TeslaCoils' blog - All Comments

re: Satur, Shortest, Christmas, My Birth

TeslaCoils — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:45:32 GMT

Ta. Cold is much better, although it wasnt a shocker in the first place.

Mental note - if people are reading facebook then I had better change my picture back to one that isnt 12 years old.

Kansas - vanity plate? en.wikipedia.org/.../Vanity_plate

re: Satur, Shortest, Christmas, My Birth

kansasfarmer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:20:25 GMT

Number plate?? Happy birthday Tesla.

re: Satur, Shortest, Christmas, My Birth

Isabel Davies — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:16:44 GMT

Happy Birthday in advance. How is the cold? (I have been reading Facebook)

re: Satur, Shortest, Christmas, My Birth

TeslaCoils — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:03:51 GMT

Tsk. You clearly havent been reading the comments on my facebook page :(

re: Satur, Shortest, Christmas, My Birth

matty s — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:16:09 GMT

Ohh wats the number plate??

T1M ?

re: Grass.

TeslaCoils — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:17:27 GMT

I think the reality is that, being hemmed in by big farms and estates, that we will never have thousands of acres. Considering things like future fert availability, mixed farming could be the way forward.

I used to consider that the long term was just a load of short terms all stuck together, but now I think that a degree of long term planning is needed when doing things in farming. You build a dutch barn but decide not to put a concrete base in it - thats what I would have done on grounds of short term cost, but now I think it should be done. Concrete only going to get more expensive and you may as well do it and get the use from it.

Low density, low stress rare breed suckler cattle? All I need is another 300ac to get bought. Still looking to expand the arable, but will be either contract farmed on nasty rotations, or owned ourselves and growing high value stuff.

Continuous wheat would suit me well. Simple, easy, less kit. Good weed control and no manic rush for drilling like with rape. Goodbye slug problem. Have done both ploughbased on lighter land and non-plough on the gristle to variable effect.

I never get sick of saying that wheat for next years harvest is not at £80 a ton. Sorry for those who have to sell this year for £80 but plenty of chances to sell for better. I think early next season will be knackered too but looking at wet fields of poor looking late wheats, there will not be the tonnage in the UK that there is now.

Grass or continuous wheat - at least there are no ploughs involved!

re: Grass.

On-board — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:33:55 GMT

Nice little piece again. Every time I speak to you you change ur mind in which direction to head - ud never hang urself! I do have to agree with ur father about the continuous wheats as weve never had any major success doing so. Mind you, at £80/tonne its not worthwhile anyway.

re: Ploughing

TeslaCoils — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:07:52 GMT

Yes, there was a FW article on a chap who didnt bother - just ran the ridger or whatever its called through stubbles. Probably not land like mine though.

re: Ploughing

connached — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:39:29 GMT

Has anyone grown potatoes in a non plough system?I mean deep grub the stubble before ridging?

re: Ploughing

TeslaCoils — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:50:07 GMT

Cant accept a lower yield for anything. This year the non-ploughed beans did 2t/ac, whilst the ploughed beans did closer to 3t/ac.

However, it has shown how good the non-ploughing system is - lighter land that was ploughed 4 years ago was bloody awful, whereas what we considered heavy land that has not been ploughed for years came up wonderful.

Just.....so......painfully......slow. When you are used to boshing well over 100ac with the solo a day, getting 25 done with the plough is painful. Still, only another week or so to go.

re: Ploughing

jimc1390 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:20:37 GMT

ploughing is an important part of our system, and to be honest i absolutely love it!!!one of the few remaining jobs that requires a bit of skill and is something to be proud of.

re: Ploughing

On-board — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:55:13 GMT

If you do beans 1 year in 5 do you think you would have been better off excepting a lower yield rather than ruining it for years to come?

re: Give it some beans.

TeslaCoils — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:28:35 GMT

I love Chinese. I dont know if it is the salt or the MSG but I always feel rotten the next day though. Or maybe it was the champagne!

re: Give it some beans.

matty s — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:56:27 GMT

SNAP!! I had a chinese too, but i had beef chowmein ... lovely!

re: Cracking On, Or Cracking Gearbox?

TeslaCoils — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:18:03 GMT

We are not devoted - have had one of every colour over the years. NH machine was the best one, and to be fair I think we are the first people to break the bit we did. Thye had their demonstrator on farm the next day - just a shame that it poured down inbetween.

Still, with the dealer loosing a really good mechanic and the parts fun it is perhaps time we looked further for the next one. Case rotary with quad tracks perhaps?