the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

Plastics by Post have been around for ages, elantan.

What you've spotted is a glitch in their system of pricing. They state:
As we offer discounted prices on larger quantities or longer lengths, many of our products show an item price of £0.00 The drop down options can then be accessed & will then show the correct price for the pack size required.
As you've noticed, in the 2.1m size they've forgotten to give a price for 10m. All the other options on the drop-downs for other sizes have a price.

Perhaps if you ring or email to point this out they will give you a discount, but no way are they going to be sending you free Mypex!

Actually, I use the less well-known Phormisol, which comes in two grades, but I say 'Mypex' because more people know what that is. It is very handy, lasts at least 6 years, and I have a 400m2 roll sitting here now in a dark shed, just in case I start losing the battle with my weeds (and 'cos the price keeps going up!:()

stitching_witch

Okay, photos of wheel mechanism. On the original photo you can just see a grey handle running along the bottom of the cage - there is one each side as the wheels are raised and lowered independantly. They lie out of the way when the wheels are up. Lifting the handles lowers the wheels and the handles are locked in the vertical position by hooks.

I hope I've explained that properly, I'm no engineer!

The pictures show the inner bits of the mechanism.

Wheels raised, cage is static:



Wheels lowered, cage is mobile:



Phew, hope you all understood that.:D

Lotus-eater

Thanks, yes I get it very well, ingenious idea.

Thankyou for the photos.

rhiwfield

Great idea, pity my new coop's already ordered and paid for .

Was going to make my own (done it before) but decided to go for this one instead. Should last me out, low maintenance and dead easy to clean, very few crevices for red mite and has a detachable wheel set and run. Its a new design though, so taking a bit of a chance and its pricey.





Went to a chicken breeder yesterday to have a nosey. Not impressed! Looked like the coops and runs hadnt been cleaned for years and the stench was horrible. Wont be buying from him.

Another local breeder wont allow personal visits so we'll give him a miss as well.

Going to see another one today that looks promising, otherwise its a trek to a mountain somewhere in Wales to see some free range reared chicks

elantan

Davesnave wrote: »

Plastics by Post have been around for ages, elantan.

What you've spotted is a glitch in their system of pricing. They state:
As we offer discounted prices on larger quantities or longer lengths, many of our products show an item price of £0.00 The drop down options can then be accessed & will then show the correct price for the pack size required.
As you've noticed, in the 2.1m size they've forgotten to give a price for 10m. All the other options on the drop-downs for other sizes have a price.

Perhaps if you ring or email to point this out they will give you a discount, but no way are they going to be sending you free Mypex!

Actually, I use the less well-known Phormisol, which comes in two grades, but I say 'Mypex' because more people know what that is. It is very handy, lasts at least 6 years, and I have a 400m2 roll sitting here now in a dark shed, just in case I start losing the battle with my weeds (and 'cos the price keeps going up!:()

thanks ... i did notice when i went to the pull down bit the price appeared but thought for oh a brief second that maybe they were giving away freebies lol ... will add it to my ever growing list of things to buy

Lotus-eater

rhiwfield wrote: »

Great idea, pity my new coop's already ordered and paid for .

Was going to make my own (done it before) but decided to go for this one instead. Should last me out, low maintenance and dead easy to clean, very few crevices for red mite and has a detachable wheel set and run. Its a new design though, so taking a bit of a chance and its pricey.
Went to a chicken breeder yesterday to have a nosey. Not impressed! Looked like the coops and runs hadnt been cleaned for years and the stench was horrible. Wont be buying from him.

I've never seen that coop before. I've never seen a plastic coop in the flesh as such, but I do have my doubts about them, mainly because of temps, both high and low. Also it's ability to keep out predators.
The red mite problem has been solved btw for wooden coop owners, I struggled and tried everything, then with the help of people on the vine forum, it has been found that creosote replacement painted all over the coop, sorts it out. I mean it absolutely stops it dead.

Good luck with finding a decent breeder, I presume you know what you are looking at, but don't forget that with that many chickens together, it will smell anyway, sounds like it was bad though,

Davesnave

Stangely enough, I was at the home of Green Frog Designs yesterday! In fact I sat on one of those garden chairs in the background of your picture and studied all their stuff.



I'd taken DW to a poultry-keepng course there, which was a secret birthday present. We set off at 7am and she had no idea where she was going or what she'd be doing!

Having had a good look at the courses available, theirs seemed to fit the bill, perfectly.

Anyway, the plastic eco house or whatever they call it, is substantial, UV stabilized and they reckon good to last 20 years minimum. However, they've a range of designs on-site and don't just plug their own. In fact, they have an adapted B&Q shed in one of their pens.

DW finished the course by cleaning & dressing a cockerel, which we shall have for tonight's dinner.:) Now that's what I call a useful educational outcome!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Rhiwfield i have pm'd you

Davesnave you are an old romantic.....:rotfl: but very practical:D


Hubby and i have decided that the chickens and ducks ahve got to start paying something towards their keep, its pointless selling the eggs as eating eggs, maybe the duck eggs we could sell,

so we are getting another bigger incubator and going to sell the chicks and ducklings. If i could get another lavender splash cochin hen, then i could sell some of the eggs on ebay but as i only have one hen, by the time i get 6 eggs the fertility of hte eggs will go down....

today we are having a blitz on one of our outhouses..... so we can make it into a little chick nursary:rotfl:

I think WHEN/IF we get our smallholding apart from growing veg etc.. it will be the chickens that will be our main livestock hobby....with the odd sheep and 2 pigs ooopppps sorry i allready have them...... my kids:eek:

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Davesnave you are an old romantic.....:rotfl: but very practical:D

Oh, that wasn't all DW had for her birthday.

She got a 'nice' wheelbarrow too!

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/products/haemmerlin-polypropylene-pink-wheelbarrow-90l

You should have seen the looks I got in the yard when I picked that up!:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Davesnave wrote: »

Oh, that wasn't all DW had for her birthday.

She got a 'nice' wheelbarrow too!

http://www.molevalleyfarmers.com/mvf/store/products/haemmerlin-polypropylene-pink-wheelbarrow-90l

You should have seen the looks I got in the yard when I picked that up!:rotfl:

ooo now i like that a pink wheelbarrow........ very chic......:j

hubby bought me a pink horsepipe attachment thing.. for doing diff sprays for christmas last year..... and thats pink:D

when your DW dressed the chicken.... did they show how to ' dispatch' them too, or was that allready done?