joeuk1

We have 2 litters of Thai Ridge Back pups here at the moment 1st litter born 19th Jan the second litter born 1 week after , 8 dog pups 8 bitches if anyone is looking for good family dog that that make good guards for property pm me .

Thanx

Does anyone buy ram from rice mills ? i would like to know what prices people are paying for ram localy to where they live .Thanx

I cant beleive Edward has died , my condolences to all the family .

I am looking to buy upto 5 tonne of small maize , i have purchased this before from Pak Chong but would prefer to buy nearer Buriram , also looking to buy small unmilled rice , Safflower the white seed , white dari , mung beans . I have been looking for Wheat - Barley and other grains . Pm please if you know where i could buy these grains .

Thanx

Don't know about pig s**t, but this is utter Bull s**t!

If it was as easy as that I'd be a millionaire by now! Following a lifetimes involvement in Pigs, both in the UK & here in LOS..............UTTER RUBBISH; hope nobody falls for this VERY OBVIOUS SCAM!!!!

Hello Fruity

Nice to see you are still in the land of the living ...........

In the New Year I hope to take a trip to China with my Thai wife. Has any reader recently been to HK, Provincial areas etc? I would be interested in hearing about visas, good tour groups, transport, language problems, street food, hotel standards and general cost of living and/or anything untoward you encountered.

Thanks

No visa needed for Hong Kong your wife can stay for 1 month no visa , she will need a visa for mainland China .

Wood in Thailand is very expensive we have bought a lot of wood from wood factorys and i find the price of wood in Thailand is only same as i would pay in the Uk . We have today bought 5 metre lenths 2000 metres of 2 x 3 and 1000 metres of 2 x 2 not nice wood but will do the job total cost Thailand 190000 baht i can buy better wood same amount for 3k sterling in uk .

If these trees grow as big as what the leaflet says in the 5 years they are a great investment for anyone that has spare land .

JB

Very easy, just put the word around you want the grass cut & the locals will cut it & take it away for their cows / buffalos to eat. Grass is a saleable commodity, especially now when free grazing land is ocupied with rice growing.

Forget cows running around in your orchard , would be a disaster, goats even worse.

fruity has the right idea, this is what we do around our ponds.

just make sure they understand that to get the grass ,they have to cut the good and the bad.

It took 3 goes to get one to do it properly,the first two were only cutting the Guinea grass and the Ruzzi that we have as erosion barriers and leaving the wild grasses for me to do.

Of course having the grass growing and depleting the available nutrients is not really a good idea in the first place.

Why not disc up the row centres as required and spray the remainder with herbicide.

We have planted a lot of grass around our ponds this is used once cut for the cows to eat , when we are out of grass for the cows we buy in from other locals for feed . At times its hard to find there are local people that use land just for growing grass to sell for feed .

JB

When i was a child my father always brought a rabbit home once a week killed it with one punch to the back of the head my mother skinned it and cooked it , when i am settled in Thailand i will rear a few big rabbits to eat . My wife says they are pets and not for eating Thai people dont eat rabbits , i know there was one company rearing and selling rabbits for eating in Phuket i read about them one time on either the Phuket Gazette or the Bkk post .

JB

So, basically what I'm wondering is............ would a heaver track vehicle [buldozer] not get bogged down in the clay muck, or would a wheeled vehicle [large tractor] spin it's tires in the muck?? needless to say, I would schedule the job for the driest of times [march/april] to get my money's worth and speed up the job.

My clay soil is slipery and sticky when wet and hard as a rock when dry [on the surface].

I have had a well dug and it was clay all the way to 22mt, then hit sand/gravel.

Here are 3 photos 2 of 10 rai lake that we have dug out and 1 photo of Klon being dug ....all soil used for landfill .

JB

You are going to have to get on top of the problem asap nmw, else you are going to have a mess on your hands.

Give this one some thought (I know nothing about keeping fish commercialy but I know a bit about cleaning up water - and although I haven't done this myself on the scale I am going to describe to you, it works with my small koi pond in the garden, and I have seen the same operating very efficeintly at a fish farm not far from Nakorn Ratchasima - and what makes it so effective is the depth of the pond avalible to work with - something around the same as yours).

Take one end of the pond - say about 3m -4m from the end wall (across the pond width of course - not length), and build a wall to section it off from the rest of the pond. Turn this area into a huge bio-filter.

It will offer you approx 1:6 volume (filter:pond) ratio - which will be a great volume for a very efficient bio-filter.

Keep in mind from an energy usage point of view: most effective gas exchange takes place at the surface (introducing air at depth is a great way to move water, oxygen/CO2 exchange across the water/air bubble surface tension takes place far better at the surface).

er ....... you slanted the bottom of the pond?

MF

A koi pond is something i realy want to build at some stage .

Have seen some beautiful Koi near JJ market in Bkk how big is your Koi pond -how deep ?

Any chance of seeing photo .

Thanx JB

I've seen and hired bulldozers before [but not in clay soil] and do think that all the work can be done with that one machine. Seems typical Thai thinking to use all that excess machinery [trucks, backhoes and trucks] when one good machine can do the trick [and a lot faster] . All the fill will go around the pond and extend less than 100meters.

Has anyone done it this way [with bulldozer] in clay soils???

The last 3 ponds we put in were all done with big Ford tractors only, the finished ponds were far superior to our originals dug with excavator and using dump trucks, plus at a fraction of the cost.

Problem we found was that excavators take out such big dobs of clay etc that cant be levelled and compacted properly so erosion and subsidence is a problem for a long time after.

We get our 1 rai x 1.7m deep dug for 10k.

when he gets into tougher going he just rips the base with 3 discs and away he goes again.

1 rai x 1.7m deep 2720 cubic metres for 10k thats less than 4 bath a cubic metre.

Cost of diesel i think would be more than 10k to dig that pool and spread the soil .

How many days did it take to dig your pool and any photos please ?

Jb

Here is photo of yellow strip light we have one at back and front of each cow pen . We had problems with small black flys bothering the cows but when we fitted the yellow strip lights now no problem .

JB

We use these yellow strip lights in all the cow houses we have them on timer they come on at 6 pm and go off 6am in the morning .

They are very good we buy them from the shop in the city that sells all for electrics .

JB

Definitely change your money in Thailand......you will also get slightly more Baht for travellers cheques than cash, although you will pay in the UK for the travellers cheques.

The exchange rate quoted is what you get in your hand.

I dont pay for travlers cheques when ordered from my HSBC branch , travlers cheques is a much safer why to go than carrying large amount of cash in Thailand .

JB

I used Thai airline for 5 years for all my Bkk - London trips i had to go Eva for one of the trips and will not be going back to Thai airlines unless i cant get a seat on Eva . Imho Eva is a much better plane its same price as Thai so that does it for me .

JB

MF

can you post what tractor i would need to use for grass cutting . We have 40 rai of lawns i would have liked a sit on mower but have been told a small/med tractor will do the job .

The tractors i see in our area are kubota 5000 what spec and cost are these ? i have tried google the model but can not find it .

Thanx in advance jb

40 rai of lawns???? Even 4 rai would take half a day on a sit on mower. 40 rai would take you several days...

Also you said you were clearing 300 rai by hand??? How big is your Thai family? It would take a small army!

Manjara

You are a little confused i dont have 300 rai to clear there seems to be more than 1 JB on the forum lol .

Mine.........

Property 1 in UK is 4 Acres 10 rai of lawns cutting lawns on kubota sit on mower takes 3 hours to get a real nice job done i own this land thats kept in beautiful condition so i realy dont know where you get your numbers from . Property 2 has 7.5 acres 5 acres of lawns 2 acre lake we have ONE guy comes in ONCE a week sits on the mower for most of the day but does other gardening dutys also takes an hour for lunch and the lawns are left beautiful .

Thailand we have approx 40 rai of lawns just been laid and 20 rai of water we have 4 fulltime gardening staff planting at the moment i rekon if we put one guy on one of the sit on mowers same pic i posted twice a week we will keep the lawns cut same as in the uk .

I will keep you informed .

Your numbers are way out .

JB

I will be looking for something along these lines we dont have much use for a tractor but will need to do plenty of grass cutting .

JB

Be interesting to know if anybody knows of any dealers around Surin. Im definately in the mood for larking about on a quad bike.

Don't know about Surin, however, there are two second hand ones , been for sale ages in Buriram. They are standing outside a shop on the LHS on the road off the dual carriageway heading towards the bus station. My friend enquired a while back, can't remember 100%, but I think she asked 40-45k baht apiece for them, Kawasakis I think? Got to take less, they must have been there well over a year.

Could be interested in one of those. But are they the small sports models or the larger tractors models. The smaller models are not really suitable for my centre of gravity (I'm 1.92 m). Pictures would be good if you could get some.

Cheers

Y

The two quads that Fruity has posted about are two 250 cc kawasakis .

JB

Thanx for the info MF you have given me lots to think about .

Jb

MF

can you post what tractor i would need to use for grass cutting . We have 40 rai of lawns i would have liked a sit on mower but have been told a small/med tractor will do the job .

The tractors i see in our area are kubota 5000 what spec and cost are these ? i have tried google the model but can not find it .

Thanx in advance jb

JUST RETURNED FROM 4 WEEKS IN ISAAN NEAR MUKDAHAN.SPENT SOME TIME VISITING MOTOR BIKE SUPPLIERS BUT NO ONE HAD ANY IDEA WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THESE HERE IN NEW ZEALAND AND ARE GREAT FOR SHIFTING SMALLER ITEMS AROUND A FARM AND MORE STABLE THAT A 2 WHEELER.

I KNOW THEY ARE AVAILABLE IN PATTAYA.ANY ISAAN SUPPLIER INFORMARTION DETAILS WOULD BE A HELP

BAD ABOUT THE RAIN AND FLOODS,THANKFULLY WE ARE O.K.

Lots of these for sale on www.pantip.com 90cc to 150 cc cost anything from 29k to 72k i was looking at them yesterday .

Jb

Fruity

Thank yo so much for setting up the girls with the frogs for the frog farm that they have started .

Wife tells me its a nice setup that the girls had built concrete tanks it did not cost much to setup . They have already had many visits from nosey locals that came to have a look . Thanx for all the help you gave them and the advice that you gave them re feeding -breeding frogs .

Will keep you in touch with how they get on and send you a few photos when i get back to Thailand i am still in uk at the moment .

Thank you again .

Best regards JB

Please, no more book promises!!

Is that rice growing in the pics? 6rai? I really think you should post the pics in the farming forum, giving location, elec and water availability, exact nature of land, flat,hillside, whats growing ect.

They will give you a rough estimate of the land value and perhaps the house too,

I would think 2mill for the house plus the land,

And if she says its worthless, tell her to get out quick before it falls down on her,or you need a home for your kids.

I know im not much help and i wish you all the best, Lickey..

OP .

How much does the house stand you in ? have you kept bills for all the materials and cost of the builders .

The valuation can be linked to this and lets not forget everything in this past year has gone up .

JB

Everything's under control in the UK, but if I can get a valuation of the property in Thailand, its value would reduce what she can screw from me here in the UK, and the better the chance of me not having to sell my house and uproot the kids.

What I need then is a valuation of her house and land, one which will stand up in court. At the moment she has filed a cock and bull story with the Court claiming it has no value!

Anyone know an estate agent or property valuer in that area of Thailand (preferably sympathetic to may cause if possible).

Does anyone know of any similar properties for sell in Roiet/Isaan area? If so can you send me details/ links etc. Examples of similar properties would be accepted by the Court for ball park estimates. With the huge 6 Rai of land I'm hoping/expecting £40k-£50k, but I doubt many properties of that nature come on the market very often.

Bergen suggested Isaan Lawyers, but I reckon they will just refer it to a property agent. I will try them anyway if I can't find any one else.

First 10 years were great, then unfortunately her morals reverted to traditional Thai values. However long you've known them, or if you think you know them well, there will always be the risk of them reverting to trait. I knew my wife for 4 years before marrying, If it can happen to me, it can happen to you!

www.bahtsold.com click adds KK .

Have few houses for sale isaan 3.5 to 6 million baht .

JB