do you need rain?

whelan1

heard stories of wells going dry , we are ok , how's everyone else doing?

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

heard stories of wells going dry , we are ok , how's everyone else doing?

We're good. Water levels are very low, but there's a good dew at night which is giving grass enough moisture to grow. We's survive without rain for at least another 3 months

dasheriff

We are grand down this side of the country anyway i dont want any rain till november:D

pakalasa

No, you can keep your rain.:D
We have a stream running through our land. The flow is the lowest, I've ever seen. It's down to a trickle. No problem with grass though. A lot of our land is below high level tide of the shannon, so lack of water aint a problem.

Min

Some rain would be ok but we don't need a monsoon and the forecast for the end of the week and into next ain't good.
We will get enough rain yet...

blue5000

I don't need it yet, still have bbs and straw to get. Streams and rivers are v low round here too but grass is doin ok. I don't like the idea of frost at night though.

johngalway

I'd like for Friday and Saturday to be dry so I could finish up spraying rushes and creeping gorse but I get the feeling it just isn't going to happen

reilig

I got home this evening to find all my cows standing around a drinker and it empty. Just a dribble coming into it. We're last on the main line and after speaking to neighbours their pressure is very low too. Pressure is always low during warm weather, but I have never seen it as bad as today. Hopefully it will improve. I really don't want to see rain - would prefer to have to bring water to them.

krazyklown

my dad works on the local golf course..hes on his second night putting watering sprinklers on, says the greens are nealy burnt up!!

John_F

just put grass seeds in the ground today hoping for a drop of rain on saturday but looking at forecast now it seems like wel escape, forecast is all over the place this year in my view,

If i could order light rain over 24 hours annd let it dry up after that until the maize is in, but the weather is the boss and doesn't work like that :rolleyes:

5live

(Un)lucky in south west. Very dry farm. Grass stopped growing 2 weeks ago and rotation at 35 days and cows eating hay. very fresh leafy hay. Uncut. Need rain every week but after last year not going out to do my traditional rain dance. Rain forecast for tuesday but that probably just around RTE studios:D

whelan1

5live wrote: »

(Un)lucky in south west. Very dry farm. Grass stopped growing 2 weeks ago and rotation at 35 days and cows eating hay. very fresh leafy hay. Uncut. Need rain every week but after last year not going out to do my traditional rain dance. Rain forecast for tuesday but that probably just around RTE studios:D

did you not get rain today? it started here at 8 am and rain solidly until 1pm silage fields greening up lovely and you would even notice the grass growing - i put out fertiliser on thursday

blue5000

lots here now, just had 25mm in 20 minutes

C0N0R

Aye we had rain in Monaghan all day. Not do abit of harm. Did see a few fields in innishkeen today mowed down and ready to be lifted. Bad timing!

johngalway

We got at most a couple of showers last night. No rain at all so far today And the next few hours look dry as well. Sorry now I didn't go spraying!

Dad is always saying a bit of rain is no harm. Irish rain isn't to be trusted though, it never knows when to stop!

quietsailor

reilig wrote: »

I got home this evening to find all my cows standing around a drinker and it empty. Just a dribble coming into it. We're last on the main line and after speaking to neighbours their pressure is very low too. Pressure is always low during warm weather, but I have never seen it as bad as today. Hopefully it will improve. I really don't want to see rain - would prefer to have to bring water to them.

I worked for a farmer years ago and his outside farm had the same problem. We put one of those 1000 litre IPCs (white plastic tanks held around with aluminium/light steel) on a trailer and the feeder was attached to the back of it. The feeder's original ballcock was left in place and a new ballcock installed in the IPC.

We put a valve on the mains pipe where it came out of the ground and a fitting after the valve so a length of pipe could be connected between the mains valve and the IPC's ballcock.

There was (from memory) 4 fields and 5 water troughs so we adapted all 5 troughs so the IPC could supply the water. The IPC refilled itself during the night when the water pressure was higher and even if the water in the IPC went low on a hot day the combination of 1000 litres of water and the dribble coming out of the mains pipe ensured that the cattle never really went dry.

I can't remember costs but offhand,
1. We used an old chassis that was lying around the field so that was free
2. I think clean empty IPCs are in the region of 50 Euros - does anyone here know an exact price/has bought one recently
3. one ballcock for the IPC and a valve for the mains - I think the good plastic valves are 25 Euros but surely the brass/metal type plumbers types are cheaper.
4. A length of water pipe - most farms have this lying around surely.

pakalasa

Sun spiltting the rocks here all day in County Clare.:D

whelan1

looking at the weather forecast you will get some soon

johngalway

:rolleyes:

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/

See, doesn't know when to stop!

reilig

Ah Whelan1,

Every time you talk about rain, we get washed out :p:p
I had a post typed up for this thread on saturday morning to say that Friday Night's small bit of rain was welcome because the grass on a bit of ground that I reseeded had begun to sprout and there was a green shimmer across the field.

This morning I got up and looked out the window in horror to see my reseeded field under an inch of water :eek:

Can you turn off the rain now please

whelan1

was just going to post the same , got drowned this morning and it didnt help that the cows broke out during the night and it took me an hour to get them in:mad:

sea12

Its not looking good for the week. At least 4 inches of rain must have fell in the past 24 hours.

Hope it knows when to stop!!. I still have ground to reseed, such a pity it wasnt ready last week.

johngalway

Didn't make a drop here all day

dar31

johngalway wrote: »

Didn't make a drop here all day

take it you havent looked at the rainfall radar on met eireann.
your in for a soaking fairly soon.

it has rained solid here for the last 24hrs, unreal amount of rain fell. the cows started cutting up paddock when they came off it this evening

johngalway

Not too impressed with Met Eireanns forecasting lately to be honest. Am off out shooting in a moment so we'll see if that rain turns up (probably will seeing as how I'll be out lol).

blue5000

reilig wrote: »

Ah Whelan1,

Every time you talk about rain, we get washed out :p:p
I had a post typed up for this thread on saturday morning to say that Friday Night's small bit of rain was welcome because the grass on a bit of ground that I reseeded had begun to sprout and there was a green shimmer across the field.

This morning I got up and looked out the window in horror to see my reseeded field under an inch of water :eek:

Can you turn off the rain now please

I propose a 1 week ban for whelan 1 for starting this thread!!!!

whelan1

:D:D:D we always say the weather evens itself out , i just didnt expect it to do so in 1 day;)