Today at work

[DaveJ]

Thanks. What do they use??

Logic brush type wiper and ordinary cheap glyphosate.

 

[sleepy]

Are they cans behind the tyres?

Yep, there is piles of the most obscure things there

Need a new sink?

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Still playing catch up with the proper grass farmers at Dads today

Finally got the old Lawrence Edwards wrapper going really nicely, about 30 bales an hour with a 28 year old 500mm wrap machine

 

[S J H]

Yep, there is piles of the most obscure things there

Need a new sink?
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Is it a council run site? Is that mountain of crushed part of the same place?

 

[sleepy]

Is it a council run site? Is that mountain of crushed part of the same place?

Private, yep it's about 15 acres I think, they basically take in all sorts of sh!t sort it all out then try and sell it for more than it cost them to sort out.

The grab diggers sit on piles of rubbish pulling out bit of wood and metal out of mixed rubbish etc, amazing how precise they are with such clumsy machines. Literally picking up single house bricks.

 

[Landyman]

When do you sleep @Sleepy ?

 

[BobGreen]

Slurry channel going in across new and old building

Cows now using their extended building

Second robot now in place

Hopefully robots are going to be operational this week. It's been a difficult job working around cows being in 24/7 and keeping parlour operational at same time. They've had to milk down one side for last 2 weeks but that only put 45 minutes onto milking time
The worst part of job is knowing that customer has terminal cancer and only a matter of weeks left. He's done this all for his 23 year old son to carry on I think the challenge of getting this all done has kept him going
Life can be so cruel

 

[Philip Watkins]

When do you sleep @Sleepy ?

Never, that's why he's sleepy

 

[sleepy]

When do you sleep @Sleepy ?

At night

 

[Steevo]

Steep field

Is that the new "pit deep", "mix often"?

 

[S J H]

View attachment 526330 Slurry channel going in across new and old building View attachment 526326 Cows now using their extended building View attachment 526324 Second robot now in place

Hopefully robots are going to be operational this week. It's been a difficult job working around cows being in 24/7 and keeping parlour operational at same time. They've had to milk down one side for last 2 weeks but that only put 45 minutes onto milking time
The worst part of job is knowing that customer has terminal cancer and only a matter of weeks left. He's done this all for his 23 year old son to carry on I think the challenge of getting this all done has kept him going
Life can be so cruel

What's the brace on the stanchion for @BobGreen

 

[BobGreen]

What's the brace on the stanchion for @BobGreen

There is a 14 foot overhang on those stanchions as there couldn't be a outside stanchion because of adjacent slurry tower. The brace is a belt and braces detail to add some strength

 

[BobGreen]

Another photo @SJH

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Today "at work"

Tiki tour to the beach after taking Mrs B an extra coffee to work -froze overnight and then soupy fog, and she is sick, and I'm a love

collected some kelp for a brew up

hosed the sand off

shifted the runts to a new paddock, after cutting the tops off 4 more drums for brew barrels. Cooked some tea and now making a kelp chopper upper out of a surplus mower

so I can chop it all up a little faster this round.

 

[Mursal]

"kelp chopper upper out of an old mower" please explain?
@Kiwi Pete

 

[Kiwi Pete]

"kelp chopper upper out of an old mower" please explain?
@Kiwi Pete

The last brew I made was pretty chunky because I basically had to hang it up and butcher it over my drums.
This old mower is a bodge of a throwaway frame and a good engine and a carby set up with a bobby pin throttle.
I spaced the blade down a little as it was way too high.
And lopped a bit out of the side and found a piece of ply to go under it.
I'll strop it down onto a pallet nice and firm and then mince up the kelp over the next few days: half fill the drums and cover with water. Watch this space!

 

[RWG Contracts]

 

[blue power]

had another log drying kiln delivered this morning

 

[Flossie]

View attachment 526330 Slurry channel going in across new and old building View attachment 526326 Cows now using their extended building View attachment 526324 Second robot now in place

Hopefully robots are going to be operational this week. It's been a difficult job working around cows being in 24/7 and keeping parlour operational at same time. They've had to milk down one side for last 2 weeks but that only put 45 minutes onto milking time
The worst part of job is knowing that customer has terminal cancer and only a matter of weeks left. He's done this all for his 23 year old son to carry on I think the challenge of getting this all done has kept him going
Life can be so cruel

That's very sad to hear-very nice chap. Summered his heifers next door to us about 10 years ago.

 

[Wombat]

All coming into ear now

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