Turf season. Does it affect you?

whassupp2

Who will be in the bog this summer?:D

2 stroke

If it keeps raining the whole country will be a bog

whassupp2

aye but if the turfs not done then twill be a cold winter

Irish Wolf

Tell me this - how on earth do you get it dried in this weather? I remember a few summers in the bog when I went up to visit my grandparents but the weather was always lovely...

Ahhhhh.. cold milky tea from a washed out glass mineral bottle..

Thrill

The only bog I'll be doing anything in is the crapper. I haven't seen turf in ages. I thought that industry had dried up tbh.

whassupp2

well ya foot it (stack it) in a few hours when its not rainin. tough becauce the bog will still be like a swamp!!!
Then ya pray that it wont rain!!
If all comes to the worst ya leave it on the bog till next year and buy briquettes

nesf

My days of using a slan, cutting and footing turf are behind me.

It's something I'm eternally grateful for. Long live the peat briquette etc.

Wishbone Ash

Those who cut early (i.e. in April) probably got off to a great start.

The summer of 1982 was great if memory serves me correctly. We cut it and we bagged it. Pure pleasure - no turning, no footing, no midgets etc.

crosstownk

I used to cut and foot turf years ago with my dad on the Wicklow mountains. AFAIK, that's not possible anymore as it's now a national park.

nesf

Wishbone Ash wrote:

The summer of 1982 was great if memory serves me correctly. We cut it and we bagged it. Pure pleasure - no turning, no footing, no midgets etc.

Midgets cutting turf? Gives a whole new meaning to stacking as high as your shoulder.

The midges must be a bitch for them though. They like to hover around ground level.

Wishbone Ash

nesf wrote:

Midgets cutting turf? Gives a whole new meaning to stacking as high as your shoulder.

The midges must be a bitch for them though. They like to hover around ground level.

:D:D

KdjaCL

God bless central heating.



kdjac

Wishbone Ash

My head has just become very itchy! :eek:

*scratches like mad*

whassupp2

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

Thrill

KdjaCL wrote:

God bless central heating.



kdjac

Yep. All that dragging in coal from the shed in the rain and cold, lighting the fire, cleaning the bloody thing out every day or two. Pfft.

Flick of a switch and the place is warm in no time.

nesf

whassupp2 wrote:

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

It's a lot of work though, assuming that you live close enough to a bog to make it worth your while.

Kingp35

I've never even seen a bog.

Anto McC

Good luck to you cluchies,i'll keep my central heating thank you very much.

nesf

Kingp35 wrote:

I've never even seen a bog.

Pfft, sure a soft city boy like you wouldn't last a day in the bog.

Gran Hermano

At least this thread will not get moved to one of the Dublin fora

KdjaCL

whassupp2 wrote:

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

And if i get paid €40 an hour how much have i lost getting the damn ****?

Country folk no idea about money, its all barter to you folk


kdjac

Wishbone Ash

nesf wrote:

Pfft, sure a soft city boy like you wouldn't last a day in the bog.

He is from Dalkey! The only thing softer than a soft city boy is a soft South County Dublin boy.

We're made of stronger stuff in North County Dublin!

Kingp35

Wishbone Ash wrote:

He is from Dalkey! The only thing softer than a soft city boy is a soft South County Dublin boy.

We're made of stronger stuff in North County Dublin!

I'm hard as nails I'll have you know :cool:

Wishbone Ash

Kingp35 wrote:

I'm hard as nails I'll have you know :cool:

I've just spotted that you are the Darts moderator. That makes it a bit different.

BTW - I've never seen darts played south of the Liffey!

caesar

KdjaCL wrote:

And if i get paid €40 an hour how much have i lost getting the damn ****?

Country folk no idea about money, its all barter to you folk


kdjac

When I used to help my father with it, it would be done days he didn't work i.e Saturday, so how much he'd lose out on pay wouldn't come into it and it's free exercise too:p


Haven't gone to the bog in years though, I'd say we've enough turf and that to keep a range fire going every day for the next 5 years or more. So no more bog for awhile:D

yellowellie

Haven't been in the bog for years but I certainly did my fair share. Believe it or not, I had one of the best summers working in the bog (for payment, not at the family bog), it was the hot summer we had back in the early nineties, we were paid by the amount of work we did, so if you fancied stretching out on the heather for the day in the sun you could!

As for this year, my father has all the turf saved and home for about a month now. Dad's are great!

Wishbone Ash

yellowellie wrote:

we were paid by the amount of work we did, so if you fancied stretching out on the heather for the day in the sun you could!

It would be even better if you were paid for the day and laid out in the sun!

Terry

KdjaCL wrote:

God bless central heating.



kdjac

WTF is central heating?

My answer is that it is something which has turned you all into whining bitches.

'oh. this is the coldest summer ever. I better turn the gas/oil on'.

No radiators in my house and that's just how I like it.*













*running water next week

mjquinno

turf already home. wetter than a badgers belly

Tar.Aldarion

I have never used turf or gone near it, that was for my farmer cousins.

tallus

How about emissions from turf? is it environmentally safe to burn in a built up area? I was going to buy a few bags of it as there's a guy in Bohernabreena selling it for €3 per large bag. Sounds like a great deal tbh, briquettes are too expensive.

gucci

helped my ould lad foot ours about 6 weeks back, was very tough cos the bog was drenched, sods were breakin in ur hands etc, would hate to see what state the bog is in now, not a notion of getting in near them id say!!
i used to work on bord na mona harvesting peat for the power stations too, which meant you had to work every hour that came during the warm weather, or else you didnt really get paid!! but money was great for the long hours you put in. poor lads that are on it this summer are having a bad time of it.

petes

Stacked turf with my dad years ago. I'm a lazy fecker though and stopped because I couldn't be arsed. Make a nice fire though.

Ishmael

Never actually went turfing, most of the rest of Brothers and Sisters did though. I got away with it cause i was the youngest .

I did have to do my fair share of moss picking though.

kevmy

Christ ours was missed when they came to cut it in April and it's just been sinking back in since they actually got around to cutting it a few weeks back.

If the weather doesn't pick up twill be as bad as '97, I think, when we had to put it all up on pallets to dry it out cos the fecking bog was that wet.

Stephen

Hooray for not living in a bog area \o/

Being from kilkenny, i am not, of course, using bog in the Dublin anywhere-outside-the-pale sense.