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A new helper






I have been made redundant from hay bales moving. This years bales made with our farmer friends baler are just that bit too huge to move by hand. Farmer J's tractor hasn't got forks at the front, forks were needed but none are for sale for an old International tractor. He has searched many a web site and asked around, the attachment needed for attaching the forks could be found but with a price tag of 8,000 Euros for new forks a rethink was in order.

In comes Valmet, Val for short she was the same price as a new set of forks, of course she is going on in years made in 1995 (like me farmer J would say) but in good working order (again like me) and a good investment (of course the same as me!). Picked up yesterday afternoon, farmer J had a cold journey back while I was relatively warm in the land Rover, which by the time you get home is starting to warm up.

 She will be of much use around the farm (yes like me) moving huge bales of hay, cereal bags and mounds of manure from the cows when they use the hanger in winter time as well as cleaning out the two barns which are at the moment home for the chickens and in need of a good scraping out of poo ready for the veggie gardens as well as many other jobs that need to be done. Gosh what will I do with my redundant time.

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