Today at work

[mixed breed]

That’s partly where my plan comes unstuck. I’d be heavily reliant on bought in feed. We can’t grow any cereals really as we need all the grass. So all feed and bedding is bought in other than grass silage. But I have the ability to house lots of cows.

I was quoted somewhere around 8k for 60 precast cubicles for the one shed. Selling my straw would go a long way to paying for them. If we didn't have to comply with nvz I'd put them in and go back to the good old days of spreading a load muck everyday of winter.
Sadly nothing is that easy anymore.

 

[Shovelhands]

Cracking start today, December mornings don’t come much better than this! Absolutely dead calm.

Was a bit sticky, to say the least, once the frost was out of the ground, but a beautiful day all the same.

 

[bovrill]

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Is that a late 2019 cut, or getting in early for baling in 2020?
We don't seem to be getting the sunshine for hay here just at the moment

 

[Sheepykid]

I was quoted somewhere around 8k for 60 precast cubicles for the one shed. Selling my straw would go a long way to paying for them. If we didn't have to comply with nvz I'd put them in and go back to the good old days of spreading a load muck everyday of winter.
Sadly nothing is that easy anymore.

Was that to go in the 120x40 or the 80x40?

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Last of the bigger bits of kit washed and oiled, rollers and sumo done then a tractor washed ready for service

 

[JCB_JCR]

Planned to cut it early Oct never got to it for some reason...?. Was going to leave it for the wildlife to enjoy but Parish wanted it tidying up, shame cause the trees are a pain to cut around!

Is that a late 2019 cut, or getting in early for baling in 2020?
We don't seem to be getting the sunshine for hay here just at the moment

 

[mixed breed]

Was that to go in the 120x40 or the 80x40?

I've just Checked, for the 120x40 quote was for two single rows, would have made 56 beds.

 

[jendan]

I've just Checked, for the 120x40 quote was for two single rows, would have made 56 beds.

If you ever get pre cast cubicles,you have to put rubber or other non slip on them.Thats if they have no raised heel stone.I have some wolfenden ones,and when i first got them,they were absolute cow killers! If you ever change to cubicles,they want to be permanent,and sand bed i would think.When i had loose house dairy cows,i couldnt keep my cell count down,nor keep them clean enough,and my straw usage was astronomical.

 

[Robert K]

A fun few hours chasing these little darlings around the parish this afternoon
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I lost the pin that secures the gate, so used a rusty nail instead, and that turned out to lack the required strength!
They eventually trotted back into the feed passage, so I shut them in there for an hour while I took the opportunity to grab a bit of muck out the pen, and find a proper bolt to replace the missing pin. Hence the widely scattered haylage! Tidying up can wait until daylight, I've not run through muddy fields like this for years, and my knees are creaking a bit now!

Poor old boy all that TOW ruins the knees

 

[bovrill]

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Poor old boy all that TOW ruins the knees

Being fat doesn't help things

 

[Hurdle bunter]

Installed a sewage pump station at an industrial unit

 

[Speedstar]

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very tidy job

 

[Hurdle bunter]

very tidy job

Thanks, went well, didn’t get the finish on the concrete that I’d have liked due to the rain but it’s not far away

 

[Agriimark]

Maize harvest 2019 underway. . Again

 

[Bill Turtle]

Tough headlands.

 

[Steevo]

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Lovely gold colour!

 

[sticky]

Thought of having a go today ......that's as far as it got !!

I've given up even thinking about it now.

 

[Two Tone]

Getting ready to start delivering wheat to a local feed mill at Enstone.
Tractor and trailer washed and cab mucked out.
Trailer loaded, tyre pressures checked.
Found my hi-viz vest and filled in all the passports ready for the off.

 

[holywell farmer]

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Looking good

 

[Flat 10]

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Trickled a bit more in

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Slow n steady seems to be the way this year with the Vaddy, less of a rapid, more a tortoise @ 7kph, but any faster it turns into a bulldozer.

Why won't your moore go in that? Can't be much different to the vad, better I would have thought. After all you have got all tines pulled out?