No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

It has been s realtively wet May and April was dry. I would suspect worms. Calves are at grass since late March on a lot of cases. They have no immunity. Get a dung sample checked but I be dosing them.

Have a brand new backpack one in the van here. Still in the boxes. One thing straight off, the battery pack seems very heavy. It’s a sthil, i must get it out and charged and see what it’s like.

Do let us know how you get on, I'd say that cost a few euros. I have a chainsaw, hedge trimmer and strimmer from their compact garden range, I'm very impressed with the chainsaw and hedge trimmer they are very handy for fencing around the farm but the strimmer stays in the garden as its only fit for keeping a maintained garden.

It's probably all the battery, I've 2 batteries in my set of different capacities and there is a noticeable difference in the weight of the tool using the higher AH battery.

The particular strimmer in that link looks like their garden range so probably not comparable to a petrol strimmer, but I'd bet far superior to any Aldi Lidl or even Black and Decker versions. If I were buying a battery strimmer today I'd make sure it has the same type changeable head as a petrol strimmer so as not to be stuck buying (or rewinding) their fiddly strimmer line cassettes.

It shows how messed-up a country can get when effectively controlled by corporate interests.

Imagine falling for this nonsense. So conversely the pro killing babies in the womb crowd are fine with school shootings. Both are equally abhorrent, only one side is celebrating death here.

Biden's been in politics for half a century. Dems control the three branches of government currently. Crocodile tears is all you get from them. More interested in using a tragedy to smear the opposition with elections coming up in November

Making it just about access to guns is completely missing the bigger problems anyway. Americans always had loads of guns, why did they only start shooting schools in the 90s. Any answers other than that pathetic first attempt? Broken families? The celebration of mental illnesses and all the associated medication? Their insane polarizing media? Recent contributor could be the two years of panic and lockdowns?

I had easy access to guns growing up. I'm sure most of us here did too being farmers. Never in a million years did I think about taking one to school with me. Something severely wrong in their society and guns is way down the list.

Access to guns is definitely a component.

Internet access is now probably another factor too. Young males can feel a part of society online. What society that is can be whatever can be dreamt up and your own little bubble society agrees with.

I'm coming back to the Russians with this as a factor probably in this Internet age. They have bots and intellectuals full time on the Internet to spread hatred and turn western people into lunatics when they go outside their front door. You see the bots on Irish Internet with ridiculously Irish names spreading their bile. The same no doubt happens in chatrooms in the US where more than three posters gather.

Then all these shoot em up games where a little has to seep into the brain.

Lots have nothing to do and too much time to think.

Passed TB test today 😎 big relief, testing in 4 places makes it a bigger ordeal than numbers of cattle I have warrants. Had to leave yearling and 2 yo bullocks in for the 3 days as was lucky to get them in at all. Cattle are pets to me normally out the field and will follow from field to field but get behind them and face them for yard and they loose all reason. As for when they see the vet " well holy God " as Miley used say

Apart from the administrative charge, I thought Irish vat was only added to items over €22

Years ago bought vetinery instrument in the US, they sent it with Fed-ex.

Package delivered with bill and a hefty admin charge, so I wrote a cheque to revenue for the vat.

Photocopied cheque and letter and sent it to Fed-ex. They wrote back saying that they would never deliver another parcel to me.

What's wrong with doing it of a Sunday

Only joking lad. Only do the minimum here on a Sunday. But I would still do it myself

You are not helping me here. I'm trying to talk myself out of doin it. I bloody hate topping. I want ye to tell me to get the local lad and pay him X amount

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