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[FRE07962128]

That's an impressive looking rig there, and those lovely doggies of yours Debs.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh love em!!!!

[Bandit127]

Gordon Bennett, I bet that's got more BHP than my Miggy!  

[Brian T]

That's a serious amount of Green in that piccy Deb's....no wonder my grass in the back garden has lost most of it's colour, you've got it all!

[Martin_1962]

 H & S Protocols don`t apply to farmers.  

Yes, Country File had a section on it this week. The most dangerous place to work.

You be careful with all them power take offs, threshers and other such modern conveniences.

You never know what may happen when you get down to mow your meadow...  

......not just obvious (machinery) dangers either:
I know of two occurrences of farmers killed (instantly) by large, steel barn-doors blowing in the wind.....and one chap (recently) killed by his own caravan; when he was un-hitching it, the van rolled on a gentle slope and crushed him against a wall.

I`m very careful; I`m more likely to 'die of boredom' out here in the styx, than succumb to any injury.

The beach we go to a lot had an old chap try to trun his caravan around after taking a wrong turning - he was crushed

[Martin_1962]

Gordon Bennett, I bet that's got more BHP than my Miggy!  

They are not that powerful I think my cousins tractor is about 150bhp

[Gaffers]

 H & S Protocols don`t apply to farmers.  

Yes, Country File had a section on it this week. The most dangerous place to work.

You be careful with all them power take offs, threshers and other such modern conveniences.

You never know what may happen when you get down to mow your meadow...  

......not just obvious (machinery) dangers either:
I know of two occurrences of farmers killed (instantly) by large, steel barn-doors blowing in the wind.....and one chap (recently) killed by his own caravan; when he was un-hitching it, the van rolled on a gentle slope and crushed him against a wall.

I`m very careful; I`m more likely to 'die of boredom' out here in the styx, than succumb to any injury.

Still Debs at least you are not a farmer in Flanders ploughing the old battlefields of WWI.

Every so often a Belgium farmer hits one of the estimated 10,000,000 unexploded ordnance that lies in their lands and sadly claims another life to add to that war's dreadful toll!

H & S has no place there!!

I have been on a visit there while at Sandhurst.

If you ever drive through the area and see a mound in the corner of a farmer's field dont go near it because that is where the farmer has placed the ordinance he has just dug/ploughed up!  

The local bomb disposal unit spends the morning picking up said ordinance by going around the fields.  They then spend the afternoon in 4 Romeo (fully suited up with gas mask on) xraying the shell to try and determine which ones are the chemical ones and then explode them in a huge concealed device which keeps the toxic stuff our of the atmosphere.

Farmers in the area are digging the bombs up at a rate of about 400 a year. 20% are chemical.  They have '000s in a backlog and can destroy about 500/year.  

And you thought you had a sh!t job  

[Pitchfork]

Back to the original subject matter, I used Oxalic Acid to bleach the ash timber frames of a Mini Countryman & Morris Minor Travellers (both half-timbered cars) pror to revarnishing
Oxalic Acid is also present in Rhubarb!

[FRE07962128]

 H & S Protocols don`t apply to farmers.  

Yes, Country File had a section on it this week. The most dangerous place to work.

You be careful with all them power take offs, threshers and other such modern conveniences.

You never know what may happen when you get down to mow your meadow...  

......not just obvious (machinery) dangers either:
I know of two occurrences of farmers killed (instantly) by large, steel barn-doors blowing in the wind.....and one chap (recently) killed by his own caravan; when he was un-hitching it, the van rolled on a gentle slope and crushed him against a wall.

I`m very careful; I`m more likely to 'die of boredom' out here in the styx, than succumb to any injury.

Still Debs at least you are not a farmer in Flanders ploughing the old battlefields of WWI.

Every so often a Belgium farmer hits one of the estimated 10,000,000 unexploded ordnance that lies in their lands and sadly claims another life to add to that war's dreadful toll!

H & S has no place there!!

I have been on a visit there while at Sandhurst.

If you ever drive through the area and see a mound in the corner of a farmer's field dont go near it because that is where the farmer has placed the ordinance he has just dug/ploughed up!  

The local bomb disposal unit spends the morning picking up said ordinance by going around the fields.  They then spend the afternoon in 4 Romeo (fully suited up with gas mask on) xraying the shell to try and determine which ones are the chemical ones and then explode them in a huge concealed device which keeps the toxic stuff our of the atmosphere.

Farmers in the area are digging the bombs up at a rate of about 400 a year. 20% are chemical.  They have '000s in a backlog and can destroy about 500/year.  

And you thought you had a sh!t job  

Yes indeed Gaffers, and often these mounds of ordnance are simply left on the verge beside the road, as once I found out when I reversed my then Senator onto what I thought was a nice piece of grass, and six shells were up against my offside rear tyre!!

[HolyCount]

 H & S Protocols don`t apply to farmers.  

Yes, Country File had a section on it this week. The most dangerous place to work.

You be careful with all them power take offs, threshers and other such modern conveniences.

You never know what may happen when you get down to mow your meadow...  

......not just obvious (machinery) dangers either:
I know of two occurrences of farmers killed (instantly) by large, steel barn-doors blowing in the wind.....and one chap (recently) killed by his own caravan; when he was un-hitching it, the van rolled on a gentle slope and crushed him against a wall.

I`m very careful; I`m more likely to 'die of boredom' out here in the styx, than succumb to any injury.

Still Debs at least you are not a farmer in Flanders ploughing the old battlefields of WWI.

Every so often a Belgium farmer hits one of the estimated 10,000,000 unexploded ordnance that lies in their lands and sadly claims another life to add to that war's dreadful toll!

H & S has no place there!!

I have been on a visit there while at Sandhurst.

If you ever drive through the area and see a mound in the corner of a farmer's field dont go near it because that is where the farmer has placed the ordinance he has just dug/ploughed up!  

The local bomb disposal unit spends the morning picking up said ordinance by going around the fields.  They then spend the afternoon in 4 Romeo (fully suited up with gas mask on) xraying the shell to try and determine which ones are the chemical ones and then explode them in a huge concealed device which keeps the toxic stuff our of the atmosphere.

Farmers in the area are digging the bombs up at a rate of about 400 a year. 20% are chemical.  They have '000s in a backlog and can destroy about 500/year.  

And you thought you had a sh!t job  

Yes indeed Gaffers, and often these mounds of ordnance are simply left on the verge beside the road, as once I found out when I reversed my then Senator onto what I thought was a nice piece of grass, and six shells were up against my offside rear tyre!!

You are very fortunate that they stayed nestled against the offside rear    Would've relly put the "Zoom" into "LIzzie" !  

[Marks DTM Calib]

Gordon Bennett, I bet that's got more BHP than my Miggy!  

They are not that powerful I think my cousins tractor is about 150bhp

Those are about 100ish Bhp with probaaly abou 80% of that at the PTO


I'll get me coat.

And if ANYBODY finds an old Fordson Major diesel lying around, let me know!

[amigov6]

I was blissfully happy until Debs sent me a John Deere letter!!!

[dad1uk]

Debs, I think your 'Green machine' might be needed in Newent.... Fancy a trip out?