maintenance

hello this is my first time on here i'm after a start I've got years of stonewalling / maintenance / Construction/ plant driving/HGV experience and I'm looking to get into the farming side of things ideally a farm maintenance job with accommodation.I will muck in on anything I now live in...

I need to fence off 2 acres what energiser, s do people recommend ( hoping to use solar energiser) recommendations please.

An article in Sunday Times about the development of Edinburgh Airport. I was interested to read passenger numbers pre covid had a peak of 14'000'000 and 2023 was the first year to beat that at 14'700'000. The really interesting bit was after developments passenger numbers are going to be...

Written by Agriland Team from Agriland The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is advising farmers to follow the guidance of the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) when it comes to the use of quad bikes. The UFU stated that quad bikes are “extremely useful” on farms for tasks, but...

Matt baker program offering a tenancy on a NT farm northumberland

I’ve been sent these links to these machines and they are both genuine sales and the hrs are genuine yes they are ex Ukraine but it does highlight the life that is achievable with these machines, makes you think...

Thinking of replacing old Volvo shovel and Merlo loader with something like 320 jcb, Manitou 533 or similar, some have limited slip diff, some self- locking and Wiedermann ( possibly JCB?) have proper diff lock, how do people get on with either? I have had a Kramer 55kl on demo, a little sticky...

I thought I did on the Sainted Isle but that seems to no longer be the case … Recently, we tendered and won a block of 70ac on the outskirts of a village and accessed by a lane with houses off. I said to son after we’d walked the land that if we won, there would be trouble…… and yesterday we...

Hello everyone new to the forum and new to industrial machinery too, I have a 2022 JCB 540-200 telelift, my question is what lubricant should I use for the boom & pads? My mechanic first said red grease, then said liquid grease spray would work but last week when I asked a different Manitou...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland NFU Mutual has warned that Storm Kathleen, which is set to arrive tomorrow (Saturday, April 6), could potentially wreak “havoc on properties”. Storm Kathleen is set to hit the South West, North West, Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland...

Written by Rubina Freiberg from Agriland The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) will be hosting one-day dry stone walling courses during the next number of weeks. The training events at CAFRE’s Glenwherry Hill Farm Centre will be an introduction to single skinned dry...

5 months after storm babet we're still flooded 90 acres of summer grazing 4ft deep I am currently pumping, 1k a month just in electric, most land in the Idle Valley is either flooded or waterlogged. The Idle is pumped into the Trent at 36cumec unfortunately flow diwn the river is 11cunec...

We have two Isuzu D-Max pickup trucks. One of them developed a fuel system failure at 40,000 miles while still under extended warranty to the tune of £5,000 plus in needed repairs. The fuel filter was changed as per schedule in the manual and we have completed the basic maintenance of oil and...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has called for the flooding fund to “open as soon as possible” as farmers “need help right now”. After Storm Henk in early January, the UK government announced that farmers who had suffered...

With the way things are and no improvement on the horizon ,how long will it be before a huge dealer shuts up shop.they mostly got very large expensive premises and massive stocks of parts and machines but they will be suffering the same as the smaller dealers.seems to be a weekly occurrence of...

Open reach guy turned up today came 30 plus miles ,he was involved in "plant protection "" or otherwords checking telegraph poles are not rotting, took hour per pole.. Another guy who lives down road is travelling To Birmingham every day 100miles each way, works for open reach. Inefficient...

We are currently building new cubicle housing for 100 cows and are at a crossroads with regards to scraping out. My dad wants to install a lely/jos slurry collector I would prefer to install Storth rope scrapers My brother would prefer to scrape the building out with the machine. Any thoughts?

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland On farms where calving begins in mid-January, there will now be calves between nine and 10-weeks-of-age, and it may be time to start preparing for weaning. Weaning should be done based on weight, not just age, and ideally during the rearing period you...

NEW SCHEME TO PUT POTHOLES IN THE PAST The scourge of tyre-busting potholes that blight Britain’s rural highways and byways could finally be ending as new plans to incentivise country road repairs by farmers are rolled out. An innovative collaboration between Defra and the Department for...

Any ideas? my bactos have gone absolutely nuts this past 10 days and I don't know why!