Came home yesterday, and the soi looked like a bomb had hit. A mate popped by, and said for 20 seconds it was like being in an hurricane.
Came home yesterday, and the soi looked like a bomb had hit. A mate popped by, and said for 20 seconds it was like being in an hurricane.
Lol now I know who I'm talking to I thought an invasion was taking place.
rain, storms , high winds ...spent last week brush cutting and now is all grown back..bugger.
Got a new neighborhood farmer old toppie drive in/pick up buyer for cup..consistently gives better price and less discounting than wife's phone arounds.... says he is so happy to find us as he used to drive around and buy a few kilo here and there..now he don't bother , saves him time and diesel....took him a while to remember to bring enough cash though, always in great wads of 100bt notes lol....go figure.
Wow they're actually are black topping our road....trucks/rollers/graders and tonnes of road base..pretty happy.... has only been 6 years since the last headman said soon...must be the influence of the new head man who visited us/drank my beer ...vote getting. Of course he may just of got tired of the dust pervading his house which just happens to be.....?
Great thread guys very interesting thanks.
This has happened before a few years ago, now the same few trees are doing it again. Producing nuts and leaf loss. Anyone know why they are doing it know, and not at the regular leaf change time. The same trees were bare then.
40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.
JIM,
thanks for advise JIM, your experience and knowledge teaching me and newcomer not to makes big mistake. i know it taking years to learn and to get experience, knowledge and to do right thing and we get for free advise from you.
thank you again jim..
matt..
My pleasure to assist if I can and I learn from some of the questions.
We are rubber planters, a breed from a by gone colonial era.
Something different about a person that wants to try a thing that they have never done before, in a country not their own. If like me you are stupid or mad enough to try, then you deserve all the help you can get. Jim
Ho mouth are you by det coops to the rubber tres ? And wear is it ? The prise in Doonsat is
6 - 6,5 bat
I ask for how much is it, you bay det cup ,the rubber goes inn too .and yeas I is a Norway man .
The family of tappers hired a week or so ago, fired today. They missed a few taps, sick no, problem no, still have money from last sale, no need to work yet.
FFS what planet am I on. Jim
Closer to a processor the higher the price, local buyers have to make a living and fuel and vehicles cost to run and mantain. We got 33 Baht earlier in the week, drive up buyer. He has to take it 60 km to the main buyer, who then has to truck it south to a processor.
As said before, some of the big buyer I have spoken to, work on less that a Baht a kilo profit, but they may do 20,000 kilos or more a day. Jim
how many trees can one person taps in one day?. if you have 10000 trees how many tappers you need. thanks.
matt.
obviously don't apply down here then....nearest rubber plant is about 40k....maybe you should tell your buyer to mosey on over to Udon ...lol
Drive in Cup price yesterday 31...will never understand how the pricing is arrived at with such regional discrepancies.
Wonder why rubber producing countries do not have something like OPEC and set the prices? I know there is the IRC but seems pricing is still based on Asian stock market futures in Japan and China? F..k it all anyways...all too hard and frustrating methinks.
Not wishing to gainsay our resident guru Jim but suspect that a factory with 20,000+ baht a day strikes me as a poor business model if one considers the the fixed and variable costs.
Employee costs with maybe 15-20 employees at maybe 200bt a day plus the bosses(s) at maybe 20 k a month, plant maintenance, utilities/diesel/propane maybe some taxes..would reduce to maybe 10-15k per day....?
Think I would be a middle man or open a 7 or two ....
Think if I had my druthers would/should have bought a small farm/land and a couple of 10 wheels..
This may help?Originally Posted by rubberdiesel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubberA good tapper can tap a tree every 20 seconds on a standard half-spiral system, and a common daily "task" size is between 450 and 650 trees. Trees are usually tapped on alternate or third days, although many variations in timing, length, and number of cuts are used.
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