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  1. Thanks for all of the replies, lots of info they. I agree, Wat Sado not cheap, that was basically my starting point. A 2hp brushless DC motor/pump, a good idea, where to buy one, preferably one that does not have made in China stamped on it.
  2. Hi All. The project, we have a large pond on our property, we use it mainly for watering the garden, and we rear some fish, vie an electric pump this time of year with usage and evaporation the level drops quickly. At the back of land is a small river distance about 220 meters, the idea is to use a sola pump to pump the water from the river to our pond. By using a trailer mounted unit, similar to the photo, but a lot smaller, say going out in the morning and coming home in the evening. I aim to use a 2HP pump, with a 2-inch outlet, looking at Google it will need 1600 Wats to power the pump, our local Thai Wat Sado has all the stuff they have 400-Watt panels, inverters, and pumps. The questions are, using a DC pump, you should not need an inverter?? Wat Sado has one a 2HP DC pump 13 000 baht, as far as I can see you should not need a battery, but the guy in Wat Sado said you do, do you? As I said our pump we use in the garden, I brought 10years ago ,it is a Mr. Eco ,Italian made pump ,one of the best you can get ,we had it 18 months brought it out at the new year ,would not start ,took it to our local electric motor guy ,who had to rewind the motor, I said it is an Italian pump, he said no, a Chines copy ,it had aluminum windings ,not copper ,he rewound it with copper ,now no problems. The 2HP DC pump I was looking at was made in China, thinking will it last?13k for a 2HP DC pump, so I thought buy a good quality AC pump and use an inverter? Google said you need 1600 Watt to power the pump, but I have read on start up an electric motor needs more power, just to turn the motor over, once it is going then it will use its 1600 Watt's, if so. would you need say an extra panel, for start-up. Thanks.
  3. Written by AI ,call it being picky, but a sack of rice in one of these warehouses weighs 90 kg not 50 kg, again I am having my doubts about AI.
  4. Tell the tourists to go to the shops down a Soi 2-300 yards from their hotel they can buy alcohol at any time.
  5. For a lot of people selling lottory tickets is a nice easy job, sitting in front of a bank all day, or whatever looking at their phone most of the time, time they got a proper job. It will be the blind and handicaped sellers, a lot who cannot do anything else, will suffer, they should be made a special case and allowed to carry on selling they tickets, a lot of people will still by a paper ticket as they do not have a phone or do not know how the system works.
  6. Gymnopetalum integrifolim (Roxb.) Kurz. I think it is this tree, they one near me, next to the road. which is now red with the fruit?
  7. If you what a weed killer that will kill weeds and not grass look at MCPA or MCPB . If I remember, available on Lazada.
  8. The transport co. the company that runs most Thai buses, have a call center 1490, they should be able to tell you about bus routes. Like the op I have done that journey on the old orange crush buses, now it will all first and second-class air con buses. It would not surprise me if they were not a minibus service now.
  9. What is a cow egg? the distinctive taste is the poor quality of the Thai milk, very little BF, butterfat, the cream on the milk, or anything else. The problem is the diet, especially the forage which is mainly rice straw which is very poor quality and the concentrate is also poor quality, which will give you a poor-quality milk with no flavor, not old, reconstituted stuff being mixed. Farmers get paid a basic price for they milk, then extra for BF containt and protein containt ,Thailand did not have a standard, so they used the American standard, but very few farmers reached that standard due to the above, so now they have they own standard lower than the American one, it works farmers do get paid above the basic price. I am afraid it will not change been like it for 30 years plus now, famers will still feed rice straw, that is all brought in .as most farmers do not have the land to grow any grass, unlike our dairy farmers in the west. They is a lot of dairy farms around the Packchon area some are some of the best farms in Thailand along with and nearby Mortlec and that is where Thai dairy farming started, must be 60 years sago now, with the Thai- Denmark partnership.
  10. Do what, where is the link to that comment, how much of the Amazon rain forest has been cut down over the past 30 years, and other tropical forests, just down the road from us Indonesai. Desert encroachment has become a problem over the past 30 years, not even thinking about building on green fields.
  11. The Ford 5610 was manufactured between 1988-91, about the same time as our main work horse the Ford 6610. Finding someone to the job should not be too difficult ask your local tractor dealer about servicing Ford tractors. I would have thought the 5610 and the 6610, would share some parts, my local spare parts place Carrey's most spare parts for Ford, and might find a lot are made here in Thailand.
  12. You can get a young buffalo for less than 20 000 baht. Next question what are you going to do with 10 rie, you would only need 2 rie for your kwie and donkey. No law about farang owning stock, unless some on here is going to say you will need a work permit as this could be classed as work ,I look at it this way they are many members on here that have cattle pigs etc. without any problem us included.
  13. We had our land measured with new markers put in, and one side they were a lot of trees, on the boundary, but they were on our Neighbour's land with a lot overhanging on to our land, these trees were not touched. I cannot see what difference it makes the trees should not hinder the job at all ,they just used a theodolite and a tape measure ,they only used my hammer just to put in some pegs to mark the boundary before putting in their boundary posts , if they is a tree in the way you would have thought, being practical ,just move the marker posts a foot ,especially if it is on a straight run ,if it was say in a in a corner ,then a tree might have to come out When they did our land, they did the length of the land and a cross measurement. You would have thought s they do this job all the time they should have they own shovels., and for digging holes a spade would be best, not a shovel.
  14. While regular cattle could fetch between 25,000 and 50,000 baht from the market, premium breeds can command prices up to 200,000 baht each Drawing information from a pilot project in Sukhothai province, he highlighted that participants starting with 50,000 baht to purchase two breeding cows have, over four years, increased their herd to ten. Assuming a value of 25,000 baht per cow, ten cows would equate to a total value of 250,000 baht. If extended to one million families, the total value could reach 250 billion baht. This guy is a typical Thai politician who had no idea about farming these prices are why out of date, and the only 200k cattle you will see will some breeding bull with its pedigree coming probably from the USA . ,and his 50k cattle will be your pedigree breeding females cattle, not your run of the mill Brahman you see, one of those would be about top book 20k Now the market has dropped, along with the dairy cow market, to do with feed prices just to high. And his facts are wrong, a cow is in calf for 9 months, how can two breeding cows produce 6 calves in four years, even if in the first year they had heifer calves, and they calved, which they will not, and the value of 250k,, with the calves being 50% bulls and heifers, the heifer are worth more than the bulls, and they have not yet grown. They had a scheme 5-6 years ago similar to this that was a failure never got going, like this one will not.
  15. He also said that customers for cane leaves should be encouraged to buy more, to help reduce cane burning. From the op . These are bales of sugar cane leaves, from my area, this is the 3ed year they have been doing this, these bales are known as high density bales each one weighs 3-400 kg. The buyer is our local sugar mill they use the bales as fuel to boil the molasses, they are paying about 600 baht/ton, so far this year they are buying a lot more than before, must be more geared up to use them have heard of straw being baled in Khon Khen province. Baling the cane straw is ok but the baler is a secondhand imported, costing upwards of 600 000 baht, then you need a tractor to pull it normally rated at 120hp plus, which here in Thailand is a top of the range /price tag tractor, and a rake, mounted on a tractor to put the straw into rows is needed, budget 1 million baht, two million with tractor. I would say the future is not all bleak, some growers are trying, in that big heap of bales is a good few hundred ton, have seen truck and trailer being loaded up, and you cannot see were they have been.
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