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dar31 wrote: »

if you dont mind me asking, what was the finished cost of the shed, and how much of it did you do.

fine job, nice and snug for the long winter evenings.

actually €2500 includes more area than the shed, there was a big section of wall at the front of the shed and concrete to meet existing yard..
shed itself was €10500 inc VAT erection and large set of sliding doors on front, tegral sheeting and non drip on roof
concrete was about €5700
large amount of flag/heavy shale as site was a hole basically and needed to be raised alot, 15 lorries came to €1500
digger approx €1000
have about €1800 VAT to get back so just over 19k:eek:
it ended up costing alot more than i originally thought but i dont know that i could have done it a whole lot cheaper either, did feck all of it myself, working full time so gone every day, well actually I made the small side entrance door..its the roughest bit of the shed

Karen112 wrote: »

We try to tag every week if possible, along with the online events. Of course it depends on work etc. But it's rare for our farm to miss anything. Liking that calf off Rocky redzerologen!:D Any more recent pics?

No unfortunatley, Most of those pictures were on my phone since last year. He turned into a smashing weanling though out of a limx shorthorn cow. Have a good few pics from a few weeks ago on the girlfriends camera, Will try and put them up one of the days!!

ZETOR_IS_BETTER wrote: »

There was a very similar photo like that shown on bbc country file
Was it one of yours Bizzum?

Not that I know, or I'd be looking for royalties!

Mods, can we make this a sticky? Would mean more photos and viewing ability would be easier.

Great pic of half the mini digger! Lucky you had the door open before ya went south:D

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I would nearly have been as well off if i went with it with the bollocking I got afterwards:)

Still laughing..... cat is looking at me as if I have four heads by this stage!

Muckit wrote: »

Lovely shed there vander. Very well finished

You must be keeping your options open to use it for loose housing/calving pens when you galvanised the pillars and put in mass concrete walls? :rolleyes:

well indeed, not sure if you see hayshed in those pics but leanto is fully slatted, usually have cattle in there and was thinking of using this shed in tandem..to be honest now thats its done and I have a few machines in there I would hate to have to let cattle into it. Im close to sea here and i just decided to try and do something that might last a bit better...i think the day of the block wall is gone now for any type of farm sheds, our loader has a share of damage done over the years........

redzerologhlen wrote: »

You would be suprised, if i was expecting a bottomless bog like that I would have kept out of it, It was in the bottom of a limestone valley, All the land around it was as dry as a bone. I was just tracking across it and the skin on the ground broke and every time you moved after that it went another bit. It had only gone the depth of the tracks first and I left it, Tryed tying it onto the 6830 then to use as an anchor then and it went that far and got the big digger then to pull it out after that. I wouldnt mind but I do be filling the hopper for another man in the bog with an ex120 with 18 inch pads and never had a bother, just never expected a swamp like that where it was....the picture always makes people laugh though:rolleyes:

must be something onto the quick sand knight rider drove into when I was a young lad
nice looking machine from the bit you can see, what size is it

vanderbadger wrote: »

must be something onto the quick sand knight rider drove into when I was a young lad
nice looking machine from the bit you can see, what size is it

Its a 5 tonne, lovely tight little machine to drive, Had it out in 2 minutes when we brought up the big machine thank god. Like I said I wasnt even digging there, Just tracking straight across it from one place to another and once it broke the skin on the ground it was gone. Its the last thing I expected to find where I was anyway!!

A before and after of Hazel shrub clearing in the Burren. Over 12 hectares cleared altogether :eek: All the stumps had to be sprayed with some roundup biograde stuff. I got a week of spraying. Never again want to see a hazel bush haha. Ye might recognize the mini-digger in the ''before'' shot. It's on dry ground this time

The CAT, mulcher and all.