amateur Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 ............. and mine for gold. It is a long shot, but you could be sitting on millions Surely fracking for gas would be more current Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksaplenty Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Rent it to horsey people for a year and after dealing with their neurotic whinges and the ragwort and... you'll be glad to let his sheep back on - just to get it back into shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 A horse wouldn't graze an acre for long before its nothing but a patch of mud and docks, especially in winter. As for Christmas trees, I wouldn't reccomend it unless you are good at spraying weeds, aphids, mites, keeping them in the right shape (shearing) and irigation, we do it at work on a commercial scale and its near enough a full time job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Surely fracking for gas would be more current What about oil? The Ewings seemed to do OK out of it on Dallas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Get some pigs on part, a chicken enclosure on another, some sheep on a bit and do a bit of veg growing, plant some fruit trees, raspberry canes and your larder/freezer need never be empty tell your errent tenant to make like a sheperd and flock off 2 acres = Im so jealous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 What about an underground Cannabis farm? Whenever the Fuzz bust one of those places they talk about "street value" in millions. http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/News/East-Herts-villages/Police-unearth-underground-cannabis-factory-near-railway-line-in-Spellbrook-20130705064621.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 What about an underground Cannabis farm? Whenever the Fuzz bust one of those places they talk about "street value" in millions. http://www.hertsandessexobserver.co.uk/News/East-Herts-villages/Police-unearth-underground-cannabis-factory-near-railway-line-in-Spellbrook-20130705064621.htm Yer but you only get whole sale ... probally only a coupled hundred thousand a year lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Formalise the arrangement with the existing guy in the form of a tenency agreement or get rid of him and get another tenent n a short term lease. DON'T PUT HORSES ON IT. There is no quicker way to ruin good grassland. Sheep and/or heiffers/steers. You might make a few bob from an early cut of hay before you put summer livestock on it. My brother does that with a couple of paddocks he's got. He's got his own machinery though. Its not worth paying someone else to mow and bale two acres. Whoever takes the grazing might want a cut of hay off it first though, as part of the deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeds chimp Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Formalise the arrangement with the existing guy in the form of a tenency agreement or get rid of him and get another tenent n a short term lease. DON'T PUT HORSES ON IT. There is no quicker way to ruin good grassland. Sheep and/or heiffers/steers. You might make a few bob from an early cut of hay before you put summer livestock on it. My brother does that with a couple of paddocks he's got. He's got his own machinery though. Its not worth paying someone else to mow and bale two acres. Whoever takes the grazing might want a cut of hay off it first though, as part of the deal. Really? We have 4 acres that has had upto 5 horses on at a time and it still dont get muddy or torn up?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 we have just over 10 acres, a few years back my father decided to let the land to a local girl with 3 horses. firstly, we got nowhere near £100 per horse per month, secondly, while the horses didn't exactly churn the ground up, they did manage to wreck nearly 100m of post and rail fence, and the piles of doo left in the hedges to the back of the field where the lazy **** couldn't be bothered to barrow the stuff and bag it were astronomical. never again will it happen, they should be ground up for pet food along with their horses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 What sort of soil are you on? Is it free draining? Is it south facing? Etc etc Work out what you can do with it then decide. I would scope out the possibilities of establishing a few rows of asparagus. If they do well and you market them well you can plant more and so on and so forth. You could have a small orchard as well and maybe a few hives and pigs. Dude, you are blessed. Kick that plum bag and his sheep off and embrace what i'm sure many on here would give a testostricle for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Really? We have 4 acres that has had upto 5 horses on at a time and it still dont get muddy or torn up?? Its not a question of churning up. They compact the soil - if it is soil and not stones or sand - reduce drainage and turn it into a plough pan. Plants with shallow filament roots struggle and deeper fleshy or tap-rooted plants take over. You end up with impoverished grass in a sea of nettles, thistles and docks and a soil structure which often can't be salvaged for reseeding without cultivating or sub-soiling. If its cr-p ground anyway, no great loss; but if its established grazing with mixed crass and wild flowers it'll get destroyed. Plus of course, if the nag paddocks round here are anything to go by, it'll look like a gyppo camp in no time: junk, plastic electric fencing, old lorries trailers, cobbled-together hay shelters, discarded tools and buckets everywhere and an ever growing **** heap in the corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Buy a thousand guinea pigs and charge parents to show their kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Dump a load of sand and shells on it and start a nudist beach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLuke Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 Build a block of flats on it. Job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlosdesilva Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 sounds like a nice place for a traveller settlement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misser Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 dig a big flight pond!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 2 Acres will support 10 sheep or 2 horses. Here, grazing is around £65-£75 per acre/year. My advice, if you want to look after your land, is to stick with sheep. Use a formal grazing license and charge the going rate, rather than expecting someone to do £150 worth of jobs. Why not speak to your current tenant and see if he's interested, better the devil you know ! If you have horses you will have all the hassle that comes with them, poor grazers, poached fields, post and rail chewers, dung heaps and of course the people and their cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 If you want plenty of totty around, get some horses - jodhpurtastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 Has it got development potential ?- If so get a couple of houses on it and move, like everyone else does. If in the greenbelt, start a honey business sell the present house, keep the field and claim key worker status after a couple of years and build on it. 2 Acres you must be talking 500k plus ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 get some lambs...great bait for foxes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapid basher Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 If it's around a dairy farm there paying £250 per arca per year (graising land) or go see the local farmer there always looking for land Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 If you want plenty of totty around, get some horses - jodhpurtastic Ah, but usually jail-bait adolescents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasduck Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 The landlord is supposed to do the upkeep of fences and drinkers etc but that's if he's getin payed get some money off him and do the upkeep if there is no money payed for it after so many years he can claim the ground as his own happened to a friend a few years back he lost 32arces Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted September 26, 2013 Report Share Posted September 26, 2013 Ah, but usually jail-bait adolescents Exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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