Now you can go to town and ask the bar girls for money saying your buffalo sick...:bananaman::bananaman::bananaman::bananaman ::bananaman:Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
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Now you can go to town and ask the bar girls for money saying your buffalo sick...:bananaman::bananaman::bananaman::bananaman ::bananaman:Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Hi Sabang,
Just joined so haven't enough posts to pm you.Could you please e-mail me at yswfb[at]yahoo.com or pm me the builders info, sorry to be a pain.
Thanks & Regards
blodger
hi like your house how can i access your photos (new to teakdoor)
If you want to download to your computer, right click on the pic and then "save image as".
yet another great building thread, thanks Sabang, it looks great
Quite thrilled with my new toy. :)
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For 90K baht, a decent buy I thought. They're 200k new, near enough- and it's 18 months old, with under 70 hours running time. A doddle to operate too. No excuses to be lazy on the gardening now.
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^ If I can ever get the locals off the damn thing, that is. :rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by sabang
Thats nice mate and for £2000 a steal I would say.
Thats the kind of bit of kit I will be after later on for between the rubber trees .
Did you get it private or from a garage / showroom at that kinda price ?
It was a private sale Nigel- although I heard about it from a Kubota dealership. :)
Pictures of your furrows please?Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
You will get many years of use with the "snow plough" on the front
Do they run ploughing competitions in your neck of the woods?Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
What have you done with the old plough?
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If the last winter was indicative of things to come, I might just require that snow plough. :mid: But the scoop has several uses as is, such as levelling the driveway, laying down pebbles, removing surface vegetation from where we want to plant, and keeping the ever encroaching jungle within it's allotted perimeter.Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
Ploughing- lets wait for some rain, shall we. Not a good time to plant yet anyway, unless irrigating. I don't think I'll be using the 'disc' plough much at all- the KRT also comes with a simple ripper plough, and of course tillers that attach to the rear wheels- usually for tilling rice paddies. I figure a couple of runs with the ripper, followed by a run through with the tiller to break up the clods, will be much easier.
We're also buying a trailer for it, and I'll probably get an augur too- partly for post hole digging, partly for tree planting.
Has it got a conventional 3 point linkage on the back and a PTO ?
^ Yes, absolutely. I'll get some more fot's done in due course. I should maybe start a new thread.
Cheers for the feedback all. Seems every time I check back with this thread theres a few nice comments I've missed. :)
I did think the discs wouldn't be too good for ploughing. I always thought you ploughed when it was dry for most crops, excluding rice it seems,.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Now you have the tractor you will find all sorts of attachments which are a must to own. It's a start on a slippery slope this "gentleman farmer" lark.
When are you starting on the "equipment" barn to store your tractor?
Back in the days when I was tractor driving at 15 yr old we would put some lime on the stubble after the harvest , then I would disc the lime into the stubble ,, let it break down a bit , then i would mole it then plough it crossways to the direction of the mole. That was in the good ol days when we had time to wipe our arse,s after we had a dump ,, nowadays the tractors scream across the fields with a chisel plough bouncing along behind it compacting the ground down so hard so when it rains most of it runs off ,,,,,,,,still we must have progress ,,, ( must,nt we ?? )Quote:
Originally Posted by OhOh
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Originally Posted by Lorenzo
very usefulQuote:
followed by a run through with the tiller to break up the clods
but you don't have to do it like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by nigelandjan
You are correct Doc but in the UK right now we dont have time to do owt dont ya know ,,government cutbacksQuote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy
One of my neighbours, when our little street turns into a river during heavy rain their rental house floods, so they decided to fix this problem.
The house was being raised 1.5 metres in all, it took 6 days to get it to its height, not a bad effort at all. Now the house has been filled with fill and the floor has been concreted already
Have lived in Isaan country for 5 years and teaching at a private school. Loving life in The Far North East of Thailand
Nong Ja enjoyed this as she got to play with the sand and stone between workers filling buckets.
Thai baht for just the labour, not the materials to have this done. A lot cheaper and easier than back home for sure.
One of the good things in Thailand is the lack of red tape when doing things. You want to open a shop, you just open it. A few people do register them legally but many don’t. You want to build something, just build it and again some do the correct procedure and go through the government department but many don’t.
Sounds good Viper ,, looks like you have reached your nirvana ,, although not quite sure whats its got to do with this thread ,,,,, anyway good on you mate
Sabang et al, I was just surfing for info as we are in the process of thinking about building a house near Uthai and I came across this thread. It is fantastic, made me join Teakdoor to keep in touch with you all.
Up there a few days ago and we had a local with a tractor like yours, a bit bigger but the same design, flatten our topsoil and border.
You have some great tips and it will help us no end.
A big thank you everyone.
so when you start, post the progress
always nice to see how others do things
Sabang,
Love your house story! A lot of valuable info. for a novice.
And a beautiful place you built for yourself and the family.
I am from Norway and married to a nice Thai-girl from just north of Khon Kaen
We plan to build a house in the near future on her land.
And I would be happy to know who the wife and husband builders you used are...
Best regards from cold Norway! :-)