Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
Food allergies have markedly increased in the last generation or two . .
It HAS to be linked to our lifestyle & industrial food production
I read a report about allergies/asthma in highly industrialised areas of Poland. You would expect there to be a high incidence there but apparently not.
The conclusion was that because even in these industrialised areas people still kept and lived amongst cattle.
There is quite a bit of evidence to suggest our immune system is kick started into healthy activity in infancy as a result of close contact with cattle and other livestock.
That contact has definitely vastly declined in the last generation or two.
 

Blaithin

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Alberta
@Blaithin found a nice boyfriend for you(y) Dads cousin called in today on there way to Queensland. One of his sons started an on line Lego business and is turning over that much he bought a ferrari several years ago:eek:. His single brother(y) who used to be an electrician at Murray Goulburn ( now Saputo) , then was working on Esso off shore platforms, started his own business selling NBN ( broadband internet) wireless technology stuff.He recently built a million dollar warehouse, and is now turning over $25 million and also took up body sculpting. His first comp he came first in the 40 to 50 year old category and 4th overall. He bought his parents a brand new ferrari red mustang for xmas:eek: I've spent the entire day feeling less than adequate :oops::ROFLMAO:(n)
Well what’s his contact info then? And how does he feel about cows and Canada :ROFLMAO:
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
What happens on here when you "follow" someone? :cautious:
Does anyone follow me?
Do I follow everyone?
How do you check?

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hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Ah, I see .
But what does it do?

:scratchhead:

I have no idea how half this sh!t works :facepalm:

Fudge me, that's lots of likes, I really need to delete more stuff before y'all wake up :LOL:

:oops:
I don't know what it does either. I followed nzdan a while ago because he always has something interesting to say about sheep and genetics and just generally knows a lot (and to see what following someone means) and nothing has happened :scratchhead:
I have 5 or 6 followers I think. I dread to think that someone reads all the shite I've put on here :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 

Henarar

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
I don't know what it does either. I followed nzdan a while ago because he always has something interesting to say about sheep and genetics and just generally knows a lot (and to see what following someone means) and nothing has happened :scratchhead:
I have 5 or 6 followers I think. I dread to think that someone reads all the shite I've put on here :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
I think you can change your settings to get alerts when someone you follow posts or set it so only those you follow can pm you or some such
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
My nemesis!

Flat tyre on topper last week,sent it to tyre shop as I hate these forklift tyres as a they are gits to repair and we had no spare tubes.

The repair with new tube lasted 1 day!

So wet day today and have put one new tube which split on inflation.:mad::banghead:

Had a second spare which has been fitted and as I type now it gave a random brief fast hiss. :scratchhead::dead::mad:

Friggin tyres!!!!!:(:mad::cry:

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Any reason you couldn't just run solid tyres for that application ?
Or get yours filled with foam ?
 

Yale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Any reason you couldn't just run solid tyres for that application ?
Or get yours filled with foam ?
They describe them as virtually puncture proof and to be fair this has been the case with only 2 flats in about 14 years.

Getting them filled with foam would be a solution however because the machine is not critical to harvesting then downtime is no problem.

Because the sidewalls are so stiff it is a helluva job to get the tube in and out,and to have to do it twice and it still be flat it’s annoying.:banghead:

Anyhow I’ve sent the old fella with the wheel down to the tyre shop as I’ve run out of tubes and thrown my teddy.:ROFLMAO:
 

cows sh#t me to tears

Member
Livestock Farmer
They describe them as virtually puncture proof and to be fair this has been the case with only 2 flats in about 14 years.

Getting them filled with foam would be a solution however because the machine is not critical to harvesting then downtime is no problem.

Because the sidewalls are so stiff it is a helluva job to get the tube in and out,and to have to do it twice and it still be flat it’s annoying.:banghead:

Anyhow I’ve sent the old fella with the wheel down to the tyre shop as I’ve run out of tubes and thrown my teddy.:ROFLMAO:
It's a linkage slasher.......why the hell does it need wheels anyway:rolleyes: our old 5 foot page never had themo_O
 

Farmer Roy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
NSW, Newstralya
A bit of a change from the standard, bland, homogenised "donga" or transportable accomodation block.
Cute little old single bedroom timber cottage, with a modern kitchen, bathroom & heating. Had a bit of character.
Best thing is, it couldn't get much closer to where we are working ( sometimes you're travelling 10 - 30 km ), this pic was taken from the top of the stripper this morning as I was blowing it down

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cows sh#t me to tears

Member
Livestock Farmer
A bit of a change from the standard, bland, homogenised "donga" or transportable accomodation block.
Cute little old single bedroom timber cottage, with a modern kitchen, bathroom & heating. Had a bit of character.
Best thing is, it couldn't get much closer to where we are working ( sometimes you're travelling 10 - 30 km ), this pic was taken from the top of the stripper this morning as I was blowing it down

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Think I'd rather it right next to the pub(y)
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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