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    Hello Mr Advertiser. How do you clean the old stuff off first? I have a manky wax jacket, so manky and smelly it has to live outside in a shed. But it still offers good protection for walling etc. I don't want to contaminate my washing machine though
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    I am stunned that people can do this. Hope he is better soon.
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    I forgot to say that they also got a lot of apples from a neighbour and that seemed to sweeten the meat. There is a lot of fat but the pork chops and sausages have really benefited. I know in these weight conscious times that sounds a bit off putting but the fat really does make the meat tasty, and you can always cut it off. I think I may have overfed them but it was my first year of pig, so I did everything as per the manual. I would definitely have GOS again but I have also looked at Pietrain and Durocs. I am on top of a windswept hill so something hardy but not too slow growing is needed
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    I was born on a Wednesday so I follow a darker side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYR2CiNDjZ0
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    Just get her on antihistamines. I am allergic to cats but I have a big woolly one (cat) . Sometimes one has to make sacrifices.
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    Hello. I agree with the comments above except... most of the quality guns pictured are a bit heavy. If you are younger than most of us, start with a smaller but quality rifle else you won't enjoy the experience. A heavy gun absorbs the recoil but at the same time if you are lugging a girder around then it won't get the full use. A Weihrauch HW99 is spot on and proper quality and it will last a lifetime. There are other good guns too. I would try as many as you can. So join a club. People who enjoy their sport are keen to help others. Are you including the cost of a scope in your budget?
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    I kept two Gloucester Old Spots this year. Got them in April and kept them in a 3rd acre field. It is a fantastic experience as they are really friendly. They behave like puppies, right up to their time in November. The pigs were £30 each and worming/health check was £44. Slaughtering and delivery £40 (both). Butchering £100 (both) but that includes proper joints and a huge mound of: chilli, cumberland, pork and leek, chorizo sausage from all the off cuts. All in it cost £410 including all the feed. If you can get a reliable source of quality food for them, you are quids in. Mine had carrot
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    Hello and welcome. I have a Pro Sport and an HW35 too. My HW35 is still the one I take out to defend my veg patch. Maybe it is because shabby guns are more usable
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    Sounds like a rolled joint. Roast it. The crackling will be fantastic.
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    I had an Oct 1998 Frontera 2.2 Diesel. It was plagued by rough running, mostly caused by air leaks or fuel blockage. I couldn't park it on a slope and be confident it would fire up. After repeat attempts to fix this, diesel return pipes swapped, fuel system bled etc, eventually flushing and replacing the fuel filter finally gave me a reliable car. The speedo was never reliable though - worked sporadically or not at all. So used a GPS speedo. Then 3 months later the radius arm snapped off the chassis. Check those box sections! I used this forum for help http://www.fronteraowners.co.uk/
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    The TV screen night vision sets, are they practically, just for recoilless air rifles? I have rat wars in and around my duck run. Using poison at present to some success, traps to not much success (though I bought a fen trap and yet to use it) and thinking of some direct action. My bunny gun is a scruffy HW35 and it certainly isn't recoilless.
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    I work as a PC engineer by day but am 5th generation on this small holding. I want to keep my farm in the family and because I have no kids, I have offered to give my farm away to relations, just to keep it in the family. This is when I am and my arms and legs don't work. But.. no one wants it. Because farming, even hobby farming, is a World of Work. Walling, fencing, planting, maintaining.
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    Hello there and welcome
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    Hello there
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    It is a bonkers idea and one they just haven't thought through. Currently an accident with a sub 12ft lb is an injury, with a beefy air rifle accidents become fatalities. Is this just another possession tax?
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    And.. you will probably need/hire a garden shredder to compact all the branches. There will be loads of branches .
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    I think most forums go through stages. I am on car related ones as well. I find where people are busy with life, jobs etc then they will alter their attention, so move to Facebook, or drop out. Then their life will alter again and they are back. I've not been on here long but I am impressed by the content and personalities
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    Ditto comments above. It has to be Stihl or Husqvarna. I tried a DIY store one then a Ricoh. But they were like toys and just not up to anything but branches or very short runs. I have been using Stihl for the last 3 years. Liken it to having a reliable car. When you turn up to cut a tree down, you need your saw to work. Been using my Stihl today. now the rain and gales have gone. Get a usable bar length, mine is 17", use decent chain lube as well. I have a gallon of fuel mixed up in advance in a plastic jerry can. You don't want to be carrying lots of bottles with you and then mixing t
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    That's true but easier isn't necessary better and there are 365 days a year to share out. And you could have 'rest' months when you sub let to horsie folk or dog trainers, Summer grazing etc
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    Sorry, if this is in the wrong section but everything seemed to be locked down. I have noticed that there are a lot of requests for shooting land and I imagine that for most people getting access to shoot is quite difficult. I am in rural West Yorkshire and land round here is appx £75 per acre per year! And this is for premium pasture. So I would expect more interesting rough ground to be a bit less. So have gun clubs considered creating their own syndicate and leasing a few acres for use by members? And you could always get a contractor to cut and bale the grass then sell the silage
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    They're big. I will let you know when I do the next one. I have to cut them up to get them in my stock pot for casseroles
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    I feed mixed corn to my muscovies, in 'celebrations' plastic tubs, topped up with water. They gag if it is dry, like when Grandma gave us porridge oats and sugar in a paper bag to keep us quiet. It only took two mouthfulls. They also get dandelion leaves and grass clumps or lumps of turf. Ducks and hens are great for disposing of the stuff you can't put in the compost heap. Nettles, docks and buttercups go in barrels topped up with water to make a nitrogen rich liquor to water on the veg patch later.
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    Yes, muscovies are very tasty and very big. They are also very strong and can be difficult to catch. Watch those claws on their feet too! I got mine for eggs and meat but I'm a bit of a softie, so I let them multiply too much and then didn't cull the males. So... too many males and because they 'bother' the females so much, I don't get any eggs. I am now resolved to eating one a month, am hoping that by the time I get to the last but one (keeping 'Francis' for breeding), I will be a dab hand at 'oven readying'. Currently takes me about an hour!!
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    Hello. I have just done this with 2 Gloucester Old Spots. There were 3 of us in the Pig Club. I did all the donkey work and they lived in my paddock. The other two members paid for the pigs - £30 each (3 months old), then all the food. In November the pigs were slaughtered and I got the meat from one pig and the other members shared the other. I got all the legs and liver and kidneys because the members were soft (not pig members - they were girls). The total cost was about £400 both both pigs, including food, worming, slaughtering, butchering. You can do it cheaper if you have a good so
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    I would get it as clean as you can and maintain that until we are back to dry weather. You don't want to trap moisture. Waxoyling is best done late Summer, when it is runny enough, but not too much and the vehicle is dry. Use a compressor and two guns, one with a flexible extension for cavities and one with a medium spry nozzle. Two guns because you will be messy enough without trying to swap nozzles. I wouldn't use old oil as it doesn't really last long term and it can have contaminants. There are quite a few good wax products, shop around as they can be quite expensive. Autojumbles and c
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