Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

There is a cattle hoof-trimming company who also do concrete-grooving (to stop cows slipping over) based near us. They’ve got some work on a dairy farm in Saudi Arabia that apparently milks over 100000 cows!!!!!

may be short on coo numbers - they farm 1000 acres and have a fully automated, robotic milking parlour - mile down the road
The 'supertanker' hasn't re-appeared and was making some pretty similar sounds to when it went AWOL last week - maybe the fix wasn't 'a fix' after all still bloody stinks here though

 

[Monkeybusiness]

may be short on coo numbers - they farm 1000 acres and have a fully automated, robotic milking parlour - mile down the road
The 'supertanker' hasn't re-appeared and was making some pretty similar sounds to when it went AWOL last week - maybe the fix wasn't 'a fix' after all still bloody stinks here though

1000 cows sounds about right tbh (that’s a big dairy herd in the uk) - we have a similar setup locally and an even bigger one down the road (but they farm thousands of acres!).

 

[Lancs Lad]

1000 cows sounds about right tbh (that’s a big dairy herd in the uk) - we have a similar setup locally and an even bigger one down the road (but they farm thousands of acres!).

Only way to make it pay now
I did the maths years ago on "our" lanes farm. Couldn't get it to stack up. Without SFP etc.
Bonkers situation everyone needs milk

 

[pettsy]

Bonkers situation everyone needs milk

Until they don’t. Seen a few vids of farmers pouring it away because of no demand Buying price dropped below cost price too!

 

[sfrs4]

It's not there is no demand, yes its less than it was, it's because supermarkets will just buy the cheapest s**t they can, the British dairy industry was something to behold, and the milk was premium quality, because we had stringent rules on animal husbandry and expected milk quality, but supermarkets came along and with everything they sell, started dictating how much they were going to pay for it, and if they couldn't get it for X price they just went to the French/German W@#kers and bought their low grade full of bacteria s**t for half the price. Then the government put the final nail in the coffin when they abolished the MMB. Ask me how I know..... I should be a third gen dairy farmer, but somehow a 180acre ring fence dairy farm in prime dairy land couldn't make it pay, neither could any of the others, I could name 20 dairy farms in north Nottinghamshire that are no longer there, one of them was the largest heard in Nottinghamshire at the time, all within 10 years 1998-2008

 

[V8Druid]

can't see the Valdez seeing the day out ... there's a bearing in there somewhere making a hell of a noise .. and I'm listening to it half a mile away

 

[Lancs Lad]

can't see the Valdez seeing the day out ... there's a bearing in there somewhere making a hell of a noise .. and I'm listening to it half a mile away

You'll be complaining it smells next

 

[V8Druid]

You'll be complaining it smells next

sounds like the Exon Valdez shite slinger/sprayer is back in action - can't see it yet, or which field they'm trying it out on, but the stench is burning the nostrils this morning

they run about 1000 coos

shite lagoon here ....

51°53'02.9"N 2°57'17.3"W​

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may be short on coo numbers - they farm 1000 acres and have a fully automated, robotic milking parlour - mile down the road
The 'supertanker' hasn't re-appeared and was making some pretty similar sounds to when it went AWOL last week - maybe the fix wasn't 'a fix' after all still bloody stinks here though

that's an understatement

 

[V8Druid]

that bloody cable had to have a conversation with the 5" this morning - guess who won ?

much tidier in there without the 'lectrical spaghetti

yet more cans and quaver bags

and a n other gert lump of wood
Pam wanted a pic of me in the hole .. .... not sure why she took a dozen ???

's been bloody warm in there in the sun all day .... 's been the only shady spot for my bottle of water .. gotten through two of them today
got it all tidied up and wrapped in ducting - had to split it to get it over every thing

this worked well for splitting it, nice and straight

rest the grinder on the block and run the duct past it - worked a treat
got some clean 40mm in the bottom and'll have to grab some 12mm gravel to top it off

next is create some templates for some shuttering ... easier to suss with scissors and cardboard
ordered a can of waterproof expanding foam, for the duct under the wall found, that pees water from the land drain above it when the ground's wet .. not gonna get any drier than it is now .
some of the ducting may end up getting shortened, but need to cover everything to keep the concrete off it when I get to the perimeter walls for yon hole/pit/chamber.
had had enough by five and gotten done what I'd planned ... too late and hot to start playing with cardboard ... this is in the sun ALL day and I was cooked - 29C today .. 'sposed to be 30++C
tomorrow and getting hotter 'til the weekend .. wall to wall blue sky for the next 3 days - might have to find a big brolly

the last pic is a hole find ... guessing someone's walkman earphones bit the dust--can't think what else it might be ??

time for a shower and watch second half of Novaks match - if it's not tempting fate ('s what I was doing on the 7th last year - relaxing and watching Wimbledon)

 

[hiluxman]

that bloody cable had to have a conversation with the 5" this morning - guess who won ?
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much tidier in there without the 'lectrical spaghetti

yet more cans and quaver bags
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and a n other gert lump of wood
Pam wanted a pic of me in the hole .. .... not sure why she took a dozen ???
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's been bloody warm in there in the sun all day .... 's been the only shady spot for my bottle of water .. gotten through two of them today
got it all tidied up and wrapped in ducting - had to split it to get it over every thing
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this worked well for splitting it, nice and straight
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rest the grinder on the block and run the duct past it - worked a treat
got some clean 40mm in the bottom and'll have to grab some 12mm gravel to top it off
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next is create some templates for some shuttering ... easier to suss with scissors and cardboard
ordered a can of waterproof expanding foam, for the duct under the wall found, that pees water from the land drain above it when the ground's wet .. not gonna get any drier than it is now .
some of the ducting may end up getting shortened, but need to cover everything to keep the concrete off it when I get to the perimeter walls for yon hole/pit/chamber.
had had enough by five and gotten done what I'd planned ... too late and hot to start playing with cardboard ... this is in the sun ALL day and I was cooked - 29C today .. 'sposed to be 30++C
tomorrow and getting hotter 'til the weekend .. wall to wall blue sky for the next 3 days - might have to find a big brolly

the last pic is a hole find ... guessing someone's walkman earphones bit the dust--can't think what else it might be ??
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time for a shower and watch second half of Novaks match - if it's not tempting fate ('s what I was doing on the 7th last year - relaxing and watching Wimbledon)

So is the water pipe fixed? That was why you started digging there wasn't it?

 

[V8Druid]

So is the water pipe fixed? That was why you started digging there wasn't it?

yeh yeh .. fixed that issue within a day or two of excavating it ... it's all the bloody mess the cowboys who did it left that really needed sorting - I couldn't just bury ir all again - not in me

 

[hiluxman]

yeh yeh .. fixed that issue within a day or two of excavating it ... it's all the bloody mess the cowboys who did it left that really needed sorting - I couldn't just bury ir all again - not in me

Me neither, just couldn't remember you saying that it was definitely the cause of your water issue

 

[TiltyShaun]

So is the water pipe fixed? That was why you started digging there wasn't it?

Glad you asked. I was about too!! Seems a long time ago he started that excavation. So much manual work for a man with a machine for (almost) everything!!

 

[V8Druid]

Glad you asked. I was about too!! Seems a long time ago he started that excavation. So much manual work for a man with a machine for (almost) everything!!

sadly I don't have an air pick or a vac. ex. - not that one'd been a lot of cop with some of the rocks and crap I've been finding for back fill and you've seen the pix of the nightmare tangle of wires, three of which are live - two being the feed to the barn !
it's been a tough challenge, but " if a job's worth doing ..... "

13th dec. last year I had to go looking for the leak -- sh!t push fit on the skew

machine digging that would've done more damage than it was worth

and then sort the root blockage I found in the feed line completely stopping the flow on 31st Dec. by back pressuring 3-400 yds of 1" MDPE - reckon they'd accumulated and grown at the insert restrictions in the joints in the line

very lucky to back flush them

the reason I'd not done any more to the hole was the ground water invading it -- that was a seriously constant battle, trying to excavate and actually see WTF I was dealing with!!
bone dry currently and time to get it sorted while it stays that way

 

[V8Druid]

Me neither, just couldn't remember you saying that it was definitely the cause of your water issue

deffo the cause of the leak .. then developed a.n.other problem