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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Khonsuan View Post
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    76 baht for unsmoked sheets yesterday in La-Un (Ranong).
    Not completely doom & gloom then.

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    Yep mate, not completely but still a few Baht down from last month price (80).
    Where do you sell? We usually go through La-Un from Ban Phrae, and it's about 2 or 3 km on the right, after crossing the river.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mosha View Post
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    76 baht for unsmoked sheets yesterday in La-Un (Ranong).
    Not completely doom & gloom then.

    Greg
    Yep mate, not completely but still a few Baht down from last month price (80).
    Where do you sell? We usually go through La-Un from Ban Phrae, and it's about 2 or 3 km on the right, after crossing the river.
    Steve, the place is in Moo 4 on the left hand side of the road just after the little bridge located about one and a half km before the health station (satani anamai) when you go to Ranong from your house.

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    Lol now I know who I'm talking to I thought an invasion was taking place.

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    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.....?

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    Great thread guys very interesting thanks.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mosha View Post
    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.
    Steve, the leaf loss at this time of year i have never experienced, the Rice Krispies ad (snap, crackle, pop) of nuts falling off trees is a daily occurence at the moment though. Is it in an extreme wet patch of the land? ie trees may have a waterlogged root system?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mosha View Post
    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.
    Not sure what the problem is, but you might want to try a quick release fertilizer and see if that helps. Have noticed over the years some plantations seem to need early fertilizing or they don't green up as fast as others. Jim

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    40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.

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    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..
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    Quote Originally Posted by rubberdiesel View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Mosha View Post
    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.
    Not sure what the problem is, but you might want to try a quick release fertilizer and see if that helps. Have noticed over the years some plantations seem to need early fertilizing or they don't green up as fast as others. Jim
    Thx Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
    40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.
    did you mean 30.15?......if not you smust be a sure fire for GOLD STAR rubber baron of the day!

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    Ho mouth are you by det coops to the rubber tres ? And wear is it ? The prise in Doonsat is
    6 - 6,5 bat

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    Quote Originally Posted by mfosh View Post
    Ho mouth are you by det coops to the rubber tres ? And wear is it ? The prise in Doonsat is
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    Guess English is not your first language, take it you are saying you are only get 6 Baht a kilo, then you are being robbed.
    Sold wet cup 2 days ago,33 Baht a kilo. Jim

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    I ask for how much is it, you bay det cup ,the rubber goes inn too .and yeas I is a Norway man .

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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
    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
    Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, to quote the robot "Marvin?" Here I am with a brain the size of a planet, and what do they have me doing? Parking cars....

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    Quote Originally Posted by crepitas View Post
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    40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.
    did you mean 30.15?......if not you smust be a sure fire for GOLD STAR rubber baron of the day!
    I don't do typos. So when i say 40.15 i mean 40.15. Normal auction price round here, gate prices as i've posted before are currently 34-37 baht per kg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
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    40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.
    did you mean 30.15?......if not you smust be a sure fire for GOLD STAR rubber baron of the day!
    I don't do typos. So when i say 40.15 i mean 40.15. Normal auction price round here, gate prices as i've posted before are currently 34-37 baht per kg.
    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

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    how many trees can one person taps in one day?. if you have 10000 trees how many tappers you need. thanks.

    matt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
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    40.15 baht per kg, kee yang, sold yesterday at auction, Udon.
    did you mean 30.15?......if not you smust be a sure fire for GOLD STAR rubber baron of the day!
    I don't do typos. So when i say 40.15 i mean 40.15. Normal auction price round here, gate prices as i've posted before are currently 34-37 baht per kg.
    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
    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.

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    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..

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    Quote Originally Posted by rubberdiesel
    how many trees can one person taps in one day?. if you have 10000 trees how many tappers you need. thanks.
    This may help?

    A 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.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber

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