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Real talk Dunlop purofort (purafort?) are the best wellies I've ever had. I'm on my third pair now, my first lasted 2 years of 50+ hours a week, 54 weeks a year hard wear, my second that I just replaced only did 15 months but they only died because apparently I kicked something sharp and it put a needle hole in the toe of the right boot. Doesn't really leak but over hours you end up with a damp foot.
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I have the cheaper of the insulated ones, yeah. They usually seem to cost £40 to £50. I don’t do f but I’ve worn them in reasonable comfort in -25 or so c with just double socks. I’ve also worn them in +35 and I wouldn’t call them comfortable at that but they are certainly no worse than any other safety boot would be, the insoles they come with are very good, although I tend to wear through them on the heel after 6 months or so, but I do 10x15km a day in them so I can’t really complain about that.
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Jul 18, 2020 12:18
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Sprue posted:Well you just about sold me on them. What are you doing that involves walking 15km every day? That's crazy, you must be doing survey work or something, or maybe post? Just walking round in circles on a 400ha farm 
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Jul 19, 2020 12:30
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Getting square bails in sucks dick but once they are in they are much better for small herds and or horses. We use round bales here because there’s no practical way to round up enough labour to get in whatever the square equivalent of 300 2m bales is, but god drat does it suck rear end the rest of the year pulling them apart again to stuff into hay nets for the horses. I also really hate bale wrap, the amount of single use plastic that generates is just depressing, especially when it rains and we have to do haylage. We made 120 bales of haylage this year and I hate it  Really looking forward to having a herd of cattle large enough it makes sense to build a silage clamp and be done with this poo poo. I saw a few years back a few dudes at university college London I think it was came up with a supposedly biodegradable bale wrap and won a grant to start production but it never seems to have manifested very sadly.
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Jul 21, 2020 17:47
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In my experience Jerseys on small farms will adopt absolutely anything from as many calf’s as she can count to a foal to probably a puppy if you let her. P.S. ask me about cross suckling issues
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Aug 30, 2020 14:15
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French Canadian posted:Thanks. Re: the water, I meant more than farming causes the water to get hosed up. I'm not so worried about using said water and we'd probably not farm in our current state of Wisconsin (as we'll be moving soon). But I'm just curious about how to avoid doing similar damage myself, to the water table, etc. Regenerative agriculture is most definitely a thing. I'm in Europe so I can't directly tell you who to look at in the US if you are interested but I know there are people doing impressive things. The work of Alan Savory was what got me interested in the approach. After experimenting myself I don't necessarily agree with everything they say but it's a good point to start. So yes there absolutely is a viable alternative to hi input hi output "modern" agriculture. https://savory.global/
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Put my girls into summer pastures today. We've had a poo poo spring though so they still need a little extra.
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