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#1851900
Believe it or not, after a severe drought lasting several weeks, this morning it is raining - and I did look under the Weber lid to check for a bag of charcoal. The sheep were to be sheared today but that will be put off - fleeces too wet.
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#1851929
Sometimes the stress of lambing can make ewes cast their wool - not all at once, but little bits at a time which makes a terrible mess of the fields. There’s no harm in it but it makes the place look untidy. It’s a welfare thing to shear sheep- as you say, the wool is not worth much and it costs more to shear than the wool is worth. Other than that, it’s a good time to check their condition and to sort out which ones have had their day.
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#1852103
Sooty25 wrote:mowed grass saves loads of avgas taxiing and taking off, so therefore, good for the environment!

I've tried taxiing through grown crop, its hard work!


But I run my mower and lawn tractor on avgas so does that mean I am doubly worser :pirat: :clown:
#1852141
Trent772 wrote:
Sooty25 wrote:mowed grass saves loads of avgas taxiing and taking off, so therefore, good for the environment!

I've tried taxiing through grown crop, its hard work!


But I run my mower and lawn tractor on avgas so does that mean I am doubly worser :pirat: :clown:


No, but you can log the times!
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By townleyc
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#1852202
Paultheparaglider wrote:
Sooty25 wrote:
No, but you can log the times!


Logging hours for mowing is just not necessary.

For a chainsaw, on the other hand, logging hours seems to be appropriate. :wink:



Sorry @Paultheparaglider but shouldn't that be in the bad jokes thread?

:D :D

KE
#1852249
Charliesixtysix wrote:... with tens of acres of mown grass for their leisure activity?


A fair point, but certainly at our base there's a very passable hay crop being baled this week.

Rob P
#1852253
There are environmental schemes where there are rewards for delaying mowing and cultivating until after the ground nesting season. Even then, you have to mow in a certain manner - you are not allowed to mow progressively inwards in a field as it can gradually coral chicks into a central strip and when you mow that, it wipes them out. Mow outwards and they escape into adjacent areas. I’m not in the scheme but do it voluntarily.
I have a “wild” area where I mow single 6ft strips before the nesting season - the chicks can use these to scratch around in but escape into the undergrowth should a threat come from above. It works.
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#1852298
Rob P wrote:
Charliesixtysix wrote:... with tens of acres of mown grass for their leisure activity?


A fair point, but certainly at our base there's a very passable hay crop being baled this week.

Rob P


I've been at more than one UK military airfield where there was leased haymaking between the hard runways and taxiways :)
#1852508
2 acre paddock next to ours.

Planted 500 native trees 4 years ago and my word, they are doing well. A couple of specimens trees, we have Seth the Sequoia, he is now 8 years old and 2 metres high. His young siblings, Bill and Ted (they are on an excellent adventure) are but 2' tall.

So we are expanding Trent Acres and I have just mowed a third of the paddock to sheep (dog) fence it off. Not all of that will stay mowed because I can't be arrrrst. It will give Woody somewhere to root about in.

This is the first year I haven't mowed the whole thing as the trees are sufficiently big to look after themselves, so I guess I qualify for hallowed status..... :mrgreen:

Saved 1 frog, 3 voles/mice but sadly the crows seemed to have some rich pickings as the sward was shortened.

Planting loads of Yellow Rattle this august to try suppress the grass naturally.
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