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Wrong, my Hino and many other impot makes, can be repaired last time I had a new clutch pressure plate fitted, you have just got to find the place selling the parts, in my local area I have 2 places you can get most parts for them. Mine was 70 000 baht 17 years ago still runs ok it dose us, any problems a local guy can fit, the pressure plate and clutch thrust bearing cost me 2700 baht, he charged me 1200 baht in labor for fitting, and was for splitting the tractor. Re JD tractors, they are genuine from America, some smaller models are made by Yanmar with a JD badge on, but none are for sale in Thailand.

Sounds if you have hole(s) in the exhaust, being stood for a loge time rust has got at it, or the exhaust gasket is leaking. Seems a lot needs doing to this bike, write it all down and tell the guy what needs doing, then check it all when you pick the bike up. Thinking, bike being sluggish could well be drive belt getting perished, you can often here a noise when the drive belt is getting warn.

Kubotas are good tractors, as you say a lot in dealers' yards are repos, but some are just secondhand tractors for sale, go in and ask If you have a large mug of coffee handy, they are a few tractor threads on this forum have look at them they should give you want you want to know. My tractor is a secondhand import from Japan a Hino, you will know these they are Hino's, old Kubota's, the Sunshine rage seem good tractors, and some Isuzu god few of them about they just seem to keep going. As far as I know no auctions or bailiff sales in Thailand.

My Wave 125cc now has 132 000km, with a sidecar on it, dose a lot of hauling, home maintenance, one engine rebuild at 95 000 km, still does not use any oil, must say clutch is dying ,starting to slip As for the OP's Fino, sluggish, give it a good service, sluggish could be drive belt, air cleaner, etc. Squeaks going over bumps shocks and forks could be at fault. One thing I have found out, with some shops no good sayings give it a service; you will have to say what wants doing.

I brought a return London >Bangkok, back in August. Flying in October, 35 000 baht. As for gong back this time of year no way airlines just up the price, same as in July and August.

Job to say, but sounds like headstock bearings? are they a bit tight, also at 5 yeas old they could be a bit dry and need some grease. A quick look at Mr Google, looks if they are tapered bearings, they should not need replacing just cleaning re-greasing and then properly adjusting. I would say that your local guy should be able to do them. I had my head stock bearings replaced on my Wave, a pig of a job they are just ball bearings, it takes as long to take all the plastic surrounds off as it does to change the bearings, anyway I was charged 400 baht.

That could cost the government a lot of money, with the problem in the Red Sea, Houthi rebels from Yemen attacking ships ,believed to be heading to Isarel , they are now use military grade weapon's and helicopters, no rubber dinghy's now , a lot of shipping companies are to go the scenic route vie the Cape and South Africa, the Red sea route takes about 12% of the world shipping ,that is going to add 2-3 weeks on a journey ,plus a big cost in sending cargo, cost ship insurance is going up big time ,if they can get it for sailing up the Red sea. Been talk of fuel going up. for the past week, a case of watch this space, with the money they are spending at the moment can/could they afford it.

Can not see that, think about it the volume of water in the pond, then you are adding some more, with say a 2inch pipe over a few hours not a fast rate, that new water will just mix with the pond water, done during the daytime, when the weather is warmer, they will be very little change in water temperature. Unlikely to be a disease unless you have a very high stocking rate, unlikely? fish are fairly virulent.

Like me I like an IPA, but I have yet to find it in any of our shops, I would say it would be more like a larger especially for the Thai pallet at 4.9%, also most IPA's are around 3.8-4%, never been a strong beer. Dunkel is all right better than the dark Beer Lao, with that you can almost taste the molasses, and I would say Dunkel would have some molasses in it

How deep is the well, could the water be sightly Salin, water from a well is different from rain fed, some fish do not like a change of water supply I know Bla Dok, walking catfish, do not like a change of water. We have a pond and pump water on to the fruit trees a veg in the garden, during the dry season not enough water in the pond so the wife uses mains water from underground supply, some of the fruit trees start not look too well, soon as the rains come, they pick up.

And what is wrong with it, by the way check the spelling of recongnisable.

I find the Dunkel is ok, that is if you can find it, our local Big C just had a few packs in among the hordes of Chang, Sing,Leo, ect ,yet to find the IPA ,in my rural area only our Lotus mini has any, and that is just Dunkel and Weizen. I think this time next year it will not be around; the Thai pallet will not like it not sweet enough.

Wrong, In the Uk it is a legal to use local antithetic, that would be legal a way of putting animals down. As for Thailand as we know, they religion does not recognize euthanizer, but does it mean that it is illegal?

I aways say no bag, and no straws when in a convenance store, and most other shops, they look at me, I say in Thai, Chewy-Chart, help the nation, most smile and nod they heads as to say yes you are right.

Our uk farm vets use to use local anesthetic injected IV, intravenous. Local anesthetic can be brought from a vet, Yar Char ,in Thai not expensive, injecting it might be difficulty a blood vain on top of the paw is the place. It is very quick and painless.

First off, it is not clover, clover is a temperate grass /legume .and will not grow in Thailand, the hot season will kill it off, the wife says it is Pak Wen,it like wet land, is your lawn wet? to much water? or during the rainy season water sits on the land and cannot get away.? Try going around with a fork or a pointed rod making hole best is 6-9 inch's deep, that will help drainage, you may have to do this more than once. As for using Roundup, that will just kill everything it touch's, it is a contact herbicide, that is the last thing you need, look at MCPA or MCPB, they are selective herbicide's, kill's the weeds not the grass. But if you have a lot of weeds, using any chemical could make the lawn very patchy as the weeds die off. As been said some compound fertilizer could well help.

My wife and her sisters and daughter are all fisherwoman, they regularly go, most times they catch something, bring it home and normally dry it, for Bla-Kem salted fish. And when I am out and about often see women fishing, most are doing it to put food on the table. For the record I like fishing, if I had more time, I would go more often, with the Passak Dam less than 30 minuets away just asking to be fished

Have another coup, a lot of Thais say the best thing Thuckin ever did was to get the police to quietly? do away with the drug dealers so cutting down on the drugs on the street. Worked well a lot of Thies where happy a lot less drugs about, but the army Generales where not so happy, they income dropped, so word on the street said they instrumented the coup that ousted Tucksin . Seems our new PM does not know his Thai history.

You are a cane cutter ,you get to the field( this photo was taken 4 years ago),at 7.00 am to cut cane ,which photo would you cut ? as has been said cane is cut piece work ,not per rie in our area, but per Bundel cut last price I heard was 1-1.40 baht/ bundel, a bundle has 10 cane storks, and they have to be tied up, they use unburnt leaves, a good cuter can do 300 bundles in a day. If the cane was not burnt the grower would have to pay more so the cutters can make some money, and cutter are getting more difficult to find each year. Good point about field size in my area most fields are 15 rie plus more than enough for a machine to work in The sugar content of burnt cane is only a bit less than unburnt cane so saying not burning cane is more cost effective is not right, and as someone said, and it is a problem in my area, is the queue waiting for the machine to arrive can be long ,some growers cannot wait especially near the end of the season when the date for the mill to close is getting near ,hence burning and getting cutters in PS for the thinking, we know a cane grower he brought a machine, he has 500 rie a fair spread, talking to him last year he had already cut about 350 rie ,he had already spent 90 000 baht on diesel for the machine, that 250 hp engine use a lot of fuel. cost of a box of matches??

I live in a big sugar cane area and they is very, very little burning, it is all like in the op's photo cane is cut by machine and has been for the past 4-5 years . If the government wants to help cane farmers from burning, they crop how about subsidizing cane harvesters, problem is they are secondhand imports costing upwards of 2 million baht each, why to expensive for most farmers. So, make them cheaper then farmers can afford to buy them, then the big growers will contract out and cut and haul the cane for the smaller farmers ,last year it was being cut and hauled to the mill for 360/baht ton.

I wrote this about last year, you can get a service bus from Pattaya to Bangkok Ekama bus station on Sukhumvit, or road or Morchit Northen bus terminal, then another service bus down to Aranyaprathet, then best way is a motorcycle taxi down to the border, then have lunch may be a late one, then do the return journey. It might be longer in time than a minibus, but you should be able to do the whole journey for 1000-12000 baht, for service bus information call the call center 1490.

But, if the rumors are true, which I think they are, that person was helped? By him who we cannot name, and that person's elder relation helped him out a few years ago. You scratch my back........

In my area they have been using drones for a few years now, mainly spraying maize against Fall Army Worm, and against fungus on rice crops, also applying fertilizer on sugar cane. With a lot about cost is now 90 baht/rie no shortage work. So, nothing new around here, and a few other areas.

Re the new guttering that was done in two lengths, they did a big overlap using screws and a lot of mastic it is watertight, and as I said it was also part of the new house roof the guy gave us a discount on the guttering.

The lengths were 3 meters, and as I said they were soldered, and again the guttering was ok but the solder corraded the steel and caused the leaks. And you find that most guttering comes in 3-meter lengths. And most Thai guttering seems to the same standard having put up short lengths up in our cattle shed, buying it from different places it all seems the same.