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Cheese and cider is a good shout. You could visit the village of Stilton to see why no Stilton cheese is produced there. Farmhouse cheeses/dairy products aren't something I've seen a lot of in the states in my few weeks there. On here, @sjt01 and @onesiedale are involved in processing their own...

I've hauled grain off that one. Nasty bank on it IIRC...

I visited a dairy in northern Italy which produced its own PDO Parmesan. They had a big hay barn with big high concrete bunkers, and a grapple type device on a Palfinger type thing hanging from the rafters. Hay was tipped up into the loading bay and stacked loose into the bunkers before being...

Old man was a bit achy when he was your age, particularly his knees. He put it down to wearing Noras on concrete for 30 years. A friend convinced him to go to the doc who diagnosed anaemia caused by colon cancer. Once he'd recovered from surgery and chemo, his aching knees were much improved...

Stupid question elsewhere, but not in farming.... But have you been to the doctor?

The place where I work has a collective bargaining agreement linked to RPI. We all got 11% last year. Expecting probably half that this year. So 17% in two years, compared to your putative 5%...

Fat hen seems to do well on our old pig paddocks. Self seeding, plenty of green cover, deep rooting. Just watch it doesn't get away from you before sowing in the spring. We got into a helluva muddle in 2019 moving the pigs in the very early summer, and not sowing till late Sep. Fat hen was tall...

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By Christ that would make a nice garage!

Yes, me too. In fact I found them to be very tasty several times during my week away. ;)

Last weekend in the Périgord: Comice agricole à Lanouaille. Whole town was packed out, local fair, cider making, chestnut roasting, brotherhoods of pâté, chestnut and truffle in attendance. Big dinner in the salle des fêtes for the farmers (and us hangers-on) afterwards. Yesterday in the...

It sounds effing unsafe to me. Dumping pressure at the press of a button when you're within striking distance of the implement that could be held out of harm's way only by the hydraulic pressure. Perhaps there's a reason manufacturers only put dump buttons in the cab? To keep the operator...

Is barrow a local term? Not heard it before.

Just a heads up there are some wires related to the coil that appear to be just wires, but are in fact some form of diode inline with a wire. I took them off because a mouse had chewed the insulation. Didn't work properly afterwards. Fished em out the bin, re insulated and it ran great again...

I think this is the correct tool: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Special-Retaining-retaining-burnished-plastic/dp/B003UHUCR6 Have one here and only ever used it for CV type stuff. Something on a Kubota RTV somewhere. Impossible without, easy as pie with the right tool.

Wonderful looking building. Great work. (y) :)

Someone at work provided this photo for the org chart. I seem to be the only person who noticed his striking resemblance to Matt Berry's character on The IT Crowd. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Can't emphasize enough how important this point is. GF's family have a family history, having lost mother 20yr ago. GF and her bro have been on 5 yearly colonoscopies since their 20s. Now in their 40s, GF's bro was due his next colonoscopy this year. He was fine at Christmas. Likely he'll be...

That's exactly what's happened and it stinks. Same as private landlords being relied upon - on pain of prosecution - to establish someone's right to inhabit this country before letting a property. It turns us all against each other in the end. Corrosive to the core.

Universally referred to as an "adjustable spanner" in the UK, not a "Crescent wrench" as in other parts of the world. :ROFLMAO: FWIW, I only have one experience of Crescent tools. Bought some big ol' files for an important fitting job. They filed just fine.