It was difficult to find. ( Or may be I did not know the right place to look).

I finally found one (brand new - March 2021) for ₦900K.

5 one hundredth of a second out of a medal.
Painful.

CornOak:
Women's 100m Hurdle

No metal for Tobi Amusan.

4th position.

12.60s - this was my fear yesterday.

Anyways, I wish her all the best going forward.

Is there a map of where this proposed bridge would be ?

Anyone ?

dionpholly:
Can you please provide the link of whr can i as well get the Tractor �,, Thanks

Well, here is a link to the base case for my analysis : Mini Tractor

Attit:
The cheaper way is to approach shipping agents who will add your own package inside a whole large container. They usually charge by cbm (cubic meter). Your mini tractor is not a vehicle since it comes splitted, and it's cheap. If it comes already assemblied, then all import duties of vehicles will be applicable. But since it's in a box and its splitted, the size of the box will be used as long as it is added with other goods in a container. So, the cheaper way is not to try import it by yourself, but add it to goods in a large container via a shipping agent. The agent will clear it, and you just pay him. But if you need any particular paper, make sure you inform your importer ahead.

Look at the pictures below. These are two mini vans in Lagos. The upper kinds come in already assemblied, and all the costs of importation are used. But the second kinds comes in boxes. Importers usually remove all the tyres, cut the roofs to show they arent to br cleared as vehicles, remove all the accessories and pack all in boxes. Then, they arrange them back in Lagos. That's a way to beat the cost. However, try to know the licenses and papers you need, so that in future when you want to sell it, or use it as a collateral, or even drive it from one point to another and you have to ride on a road, you are safe from the hands of those useless police, VIO, roadsafety, etc.

Thank you for the information. This has opened my eyes a bit wider as to additional things I need to consider. It is not an estimate, but it will definitely make my analysis better. Looks like it is time to put a spreadsheet together, find a shipping agent and start laying things out.

Another one....

Any help appreciated.

I am trying to figure out if importing one mini-tractor for my farm would be a worthwhile endeavor.
Can any one in the house help provide an estimate as to what the clearing cost would be for a mini-tractor similar to the one below ?
Thanks in advance.

bump. :-)

Does any one have a map of where this bridge would be located ?

Any help with this appreciated.

I am trying to figure out if importing one mini-tractor for my farm would be a worthwhile endeavor.
Can any one in the house help provide an estimate as to what the clearing cost would be for a mini-tractor similar to the one below ?
Thanks in advance.

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ibukunmazada:


@ ruggie... There are machines available to produce the bricks and company who can handle your building project using interlocking bricks

All I need is to out right buy the machine (well most likely 2 of them) to produce the bricks / blocks for about a 5KM length fence and a few workareas. I have workers and project managers that can handle it.
Do you have a showroom I can come an visit?

Exactly where are these containers located ?

Bump.

In search of machine to produce similat interlocking bricks/blocks.

According to this, there will actually be two of these ports in Ibadan.

Can anyone (who actually knows what is going on) shed some more light on this ?

https://punchng.com/ibadan-to-get-two-dry-ports


I know a railway line passes by Erunmu, so a port there kind of makes sense.
However, I do not remember a railway line going in the direction of Moniya.
Does this mean traffic crossing over to connect these two locations ?

According to this, there will actually be two of these ports in Ibadan.

Can anyone (who actually knows what is going on) shed some more light on this ?

https://punchng.com/ibadan-to-get-two-dry-ports/


I know a railway line passes by Erunmu, so a port there kind of makes sense.
However, I do not remember a railway line going in the direction of Moniya.
Does this mean traffic crossing over to connect these two locations ?

Iamgrey5:
Way to iwo road ?

Which means the guy probably wanted to scam me!

He told me he knew few engineers working on the project.

Not to "Iwo road" (the place I am talking about passes that area). Where I am talking about is about 1 to 3 km from the Erunmu junction ( via Google maps the co-ordinates are 7.451434, 4.035870 or 7.452904, 4.051960 .... unfortunately, I just do not remember which of the the points I saw that sign).

And also, as I said, I am just interested in confirming. The person you spoke to might be correct and that they are truly going to be at the location mentioned. Do not take my word for it. I do not, I might have gotten it wrong , that is why I put the question out there in order to confirm what the real deal is.

The next time I head out to the farm, I will definitely take a closer look at the sign anf maybe even take a picture and post just to be sure.

Iamgrey5:
I think a friend of mine told me Akinyele/Ojo axis. Although I am not sure.

Is there anyone else that can confirm or deny this?

The reason I am interested in this is that on my way to my farm I pass a federal govt sign that says "Ibadan Dry Port" near Erunmu junction on the way to Iwo. The place definitely looks abandoned, so maybe the port is being relocated. But it would be nice if that location is revived, especially since the railroad line passes right beside that location.( And selfishly , since it is near my farm, probably more sales opportunities in the future. )

I already have boreholes at two location.
I am interested in switch to solar water pumps.

Do you do that only ? (solar pump , panels etc. and setup/installation)

EXLOVER:
thanks man, I really appreciate you. bless up.

You're welcome.

EXLOVER:
The app looks cool, have you tried it before or have you receive money through it?

I use it about 2 or 3 times a month.
Your have to go through a registration process (Govt issued id, documented address , and debit card - send the info through the app), but once done, it is good.

Then you just add the Nigerian bank account number you want to send money and how much you want to send. You can even save that information in the app if you think you will be sending to that account many times.

And the main thing I like about it is that, even though it ask for permission to pull contact names from you address book, if you say "No", the app still continues to work. ( I am a tech guy and I see many app that will just break down if you deny certain permission which should not be central to the app)

The rate provided is better than all of the other online ways to send money. (Do not just look at the headline rate, factor in all fees and additional charges).


... and Full disclosure, I am not an employee, nor am I connected to that company in any way. The app just does what it says it will do, and does not confuse thing by giving you a higher rate, but then charging fees, and I like that. (Sometime the app even gives a better rate than exchanging money with the Forex & Northern guys in Sabo - Ibadan.)

EXLOVER:
please i need to know, very important.

Google "Wave Send Money to Africa"

Next Step : Water

My next step was getting a source of water. ( @alakara ... I do understand that ideally working on the layout might be next. However as you can see in this thread, I been working and revising the layout as I go, and as I learn new things.)

One option I have, and one of the main reasons while I decided to use this piece of land for farming, is that the land is located about 250 meters away from the Oshun river at it's closest point. This provided a potential option of actually getting / pumping water from the river to tanks on the farm. (There are others nearby that actually do this already.) However, I decided not to go with this option. My main reason was that since I am not full time on this yet, the pumping equipment would be out there in the river unprotected or I would have to find someone to watch it.

Another option would be the "do nothing option". That is, to just rely on nature. Of course that would mean that planting would be limited to just certain time of the year. The Business Administration side of me ( ... yes I have a Minor in Business Admin, in addition to Computer Science ... ) tells me there is no competitive advantage in that. Now being able to do year-round farming would be an advantage worth striving for.

That led me to the option of a well or borehole. I eventually decide to go with the borehole, as the expectation would be that the borehole would provide a better supply of water, and it would be secure right on the farmland.

Now the hard part... actually getting the borehole dug. After contacting four different borehole drilling businesses, I settled on one of them. (All of the rates they quoted to me were within 10% of each other, so I really could have picked anyone of them.)

Of course, the first thing the borehole people tell you is that a survey needs to be done. Unfortunately, I was unable to be at the farm site the day the Geologist / survey person came to do the survey. So, even though I gave specific instructions to the person I delegated to take the survey person to the site, those instructions were ignored. My instructions were for the location of the hole to be somewhere in the higher quadrant of the piece of land, as there is a gentle slope on the piece of land diagonally across. That any water pumped out would be coming out to higher ground and can easily flow to the low lying areas. Instead the survey marked the hole at one of the lowest points. Of course, the claim was, that was where the instruments found water.

When I was finally able to see the location that was marked a few days later, I was angry enough that I called the borehole people and told them to not bother coming to drill the hole, and that I will just shut down the whole operation or go with the "do nothing" option. Hey, people have been farming without borehole for thousands of years. But, of course they asked me to reconsider, and I did go ahead to schedule the drilling of the bore hole.

Again, another unfortunate coincidence, the day before the drilling was supposed to occur, I fell ill. (Malaria .... everyone believe I got in from the mosquitoes on the farm because of the proximity of the swap areas beside the river.) So, I missed the actual drilling. I was getting calls every 30mins or so from another person I delegated to help me watch over what was going on, and that person did take picture with my tablet... unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier in this thread, I lost all those pictures because of water damage to my tablet and phone afterwards.

Everything about this drilling pretty much made me angry or annoyed . For starters, the drilling started late, due to the drilling rig having a flat tire. Once the drilling rig and truck got to the site. They decided not to use the gates (remember, there are two gates to which they could have used either, or at worst, they could have pulled out 3 or 4 of the fence poles and chain link fence if they felt it was not wide enough.) Instead they drove their rig right over the chain link fence, destroying/bending the poles and the chain link fence. Unfortunately for them, that decision proved costly as one of the poles and some of the fence they drove over ruptured the hydraulics system for the rig. That proved to be about an additional 3 hour delay.

Once all that was fixed, the drilling started. The Survey said 60 to 80m. They got to 90m, no water. I got a call informing me of this and I just told them to stop. No use in continuing. I am a strong believer in "if you are losing, stop, re-evaluate & re-plan"... I do not mind taking a loss early on. Losses are learning experiences in my book. But of course the drillers want to get paid . But with my fever, headache and arguing over the phone, I lost focus, as the drilling was now at 110m, still no water, and it was now 6:15pm. At this point the head borehole guy/project manager got others involved to ask/beg me to let them continue because the rig was scheduled for somewhere else. I allowed and finally at 132 , they started to get steady water. In the end the hole was 140m. At this point , the extra distance has basically taken up the original money budgeted for the water pump, so now the borehole is sitting there with no pump to pump the water out. (And even worse, because of the distance, a regular low-end pump is no more an option. The pump would need to be a bit more powerful, and remember the hole is on a low lying part of the lot , so the pump has to pump up hill on land as well. )

When I was finally well enough to go to the site, I found out the hole was actually in a completely different location from the original area I wanted, and from the location the survey marked (but not that to far from the survey location).

And to wrap up this section of updates, the extra drilling put on hold my plans for the irrigation system, water tanks and stands, and delayed the planting a bit. But then the day after the drilling , it rained. and at least for the following 3 weeks it rained a little every 2 to 4 days.



Next : Planting

So it is about 3 months in to investment/project/second job/hobby/activity for me.
For any one that is reading this, there are a few things I feel compelled to disclose before providing the updates.

1. My situation would most likely be different from others. To start with, I have a regular day job which takes precedence over this. This means that if I get to a point where I have to make a choice between the day job and this, 99% of the time I will pick my day job.

2. I have been told by many people I have dealt with and people that were observers, that the negative situations that have popped up along the way for me are as a result of item 1 above, and that if I had considered this as essential to my survival, that most likely I would have taken different steps.


With that said, here are some updates....

Step 1 : Security ...
As mentioned earlier in this thread, I am in the software engineering field, and I will try to somewhat of systems analyst approach to solving the problem of this problem. (i.e. cultivating something on the parcel of land.)
Well, when building software, one of the major things to tackle is security. It is usually easier to figure out security up front rather than trying to add security after you started building the software. So with that in mind, I searched for options. The options I came up with were

* Wall - blocks/cement
* Fence - chain link
* Security Guards - when plants are about to produce fruit.
* Tenants - Allow someone to rent out part of the area to raise some animal that would require that person to be there almost everyday.
* Ask or pay other farmers / villagers nearby to help be on the look out.
* Do nothing
* A combination of one or more items listed above.

After taking into consideration cost, effectiveness, time to put into effect/build, reliability,how far away from villages/towns, timeline of crops and what other people nearby are doing, I decided to secure the farm, for now, using a chain link fence.

I do need to mention that 7 out of the 9 people I asked (farmers & non-farmers, but all were observers i.e. I was not doing, nor plan to do any business with then future , said that security around the location was not needed and that it was over-kill to be doing something like that. 3 of them actually suggested that I am signaling to my neighbor farmers and the villagers nearby that I do not trust them, and that that will make my location a target because people will believe that there is more on that piece of land than what they can see.

For the 2 acre piece of land, it took 2 days to complete the fencing , with 2 gates. ( The installers did not reach the location till late morning the first day. I think they could have completed it all in one day, especially with the number of workers they brought the first day.)

I have another thread https://www.nairaland.com/3638961/request-estimate-chain-link-fence where hopefully I will be able to put in the details of the chain link fence. Unfortunately I lost my phone and tablet on the farm due to water damage from an unexpected rainstorm some time afterwards. (This was in the third week of March), so most of my records are lost as I could not revive both devices. But I still have some receipts and other paper that should help to partially re-assembly what I lost.

Dealing with the chain link fence folks was a really annoying experience. The short of it is that it just does not make sense to me trying to sell by the acre (which is a unit for area) instead of the perimeter length of the piece of land. However, I was somewhat glad that they went with my suggestion of hiring some of the villagers near by to help move the materials.

The one immediate benefit I gained with the fence was that about a week after it was installed there were traces of cows coming through the area, and one can see that they went around the fence. Now, my claim here is not that the chain link fence protected the farm, as anyone determined enough could climb over it or attempt to pull it down. My claim here is that any living thing that sees an obstacle on one path, and a clear way on an alternate path, will more likely than not choose the alternate clear way.

I think eventually I will actually put in a block and cement wall around the location, but for now, the choice of a chain link fence satisfies my needs.

Next : Water ...

Updates-a-plenty.
Some good (it started) , some bad (never forget suppliers/vendors do not have your interest as first priority, not even second or third sometimes) , some really ugly ( almost shut down the whole operation 3 different times).

More to come by the weekend

DammyOlu123:
Mr ruggie, is there any update?

So..... is there anyone here that can provide the services or actually build one of these things ?

As the subject says, if you are a seller of irrigation equipment, specifically spray tubes , as well as if you do the installation of such equipment, kindly leave your business contact info, website or point me to your signature.

I do not want people coming from far distances. I would like to be able go to the store front and see that the tubes are "actually there" and can be installed on or before Friday.

Where is your location , do you do installations and how far in advanced do I need to book your products (and services if applicable)? I am interested in the spray tubes for a 2 acre piece of land early next week.

Where is your location , do you do installations and how far in advanced do I need to book your products (and services if applicable)? I am interested in the spray tubes for a 2 acre piece of land early next week.