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Ok Sean you can have a fizzy drink and a Jaffa Cake 😁. If you are in the area and i am not really busy spraying or harvesting etc by all means call in ,that goes for any FTF members cant promise a bbq or goodie bag but might be able to get you a cuppa 👍

Thanks Paul ,it saved the school £150 by not having to hire a coach . That class will definitely be coming back at some time and if the staff stay the same at the school i expect another visit next year .

Yes they loved it ,they might come back bit later on and walk a few fields and view the crops ,yes Mr Goodie helped out

Thanks John , its a shame that some teachers only teach there views, we have a couple live in the village that are green party members (nothing wrong with green party in general ) but when i point out things to them they wont have it ,one thing i pointed out to them is that i have to grow my crops under the Red Tractor Rules and as soon as it leaves the farm it is mixed with products from other countries that are not grown to the same rules .

Thanks for all the comments lads ,a few scary moments happened ,1 was when they all started to climb up the bales of hay in the shed and other one was one of the children got the lid of the sugar beet seed and they thought they was sweets ,allow i can confirm no children got hurt ,we did do a head count as they left just in case on off them was hiding up . I must also thank Mr Goodwin for supplying the goody bags at short notice

And as they left to walk back to school they was all given a bag ,a booklet with photos of tractors in a combine poster, a place mat ,keyring and a chainsaw man

They had a look at the animals not in the photos are 2 horses ,1 rabbit ,1 Guinee pig ,and 4 cats .They all sat on the bales of straw and had a cup of orange and a biscuit

My neighbour dropped of his beet harvester

We have a primary school just up the road from my farm and a few weeks ago i got asked if i would meet one of the classes and answer a few questions as they was doing a project on farming ,it was also asked if there could walk down my back field from the school and into the yard for a look about sometime ,anyway on Thursday they all walked down ,i got machines out and labelled up ,took me 3 days to get it ready ,cant show photos of the children but i think they had a good time .

One of my neighbour's is in his eighty's and said he was going to take out old rotten wood around this little bit of garden and replace with some new 6 by 3 timbers but he was not sure he could lift them ,so i ended up doing it for him .Had to drag the stones back clear away some soil and rotten wood and bed new wood on a layer of sharp sand ,screw brackets on to hold it all together and then make good the stones

Been a good week or so ,the generator i bought been sold on ,the tractor is also sold ,i could have sold it 6 times over by all the phone calls ,its gone to a local builder as he needs it to reinstate gardens and the mower and grass-turner is on its way to Romania ,a lad working for Openreach around the London area came down with his father and bought it to take back to the family farm in Romania to cut the long grass on some steep slopes then they can turn it to dry and then feed to there livestock in the winter .

Shame about the damage ,but you have 2 nice branded boxes .👍

Its nice spending someone else money 😁

you wont need any weights on it just for yard work

excellent work they look very good

Well done Paul that looks and sounds a treat ,i also noticed you stopped outside the chocolate factory was that to get Gemma a little gift as a thank you for letting you get another tractor 😍

I will give him a call to check on here as in the last 10 days his workload has doubled with arranging demos and getting around to look at trade in machines

Send him a pm on here ,he just might have another one

Very smart Paul grand job ,pity you dont live bit closer to me as i have a chassis that i have plans to put a body onto one day ☺️

The main part of the field slopes in two directions so the pipes pick up the water as it runs that way and the pipes then running the other way take the water down to a main pipe which then exits into the ditch ,down the narrow end there is some hollows so they put main pipes in from them and then the other ones crossed them the depth varies but the pipes are 24 to 30 inches down with about 10 inches of stone on the top as when we mole drain it the mole will be at 21 inches ,the drainer is on GPS to keep straight and to keep the correct fall on the pipes

As David as said ,stansted airport