Recent content by catembi

Thank you...much appreciated! I am dithering over what I need out of a sprayer or something to aerate the ground.... I need to decide before the ground goes from swamp to concrete...!

I have four, none rideable except for a 20 year old TB who will do 20 minutes in walk... I'm about to get a 5th...

Thank you...much appreciated! I am also contemplating buying a sprayer for the quad with a boom, but then you have to connect it to a battery & I don't fancy faffing about trying to connect stuff to the quad's battery. I also can't face spraying the whole lot with a knapsack! It's a f/t job...!

Thank you… Wow, that actually looks a lot better! I might get one… I was spot spraying yesterday and realised that I probably need to spray the whole lot for buttercups. However, I joined the FB group…a bit overwhelming as it has made me realise that I don’t know anything about anything… Anyway...

Thank you so much for that! Agreed…such a steep learning curve! And you’re right about picking your window. Mine goes from swamp to concrete in days…

My Dartmoor coughs and gets heaves on hay but is fine on haylage. She also has EMS. I tested my big bale haylage and the sugar content was 7.1 so not too bad.

Sorry, I said that I wasn’t sure what I wanted out of slitter, aerator or hollow tine…?

Pressed send too soon… I very stupidly turned the TBs out for an hour yesterday and I should have waited another week. OMG 5 months of saving the fields undone in 15 minutes. I do this every bloody year and never learn!

Ohhhhh, fantastic! Pretty please do before and after photos! I am particularly interested in poached areas and scuffed areas with ‘skid marks’ for want of a better word.

I try to stay away or I just want to buy everything and look after it! I have enough field ornaments as it is…

Not rollers…spikers but I didn’t know what else to call them! My link doesn’t seem to be working as no one seems to have been able to look at the pictures on there of the equipment that I am considering so I will attach a photo. This equipment cannot compress but there were two similar things as...

The equipment I linked to has spikes so it’s spiking or slitting the ground, not rolling it so not compressing it… I will look for the FB group. My intentions are good but I have no idea what I am doing! 😮

I’m trying to choose a roller. My paddocks are sloping and very heavy clay 😢 I have a substantial quad with a tow bar. My objectives are to aerate the soil allowing more air to get to the grass roots and to decompress it. I also want to break up some areas of poaching. I’m not sure what roller...

We are currently awaiting an appointment with Rossdales. We are insured with Animal Friends and it’s possible to get a pre authorization which is what we’re doing. I am really not sure whether I want them to find something or NOT find something… 🤯

If he has got a brain tumour or does have wobblers (as opposed to just being a bit wobbly) then that’s pretty much the decision made, very sadly. If there is nothing much found so it’s ‘just’ PSSM, then I will keep him retired. He looks the absolute picture of health. I’m trying to ‘achieve’...