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FYI. Timing belt in Thai is สายพาน,Si-Pan ,and that is the Thai word for almost any drive belt, but must garages should know what you are on about. Timing chain in Thai is โซ Sor, no confusion as they is only one chain in a car/pickup engine. As has been said chains as they run in oil will last a lot longer than a belt.

This is what I meant the more classic design, not as the OP said not wanting to pay HD money.

This has been a problem for the past 20 years plus ,we al know a Thia instead of walking 50-100 yards up the road they will take a motor bike, my neighbor will use her pick up. It will not change Thais say it is to hot to walk use a push bike. we would say to lazy. Now 7-11 etc. have well got they foot in the door the problem will only get worse, they think any problems the will just Har-Mor ,go see a doctor, a few tablets and they will get better as we know they are well wrong. I do not know where the op got some of their information from ,72% of Thais spend sufficient time exercising 150 minuets week, what I see in my rural area no more than 20% getting the sufficient exercise, if that

I very much doubt it in 1970 it would have been push rod modal engine although it still produced 60 bhp, This new interceptor has a modem OHC engine and better manufacturing Proces, and probably does not leak oil hence the old nick name Royal Oilfield. This one is designed for the USA market? not my cup of tea . Last year when in the UK a friend of mine had a demo on one design more like the old model he liked it, same guy last spring spent 2 weeks in South Africa riding around the Servana on a 350 RE was well impressed with it

I am using Hearth Care International, been with them for 7 years now had one claim a hip replacement, But, the hospital would not take any health insurance at all, cash only, so I paid and claimed back afterwards ...........took them 6 months for them to pay me back. Up to last year premium was 1400 GBP. last year's 2200 GBP, this year's quote 2350 GBP, last year's a big increase, which I put down to Covid?. also 1400 GBP excess. One thing they Asian hub is now Bangkok could make thing easier being local. I am looking around, but at 67 and now had both hips replaced, I think I will be lucky to find anything cheaper.

I would say yes, you keep the same number. Here in Thailand a ID card is renewed every 5 years, new card some number. Think about it if you could change the number, it would be utter chaos all the other systems that card number is linked to would have to be changed, just do not think about it, criminals would have a field day.

I never was a speed freak, quite happy to sit on a motorway doing 70-80 mph, use to on my BMWR65. But this T160 would have been my bike of choice of bike ,........just something about it.

A legend of a bike, if you liked 22-25 MPG and a frame that that would not go round corners, those nylon tyres in the wet....... Ignore the above still a god bike.

The wife's granddaughter worked at 7-11 for a while and she said they had to pay back any mistakes thy make. Is that why when my bottle of milk is X baht and 50 stang they ask for the 50 Stang, and the new ones nearly always count out your change 2 or even 3 times.

So did I, passed my test on a Bantam, one I brought from an auction at Hayward's Heath, East Sussex, cattle market 31 quid ,still had the old style book type log book.

At this time harvest is about done for this year, they need the dry weather to get the veicals and tractors in to the field, and to lift the tubers. As I said they is a shortage in the market hence the high price. Will it be profitable in the future I would say yes, it is like sugar cane, this year price for that has been good ,a lot goes for ethanol alcohol, with the world curd oil price being volatile anything that can be produced in country must be a good thing. We have 2 factory's in this area that make cassava flour a lot goes they, and near me they are building a factory abet a small one, that will make syrup from cassava for the food industry, a ready market they That price up to last month of 2.40 baht/kg has been the same for the past 2 years, you could budget on that price this present high price will not last. Of cause the big X factor is the weather last year it was very favorable for all crops, 3 years was a drought a lot of cassava was planted then died drought, and had to be replanted, then finding stems hard and very expensive not a lot of money was made that year, and 2 years ago was not so good not a lot of rain but most farmers did ok ,but some light land grower struggled to make much money.

Cassava right now it is profitable the price is the highest I have known it is 3.40baht/kg, bearing in mind it is the end of the season, and they is a shortage of cassava, at the start of the season say last November it was 2.40/baht/kg, still not a bad price. The rest of the numbers these are for where I am in Lopburi ,the first ploughing a tractor and 3 disc plough is about 400/baht rie depending on your land you might need a second 7 disc plough that is about 250-300 baht/Rie, then ridging up about 200 baht/rie. You will have to buy in stems for planting you need 50 bundles/rie one Bundel is 40 baht around here, The wife's daughter and son- in- law plant cassava they get 500 baht/rie. If you do it now it will need irrigating, the drip tape is popular .do you have water ??,if not wait for the rains to you will have to ask where you are for cost of setting up a irrigation system. It will need spraying for weeds now around here drones are used they cost is now done to about 80-90 baht rie they a a disease of cassava that might want spraying for, fertilizer ? some farms use it some do not, not checked for a while a bag of compound fertilizer is about 1700baht/bag. Harvesting cost that is around here 50 stang /kg that is for a gang to come in that should? include haulage to the buyer. Needless to say, do it yourself would be a lot cheaper. The profit margin, how long is piece of string, as I said now the price is good, so as this is Thailand next year they will be a lot more grown price could drop, is you land fertile ?? cassava can use a lot of the soil nutrients if soil is poor as a lot of Thai land is, yield will be low .that is why you cannot say you will get X ton/rie. But, Thailand up to press, is in the top 5 producers in the world for cassava a lot in this area is dried and goes to Chaina, some is fermented down for ethanol alcohol for gasohol for all our vehicles, so in theory the price should hold up, but things happen .

I was a believer of giving the cattle a lick of molasses. It encouraged them to eat dry grass if that was only available in the dry season. Certainly made life a lot easier. It might be a bit of a faff, but they is a big but behind it. Thai dairy framers rear they cattle on the American way, cattle are in the sheds the hole time and fed is brought to them, in the USA farms have land where they can grow corn to make silage and feed that to cattle the whole time plus other feeds. Here in Thailand a lot of farms only have a few rie ,no land to grow anything, so they have to buy in all they feed stuffs, main sauce of forage being rice straw, as I have said before rice straw is short of everything 3-4% protein very low energy levels and even lower vitamins and minerals. So, the idea of treated rice straw is to increase the feed vale of it ,I first did it 20 years ago, a few farmers use to do it some had some bunkers in one bunker making it and one bunker feeding. Not seen it done for a few years now, farmers just to lazy to do it or what, some say milk yield did increase and cows eat more straw, could increase there fertility, but did not see many signs of that FJ, Molasses is a good feed, as you said popular in Auss, along with the Molasse/urea feed blocks, just put a few blocks out for the cattle to lick, as a supplement feed in the dry season . I have seen the feed block over here imported not cheap Thai farmers never seen them before, never caught on again some years ago I made some they worked well again a no- no never caught on. Molasses has been feed over here the Thai way, mix it with water and pour it over rice straw, waste of time the watered-down molasses had no feed value, then molasses was cheap, now I think it about 9 baht/kg.

Yes Recipe 100 kg or straw,100kg water 5 kg? of urea, mix water /urea pour over straw, cover for 21 days, then feed to cattle, it increases the protein of the straw and helps brakes down the Celulose of the straw, making it more digestible.

I would have thought that loans would have come from BAAC, or Om-Sin, Government Savings Bank, but do the have a limit I have posted that our dairy farmers have borrowed up too 1 million baht from BAAC ,but you are talking about a lot more than that . In this area we have an area that is full of poultry farms, the area is way out of town not so many house etc. ,not so many objections soil not good for framing soil very light. a bit cheaper land than better quality land in the area Most are independent farms suppling the big boys on contract they are funding it all of them self's, like you XX million baht investment money must come from somewhere. Note, a local dairy co-op who I use to work decided to build large dairy farm they borrowed 150 million baht from the Government Savings bank buying land. buildings stock etc. they lasted 6 years then gave up with a loss of 50 million baht. Did they pay any of the money back, do not know but they have a history of losing money bad management and corruption

I would have thought that loans would have come from BAAC, or Om-Sin ,Government Savings Bank, but do they have a limit I have posted that our dairy farmers have borrowed up too 1 million baht from BAAC ,but you are talking about a lot more than that. In this area we have an area that is full of poultry farms, the area is way out of town not so many house etc. ,not so many objections to it all soil not good for framing soil very light . so land a bit cheaper, than better quality land in the area Most are independent farms suppling the big boys on contract they are funding it all them self's, like you XX million baht investment money must come from somewhere. Note ,a local dairy co-op who I use to work decided to build large dairy farm they borrowed 150 million baht from the Government Savings bank buying land, buildings, stock act they lasted 6 years then gave up with a loss of 50 million baht. As I said at the time they can manage 30 cows but not 300, they aim, I think they never got they, no management, they gave up who will repay that loan, not herd who as of yet.

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With this grass seed no need to plant regularly with good management it should last a few years, same with a lot of other grass seeds ,waterlogging can be a problem most grass do not like waterlogging and will die . Michal Hare wrote a paper about waterlogging gras fields in Thailand he did some research with Mulato II left one area grew well, I think it was 2 other areas one had a lot of water the other was sat in water ,that area died the other picked up but did not do so well . I did wonder how much urea was used the photo come from Issan, with their light soil not so fertile, urea will probably be the main way the grass can grow Urea should not make the grass bitter, as CLW knows Duch dairy farmers are having big problems with urea from dairy farms getting into water causes, when I wa they a few years ago summer time, grass growing every were and was being cut for silage as well.

Same around here, Charolais do seem to hold they price more so than other breeds, most of ours are crosses from dairy cows, have seen some Brahman X Carolais they are nearly all nice-looking cattle. One of my beef cows is due to calve next month with a Charolais, tried a Beefmaster and a Angus on her did not hold, the Charoiais did her third calf ,she is finding it hard work dose not go far ,just hope the calf is not to big have cut back on her feed over past month hoping that might slow the calves growth rate down ,she is due on 23ed April ,but have found with Charolais and often Brahman they can easily go 7-10 days over that date and still calve alright . As you said price are low ,and if it like other times when prices drop it will be for some time yet .

Driving past our Betagro mill I see a lot of blower tucks a lot with a trailer a lot of the big poultry farmers use 18 wheel artics. We have a few local shops that sell pig feed in bags for the small farms I would say they will continue for a while yet. As you know we rear a few cattle, we feed brewers grains we have 3 local suppliers we buy grains in 40kg bags ,the bags are nearly all 30 kg old pig feed bags, the grains are delivered by truck and trailer or by 18 wheel artics ,you think about it 30 tons of grains going in to feed sacks that is a lot of feed sacks ,and most a new straight from the farm, not been around the mill .and as I said we have 3 suppliers in this area So somewhere they are still a lot of pig farms buying they feed in sacks. Like you our feed has gone up by 20% ,I would say the price will not come down ,if it does that will be first. A lot of dairy farmers have given up the margins are getting tighter all the time and rice straw is at a record price, not even thinking of their bank borrowings. Question might be dumb, if you have to change over to silos will you have to pay for them or will Betagro help, would it make more work no bags to take to the pig pens ,you will have to barrow it from the silo?, install an auger system expensive.

My cattle feed has maize, cassava, palm meal ,coconut meal, soya, rice bran meal, and some rice husks, if you look at a bag of feed it will list all the ingredients and they is a lot ,with a and or after each ingredient, they will use what is available and more importantly what is cost effective I have a big Betagro feed mill near here pre Covid they use to be a long queue of truck s waiting to tip they loads thay have come up from the port their loads coming from ships. Now I see very few now weather it is the war in Ukraine, inflation making imported feed stuff expensive, they must be using from local suppliers one guy I know is only 20 km down the road he sells them corn and cassava ,as you say soya must come from South America, someone did tell me that some comes from China, can not see that ,with the Chinese taste for pork you would have thought they would import most of their soya.

Very rare never seen one, can remember the TL?125 Honda, based bon then 125cc push rod engine, about the same time, shows my age, you could enter a classic class in trials with one now now .

I have been writing about growing grass for cattle, these are 2 photos from our grassland guru Michal Hear posted a while ago, the grass is Mombasa Guinee as you can see it has been irrigated. I would say this grass is 45 days old? Grass like this cut young, cattle will do well you could most certainly cut back on concentrate feed, it can be done, Michal said this is a goat farm ,luck goats.

Hi FJ I forgot rice seeders, something I have not seen around here, still done the old way here. Sounds if your Soya beans are almost a catch crop before rice planting, a few years ago some rice farmers tried sesame seed this time of year, a fairly drought resistant crop, some crops did well others did not, these crops I put down to poor soil, the soil was very light as I have said before known as Kee Pet ,so called as when it gets wet go's like duck <deleted> Nom rain around here yet wind coming from the Southwest which often means rain but our whether forecast says no rain, looking at Thai TV this morning hail storms up n CM made a mess of some house roofs. Since the UK has left the EU they are trying to negotiate a trade agreement with Auss and NZ, I wonder if some Australian exporters are looking at the UK market for, they beef, for as far as I know UK prices are still the same, or with inflation prices are only going up . One thing I often listen to the UK farming program on the radio ,since the UK left the EU no more EU farming subsidies ,now The UK government is giving suberizes but it seems most of it is based on the environment the better you are looking after hedge rows providing areas for wild life ect the better off you will be and the environment lobby is quite a strong one ,it almost seems that growing food for the masses is almost taking a back burner, the UK shopper might soon see more Aussi beef on their shelves than UK beef .

The Triumph T110 was a 650cc manufactured from 1953-1961, knowing Triumph they did a few mods over the years, why name it the T110. The Triumph T100 was a 500 cc modal, so called T100 as it could reach 100 mph a good marketing ploy, the T110 ,one motorcycle magazine at the time got one to 109 mph not quite 110 mph, but with a few mods it could retch 110 mph. This one looks like an early modal with that tank design.