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monkfish1 said:
Excellent!
Certainly look to be busy.
Not convinced we want any livestock. Though we have already been collared to rent the field for sheep! So maybe "hired in" livestock is the happy compromise?
Be quite careful with this, we were warned it needs a well defined formal agreement to prevent the creation of a tenancyCertainly look to be busy.
Not convinced we want any livestock. Though we have already been collared to rent the field for sheep! So maybe "hired in" livestock is the happy compromise?
bennno said:
monkfish1 said:
Excellent!
Certainly look to be busy.
Not convinced we want any livestock. Though we have already been collared to rent the field for sheep! So maybe "hired in" livestock is the happy compromise?
Be quite careful with this, we were warned it needs a well defined formal agreement to prevent the creation of a tenancyCertainly look to be busy.
Not convinced we want any livestock. Though we have already been collared to rent the field for sheep! So maybe "hired in" livestock is the happy compromise?
Posted an update about a month ago as we'd been out shopping but then wasn't sure it was the right thing to post but everything has been on our Facebook page multiple times so meh....
We went for a look at newer tractors between Christmas and New year, looking lasted a very short amount of time and we bought this
It's a 95hp Valtra with a Quicke loader that will lift about 1.2 tons. Its much newer machinery than we had and much more suited to what we do. Absolutely love using it, bright led lights and radio make it much more fun!
We've this week taken delivery of some new harrows to improve the grass, level out mole hills etc. Shopped round for ages but local place got the business to save delivery/driving miles to collect
In January we bought a baler so we don't need to rely on contractors and hopefully have a mower and haybob coming from same dealer
It's a 1968 New Holland Square baler, again ideal for us and simple to fix.
We needed a trailer for the quad as the quad is brilliant but we lacked carrying capacity and the trailer limits damage to the fields due to weight when it's wet
That's about all the PH worthy stuff for now but we've also been busy trimming trees/hedges back to regain hr 6ft edge of each field they'd encroached on and have had the fencing contractors back to do another load of fencing, god knows how many 100s of meters were up to but its nice knowing we have secure land.
Livestock wise we've had our first pig go for slaughter since moving, we have missed eating our own produce so that was welcome!
We bought a couple of young ponies at the local sale a few weeks ago, one will hopefully stay and the other will go back to the sale when it has a few more manners
Not the best picture but they'd just arrived
We've also gained a couple more sheep from some friends, they are a mixed purpose dairy sheep, we wont be milking them but will be put to the tup later in the year, the two in the middle facing opposite ways!
|https://thumbsnap.com/beUrM4Z2
On the cottages front we've had all new photos done, both Cottages have been decorated, new carpets in our two bed and some new fencing to give more privacy to guests. Really pleased with how they're looking now
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We went for a look at newer tractors between Christmas and New year, looking lasted a very short amount of time and we bought this
It's a 95hp Valtra with a Quicke loader that will lift about 1.2 tons. Its much newer machinery than we had and much more suited to what we do. Absolutely love using it, bright led lights and radio make it much more fun!
We've this week taken delivery of some new harrows to improve the grass, level out mole hills etc. Shopped round for ages but local place got the business to save delivery/driving miles to collect
In January we bought a baler so we don't need to rely on contractors and hopefully have a mower and haybob coming from same dealer
It's a 1968 New Holland Square baler, again ideal for us and simple to fix.
We needed a trailer for the quad as the quad is brilliant but we lacked carrying capacity and the trailer limits damage to the fields due to weight when it's wet
That's about all the PH worthy stuff for now but we've also been busy trimming trees/hedges back to regain hr 6ft edge of each field they'd encroached on and have had the fencing contractors back to do another load of fencing, god knows how many 100s of meters were up to but its nice knowing we have secure land.
Livestock wise we've had our first pig go for slaughter since moving, we have missed eating our own produce so that was welcome!
We bought a couple of young ponies at the local sale a few weeks ago, one will hopefully stay and the other will go back to the sale when it has a few more manners
Not the best picture but they'd just arrived
We've also gained a couple more sheep from some friends, they are a mixed purpose dairy sheep, we wont be milking them but will be put to the tup later in the year, the two in the middle facing opposite ways!
|https://thumbsnap.com/beUrM4Z2On the cottages front we've had all new photos done, both Cottages have been decorated, new carpets in our two bed and some new fencing to give more privacy to guests. Really pleased with how they're looking now
[url]Edited by sfella on Sunday 12th February 18:02
It's been a busy Spring and summer since I last posted, we've ally settled into life here and absolutely love where we've ended up. We've basically committed to this is where we'll be staying and to that end have added to the farms land. We're now farming 50 acres, 40 acres of grazing and 10 acres of woodland. This has required newer and bigger equipment than we had this time last year so we've added a 2nd 'big' tractor.
A 105hp Claas, absolutely love this thing
Although we moved here with a tiping trailer it was only really suitable for yard use as no lights and unbaked so we've added a multi purpose tipping trailer, can be used for bale carting, general haulage, bit of everything really
We had one 'classic' old tractor left which we traded on for a new Indian built machine for round the yard. It's ideal for harrowing, log splitting, small transport on the farm and is easy to use, cvt gearbox and easy modern controls. Not expensive in tractor terms and so far really pleased with it
Somehow managed to blag an extra farm truck, been wanting a td5 disco for ages and this popped up an hour away so a friend and I went and grabbed it
Annoyingly our mower broke just as we decided to go for hay, weather has been rubbish this year so we were already late and waiting for a fix wasn't an option. A quick run to the local dealer and a px done we came away with a new one which never missed a beat
Livestock wise we've just sold our Jacob tup and have or Jacob ewes in a sale next week. We're going down a bigger meat sheep route so have bought in a new Suffolk tup that we'll pick up some ewes for and a new southdown tup for our existing sothdown ewes. This concentrates us on 2-3 breeds tops on the farm and means all offspring have a good commercial value.....that's the plan anyway.
So a big year all told, lots still going on and to do but will get there
A 105hp Claas, absolutely love this thing
Although we moved here with a tiping trailer it was only really suitable for yard use as no lights and unbaked so we've added a multi purpose tipping trailer, can be used for bale carting, general haulage, bit of everything really
We had one 'classic' old tractor left which we traded on for a new Indian built machine for round the yard. It's ideal for harrowing, log splitting, small transport on the farm and is easy to use, cvt gearbox and easy modern controls. Not expensive in tractor terms and so far really pleased with it
Somehow managed to blag an extra farm truck, been wanting a td5 disco for ages and this popped up an hour away so a friend and I went and grabbed it
Annoyingly our mower broke just as we decided to go for hay, weather has been rubbish this year so we were already late and waiting for a fix wasn't an option. A quick run to the local dealer and a px done we came away with a new one which never missed a beat
Livestock wise we've just sold our Jacob tup and have or Jacob ewes in a sale next week. We're going down a bigger meat sheep route so have bought in a new Suffolk tup that we'll pick up some ewes for and a new southdown tup for our existing sothdown ewes. This concentrates us on 2-3 breeds tops on the farm and means all offspring have a good commercial value.....that's the plan anyway.
So a big year all told, lots still going on and to do but will get there
Edited by sfella on Sunday 24th September 20:16
sfella, I'm envious of your lifestyle pal.
Silvanus said:
Indeed, just planting trees all over the place can be completely the wrong thing to do,
I've been on local guided nature and wildlife walks with ecologists who say that instead of planting trees, leave large areas of grass unmowed and the trees will arrive.Edited by The Gauge on Sunday 24th September 22:03
alfabeat said:
Ah ha. Missed that one post! I take it back. You need to buy some more kit!!
There's a feew implements on the list for next year if all goes OK, a bigger stock box would be handy and our flat bed trailer being 14ft instead of 10ft would be handy.Monday is sheep mart day in the village with tye horse sale this Thursday so some next stock Will hopefully come in this week. Hoping to up our lambing numbers and we've some pigs we're going to split into keeping and eating to hopefully breed our own from.
sfella said:
It's been a busy Spring and summer since I last posted, we've ally settled into life here and absolutely love where we've ended up. We've basically committed to this is where we'll be staying and to that end have added to the farms land. We're now farming 50 acres, 40 acres of grazing and 10 acres of woodland. This has required newer and bigger equipment than we had this time last year so we've added a 2nd 'big' tractor.
A 105hp Claas, absolutely love this thing
Although we moved here with a tiping trailer it was only really suitable for yard use as no lights and unbaked so we've added a multi purpose tipping trailer, can be used for bale carting, general haulage, bit of everything really
We had one 'classic' old tractor left which we traded on for a new Indian built machine for round the yard. It's ideal for harrowing, log splitting, small transport on the farm and is easy to use, cvt gearbox and easy modern controls. Not expensive in tractor terms and so far really pleased with it
Somehow managed to blag an extra farm truck, been wanting a td5 disco for ages and this popped up an hour away so a friend and I went and grabbed it
Annoyingly our mower broke just as we decided to go for hay, weather has been rubbish this year so we were already late and waiting for a fix wasn't an option. A quick run to the local dealer and a px done we came away with a new one which never missed a beat
Livestock wise we've just sold our Jacob tup and have or Jacob ewes in a sale next week. We're going down a bigger meat sheep route so have bought in a new Suffolk tup that we'll pick up some ewes for and a new southdown tup for our existing sothdown ewes. This concentrates us on 2-3 breeds tops on the farm and means all offspring have a good commercial value.....that's the plan anyway.
So a big year all told, lots still going on and to do but will get there
Love Suffolks, they are beautiful animals. He looks fantastic. I like the evolution of animals and equipment! Hay was a pain this year, it became a chore in the end as the worry about getting it in, whereas normally hay making is brilliant. A 105hp Claas, absolutely love this thing
Although we moved here with a tiping trailer it was only really suitable for yard use as no lights and unbaked so we've added a multi purpose tipping trailer, can be used for bale carting, general haulage, bit of everything really
We had one 'classic' old tractor left which we traded on for a new Indian built machine for round the yard. It's ideal for harrowing, log splitting, small transport on the farm and is easy to use, cvt gearbox and easy modern controls. Not expensive in tractor terms and so far really pleased with it
Somehow managed to blag an extra farm truck, been wanting a td5 disco for ages and this popped up an hour away so a friend and I went and grabbed it
Annoyingly our mower broke just as we decided to go for hay, weather has been rubbish this year so we were already late and waiting for a fix wasn't an option. A quick run to the local dealer and a px done we came away with a new one which never missed a beat
Livestock wise we've just sold our Jacob tup and have or Jacob ewes in a sale next week. We're going down a bigger meat sheep route so have bought in a new Suffolk tup that we'll pick up some ewes for and a new southdown tup for our existing sothdown ewes. This concentrates us on 2-3 breeds tops on the farm and means all offspring have a good commercial value.....that's the plan anyway.
So a big year all told, lots still going on and to do but will get there
Edited by sfella on Sunday 24th September 20:16
I need to get my own bailer this year as my man who does it has now retired. Just worry about how reliable they are as I am not very mechanical!
Tom8 said:
Love Suffolks, they are beautiful animals. He looks fantastic. I like the evolution of animals and equipment! Hay was a pain this year, it became a chore in the end as the worry about getting it in, whereas normally hay making is brilliant.
I need to get my own bailer this year as my man who does it has now retired. Just worry about how reliable they are as I am not very mechanical!
Thank-you, he's great we think. We didn't go to the sale to buy but I saw him and liked him. Been shown a lot as ram lamb and done well.I need to get my own bailer this year as my man who does it has now retired. Just worry about how reliable they are as I am not very mechanical!
We only gave a grand for the baler, all set up, new string, knives etc. Sadly with weather this year we didn't get to use her, had a contractor in to big bale and wrap. Fingers crossed for next year. Luckily in the hot June weather we bought 220 small hay bales in and then made 50 4 string squares that are wrapped so plenty in the feed bank
The mowing and tedding I'm happy will be us every year so happy to have our own new machinery sat there but feel.unless we move up to a round baler we're better off with cheaper sat here 363 days a year for those 2 days of use.
sfella said:
Tom8 said:
Love Suffolks, they are beautiful animals. He looks fantastic. I like the evolution of animals and equipment! Hay was a pain this year, it became a chore in the end as the worry about getting it in, whereas normally hay making is brilliant.
I need to get my own bailer this year as my man who does it has now retired. Just worry about how reliable they are as I am not very mechanical!
Thank-you, he's great we think. We didn't go to the sale to buy but I saw him and liked him. Been shown a lot as ram lamb and done well.I need to get my own bailer this year as my man who does it has now retired. Just worry about how reliable they are as I am not very mechanical!
We only gave a grand for the baler, all set up, new string, knives etc. Sadly with weather this year we didn't get to use her, had a contractor in to big bale and wrap. Fingers crossed for next year. Luckily in the hot June weather we bought 220 small hay bales in and then made 50 4 string squares that are wrapped so plenty in the feed bank
The mowing and tedding I'm happy will be us every year so happy to have our own new machinery sat there but feel.unless we move up to a round baler we're better off with cheaper sat here 363 days a year for those 2 days of use.
Funny how I get as excited about new sheep as I do about new equipment. We bought a fabulous Dartmoor ram last week, can't wait for lambing now to see what he produces!
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