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Quindalup

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  1. Went to paradise beach two nights ago. What a change it is now one big beach club with restaurants, bars, stage overpriced drinks 180 baht for Sam Miguel . It cost a minimum 500 baht per person entry depending on package bought. For this we got a mock tail. How is it possible they built this as they are obviously profiting from the beach with deck chairs and beanbags and tables and chairs for eating. They have out payed a huge amount of money and as it turned into night there would of been lucky to be 30 people

    Anybody else been there

  2. I live in one, if you heading north at the intersection near mission hospital turn right, there are several along that road, we live in one opposite the first seven eleven you come across it is 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom and costs 7000 baht a month

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  3. Over in phuket town if coming from central go past the weekend night markets about half a kilometer on the left and opposite a seven eleven. There is a man there that did some hairdressing in London and his team are very popular and has one price for all. You will have to make a time, the wife and I normally call in go have something to eat and there will be a slot

  4. We plant trees in rows 4 metres apart and trees every 3 metres down the row which equals 400 to the acre - 2.5 rai

    If the ground is low lying and wet use a 3 disk plough or similar to mound up the dirt in a row

  5. I have experimentally milled about 100 ton of 22 year old Globulous that was about 600mm diameter logs. Being plantation timber that is fast growing there is a lot of stress in the tree and this is released when cut. The boards mainly quarter sawn have a lot of spring in them and once dry are hard to work with or have to be cut into short lengths. I built a hydraulic press to straighten packs of boards straight of the saw and then strip stacked and put weight on top and left for one year. I got about 70 % recovery of boards over 3.6 metres long. With other experiments I have found that the boards are really only good for flooring inside where there is a chance of making money.

  6. I grow eucalyptus Globulous in south Western Australia and have been trying to harvest 125 rai for a couple of years but have not been able to because of a couple of factors. 1st there has been a lot of managed schemes that have collapsed in aus that had contracts locked in with the chipping mills, there is a lot of completion coming from South America and china, our chips go to Japan and the paper plant was destroyed during the tsunami. The price has dropped because of this, where we used to get a stump price to the grower of about $35 aud per ton and now we look like getting between 15 and 20 dollars per ton. The growth rates we get on the first rotation is 100 ton per 2.5 rai after ten years. After the first harvest we let the coppice come through and leave all the stems on and can get average of 3 stems per stump at the next harvest at ten years giving about 300 ton per 2.5 rai

    I am planting another 250 rai this year as feeling confident about future markets coming from India and china in the next ten years and all the schemes would of been cleaned up and not replanted. The land costs about $6000 per 2.5 rai

    One of our biggest costs is transport and if more than 100 km from chipping plant would not be viable. This probably dose not relate to Thailand as labour and truck sizes are different, but when I drive around southern Thailand it seems to take twice as long to do the same amount of kms

    I would like to come have a look at some plantations, where a bouts are people growing them and I would love to see those rainbow eucalypts

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