In reply to Post #15
What do you pay for hemp, and how much does it cost you to boil it?
What do you pay for hemp, and how much does it cost you to boil it?
In reply to Post #16
I dont buy hemp and it costs pence to boil my particles,I have had my gas bottle for about 2 years
I dont buy hemp and it costs pence to boil my particles,I have had my gas bottle for about 2 years
In reply to Post #7
They are talking absolute rubbish Braders.
They are talking absolute rubbish Braders.
In reply to Post #8
No I have not, thank you very much, I'll try them. Any good? Sidcup is not far from me. So much better to pick it up.
No I have not, thank you very much, I'll try them. Any good? Sidcup is not far from me. So much better to pick it up.
In reply to Post #8
Hitman I actually asked you something to an old post in the battery thread/boat section last week. When you get a chance could you have a nose mate. I think you might be able to help me regarding lithium batteries. Ignore the link I put up, Amazon sold out of the 50Ah version now... But I've got my eye on a different one.
Hitman I actually asked you something to an old post in the battery thread/boat section last week. When you get a chance could you have a nose mate. I think you might be able to help me regarding lithium batteries. Ignore the link I put up, Amazon sold out of the 50Ah version now... But I've got my eye on a different one.
In reply to Post #18
Well it seems like got someone on here who agrees with him too.Oh well I will stick to preparing my own and save money and know my particles are not going to float
Well it seems like got someone on here who agrees with him too.Oh well I will stick to preparing my own and save money and know my particles are not going to float
In reply to Post #21
This thread has just reminded me to go and get some in to soak ready for my next session
This thread has just reminded me to go and get some in to soak ready for my next session
In reply to Post #22
I won't need particle next week,im rock fishing in Devon,I can't wait
I won't need particle next week,im rock fishing in Devon,I can't wait
In reply to Post #14
It's obvious to me mate, quite clearly you are just a tight noddy and in denial
What a load of rubbish they're talking, if I had some dry maples I'd prove it, but I guess they'd still deny it.
Of the cuff I'd say all particles swell to at least double their size/weight, some like Maples even more.
Copdock Mill 25kg Maples £17.99 Double their weight so 50kg wet ish, that's 36p/kg prepped plus a little for gas/electricity.
Well known particle site, 10kg Maples prepped £17.99, P&P £7.49, Total £25.48
10kg cost home made £3.60 plus say 36p for electricity (3kw/hr @12p/kwhr) call it £4
My figures can be way out and it still wouldn't be close. I do buy in when I can't be arsed, doesn't mean I'm under the illusion it's about the same cost as making my own, each to their own.
It's obvious to me mate, quite clearly you are just a tight noddy and in denial
What a load of rubbish they're talking, if I had some dry maples I'd prove it, but I guess they'd still deny it.
Of the cuff I'd say all particles swell to at least double their size/weight, some like Maples even more.
Copdock Mill 25kg Maples £17.99 Double their weight so 50kg wet ish, that's 36p/kg prepped plus a little for gas/electricity.
Well known particle site, 10kg Maples prepped £17.99, P&P £7.49, Total £25.48
10kg cost home made £3.60 plus say 36p for electricity (3kw/hr @12p/kwhr) call it £4
My figures can be way out and it still wouldn't be close. I do buy in when I can't be arsed, doesn't mean I'm under the illusion it's about the same cost as making my own, each to their own.
In reply to Post #1
I get my hemp from Baden Feed and Supply, ON , Canada, via a local NC distributor.
It works fine, agree with you, Mark.
Maples and Pigeon Feed too😎
I get my hemp from Baden Feed and Supply, ON , Canada, via a local NC distributor.
It works fine, agree with you, Mark.
Maples and Pigeon Feed too😎
In reply to Post #21
I bought a plastic tub of prepared Dynamite particles when I ran out of my home prepared pigeon conditioner mid session. The tub I got was horrible, a thick lump of fat congealed with particles in, in the middle of the tub. I had to break it down by hand and pour boiling water over it to be able to use them. This was in summer time, so the oil from the particles should not have solidified.
It is far better to prepare pigeon conditioner and hemp at home than turn up and be forced to use what could well be absolute rubbish.
At least with my own particles, be it hemp, pigeon conditioner or maize, I know they are fresh, and properly prepared.
I have noticed the price of hemp has rocketed over the past few years. I think last sack I paid £38 for, and that was Mega Hemp, a whole £1 more than standard hemp. The quality has gone down as well; more dust and twigs in the sack now than 5 years ago.
I bought a plastic tub of prepared Dynamite particles when I ran out of my home prepared pigeon conditioner mid session. The tub I got was horrible, a thick lump of fat congealed with particles in, in the middle of the tub. I had to break it down by hand and pour boiling water over it to be able to use them. This was in summer time, so the oil from the particles should not have solidified.
It is far better to prepare pigeon conditioner and hemp at home than turn up and be forced to use what could well be absolute rubbish.
At least with my own particles, be it hemp, pigeon conditioner or maize, I know they are fresh, and properly prepared.
I have noticed the price of hemp has rocketed over the past few years. I think last sack I paid £38 for, and that was Mega Hemp, a whole £1 more than standard hemp. The quality has gone down as well; more dust and twigs in the sack now than 5 years ago.
In reply to Post #24
Thats me
.I thought I was cracking up when I could not get through to him but then someone on here agreed.I thought maybe I had got it wrong 
Thats me
.I thought I was cracking up when I could not get through to him but then someone on here agreed.I thought maybe I had got it wrong
I had it all sorted with my particles, especially with the likes of maize, maples and hemp about 3 years ago. I had found particle paradise.
The story went briefly, I was trying to track some maples down, and could not find anywhere that sold them local. One day, I walked out of an animal feed, farming style business, when as I got to my car, a man who had been in the warehouse came to me and said he had overheard me asking for maples and said he had a friend who may have some and did I want him to give he a call, I replied "Yes" and he rung him, he then said to me, "How many do you want, he has 20 ton of them", I just said "about 5 kilo's".
To cut the story short, I raced to this person small farm and found that he supplied pigeon food to racing pigeon breeders / racers and he had a warehouse packed with everything you could imagine and made up pigeon feeds to the breeders own personal requirements.
But, it was the price that he was charging, it was way below anywhere else I had seen, it was about a £1 for two kilos of hemp, £3 a sack of maize, £8 a sack of maples. I ended up with a boot full of sacks of various particles.
Sadly though, with no warning, he sold his farm and vanished and I have been unable to track him down to see if he just moved his business, or perhaps he passed away. I cannot even find any body else who runs a similar business.
The story went briefly, I was trying to track some maples down, and could not find anywhere that sold them local. One day, I walked out of an animal feed, farming style business, when as I got to my car, a man who had been in the warehouse came to me and said he had overheard me asking for maples and said he had a friend who may have some and did I want him to give he a call, I replied "Yes" and he rung him, he then said to me, "How many do you want, he has 20 ton of them", I just said "about 5 kilo's".
To cut the story short, I raced to this person small farm and found that he supplied pigeon food to racing pigeon breeders / racers and he had a warehouse packed with everything you could imagine and made up pigeon feeds to the breeders own personal requirements.
But, it was the price that he was charging, it was way below anywhere else I had seen, it was about a £1 for two kilos of hemp, £3 a sack of maize, £8 a sack of maples. I ended up with a boot full of sacks of various particles.
Sadly though, with no warning, he sold his farm and vanished and I have been unable to track him down to see if he just moved his business, or perhaps he passed away. I cannot even find any body else who runs a similar business.
In reply to Post #28
Go back and ask his mate,the one who put you in touch with him in the first place
Go back and ask his mate,the one who put you in touch with him in the first place
In reply to Post #29
>>>>Go back and ask his mate,the one who put you in touch with him in the first place<<<<
I cannot, he was only shopping himself and overhead what I had asked for at the counter and just happened to leave as I was leaving, so I do not have the faintest who it was as it was just an anonymous random meeting.
Even, the land developers who took over the farm to turn it into a caravan park do not know what happened to him and neither no longer does his phone number work on his business card and I cannot even find him doing a google search or even trying to find a small family run pigeon feed supplier other than the well know ones.
>>>>Go back and ask his mate,the one who put you in touch with him in the first place<<<<
I cannot, he was only shopping himself and overhead what I had asked for at the counter and just happened to leave as I was leaving, so I do not have the faintest who it was as it was just an anonymous random meeting.
Even, the land developers who took over the farm to turn it into a caravan park do not know what happened to him and neither no longer does his phone number work on his business card and I cannot even find him doing a google search or even trying to find a small family run pigeon feed supplier other than the well know ones.