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6feetdown
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Went to the stasi museum in leipzig a cpl of years ago. What an absolute bunch of *****
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6feetdown
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1RB
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A really expensive bit of grass cutting today mainly getting the Himalayan balsam along the Thames at sonning. that green climber is a beast, 80hp mulcher eats a lot of tree once you get it on the floor
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Lynchy
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DaveDCB
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Well that’s fair enough, for 4.4 acres I’d not be far off charging that anyway with my 125hp and topper.. didn’t realise that farmland was 100k an acre anywhere! We are about vergin on 20k an acre for prime Cheshire farmland…It was a comparison. Average farmland price £10k per acre,average topping price £35 per acre. Seeing as farmland is ten times that down here, it's fair enough that topping is more expensive!
As it happens, I don't think I was a total rip off merchant in this instance. 4.4 acres topped, so £45.45 per acre. It made me £50 per hour less £5 worth of diesel per hour (hours include transport and truck diesel too), so £45 per hour. Not mega money but scale that up across a few different machines out each day (we are local work only) and it's a respectable business with plenty of happy customers and reccomendations. Say what you like, but there's plenty that put a 6t machine out for that money! I'd much rather have the three diggers, two dumpers, compact loader, mini loader and two compact tractor- all for less than the price of a 13t and tilty new!
You could have gotten a larger tractor in on this job, but often you can't. I doubt it would have been that much quicker (maybe a 8 or 9ft topper? can't go much faster otherwise you miss lots), and capital outlay would be much greater. That Kubota was £15k new inc the topper (5ft but I reckon she'd run a 6ft). It fits easily and quickly on a trailer and can be 'roaded' at 50mph. Why would I want to have a bigger tractor costing £80k new just to do the job half an hour quicker yet burn three times the diesel getting to the job?
That hydrostatic transmission makes the job so simple too. My only bugbear is that the cruise control isn't great- it always sets lower than when you engage it, and there's no easy way to adjust it. You have to take it off, set the foot pedal speed again and engage it again- whereby it promply locks at a mile an hour less than you wanted.
doobin
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Any couple of acres suitable for a pony paddock will be that kind of money here!
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Smiffy
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There is no farm land in this part of the country, just horsey land that hasn't been bought up yet.
From my house it's about 30seconds to a minute until the last houses properly in the village. Then it becomes tree lined. Another 2 minutes and there are fields. However it's another 10 minutes before you see the first farmed field.
Always people complaining about farm land given over to development. And they are certainly doing that round here. Vast developments consuming villages and joining towns together. But they do not compare in any way to the swathes of countryside given over to ropey old nags.
On top of the ragwort infested fields owned by the horsey brigade,every local farmer has sheds full of horsey hay and mountains of haulage stacked up.
The last farm I work on where farming 1500 acres entirely to supply the equine industry. On top of that 3 wagon loads of hay would be bought in per week. To be packaged and sold in local shops.
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DaveDCB
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I point blank refuse to let any land I own to become horse infested! They can sod right off!
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bobthebuilder
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3 acres here just sold for 85grand,just for horses ,no hope of planning
TiltyShaun
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Farm land is not £100k an acre. Horses are not agricultural.
Around here 10k acre for farmland.
Paddock 40-50k acre for a paddock.
Anything above that will have hope value.
Giles
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We’ve 15 acres in Herefordshire left to my good lady from her granddads dairy farm, the ppl who now live in the old milking shed backing onto the field (a row of 12 houses along the Rd ) asked to buy 10m by the width of their garden think it was only 10m wide so 100m2
They approached us so £10k acre / by 4000m2 = £2.5/m2 = £250 we’ll give you £500 so you’re winning as well.
I said they could have it for £10k they were aghast!
mrs had got planning on 5 acres of it and sold it off for with the designs for £500k for 5 luxury houses.
Best thing was the couple living in my mrs granddads milking shed were like you don’t even live in the village! They’d apposed the planning as well haha.
The old boy next to them had just taken matter into his own hands and stolen 1m lol
Planted in it and everything soon ripped that down
They approached us so £10k acre / by 4000m2 = £2.5/m2 = £250 we’ll give you £500 so you’re winning as well.
I said they could have it for £10k they were aghast!
mrs had got planning on 5 acres of it and sold it off for with the designs for £500k for 5 luxury houses.
Best thing was the couple living in my mrs granddads milking shed were like you don’t even live in the village! They’d apposed the planning as well haha.
The old boy next to them had just taken matter into his own hands and stolen 1m lol
Planted in it and everything soon ripped that down
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Grahams
Don't complain - suggest what's better
Round by our yard decent sized fields are being broken up into horsey sized paddocks and sold off to travellers who then move their caravans in, put hardstandings down and live there and the council let them, but when one of the guys in the yard I'm renting in had some issues and stayed for a couple of weeks in a caravan there (which was ideal as night guard) the council enforcement officers were round threatening him.
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DaveDCB
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Yeah 100k = many hope values!
Lancs Lad
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So stasi and SS aside...has anyone had hassles with tanks gone in without bldg regs?
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Monkeybusiness
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(Sssshhhhhh!!!!! - that’s what he told the tax man it sold for……….)
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Smiffy
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An acre of land may not sell for 100k but a house around here can easily increase in value by 100k per additional acre there is a limit. To many acres in one plot and the price shoots down. Plot size has to be enough for a few horses but not to much to maintain.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
particularly with consent and drg.s .... get that for a bare pissy plot around here
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AusDave
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Finally dry enough to work here. Clearing for a customers house and sewerage field plus I have to clear some of the neighbours property so he has a large enough asset protection zone for bush fire protection requirements!
Shame to take down these large trees
There is cleared land on the property but the way it's been agglomerated from three separate blocks mean the wooded area has to be cleared to have the house on it and the cleared area has to be revegetated!
Haulotte has been excellent for the job. Broke a bucket tooth on it yesterday and found they're rare and don't exist in Australia. Only available from Europe with a 2-3 month wait Pinched a tooth off another bucket so I can get on with the job before it rains again.
Shame to take down these large trees
There is cleared land on the property but the way it's been agglomerated from three separate blocks mean the wooded area has to be cleared to have the house on it and the cleared area has to be revegetated!Haulotte has been excellent for the job. Broke a bucket tooth on it yesterday and found they're rare and don't exist in Australia. Only available from Europe with a 2-3 month wait
Pinched a tooth off another bucket so I can get on with the job before it rains again.
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
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