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I hope so here in Lopburi province we are almost is a drought, a lot of rice crops have yet to be sown, crops of maize and cassava are dying from lack of water, sugar cane is not growing no rain. This is about the third or fourth report saying heavy rain is due, if it is, it is missing us out. The Pasak Jolasid dam one of the biggest in the region has shut all its gates not letting any water out trying to conserve what water they is. June and July we had 110mm of rain, last June/ July 237 mm of rain defiantly an El Nimo year.

I have thought that, the gray stone I get, literally coms from a mountain near Saraburi, just north of Bangkok the same sauce half of Bangkok is built of, I have been told it is granite. I know what you mean gravel that comes from a pit, like in the UK, weather the fact that that Thailand is tropical country and does not have the soil type for gravel, I could not say

Been busy ,I am in Lopburi, a long way from you, that is way I did not put in my location.

Normale, it is in our area, sold by the cube, our place where we get it from is only 6 km from us, we got some 2 months ago 500 baht/cube delivered .

It is nothing like a Western meal, you must eat it Mi-Sie- Prik no chiles, it must have some taste to it you need chiles and pepper. Must agree with other posters no MSG or Rot- Dee, I have at last got the wife to not include MSG, and Rot-Dee a completely different flavor.

That depends on where you live, you need to find a dairy cow area, they will have some shops selling Soya bean meal, I live in a big dairy cow area, and we have 3 places that sell SBM two of them also mix cattle feed.

Triumph Motorcycles To Increase Production At Hinckley, UK (carandbike.com) The link above from last year, say Triumph are going to increase production at Hinckley up to 15 000 units /year. A lot will be the top end market bikes.

That length of beam will be built on site. It will be trying to lift all that weight at the same time you will need a lot of cranes all working together, that will be the fun bit.

I had a T100R at the same time, they were built before the lock in at Meriden ,then sold afterwards, mine had the long cone exhorts, with a twin leaning shoe front brake only ever saw one disc brake modal I thought the owner did the conversion, not a factory job. The engine was no problem leaked a bit of oil, it was the electrics that were the problem use to eat CB points, and of cause Lucus lights, Prince of Darkness, as I found out on more than one occasion. Back to the op, a local bike shop, what 18 months ago had a SR 400 in a new one I think it was 160 000 ish baht.

That is correct, it happened 10-12 years ago? a world shortage of rice a blip in the trade for a few months. So, Thailand just exported more, just thinking how much money the exporters could make, and the rice price for the domestic market increased, a lot of people were not happy. History about to repeat itself.

Two firsts here, first time I have seen baled silage in Thailand. The farm is a large by Thai standards, the owner was not they when I asked about them, just the guys who milk the cows I said what grass did you use, they said it is not grass but corn/maize, that is the second first, never seen baled raped maize silage before They said a company did the job, they did not know who, the baler, rapper and plastic wrap would all be imported, these bales must weigh 500kg each. I have often thought rapped baled silage is the way to go, you can get mini bales would work well for your small farms.

No secret,ust giving you some Infor as to what is about. What the prices are around here should be the same as where you are.

I use this it is neat chlorin/bleach; it would do the job, use it for cleaning the concrete water troughs for our cattle (when the troughs are empty). I thought about Haiter ,would it work, meaning would it be strong enough, it was used in the days of hand washing it was used help to remove stains, but now most people use a washing machine not used very often, wife said still available.

You beat me to it chlorine, same as bleach, in Thai known as Nam Chlorine, may have to brush it if it a bit thick.

Now the country is back to normal our local shop is now open, bottles of CO2, and next to them bottles of Argon gas, they are mainly a steel shop with a small builder merchant. Theu also sell welders and wire. The numbers, to buy your first bottle of CO2 is 4600 baht, but for a refill /exchange it is 500 baht, they said the gas tank regulator should??? come with the welder. They had a welder in, only a Flux-Core, they did not have the dule ones, it was 5500 baht,220 amp at that price should be ok, better than 1500-2000 baht jobs on Lazada , the Flux Core wire 0.8mm was 360 baht the pack was 1 kg. As I said I live in a rural area, and as this is Thailand, they must be a place like this near you, it is a case of asking around.

Bob Monkhouse

It is a subject the wife and myself often ask ,the answer ,we think what will people eat ,the average age of a Thai farmer is 55 ,they was a thread running last week about the shortage of milk in the shops ,due to dairy farmers giving up ,cannot make it pay big debt burden ,and more than one farmer has said they children are not interested in farming they see the parents work 24/7 and still have not a not to show at the end of the day /week/month/year. So, the grandchildren where will the buy they food will it all be from vertical farms in cities, which some economists forecast more and more people will be livening in deserting the countryside because they are no work. And what work will they do, will AI have taken over, will they lives be ruled even more by the mobile phone. Those working they tax rate could be 10 points higher than what is paid now, due to the ageing population, they pensions have got to be paid fpr somehow, or will our grandchildren not get a pension as some economists have said, just live on savings and insurance policies maturing. Me looking at the crystal ball, as me and the wife have said we do not envy them.

I am looking at MIG welders, but I am almost working backwards, looking for CO2 gas first, before buying the welder. I live in a rural area and so far, I have found two suppliers', one our very local steel stockiest, the other I noticed driving out from our local town, next to the main road. So, ask around oxygen is easy to find ask them if they know of any suppliers of CO2 in the area, or maybe try Thai Facebook?. Looking at this photo what is the steel 1/4inch angle iron, I would use an ark welder on that, the steel is thick enough to take a good weld. I am making yet another gate,10 foot , steel a bit thin not easy to ark weld, hence looking at a MIG welder.

This is about the third time in the past 2 weeks that they have been a thread about storms in Thailand, here in cental Lopburi we have had 64 mm of rain this month the least for 5 years in July, we look at our local weather forecast regularly give rain, but we never seem to get it So, let's see if they predictions are going to come true or am going to bring a fir cone back with me next time, I go back to the UK.

The UK State Pension is set to increase by 10.1% from April 2023123. This increase is part of an annual uprating each financial year and is linked to inflation through the government's 'triple lock' promise345. The new rates will take effect from April 2023, and the full new state pension will increase by £19 a week, while the full basic state pension will increase by £14 weekly4. The former will be £10,600 a year or £203.85 per week for 2023/24, and the latter will be £8,100 a year or £156.20 per week45. Pensioner benefits such as Pension Credit and Attendance Allowance will also increase by 10.1% in line with CPI inflation How are you getting the present rate, have you been back to the UK for 3 months ? over the past year?, that is the only way you can get the increase , and of cause have it paid into a UK bank?

Take to your local bike shop, they will take it apart and put an airline though all the carb bits and clean it. I have a grass strimmer that was playing up I knew it was the carb tried cleaning it myself, still playing up, took to my local bike shop they took it apart used an airline, now good as new this was a few months ago now. I think it was 200 baht

I would say 95% of milking sheds here in Thailand are the old as you call them, flat milking sheds, cheap to build, they are a few tandem parlous about, two near me. You are right most breeding now is Holstein, that is why they is the milk shortage, they cannot sand the poor diet, average yield of a Thai cow is 12, kg/cow/day, not a lot with a big infertility problem. Been a move to get in some Jersey stock, good small cattle do not suffer from heat stress can eat the poor diet, but Thai do not like small cattle they like big cattle, hence the above problems, another problem Thai's that will not change they ways. In the UK 3 main problems with cows, mastitis and feet problems, here in Thailand the same problems, some of the feet I have seen on some cows it is a miracle they can walk. Go into YouTube look at some foot trimming videos.

You more than likely had tame Frisian cattle, like I use to milk ,but here in Thailand 35 years ago they started to use imported USA semen, with problems mainly tic fever, Babesia, very often fatal .and heat stress. and low milk yeild with the heat and poor diet. So they cross bread with tropical breeds Milking Zebu cattle, and the popular Shawiel ,a breed that has very good resistance to heat stress and a more impotently Babesia, in fact a good few thousand Sahiwal X Frisian cattle were imported from NZ. known in Thailand as Whar- New ,NZ cattle .and the Thai DLD also bred they own version of the breed. But good as they where, they could the B's could kick, I remember doing a foot trimming job on one, feet well overgrown, had to knock it out could not get near it from kicking. Now wind forward to now most of that blood line has gone still a few grand/great granddaughters about some of them can still kick, So hence tying up they legs, most farmers still tie the legs back to the cow shed stanchions, not all are Forking idiots.

To stop them from kicking the milking machines off, and most Thais are scared of cows, mainly from getting kicked.

We won the world cup at football and in rugby union, that was against who.........................cannot remember now some team in yellow shirts.