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We have a Karcher professional washer. By in large it is kept on the eco setting around 60degreesC. We are steady replacing the 'B' o-ring on the lance. Local dealer says you can only buy the replacements in a kit including a couple of other o-rings (see link below), but we rarely have to...

The cable for the suspension weigh cell on our sheep weigh crate got damaged recently. I contact Datamars the find out if the cable can be repaired but unfortunately that does not appear to be possible. Anyone got a source for a well priced replacement? Been quoted £120 ex VAT for like for...

We have been ploughing digestate down prior to sowing winter crops for years and have occassionally topdressed spring crop in May with digestate as well, however we have very little experience of applying it on winter crop in early spring. We normally retain most of our digestate for grassland...

Had the ewes in today to fluke drench and sort for housing. After I'd finished I noticed that one particular ewe had left this rather strange vaginal discharge. What is it? She's left multiple puddles of the same in the yard and appears to have stopped discharging for the meantime anyway.

Hooked on the sower this evening and for some reason when the weight was reading 1000kg. Went into zero the scales and it's swung to - 999kg. Lifted the sower up full on the linkage and the weight swung back to 1000kg. Zero the scales will not work at all. Anyone had this issue before and...

We're in a high rainfall area (1200mm). We've just harvested wholecrop from a block of land (medium loam) which was soiled sampled in January and showed a pH of 6.25. We would like to top this up to 6.8-7pH. Cropping land is all used to supply a digester and is ploughed annually. I know the...

We're likely to start lifting wholecrop within the next ten days, which is about 3 weeks earlier than normal due to the very dry weather here over the last few weeks. We'll be sowing hybrid rye in late Sept/early October but it seems a bit of a waste to lave the field bare for 3 months. Any...

We're in the process of a progressing a replacement dwelling project. We've done a preliminary ecological report for the site. Mostly what we were expecting, although the old house has been classified as having 'moderate bat roost potential,' for spring, summer autumn. The old house is...

We've recently purchased a second hand Landquip trailed sprayer. Most of our ground is flat but we've one field which is rather steep and I'm wondering if any you experts on here have any good advice for a rookie sprayer operator on how best to manage spraying on steep hills. The sprayer is...

I'll be the first to admit that I'm a complete rookie when it comes to growing crops. We have an AD plant and we grow the vast majority of our own inputs for the plant. But we prefer to focus on running the plant as efficiently as possible and leave the agronomy for the crops with an expert...

Picked up a second hand TA510 Ifor recently. The tail door felt a bit heavier than I'd like and a neighbour recommended that I change the springs. Well I've changed the springs and I reckon there is next to no difference. Is there any way of putting extra tension on the springs so the door...

Due to a delay in winter oats seed delivery we are going to have to drill much later than normal. We're in the NW in Northern Ireland/high rainfall area and unfortunately the weather broke 10 days ago and brought 100mm of rain with it. The parcel of ground we have earmarked for winter oats...

The 1000eco solenoid went on our 516 tonight and I'm having bother trying to find where it is to replace it! On our 718 they're easily found around the PTO but they don't seem so easily found on the 516. Can anyone help? Have spare solenoids on the shelf and would like to get going early again...

We've been using Barbier Silostar for a number of years and have been really happy with it. For grass we have very little waste with a single sheet of silostar, nets on top and then lorry sidewalls and gravel bags to keep everything secure. We use a clingfilm for wholecrop and then silostar on...

We grow approx 170 acres on the farm and for many years have been reliant on a contractor doing the spraying. The contractor also stored the chemicals for us. We are going to take the spraying in house but we need to set up a legitimate chemical store. Due to our smallish scale we want to...

https://www.midwestsidewalls.com/tire-shooter Does anyone in the UK manufacture tyre shooters for dispensing tyres onto silage clamps (as per link above) ? Or indeed has anyone made their own and would be willing to share their design? After a long night covering our maize last night it got...

The excellent growing conditions in our part of the world (NW Northern Ireland) have meant we've a block( 43 acres) of spring wholecrop oats harvested today (2 weeks earlier than normal). Its light land, but below sea so when the water table comes up there's normally no chance of getting a...

We took delivery of a new RO-EDW sower in recent days and a mechanic from the sales company called out today to give us a run down on how it works. While going through the boundary settings he mentioned that they had manually adjusted the geo-point to 5m. He said that they'd found the...

For the first time I've had a sheep stray from the next farm over onto our place. Blackface ewe with next to no wool left on her, poor condition and sporting the odd flesh wound. I've never had a problem with scab but I'm very concerned that she is riddled with it. I managed to keep her away...

Has anyone picked up any useful apps for recording tractor fuel usage on the farm? Currently still on the old pen and paper method but would like to switch to an app if there is one out there which can keep a live tally of diesel usage with each vehicle, driver, time, dates etc