A Welsh smallholding (Ad)venture
All about machinery
…and I am not referring to Jan here With planning permission foolishly approved by a local authority clearly distracted by a virus, we can now make a start on the building of our pole barn. I already had a working sketch scribbled on the back of a seed packet and critically we had acquired ten … Continue reading Fun with Poles
This has been such a busy month there has been little time to write a blog. The first big event was the decision to mix our old girls and new girls into one flock. It was a hot sunny day and we decided to first let the old girls out into the meadow and then … Continue reading April catch up
Another cold but dry day which starts at dawn as usual with a deal of chicken poop picking and setting out the food, water and grit bowls for the girls. Then a quick run out to the local farm to buy our milk (or raw milk as it is laughingly called these days to distinguish … Continue reading More farmyard tales…
So Jim blasts his horn to maintain his social distance and let me know he is delivering near enough 3 tonnes of horse muck to the top field. I dash out and open the gate. He backs just inside the field gate and tries to use his hydraulic tipper. No way. Far too heavy. Realising … Continue reading Farmyard tales
Today three of us did battle with the new Mistral Italian flail mower attachment. The three point linkage behind our old tractor has obviously not had care and attention lavished on it in the last 40 odd years and the linkages were seized tight with rust. Also the weight of the attachment had caused the … Continue reading Tractors, trees, trials and tribulations