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Welcome to MADE IT MYSELF equipment designed and built by farmers
See how you can make a road washer attachment for any slurry tanker. Fill the tank with water in the normal way and then fit the water bar on the outlet. Pressure the tank, open the valve, and the spray blasts mud from the road surface and washes it to the side.
Tom Lanigan from Ireland who sent us the idea says it works splendidly. He made it in the farm workshop. It took him a few hours only.
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Cover Story 1:
More milk from grass - the pre-mowing method developed by this Devon farmer results in a herd average of 5,900L completely off grass. The cost savings over cake means the spring calving herd of 60 cows on 80 acres of grass support two families
Cover Story 2
Bale handling in a busy period. With five big balers spring and summer is hectic for our contributor, who has made some ingenious grabs and handlers which stack... on the trailer ... in the shed ... in curtainsiders for export sales ... on road trailers
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Power step for Case 4230 lifts drivers into the cab: remote control operates step that carries driver into cab
Flexible big bale grab has adjustable mast to top off stack in shed and load cutain siders
Cattle Roundhouse user report: bespoke cattle design to house 120 cattle
Heath Super Chaser get 20 year overhaul: new bushes is about all this tough machine needs
Muck fork converted to handle bales: been used for 20 years, before adjustable grab was made
Slurry tanker adapted as road and yard washer: pressure and volume cleans roads and concrete yards
Issue includes 46 "Made it Myself" workshop projects and simple tips for any farm workshop
Step frame tri-axle Crane Frauhauf artic curtainsider ends up as the classy 29ft trailer
USA seed business provides planting guidance
Cover crops are useful before sugar beet and potatoes
Kings cover crop expert Paul Brown has advice
Cereals 2014 Soil health conference
Cover crop - 1st year experience from Hants farmer
Aitchinson Sim-Tech drill performs well in zero-till
Sucklers on mob grazing system mesh with arable
Nuffield scholar David Walston studies soil improvement
David Walston, Thriplow Farms, with his spring beans. Photo: mid July 2014
CAP reform made simple
Basic Payment System; Crop Diversification
Ecological Focus Areas EFA
CAP Reform in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Irish Republic
Rural broadband solved by DIY locals with B4RN 1gb/sec