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Any recommendations please? We want to learn! We have less than 30 calvings pa and our traditional native breed cow is an easy calver. But there are still times we need to intervene, so few we have little practice and even less confidence. This leads to vet calls I think we could reduce given...

Had a few cases involving wheels coming off moving vehicles, and had a wheel pass me on the motorway: thankfully not mine! We tighten things with spanners or a rattle gun. Tight as we can. I know some washers are not meant to have too much pressure and mostly the manuals for machines give a...

Help please. We once hired a water pump with a little petrol engine. Great in water when emptying a big hole but when the water became silty it could not cope. That’s all our experience. Current plan is to use pump to move silty water, clean water, and possibly septic tank contents. When...

Our cattle calve easily but the odd calving goes wrong and so we bought a Jourdain calving gate years ago. It is similar to the one in photos below. There is a strap bolted on to the wall. The yoke fixes on to the strap but the other end is not supported on the ground. The gate fixes on to the...

Had a great workout today with a graip freeing off a stuck load of strawy muck from the back door of an 8 t mono Marshall trailer. No fancy hydraulics, old fashioned swinging door. Has anyone designed some sort of extension to the trailer sides just at the back so the load doesn’t snag on the...

Help please if you use one of these digital weighers. It’s put in a shift over many years outside in all weathers. We keep the end caps on the weigh cell connectors and tie them onto the crush so they face downwards. The actual weigh unit in the photos below lives in a dry shed. So it’s cared...

We are in N Cumbria and get 5t loads of pellets for a bin feeding a boiler. The usual supplier wants £420 plus 5% vat. Is this about right? We will get other prices of course if it looks like we can do better. Thanks.

Help please. Plot simple. Old bull. “Good gitter” as my father used to say. Won’t live forever and currently too many retained heifers. So I can have semen taken whilst I can for use far into the future. I asked a provider what it costs. Sent a price list to me. I don’t know what is needed so...

Help please! I have bought a very late model MF30 disc drill but there is no ops manual. Hopefully someone out there with the same model bearing the decals in the photo below will have the correct manual. In the other photo is a poor copy of what can be found on eBay. Helpfully the manual is not...

We are looking for a really tidy box drill to drill cereals into cultivated ploughing and maybe grass too. The Fiona / Juko / MF 30 styles. We do not want a project. We will need the manual to calibrate it. We have no fixed plans on budget, we just want a good drill ready to work and to last...

Help please. Our farm entrance is awful: we can get an 8 wheeler in with care but our walls have had some punishment over the years. Time for an easy night time artic friendly entrance where driver does not need to be at his or her best. We are getting expert advice on swept areas etc after a...

Located in Cumbria TB4 Pedigree Belted galloway bulls x2 black, x1 red 2yrs old x 2, and 18 months x1 Elite PCHS accredited status. individually priced from £1800 Great high health bulls for a beef herd, or for use on heifers in a dairy herd.

I hope an arable farmer can please give me a clue about this problem before I speak to Luke Cropwalker. Ploughed out grass in spring. It was a great job, and the herbicide seemed to work. Barley looked good. Suddenly after the summer went sour and it rained so much, all the grass suddenly...

We are thinking about getting a new baler. This Claas fixed chamber model comes with or without a chopper. We bale modest amounts of hay, haylage and straw, but we don’t have a lot of labour and need to cover the ground quickly. Seeing one in action might be difficult so we wondered if anyone...

If anyone has already found a fix for this problem please help us. Intermittent electrical issues are just so hard to fix. had its first service. No problems. Son went on an atv safety course and they required him to stop engine using handlebar switch. We use the key. On that day and now today...

If anyone has already found a fix for this problem please help us. Intermittent electrical issues are just so hard to fix. had its first service. No problems. Son went on an atv safety course and they required him to stop engine using handlebar switch. We use the key. On that day and now today...

I hope someone can help direct us to find a good electric gate design / supply. Our farm and farmhouse share the same lonning / drive. It used to be quite pretty but only wide enough for horses and carts so various acts of butchery made it a little wider but ugly. Plan is to rebuild the old...

Help needed please. In the pics is our Wacker plate. The most neglected piece of kit we have. Had it over a decade, tenth hand, no manual, runs maybe an hour a year. Never checked over. It just starts even on old petrol. Full of guilt and in a hurry I checked engine oil which I think is the...

We have a 2018 baler with the basic monitor. It intermittently just turns itself off, and so the first you know is a lot of grumbling as a supersize bale is created. It has to be dumped and then rebaled, or if I notice it earlier I just turn the monitor back on and manually wrap. It happened 3...

We are one man down today. One spare ticket. On the off chance someone wants one and will be at the entrance at 8ish then please pm your number to me.