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    Working gloves

    What are people wearing for working. I wear these. Totally waterproof, but not the warmest and sort of make your hands sweaty.
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    Earthing an Electric Fence Unit

    Can I earth the electric fence unit onto the H beam in a steel frame shed. Had to move the unit for our permanent electric fencing into a different shed. Or how would people suggest earthing it. Other idea was to burry a length of motorway crash barrier.
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    Pre emergent tramline markers

    Have got a lemkin solitaire 9 drill I was wanting to put tramline markers on. Lemkin are wanting a small fortune for them. Has anyone made their own or fitted a kit from some else.
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    HydroGen fuel

    this hydrogen fuel box thing ( technical jargon). Won a highland show award, does anyone know anything about it or has used one. If it can reduce fuel usage by 10%+ could be interesting, and improve emissions by 80% then maybe I could turn off the adblue with a clear conscience!!
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    SAF rural payments scotland

    is anyone else finding the Scottish rural payment website painful slow today, back on the now still glacial.
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    What is this, another snake oil🤨

    I am struggling to understand this, am I the simpleton?! is it just spreading whin dust on your ground and somebody claiming carbon credit for the tons spread.
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    Fuel filters

    Cold weather is playing havoc with diesel filters on tractors. Spent a small fortune this week keeping the forklift and two tractors going, each has had new genuine filters fitted. I was wondering what non genuine filters people are using and are some better than others. Rarely seems to get...
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    Grain contracts

    I have grain going out at the moment that was sold in December, so price is not great. I was reading the contract and there is a 5% allowance for over or under tonnage. Has anyone ever sent lorries away with 27.5 ton on instead of 28.5 ton. Is there any reasons not too. Or am I beginning a...
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    What is this weed

    just wondering if anyone knows what this is. Is it a type of rush or is it a grass? Also how do I kill it. It does not seem to be very palatable asNothing is eating it.
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    Retro fitting air brakes

    Has anyone ever retro fitted an air brake kit to a grain trailer? Is it straight forward or but if a compromise. Got a newer tractor with air and 50k. So wondering if I should upgrade the trailer braking system.
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    Tablet to operate AgriWebb and cameras

    I currently have a iPhone and have the AgriWebb app on it, but I find connecting the Tru test eziweigh 7 and my srs2 stick reader a complete headache 🤯🤬😤 I was wondering about getting an android tablet that could sit at the handling system when working with cattle and us it instead of the...
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    Calving jack

    Do people have any recommendations from a new calving jack. This is what I have the now. Thinking the jacks that are C shaped and go up round onto the pins might be better. Thanks
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    Best Hand moisturiser

    About to start calving. My hands normally get dry and hacked during calving. Can anyone recommend a good hand cream. preferably not to oily/ greasy. Thanks
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    Fibreglass Electric Temporary Electric Fence Posts

    I have been paddock grazing yearling cattle for a few years now. I just us a single polywire, and white plastic posts. I was wondering about trying some fibreglass posts with the metal clips, what are peoples opinion on them? do they last longer before becoming brittle/ faded. Do they snap...
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    Mapping app

    Looking for suggestions for an app to map where I have fixed drains. Something I can create a map of the field and where drains are then print them out for future reference. Thanks
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    Chicken run

    The children are getting chickens [emoji17] and I need to build a run for them, so the local wildlife don’t eat there new pets. Looked at electric netting online and wasn’t as tall as I thought it might be, it’s only 1.1 metres is this tall enough to keep chicken in and foxes out? Does anyone...
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    Urea as a protein

    Got a mobile bruiser coming in next week which can mix additives as the grain is crushed. I was thinking about adding 15 kg of urea per ton of barley to up the protein to nearer 16%. So that I can reduce my dark grain inclusion in the TMR. Any advice, or drawbacks to this idea?
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    Mag drill recommendations

    I am looking for a mag drill recommendations. What are people using, what is a good value drill. There is probably a thread on here somewhere but I can't find it! [emoji849] Thanks.
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    Sowing Grass seed with a combination drill

    Has anyone modified/ converted a combination drill to sow grass seed, with the opico style splash plates to spread the seed the full width of the machine instead of sowing it in rows. I have a 24 coulter Lemken Drill, was thinking of blanking 12 coulters off and fitting a bar along the back of...
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    Cleaning solar panels

    My panels are needing cleaned , got some algae growing on them. What are people using to clean them? An ideas how the kill algae , obviously don’t want to damage the panels but want them clean.
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