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Breakin' hurls!

  • 10-07-2008 10:48am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭


    I've gone through about 5 hurls in the last 4 weeks. I've tried a few different makes and they are cracking like tinder on impact. What are people’s views on this?

    I've heard "bad time of the year for buying hurls" and "leaving the hurl in the garden over night to strengthen it" and so on. Many people are "experts" on how to make the ideal hurl. But a lot of it appears to be here say.

    I was just wondering what people’s views are on this. Many we can define a standard list of requirements and maintenance for hurls! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭sgthighway


    Is there a spring in your hurl? Next time somebody breaks your hurl wait until after the match and ask them where they got theirs.

    There were a lot of good hurley makers around years ago but some have gone back a lot. I use to use O'Dea Hurls for years but not anymore because the quality is not as good. I never treat them for anything. I got sent off in a schools match donkey years ago before because I broke 4 hurls belonging to my opponents. They ran out of spare ones.

    The O'Connors in Newtown, Co. Cork is the place to go for hurleys these days. I would go anywhere else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭future_plans


    One of the ones I broke was an O'Connor, a few from kilkenny and a Moran from south Wicklow. They all looked decent hurls with a nice grain and a good spring. Frustrating. Just as Im starting to like the feel of the hurl and then its gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 718 ✭✭✭thirdmantackle


    best thing is to buy a few hurleys and stick them in a shed till next year

    other than that - you'd have to wonder why you break so many sticks.

    go and talk to a hurley maker and tell them what sort of hurleys you want. get the club to bulk buy them if you are breaking them that much

    where are you based?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    That's not too bad, I broke 4 in a game once! Just bad luck...
    I've also had hurls that lasted 7/8 games before breaking. Wouldn't blame the hurl, if it has a nice grain and a bit of spring, then its well made and its the manner of contact that causes the break.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 718 ✭✭✭thirdmantackle


    exactly

    block the ball, not the hurley and you wont be breaking sticks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,001 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    Fresh hurls tend to break easier too, so it's just a matter of getting a bit of time without one breaking and it should last a while .

    I used to get my hurls from Wille Hourigan in Balinderry(Terryglass Parish, North Tipperary) and only one of them ever broke on me and I was using them for 7/8 years . Got my cousin one and it broke in the first match, just bad luck sometimes I guess .

    thirdmantackle as you know yourself blocking down is not the only time a hurl can break .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭kodmuffin


    we used to put linseed oil on our hurls and leave them in the shed for a bit

    They are obv going to break on occasions but the oil seemed to make them stronger anyways

    just a suggestion!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    kodmuffin wrote: »
    we used to put linseed oil on our hurls and leave them in the shed for a bit

    They are obv going to break on occasions but the oil seemed to make them stronger anyways

    just a suggestion!
    2/3 thin coats instead of one big one!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    the word is hurley not hurl!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    grenache wrote: »
    the word is hurley not hurl!

    This was already discussed on another thread, it depends on where your from.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭gerire


    taidghbaby wrote: »
    2/3 thin coats instead of one big one!!

    Would agree with this; I usually go to my stick maker at the end of a season and buy 6 and leave them in the shed over the winter; A good maker will usually have a few wintered sticks that can go straight into action for you;

    I buy all my sticks unbanded and leave them like so while the grain settles over the winter; Then once spring arrives is the time to band them; Personally I have stopped using banded hurls a I was getting far too many cracks along the grain;

    I get my sticks from Pat Campion, in Borris In Ossory


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    This was already discussed on another thread, it depends on where your from.
    There's only one proper word, no matter where you are from. And it is hurley! Leinster folk and people in East Munster are incorrect when calling it a 'hurl', as 'hurl' is a verb by definition, while a 'hurley' is a noun i.e. person, place or thing.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hurl


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    That same website also refers to the ball used in the game of hurling as a "hurley".

    If you're going to use links in an argument I'd suggest you check their accuracy first.

    I'm from Galway and we never refer to it as hurley.

    We say hurl.

    You obviously say hurley, but I'm not going to say you're wrong for using that term.

    It simply depends on where you're from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭tonc76


    From Waterford and have heard them being called hurls and hurleys but who gives a sh!t??

    OP by any chance have you been leaving your hurls in the boot of your car between matches/training? For a few years I was going through hurls at a serious rate and a guy told me to take them out of the car and keep in a cool place when not using them. I've only broken 1 hurl since


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Harpie


    grenache wrote: »
    There's only one proper word, no matter where you are from. And it is hurley! Leinster folk and people in East Munster are incorrect when calling it a 'hurl', as 'hurl' is a verb by definition, while a 'hurley' is a noun i.e. person, place or thing.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hurl

    I thought it was pronounced shtick?? :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭future_plans


    tonc76 wrote: »
    From Waterford and have heard them being called hurls and hurleys but who gives a sh!t??

    OP by any chance have you been leaving your hurls in the boot of your car between matches/training? For a few years I was going through hurls at a serious rate and a guy told me to take them out of the car and keep in a cool place when not using them. I've only broken 1 hurl since

    Actually they do spend quite a lot of time in the boot between training and matches....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 hurlinking


    does anyone no where to get bands for hurleys and wat do u use to band them??


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