full'

    As in the title ,had this error code come up when I got on my 2018 TM320S this morning to feed the cows. Engine starts fine and hydraulics work but wont engage forward or reverse gears. The machine had an Adblue delete about 2 months ago and its had a continuous error message displayed about...
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    Mig welder recommendations

    Hi , I am looking for a 240v Mig welder around the 180 amp size for general farm welding repairs. It will be for occasional use rather than serious work every day. One of my Herdsman is handy at welding and has used his own 120 amp Mig welder but it's not up to the job for some of the stuff we...
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    New car garage

    I am looking to replace an old concrete block and rotten tin sheet roof garage with a bigger one to hold 4 cars. I am thinking of a steel portal frame mono pitch of 2 18 ft bays about 25ft deep. I am interested in auto garage doors but have never had anything to do with them. I will also run 3...
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    John Deere ITC dome

    Are these of any use now? I bought one 5 second hand of my dealer 5 years ago to run with an Amazone fertiliser spreader with section control. I have since bought 2 R series John Deeres with autotrac. The first I used my ITC dome on it and the second was ordered with a 6000 dome. The 6000 is...
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    Axle brake part

    The part in the picture links the 2 brake leavers to the hydraulic brake ram. It's off an ADR axle on a JF Stoll VM27 diet feeder. The online parts book shows a different looking part. Just wondering if this part is unique to JF or a common type of axle part. I have googled ADR axle parts and...
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    Triple Mowers

    I am looking for users experiences of triple mower conditioners. local dealers to me cover Class, Pottinger, SIP and John Deere. I have a 3.2m Lely front that I intend to keep and will be PX'ing a Lely 3.2 M mounted and a 3.2m Lely trailed or selling privately depending on what I am offered for...
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    WR Partners -Accountants

    Does anyone have any experience of this firm. We are with Howard Worth accountants in Cheshire but they have just been taken over by WR partners. The accountant who oversaw our account has left to set up on his own. He only oversaw it for a year after he took over the task from a previous...
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    Contractor to relocate solar panels

    I have a 50KW solar array on a cattle shed roof that is woefully under performing. A company has fitted a monitoring system and done some investigation and think the cable insulation from the inverters to the panels is eroding causing shut downs on some strings. Our other issue is the roof gets...
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    Dual Power on 7610 series 2

    Bought a 7610 last October from a dealer who had 'restored' it. Was delivered straight to the independent mechanic I use to sort out a PTO oil seal leak. It sat in his workshop all winter and we only got it back last week. Turns out it needed quite a bit of work doing on it. The dual power was...
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    Mobile biomass wood chippers

    Supply of woodchip seems to have ground to a halt . I had a walking floor load ordered three and a half weeks ago that has not arrived and the supplier is not answering phone or emails. Anglia Farmers say there suppliers only doing broiler sheds existing customers due to saw mills shutting down...
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    P H Winterton sawdust uncontactable

    I ordered an artic load of woodchip from them 3 and a half weeks ago for my biomass boiler expecting it to be delivered in 2 to 3 weeks. I have been trying to chase it up this week as we only have about 10 days supply left. Getting no answer from landline or email . They are only 30 miles away...
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