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[jondear]

I think he’s fencing out the badgers so the wire is low to the ground, the track is so there is no vegetation to grow where the fence is.

But @Scholsey what kind of energies we are you using. A good powerful one should burn of any vegetation I’d of thought.

Oh! some job keeping them out on whole farm!

 

[Princess Pooper]

Badgers are an interesting problem. There are 30+ Badgers on 140ac here and currently TB free, despite all my neighbours being down and don't have to fence off latrines or anything. In a way a large population of healthy badgers are currently my best protection from TB. That could change very quickly though, and probably will.

That's what we used to think, but then we lost over a quarter of our herd in one hit, all in calf. Now we are a lot more on the ball with at least fencing off latrines and setts. Hope you remain TB free.

 

[happycows]

Turned into a robot breakers yard today. Must be crazy!
Anything of interest including new 3 phase milk pumps. Lasers, brush motors dozens of air rams, apv valves and gates suitable for diversion gates.

 

[dinderleat]

Turned into a robot breakers yard today. Must be crazy!
Anything of interest including new 3 phase milk pumps. Lasers, brush motors dozens of air rams, apv valves and gates suitable for diversion gates.

What did you have a job lot at a farm sale?

 

[happycows]

What did you have a job lot at a farm sale?

Someone down the road given up. I Could not face seeing them go to scrap yard.
Hundreds of bits worth a lot of money if you had too source them but hopefully I’ll sell a few bits at sensible money and take 5 ton of steel and ton of stainless to scrap yard next week and get out of them. Some lovely stainless cabinets.

 

[The Agrarian]

Better get them inside out of the rain

 

[Beef farmer]

Better get them inside out of the rain

Rain....

 

[Beef farmer]

Someone down the road given up. I Could not face seeing them go to scrap yard.
Hundreds of bits worth a lot of money if you had too source them but hopefully I’ll sell a few bits at sensible money and take 5 ton of steel and ton of stainless to scrap yard next week and get out of them. Some lovely stainless cabinets.

Dosent look that well cared for. Or has it beem sat idle for couple of years?

 

[happycows]

Dosent look that well cared for. Or has it beem sat idle for couple of years?

About 6 months stopped being used and sat in shed since. Was worn out.
Had lots of new bits over last few years including 3 lasers that would have been several thousand each.

 

[The Agrarian]

Yep. Oodles of parts there that also fit A2s. The S-lina's are pretty valuable as long as they are kept bone dry.

 

[happycows]

Yep. Oodles of parts there that also fit A2s. The S-lina's are pretty valuable as long as they are kept bone dry.

All the boards in the arm fit A2 and A1. Also several in there same as merlin 225.
God knows what I’ll do with them all.
Drive motors for arms. Bet they aren’t cheap.

 

[Scholsey]

Oh! some job keeping them out on whole farm!

We did on 200 acres without much hassle, helped being ring fenced obviously, just had to spray under the fence twice a year, turned organic stopped that and most of the fence was 15-20 years old and many of the posts were snapping off so dragged the old fence out of the way putting down membrane and 3” of 40mm clean stone down in a 1m wide band and replace the fence in the middle of it, just doing the 34 acre grazing platform and all the buildings to start with.

We tried strimming, a complete waste of time would pretty much be a full time job for someone.

I think he’s fencing out the badgers so the wire is low to the ground, the track is so there is no vegetation to grow where the fence is.

But @Scholsey what kind of energies we are you using. A good powerful one should burn of any vegetation I’d of thought.

We’ve got 2 hotline 5.6 joule units, in the dry they could do 8-9000 volts and really spoil your day but they couldn’t cope with vegetation.

 

[jondear]

We did on 200 acres without much hassle, helped being ring fenced obviously, just had to spray under the fence twice a year, turned organic stopped that and most of the fence was 15-20 years old and many of the posts were snapping off so dragged the old fence out of the way putting down membrane and 3” of 40mm clean stone down in a 1m wide band and replace the fence in the middle of it, just doing the 34 acre grazing platform and all the buildings to start with.

We tried strimming, a complete waste of time would pretty much be a full time job for someone.



We’ve got 2 hotline 5.6 joule units, in the dry they could do 8-9000 volts and really spoil your day but they couldn’t cope with vegetation.

I admire your perseverance..We are ring fenced on 180 acres but no way could I fence it all to badger proof standards .We have alot of electric fence anyway .

 

[Scholsey]

I admire your perseverance..We are ring fenced on 180 acres but no way could I fence it all to badger proof standards .We have alot of electric fence anyway .

I think in my working lifetime, next 30-40 years, we will see the end to TB compensation and having to pay for TB testing ourselves. I can’t see future governments carrying on writing big cheques out for cattle farmers.

It’s surprising what is achievable when actually put your mind to something, I have said about it before but we lost over 100 cows with TB before finishing the whole farm fence, once it was completed and working well we lost 3 in 15 years, lost 14 in last 18 months once the fences were down again. Went clear Thursday as everything was housed since September.

 

[Martyn]

Very little rain about, grass really slowed up, fair dust storm hehind cows on tracts this morning, heading for repeat of last year!

 

[jondear]

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Very little rain about, grass really slowed up, fair dust storm hehind cows on tracts this morning, heading for repeat of last year!

Slowed up because of cold not lack of moisture had 40 mm last week! Warming up next week

 

[lazy farmer]

Slowed up because of cold not lack of moisture had 40 mm last week! Warming up next week

That wouldCertainly be the case in the Vale. Yet another frost this morning.

 

[lamb89]

Grass has slowed here with the cold east winds. it also quite dry with crack starting to come

 

[bigw]

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Very little rain about, grass really slowed up, fair dust storm hehind cows on tracts this morning, heading for repeat of last year!

Last year was ideal for us. Turned the cows out today, its very unusual for it to be dry enough and have grass to graze at this time of year. I am contemplating grazing some silage fields so we can get on them with slurry as they have too much leaf. A happy complaint.

 

[TomB]

Slowed up because of cold not lack of moisture had 40 mm last week! Warming up next week

That’s my thoughts too. Was wet this time last year, we didn’t plant spring barley till the last week of April last year. At least we have reasonable grass covers as finished our silage a week ago.