reilig wrote: » Do you have the booms on the front of the tractor? The cover on our weedlicker was rusted off it within 5 or 6 years. The second cover that we made and sprgalvanised ourselves and it corroded through in about 10 years. booms not in front but they fold right up tight beside the cab and would always be dripping for a while when finished, after a few days spraying the tractor would be white and in irregular shaped fields its impossible not to drive on whats already sprayed and the sprayer booms are in the thick of it and rust not a problem there either.Every chemical ever made has the corrosive warning on the can to cover themselves, when the spuds used to be burned off with sulphuric acid now THAT was corrosive, but in fairness the roundup concentration in a weedlicker is higher than overall application so thats prob doing the rusting. perhaps you should invest in a power washer
newholland mad wrote: » booms not in front but they fold right up tight beside the cab and would always be dripping for a while when finished, after a few days spraying the tractor would be white and in irregular shaped fields its impossible not to drive on whats already sprayed and the sprayer booms are in the thick of it and rust not a problem there either.Every chemical ever made has the corrosive warning on the can to cover themselves, when the spuds used to be burned off with sulphuric acid now THAT was corrosive, but in fairness the roundup concentration in a weedlicker is higher than overall application so thats prob doing the rusting. perhaps you should invest in a power washer
Every chemical has a corrosive warning
pakalasa wrote: » Thanks, I was thinking of using a hydraulic motor aswell. Just need to get some free time to have a crack at it.
Dampintheattic wrote: » Put ten cows with calves in the yard this morning, to inject calves for with Bimectin. Most of the cows, licking the gates of the yard like crazy!!! Must be lacking in zinc, despite havin been on granular mineral mix all winter long, and also since I let them out eight weeks ago. No wonder, they are not coming bulling. Cows are in good condition, thanks to my pocket and meal feeding as well as mineral supplementation.
whelan1 wrote: » i now have 2 fertiliser spreaders and will sell one... have a 2 tonne lely centreliner that we have just fixed up did bearings etc, also have a 1 tonne bogbelle that i bought cheap enough a month ago to tide me over. The bogbelle is a tidy spreader. which would you sell, realistically we havent gone with 2 tonne due to ground conditions in a while, but 2 tonne spreader would be handy in the spring when doing the big spread
Username John wrote: » I had one of last years lambs left, plus one or two old sheep... and I sent em to the factory there 2 weeks ago. The hogget was a real runt... she was running with the in-lamb ewes all winter, got a small bit of feeding when they were being fed the 6 weeks before they lambed, and was put in with them after they lambed again, so had access to good grass... Just got the factory cheque, 113 euro... That runt made more than some nice lambs last summer... :eek: I know that lamb was here a lot longer, and ate some ration, and had some more doses... so more costs than lambs sold in the Autumn. But makes you wonder should you ever feed much ration to 'leftover' lambs, and just leave em run til the next Spring?
easymoney! wrote: » what did you get for the ewes john? good price for the hogget what did you get a kg for the hogget and the ewes?
mf240 wrote: » Mcpa Fairly liquid works well as a sticking agent.
SKIPPY150 wrote: » How much fairy liquid do you need to use with the MCPA
blue5000 wrote: » A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)
AntrimGlens wrote: » have you bust the sprayer already chippy?:D:D 00447885866373 or 07762773411
whelan1 wrote: » discussion group meeting here this morning.... will be told everything i am doing wrong, my farm is the wettest farm in the group, some of the lads have land like the sahara compared to mine:o
freedominacup wrote: » Snap except they'll be after me about cow type.
whelan1 wrote: » they will tell me to stop winter milk- i am on the fence on that one, yup will probably tell me to use jerseys due to heavy land and will also go on at me about yield.....- obviously they have been on a different planet for the last year
freedominacup wrote: » I'm an awkward f**ker though kinda looking forward to a robust exchange.
Timmaay wrote: » Another fr heifer calf today, nice 190ebi calf off a british fr bull (RHS), 1st full br fr calf we will have had here in many yrs. Should be interested how she stakes up in the parlour against the HOs and JExs. Calving getting going again by me, have 6/7 of the stragglers calving over the next 2/3wks.
hugo29 wrote: » also bloddy cow that was lame on the slats is ten times worse out in the field, ground holding surprisingly well after all the rain, first year using paddock system, dont know why i didnt do it years ago,
