Monkeypants

OK Managed to find out so far that the 3 phase supply is 100kva?

and we have 30 amp breakers in the farm.

ok thanks so far.

I will get the wattage and the info on the 3 phase supply.

thanks fella's

Commando for me also.

Undies make you sweat and as said before boxers get twisted up.

One tip..... Make sure you buy some benovate cream for when you get knacker rash, The back of my knees are terrible

thanks crossy.

I know i am going to be a pain in peoples sides as things progress, this is through pure lack of knowledge, I hope you understand that my need in yours, and others expertise will be crutial to me and my families safety, , as i said earlier I am scared shitless, with electrics and of course Somchai the electrician, who generally grow rice for a living, not patronising here, just a fact.

So firstly I have a 3 phase chicken farm, and no means of tapping into any other existing supply as yet.

Does this create a problem ?

Also how do you join two wires together safely, In the uk we would use a junction box, here a bit of tape seems to do the job, I was thinking block connectors?

And I have seen some electrics installed where you will have a wall switch for the lights and a socket placed further down the wall for plugs with the feed coming from the light switch, to the socket is this acceptable?

I think I understand Crossys electrical diagram where he says 7 outlets for one feed so I was thinking that you would have several feeds from the consumer unit , several feeds for sockets and several feeds for lighting 3 core cable going back to the consumer unit.

In the UK I have also seen little fuse thingies, like a light switch but instead of a switch it holds a 13A fuse, do I need to get something like this installed also?

I am currently building a 3 bedroom bungalow.

It will have 3 air con units, 2 showers, Electric Oven (bought already) and other regular appliances that you would have in your household, including desk top PC.

Which consumer unit should I buy, I have seen a few and they vary in size,length.

Also do Thailand have 3 core cable now?

Is 2.5 mm cable good for all lighting and sockets?

I assume aircon cable will need to be bigger?

Is the oven ok on 2,5mm cable?

I have viewed crossys wiring site, and I am totally lost with it, I am very scared of electric, really I am. And this seems to block my learning ability.

I have to put my faith in a Thai electrician, but I thought that if I buy the right equipment, he may know what is required.

I will have to start buying the cable and consumer unit soon.

The information I posted was and is correct, however you introduced the "What if a CCJ was issued".

To which I then responded.

OP please, enjoy your beer and forget about it.

Yes if he was unaware of the original CCJ.

Sorry for wandering

I will only respond to topical questions raised by the OP.

But if you wish to start a new Topic Owain, I may contribute

Debts where a CCJ has been issued are not covered by the Limitation Act, 1980, therefore they can not become 'Statute Barred'. However the claimant must have a very good reason to ask the Courts to enforce a CCJ which is over 6 years old.

You would need put in your defence that you were unaware of the original CCJ and, since no action had been taken, until now, to 'enforce that ccj' you had, at the time, been unable to submit a defence.

In order to take you to court you must have contact with the debt collector and acknowledge a letter or contact

And if this happened, after 6 years the credit reference agency would remove the CCJ from their records.

The only way that the OP could be convicted in a criminal court is if he intended to use the money and not make a payment, this could be classed as fraud. Because it was an overdraft i think, then that would normally be from the account that monies are regularly deposited, e,g wages. Same if it was a credit card, make a few payments first before defaulting.

After 6 years of you the borrower not responding to any letter sent by either the lending bank or the debt collection agency, the debt becomes "statued barred" and nobody can force you to pay it, at this time your credit rating is as good as it was before. "Statued barred" means that you still owe the debt but are under no legal obligation to repay it. All the credit reference agencys would have to remove the "default" recorded on their file. If a debt collector knocked on their door, , within in the 6 year time period, if he/you do sign something to say that you are the owner of the debt, then the 6 years starts again from that date.

My advice is don't worry, nothing can happen it is a civil matter and as such is not a criminal matter. If you are worried, change your telephone number in LOS and sleep well.

Another poster asked if you owed money to the Inland Revenue, in answer to that, again it is a civil matter but unlike most debts, the Inland revenue have no time limit in which to chase you for the money, if you owe it to them , you owe it for life, but this does not show on credit reference checks (AFAIK).

Mortgage repossession, the mortgage lender can chase you for 12 years before the debt can be "Statued Barred"

Sleep well OP

We have about 4 rai of chillies

Monkeypants - thats a good shipping price - was that a half size container/full size container? - and was that prize based on sharing the container with another shipper, or was weight part of the cost equation?

... all very useful info for me as I regulary ship stuff into Thailand in containers and am always on the hunt for cheaper costs.

Hi Maizefarmer It was for a 20 foot container, door to port BKK, which I had to load myself, not shared.

Let me know if you need anymore info.

Freezing here, we have an English Quilt/Duvet, and we fight for it during the night.

We have not had a fan on day or night for nearly 3 months, I really feel the cold here, and I too get wrapped up in woolies some nights, I even brought a small electric fan heater from the UK, and I need it.

The air here is very clean, the mountains are stunning, I live 30kms east of Phetchabun, I love it, for me it's fantastic here, as other posters have said, you can get most of the things you need from the recently opened Big C and Tesco stores here.

And as other posters have said the hot season is hot, I need the fans and aircon at that time of year.

There is many things to do here if you like visiting mountains and national parks, plenty of great waterfalls, one of which is about 10 kms from me (tat mok) The cost of living is very very cheap compared to say BKK.

http://www.thaifly.com/EN/guide/Phetchabun-Tour.php

I can answer that for you.

My wife has just brought a container load of household things from the UK to Thailand, as a returning Thai national she will not have to pay any import duties on used items, and she can only bring in one of each item.

However because last year we visited Thailand for a 6 month stay, Upon presenting her passport and other docs to the customs via an agent, we were told that she must have been out of the country for a year exluding holidays, they deemed that a 6 month stay here was no holiday.

We had to pay 18,000 baht tax, and 25,000 tea money.

We used a very good agent in the UK and equally good agent in BKK.

The cost of the container from UK to BKK was £800. and the cost from BKK to Phetchabun was around £500. This included everything apart from what the Thai customs guys deemed fit.

If you want the names of the 2 Agents that I used I would be happy to let you know., Our container arrived 2 months ago, and took a month to get here.

Thanks for your help fellas.

I have 2 sespits dug with 5 concrete rings in each,

One

will be used purely for the toilet and the other for grey water, sinks showers and washing machine, my idea was to run a seperate pipe for each sink, shower.

I then thought that it may be easier to access the u bend (blue 2 inch pipe , with a small screw at the bottom of the U)

quite near to the sess pits so that they can easily be maintained, of course only on the showers, as the toilet has one built in anyway as all toilets, and the sinks will be fitted with u bends as a matter of course.

I am hoping that this should eliminate nasty niffs from the shower.

Thanks again fella's.

Your time in responding is appreciated.

Thanks crossy, I now know what to look for, my builder doesn't know they exist , TIT.

Thanks Ignis, but it is shower traps that I am looking for, thanks anyway

Hi

I am currently building a bungalow and need to source some u traps for the shower, where should these traps be placed and what do they look like

Cheers

I have a farm here in Phetchabun.

After recently ploughing one of the fields I was stood in the middle of it,and was surveying high and low points of the land,when a snake used my flip flop as an anchoring point to move, yes my foor was in it at the time.

I froze solid, didn't run like I wanted to, after it had passed, I slowly walked to the nearest bamboo laying around ,and came back and killed it, It was a Cobra, not a king, I noticed the banding on the sides of its body that curve under its belly.

Thats the first Cobra that I have killed, Seen many many of them on the farm, usually already killed by the staff.

We have lots of other snakes here too, all of which are quite tasty in a tom yam.

Thanks fruity , will surely give you a visit once i finish my concrete tanks . A few breading pairs is a must ok ?

OK:)....As I said earlier, we'll be sorting them out soon. More than welcome to visit when your ready.

What is the cost of a pair of breeding frogs also how many would you recommend to start up to make it viable?

The frogs are my wifes really; she wants B500 for a breeding pair, which isn't expensive. We have paid B1500 for pairs in the past.

Depending on how many frogs you want to rear, I would recommend ten pairs of breeders, each female will lay literally thousands of eggs, between 7-10,000. If you get a 30% hatching rate, which is average, that should give you 25-30,000 tapdoles / 20-25,000 froglets. Even if you were to sell off the baby frogs at the going rate of 2 baht apiece, you would be well ahead of the game, much more money if you reared the frogs on to marketable size, which should take no more than four months. You then should have one hel_l of a lot of kilos to sell at no less than 80 baht per kilo wholesale, 130 retail.

Let me see if I understand this and have my math correct:

You buy a breeding pair for avg 1000 baht.... One breeding pair produces approx 2400 frogs. (8,000 avg eggs with 30% being hatched). You feed these fogs for four months with little work involved and each frog will grow to being about 1/2 kg (or less).... So total after four months you have approx. 600-800 kg of mature frogs. Selling them for 80B/kg (appears that this may be the low end depending on your initiative) you will gross approx 48kB - 64kB..... This makes a net of 47-63kB minus the food and just for using one breeding pair. (Of course you will have to first provide the expenses of setting up your ponds/environment). So if one was to have 10 breeding pairs with the same above success rate the gross return would be approx: 470-630kB.....not bad for 4 months.....actually probably (sounds like) easier work and better return than rice farming in Issan.

Now I am wondering a few things:

1) How much is an estimated cost to feed 1 breeding pair and all siblings for four months (until the siblings get to market size)?

2) Why isn't everyone a frog farmer if it appears this easy?

3) Are there diseases or plagues that hit frogs that could wipe out your entire population?

4) How is theft handled?

5) What are really the downsides to frog farming in Issan?

I am currently living in CM but my wife is from Surin (Prasat) and we currently have a place there as well as land where we plan on building a house and having a small farm of some sort. Even though we own a store in Prasat (unestablished business at this time) I am looking for means of some hobby/supplemental income when I go to retire there within the next 5 years. I have other ideas in mind but this frog farming has gotten me very curious. I am interested in learning more to see what go I could make of this.

By the way, while growing up in Ohio (USA) my father was an avid outdoors man. We would go gigging bullfrogs on the creeks and rivers there. Of course we only ate the frog legs as the rest of the frog didn't provide much meat. I can remember as a kid growing up where dad took pictures of some of the legs (only legs) of these monster bullfrogs and they would be as long (stretched out) as a long-neck beer bottle. And they delicious.... I am wondering how bull frog tastes in LOS? The only frog I have eaten here (and only twice) was pitiful as one time it appeared the whole frog (bones and all) were ground up with the meat.... And for the other time the size of the frog legs I had here in LOS were no bigger than a pair of normal nail clippers....

Perhaps I made all of this sound just too easy? It certainly isn't rocket science, however, without a decent set up & some basic knowledge & husbandry skills the novice would never breed any froglets. Of course there are pitfalls & disease to contend with as there are with any livestock. Frogs are cannabilistic, start with 2,000 froglets, leave unsorted & you will be lucky to end up with a fifth of that number, similarly, overfeed & they will simply 'burst' frogs, seemingly don't have a cut off point, they apparantly don't know when they are full. So many pro's & cons.

Hi Fruity,

You mention that if left unsorted, you will have many losses.

How do you sort them, ?

A very interesting read, and something that we are going to do pretty soon,

Thanks again

Never mind when things look glum.

Cheer up chum there's worse to come.

Looking for a place as named above. Anyone been there or heard of it?

Yes Phetchabun,

What do you need to know?

http://www.thailandguidebook.com/provinces/phetchabun.html

Nice pics Monkeypants.

Most people have catfish, where did you get the dogfish

Yes she really loves swimming, She will stay in the water swimming for a hour or so at a time, I reckon that it's because she is black and the water keeps her cool.

It can be a pain though if trying to fish, many a time I have had to stop fishing while she plays, for fear of her getting caught in the line and hook.

Still it's great fun, and wouldn't like to be without either the pond or my dog.