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Got my yellow book and ID card card in the last 2 weeks. Haven't been able to use either of them yet but happy to have them.

Who cares what the clinical director for the Cabin thinks? Of course I'm sure he'd advocate for their very expensive treatment program with unproven outcomes. 

Fact of the matter of recovery from addiction is that no - one particular methodology works consistently for all addicts. End of that story. 

Cheers to the monks at Wat Thamkrabok. Working with addicts is difficult. 

How does corn profit compare to cane profit?

Any easier to sell and transport?

How many tons per rai of saleable corn?

Yeah, I've had enough. It was a stupid idea. I can work for 3 months in Canada with no investment and earn more than I earn here all year doing this and I've got a lot tied up in this. Got rid of half the cane land already, and moving on the rest of it. '

Drip tape works fine, but still a big problem for such a large project. Better than the alternative of one guy on a pvc line moving around in the field. We had good success with our boreholes considering that none of them were what most people would call well done bores.

6610 S New Holland

3 years old, but only 800 hours on it.

3 disc

front blade

7 disc

cane planter

sub soil fertilizer applicator

trailer ( have hauled 9 tons of cane in it)

Bought tractor new 1,650,000 baht with front blade and 3 disc.

I want 1,500,000 out of it or close offer

Unit is in Province Nong Bua Lamphu





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I'd be interested in the tractor. It's an old model though and I couldn't offer you near what you are asking. Not terribly interested in the grasscutter, but I could cut the local schoolyard grass with it. I've been looking at the newer version of the small kubotas. Afraid to offer what I'd be willing pay actually. Don't want to come across as insulting.

Who has asked for the land survey and why?

I have paid 50% in the past, but that was because I wanted time to close.

Problem is that the more you pay, the harder it becomes to walk if things go south. You'll have to assess the risk yourself, and/or bargain a better deal, or just pay it to secure it if it is a screaming deal.

"The scheme will be launched in 22 provinces."

"Scheme" is the operative word here. I can see it now. Poor farmers bidding for the land or paying bribes....only to have it go to a relative of the person in charge. You just know it's going to work like this, or just never materialize period.

And even if a farmer gets the land to farm.....he's just going to get hosed by the buyers. It's not a scheme to help the farmer, it's a scheme to help the buyers.

Scheme...scam.....same thing aren't they?

How about a certificate of residency from thai immigration. He has a long term visa.

This situation was foreseeable. What most people are whining about is actually their own lack of foresight.

Where my wife's parents live in Isaan, there is virtually next to no wildlife. Locals hunts frogs, small birds, rats, lizards and snakes for survival. There's nothing left.

I've done that trip in my truck. It's do-able on a motorcycle, in fact, I was thinking at the time that it'd be a great trip on a small bike like that. The brains behind taking a stupid bike like that is that you'd be able to get it fixed anywhere.

Chiang Mai to Chiang Kong. Chiang Kong (Huay Xai) to Luang Prabung. Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng. Then on to Vientiene. Cross into Thailand there and ride back to Chiang Mai taking the route along the river to Sri Chiang Mai and then on through Loei, Uttaradit, Lampang to Chiang Mai.

You'll need paperwork to get your bike across the border and you'll get that from Thai Transport or Motor Vehicle office. In thai it is "Khon Song" (both long "o"s). It's where you'd go to get a drivers licence. You need a vehicle passport.

It'd be great trip with like minded folk, and a pack of tools and emergency parts. You can get by in Laos very easily with good Thai especially if you know some of the small differences (but big ones) between Thai and Laos languages. If you cannot speak Thai, I'd bring someone who could.

If you just want another multiple entry non-o visa you can get one in Savannakhet Laos with no financial proof.

If you want to do a one extension of stay so that you don't need to leave the country every 90 days you can get a single entry non-o at any nearby embassy or consulate and apply for it during the last 30 days of your 90 day entry.

You will have no problem leaving, getting your visa and then entering with an overstay stamp in your passport.

If, in the following year you will be travelling in and out of Thailand, you'd still need to multiple entry wouldn't you? Even if you extended it for one year. Extending a single entry just gets you the stay, not "inand out" privileges. Am I correct?

A loan is not going to help anyone. It'll keep them in the game a little longer so that you can rape them some more.

What would actually help would be laws and programs designed to keep more of the money in the farmers pockets. There must be a minimum farmgate price that is much higher than it is now. There is profit in rice, rubber and cane, just not for the farmers themselves. Look to the wholesale buyers for the pigs at the trough.

Move. Things starting to go strange in Thailand usually don't stop going that direction. Renters have little rights and legal fights can often go bad, with Thais losing face and needing to save face.

Move.

Second criteria...."can I endure not selling it?"

There seems to be a glut of property for sale. Like someone else said, easy to buy, hard to sell.

I've bought a few pieces and could sell them all at a very good profit, but I bought on my terms and bought well. First criteria is always "resale-ability".

Thais love this wood. If the person if offering 10k, you can bet the value it 2 or 3 times that. I'd go with Jotham's suggestion at half of the wood.

Personally I'd want it all if it were mine.

One day all the "war on drugs" supporting folks will be dead and then the next generation can get going with an approach that is a little more realistic and also less profitable for the criminals.

Ok. Thank you for clarifying that for me.

Also being recognised as the father is what wifey tells me that someone\ at the amphur told her. Not sure how accurate that is. What she said in Thai to me was that I have the right of being the father of the child as my name is on the birth certificate.

Not sure. I've read that fathers typically need to go to the amphur to do "something" in terms of paperwork to "legitimize" the child. Doesn't make sense to me either. Perhaps, I've misunderstood or it's only in cases where the parents were not married before the birth of the child or in cases where custody and/or guardianship needs to be determined. I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me.