Today at work

[holwellcourtfarm]

A bit of a muck about day today. It was raining again this morning so MOT'd the car, did the weekly shop, dropped off the parts bill for the broken tractor back window to the NFU insurance office then spent 2 hours chatting to an old EA mate who's finally seen sense and is leaving.

After that I got around to fitting new headstock hinge pins and bushes in dad's Matbro ready for the next 7000 hours

I just need to persuade him to grease them regularly now

I finished up with throwing a few more loads of fertiliser on grass and a bit of DAP on the maize seedbed ready for drilling.

 

[Horncastlefarm]

All the pictures are of interest it's what makes the thread so good, and it is technically a picture thread

I didn't realise. Will get on with the picture taking!

 

[RushesToo]

13 and a half month old heifer gives birth to a very small calf that has the same father and grandfather. Mum is so keen she licked it through the gate, calf a bit steady and hence not tagged yet.

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Fine to breed on the mothering instinct, think you should try and cut down on the incest or you will end up with NFN* calves.
*Normal for Norfolk

 

[R.B.H]

A few pics from this week
Improvised rain gauge holder

A bit of welding practise, went better than i thought it was going to

 

[Elpresidente]

Cultivating with a view

 

[RushesToo]

Does it need to be a certain type of copper?

Someone put a copper wire on a shed here and it hasn't done a thing.

Strips is best, pushed down like lead. You need the rain to contact the copper before it runs over the roof. Wire won't do this as well - if at all. Copper poisons it, probably don't want to pipe it into your house as drinking water.

 

[Peter]

Pics of what I have been working on the last couple days. Install buffer tank and valves and twin filter. ready to start lines into barn when 2 robots get set in place.

 

[Philip Watkins]

..... Copper poisons it, probably don't want to pipe it into your house as drinking water.

Why not, isn't household plumbing made of copper?

 

[Philip Watkins]

42 ton o cats finest

Pictures? You can't say you're working big cats and not post pictures them.

 

[davieh3350]

(Yesterday at work)

Skimmed 1.5 mm off the mounting surface for the pressure plate on the old deeres flywheel to bring it back into tolerance.

Didn't do it on the lathe cos there's another project set up on it and reusing the old friction plate so not needing to skim the face of it, so nice and easy to set up on Vicky.

 

[Boysground]

It will when your spreader looks to leak like a sieve!

There was much more liquid than we get in our other lagoon. Had to move to plan B yesterday

Bg

 

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Moving 2 cull ewes to fatten on grass, can't wait to eat that mutton had a few late lambers, so one lamb will need tailing a bit later, this takes the total up to 87, include deceased and you get well over 90. The ram has done me proud this year, all in lamb but only a few not. I will be selling him on next year at a decent price if anyone's interested? Top 5% and worth nearly £1000 quid when I got him, also out of showstock, good worker, excellent fertility and fast growing offspring with excellent confirmation. now off to feed calves, 2 pet lambs and i need to disinfect the calf pen, that's if the weather holds up. I disinfected it last week, but I like it to be kept spotless, even though they're tough creatures

 

[Willie adie]

forgot to post yesterday! 181 mules clipped still around 100 ewes to do in a few weeks. Got them inside just before rain

 

[7610 super q]

Im open to change if the weather does
Its only half a crop,had no fert

Hay ?, At this time of year ?, In this part of the world ?, With this weather ?.

Johnston. Wrap. Plenty in stock.

 

[RushesToo]

Why not, isn't household plumbing made of copper?

Because with the air and water it makes copper sulfate which is poisonous - admittedly in high concentrations - but wouldn't want to water sheep.

 

[Steevo]

The ram has done me proud this year, all in lamb but only a few not.

 

[Philip Watkins]

Because with the air and water it makes copper sulfate which is poisonous - admittedly in high concentrations - but wouldn't want to water sheep.

Wouldn't want to use it for sheep seeing as some aren't very tolerant to copper. We actually dose the turkeys with copper sulphate for 2 days before catching to reduce the heart attacks at the rate of 200g per 1000l water.

 

[davidroberts30]

Hay ?, At this time of year ?, In this part of the world ?, With this weather ?.

Johnston. Wrap. Plenty in stock.

Katy said there was a few pallets of wrap fresh in

 

[Glass half full]

Went for tea at mums and finally got the firepit out we got her for her birthday the pictures don't do it justice though there's one hell of a lot of skill that's made this cheers @Glass half full
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Thank you very much! looks great! sorry i only just saw this have been building my garden at Chelsea Flower Show!

 

[Phil P]

First job of the day done, re-install the miedema I rebuilt the other day. Couple of pics of the guys was plant for the spud men, quite an impressive setup. Shifts some tones in a week into the thousands!