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My granddaughters made this cushion for my mate Eric ,you see the story goes like this Eric not got a lot of feeling in his fingers arms following having a stroke, he has several bird-feeders/tables out side his living room window and often sit there watching but he noticed a rat was coming up to get the food so he got out his 22 airgun and sat there waiting with the window open and when the rat appeared he slowly raised the gun putting his finger on the trigger remember he has not a lot of feeling in fingers yes as he raised the gun it went off he now has a hole in the back of his settee ,Eric loves watching DADS ARMY on the telly so my granddaughters made him a dads army cushion to put over the hole , and a good laugh was had by all

spent part of sunday spraying the winter beans for insect control and the sugar beet for broad-leaved weed control

a few more pictures of the site and the area around it , each beam weighs 1.3tonnes which I picked up from a coded welding company and took back to my farm and cleaned them up and then gave them 2 coats of red-oxide paint then reloaded on trailer for delivery to site they are 9 meters long and are to support a sound-proof concrete floor for a flat above the function room , the 5 beams with the angles welded on the sides come out at £6500 + vat then they have to add on my cost of work (bit more model money) and one or 2 other costs the crane was £500 for 1hr on site was quoted £1200 by another company so think we got a good deal on that one , my mates at barking forge have to make 3 steel staircases and some railing to complete the job over the next few weeks which depending on my work situation I may spray up for them and go on site and help fit

Been a bit of a easy day today as just had to drive my tractor and trailer with these beams on to site then stand back and watch as the crane took over the other machines was on site as they are building a function room at the local golf-range / fishing lakes with on site café that do a good all-day breakfast (which they say is good ) cant admit to having one as supposed to be losing weight haha

Spent all day Sunday/Monday/Tuesday spraying sugar beet for weeds , grass land for broad-leaved weeds and then T2 Disease control on the wheat's with some trace elements tank mixed , 3 long days as a lot of road travel to get to some fields especially the grass-land

just tried replying to Stabiliofarmer in what have you been doing or plan on doing and its gone though but got Tractorman810 quote stuck to it

Would love to have ago at driving one of them engines James I remember seeing the red one before looks like you are having fun thanks for showing

This one has worked Chris my problem is also in the whats your latest topic, also the pictures I sent you last year are stuck so could not pm someone as I thought it would send the information I sent you and Robbo to someone else

Don't now if its my computer or not but I have tried to reply to some posts but when I click on the Quote sigh up comes a quote from Tractorman810 dated 13-05-16 which I cant seem to get rid of so cant quote back to people I also think my PM may be stuck as well as I tried to pm someone a couple of weeks ago and could not as it had pictures/message in the way of the new message the old pm was to Chris Watson and Robbo sometime last year which seem to be stuck in the way , any ideas

but other 10 not so carefull

That's what I call a proper tractor , it looks in good condition

sorry I forgot about that toe

I think Gav is ok its Sean we have to worry about

It is but after last nights football results it seems that a few more will be heading this way

Don't forget to get your passport stamped other wise we don't let you out

Went 4 miles down the road to pick up this steel for my mates at Barking Forge then when back in my yard I am unloading it as I took on the job of rubbing it down and painting it with red oxide at this moment I don't now what they are for but I now were they are going so will find out , the hole lot weigh just over 6 ton each one is 9 meters long so as you can see I had to be carful on corners as it swung out a bit

Thanks I thought that was it

Was spraying the rape last night

When you say turf trigger what is it as turf to me is a length of grass rolled up to be re-laid , is it peat dug out by hand dried then used instead of wood on your fire

A few weeks back I posted some pictures of some concreting I had done at my mates workplace , well I have been back and built them there smoking shelter that they require for there workers as to the plans drawn up by the MD of the company , it will be hot inside it on the hot days but b##### cold standing inside it on the other days by law it has to be only 50% covered in so 50% airflow

Yes have for past year been looking at telehandler option , I often borrow/hire one of my mate at harvest time . I still need the 3 tractors as the 2 big one do most of the main work then 4240 does the odd jobs as plenty big enough for bags of fertilizer etc , I have Mr Goodwin working on it so watch this space

It would be the next one to look at its a handy little tractor as I can get under the low bridge down at Needham Market when I have to go and cut the hay on the other side its a 40 min drive round but on the loader side it don't go high enough to lift over lorries for loading grain got buy up till now but it is something we are looking into

Spent a few hours today cutting grass along a ditch as the costumer I was working for wants to clean it out , then when I was back I gave the fleet a quick wash down

Thanks Mark we had a look for a name on machine but that was the only wording on it

No I don't think so as it might blow my under-cover operations and I would have to retire from active service