Farm Diary

We are still having problems with the milking parlour, although with heating it is minimal now. Can't say the same for the concrete workers cabins! A bit smelly these days as their showers don't work everyday and the sewerage tanks froze up solid one day last week as well.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Jan 2009, 07:14 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:06 BST

On Sunday morning our main tractor on the feeding wagon would not work, as the air compressor system had frozen (first time ever), and we were in need of some advice from the 'Ice-Truckers'. I gather the methanol bottle on the back (which I was unaware of) had run dry. Had there been any alcohol around at the time, we would have drunk it. Global warming? Waiting impatiently for it to start happening actually!

The steel work is taking shape, as the builders start on the walls of the first tower. Four meter high shuttering is being built, which will hold the poured concrete, and the intricate steel mesh and numerous water pipes which will eventually heat the walls.

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They have promised me that they will have the concrete poured and the first tower finished by the end of the month (weather allowing of course). They prefer the cold and dry to wet weather, but it needs to be warmer before concrete can be poured.

A word of advice for the 'tea-leaf' who stole 25 new railway sleepers

and all my ply-wood sheets from the building site last week; if my Yorkshire mates catch you, you will not steal anything else for a very long time.

For full feature see West Sussex Gazette January 14

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