so are ye heading to the ploughing ?

whelan1

i might go on wednesday

amacca

yes!!!!!!!!

but Im going to make more use of the day this time around and come forearmed with one of the guides (f journal or other one)

+ going to buy much more of that farm cider I bought the last time

whelan1

last year i stupidly brought one of the kids in a buggy ... everyone was falling over the buggy it was crazy , so no buggy this year

sea12

Hope to go Tuesday. It looks like being a good day weather wise!

hoodrats

sea12 wrote: »

Hope to go Tuesday. It looks like being a good day weather wise!

yes tuesday is promised fairly good plus the place wont be all poached up on the first day from people walking on the wet ground.

blue5000

Tuesday hopefully, want to look at weighing scales, mobile crush.

O.A.P

I plan to go Tuesday it looks good weather wise anyway and Ive been there on the first day for the last two years.
I had no time to go for the 10 years before that, like the saying its an ill wind that dose'nt do some good!;)

Muckit

Was at it the last two years in a row, so going to give it a miss this year;)

Have a great day those that are going.

p.s. Don't forget the teabags lik what I did last year! Had to ask the crowd in the car beside for some!:D

johngalway

I'd absolutely love to go, between one thing & another I don't think I'll make it this year.

5live

Yup. Head up late monday night to B&B in stradbally and hit the stands around 8.30 to get a good look before being walked on later. Then off to AI stands for some farmer porn to pass away long winter nights! hope it stays dry coz i have to take a corsa and dont think the 4WD is working on it again:rolleyes:

tismesoitis

no definately not goin to the ploughin wife due our first baby on friday(pg):D:D

reilig

I can't go My Mrs is nearing her due date and seeing that its our first I don't want to wander too far from home :eek:

fastrac

Im heading bright and early Tuesday

tismesoitis

best of luck with that reilig!

whelan1

god ye are great lads staying at home:D:D

johngalway

whelan1 wrote: »

god ye are great lads staying at home:D:D

Some one has to mind the ranch while the rest of ye skive off :P

blue5000

Good luck to the two expecting fathers, and wives of course!! Don't forget a box of choclates in the suit case, never mind about the cabbage leaves.....:D

KoNiT

Tuesday for me..

Good luck to the future Da's

JohnBoy

Best of luck to the impending parents.


Hoping to head tuesday, although my dad is scaring me, he reckons with where it's located it'll be a traffic nightmare.

Havent been in around 8/9 years

whelan1

traffic worked very well last year , shouldnt be a problem this year , weather looks crap for wednesday and thursday:rolleyes:

Tora Bora

whelan1 wrote: »

traffic worked very well last year , shouldnt be a problem this year , weather looks crap for wednesday and thursday:rolleyes:

Yes, and i'm going Wednesday. Wellies required. Planning to try get a deal on 3 locking feed barriers and some more dividing gates and calving gate etc, .

whelan1

if i remeber last year the parking was in a massive field we couldnt find our jeep when we came back to the car park;)

bbam

We're heading on Thursday, looks like it will be sticky ground conditions...
Poor old Passat won't like the soft fields

whelan1

we not going now , oh has to work:mad:

Stinicker

tismesoitis wrote: »

no definately not goin to the ploughin wife due our first baby on friday(pg):D:D

reilig wrote: »

I can't go My Mrs is nearing her due date and seeing that its our first I don't want to wander too far from home

You two were busy during the cold snap last January I see! Hope everything works out ok for ye!

5live wrote: »

Yup. Head up late monday night to B&B in stradbally and hit the stands around 8.30 to get a good look before being walked on later. Then off to AI stands for some farmer porn to pass away long winter nights! hope it stays dry coz i have to take a corsa and dont think the 4WD is working on it again

Lol!!

I'm heading up tommorow for my first proper ploughing since 2007; I missed last year and got to it at 5.30pm on Thursday in 2008 when everything was either sold or packed up!

Hoping to do a deal on a good quality powerwasher and a Quad bike, and looking at sheds also. There is about 20 grand going to be spent between here and Christmas on a small shed and a new quad bike and other bits and pieces. Farmers are about the only ones spending money at the moment. No fecking loans needed either.

goat2

Stinicker wrote: »

You two were busy during the cold snap last January I see! Hope everything works out ok for ye!



Lol!!

I'm heading up tommorow for my first proper ploughing since 2007; I missed last year and got to it at 5.30pm on Thursday in 2008 when everything was either sold or packed up!

Hoping to do a deal on a good quality powerwasher and a Quad bike, and looking at sheds also. There is about 20 grand going to be spent between here and Christmas on a small shed and a new quad bike and other bits and pieces. Farmers are about the only ones spending money at the moment. No fecking loans needed either.

i have not missed it with the past 10 yrs, it is a four hour drive i suppose with all that traffic it will turn into a five hour drive and more, am going wednesday, what is the weather forecast for the area

reilig

Next year i suggest that boards.ie have a small tent at the ploughing where we can all meet up and put faces to the usernames. Sure if I thought they'd have one this year I'd go and bring the Mrs and all - although I'd be leaving her with the Order of Malta in the Carpark.

Boards.ie are always having these drinks meet up's in dublin and other cities that farmers just can't go to. Next year, i for one, would be in favour of a ploughing meet up!!!!!

whelan1

good idea

goat2

i am wondering, will it have more stands and new inventions this year, i always come away with some wonderful stuff, i do think it will be a welly day tomorrow wedensday
just listning to the news now, there are traffic delays of two hours at moment, one would think that since it is the second yr in a row, they would have fine tuned it by now down to no delay

jfh

well what was it like? first year that i'm missing it for a while

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

Next year i suggest that boards.ie have a small tent at the ploughing where we can all meet up and put faces to the usernames. Sure if I thought they'd have one this year I'd go and bring the Mrs and all - although I'd be leaving her with the Order of Malta in the Carpark.

Boards.ie are always having these drinks meet up's in dublin and other cities that farmers just can't go to. Next year, i for one, would be in favour of a ploughing meet up!!!!!

I wonder would LostCovey go?:D

LostCovey

Muckit wrote: »

I wonder would LostCovey go?:D

Why not?

LostCovey

pakalasa

Well, back from the ploughing. Great day, lovely weather, lots to see, wore the legs down up the knees with all the walking.
Traffic was no problem, not for me anyway. Left East Clare at 6.30, parked up at 9.30. It does pay to go early. Back home in about 2 1/2 hours.

For those coming from the Limerick side, brown route, watch the queue leaving the M7 at Portlaoise for the sliproad. People pulling up suddenly in the main lane, when they over ran the start of the queue.:eek: Saw a few near misses.
Also when you get to that first roundabout, take the right, then across over the M7 and exit for the Heath road. It will take you right into Stradbally. Not a car on this road.:D

KoNiT

left Claremorris 8:30ish -parked up 11:30 only delay was Mountmellick..

made mistake of going through Clara, should have stayed on motorway & turned off junction 5, I did that route home - was lot quicker.

Great show - good buzz..

Walter watson was handy for sitting on as there wasn't enough seats in catering area..!!!

Bring your own food..

Supermacs were effin expensive.. €6 for crap chips & 2 sausages.. mental.. but thats what the kids want so what to do.. sausages too spicy.. kids couldn't eat them

Stinicker

Drove up from Kerry left at Nine and arrived at about 12.45, took the Blue Route from the M8 J4 at Johnstown and to quote Father Jessop, "We went around by Southern Yemen" such a long roundabout drawn out detour took well over an Hour from the M8 to carpark ridiculous. Tomorrow will be a mudbath I reckon while Thursday should be ok, have provisionally agreed sales of of €5k so I am doing my bit for the economy.

Food is an awful rip-off, however sample the Hereford burgers outside the Hereford tent for €5, drools!

O.A.P

We left Ennis at 6 and got there at 9. The legs are sore now and I know I did not see everything would go again tommorow but its to far to drive.
Did anyone else see your man with the 3 dogs pulling the timber plough

Stinicker

O.A.P wrote: »

We left Ennis at 6 and got there at 9. The legs are sore now and I know I did not see everything would go again tommorow but its to far to drive.
Did anyone else see your man with the 3 dogs pulling the timber plough

I saw it and it was priceless alright! I am thinking of going up again on Thursday.

pathway33

any word where the ploughing is next year?

pakalasa

O.A.P wrote: »

Did anyone else see your man with the 3 dogs pulling the timber plough

I did - priceless. I'm sure he'll make it to some paper or another.

I reckon I didn't see half the stands. 8 hours of solid walking - the legs couldnt take another day.

JohnBoy

left thurles at half ten, was parked and had the soup and sangwiches eaten by twelve.

we shortened the blue route a bit, took a right after durrow for balinakill, then followed the signs to timahoe, gained us nothing I'd say on the way up, but was useful to know the route on the way back.

had a great day, hope it wont be 10 years before I make it again.

vanderbadger

pakalasa wrote: »

Well, back from the ploughing. Great day, lovely weather, lots to see, wore the legs down up the knees with all the walking.
Traffic was no problem, not for me anyway. Left East Clare at 6.30, parked up at 9.30. It does pay to go early. Back home in about 2 1/2 hours.

For those coming from the Limerick side, brown route, watch the queue leaving the M7 at Portlaoise for the sliproad. People pulling up suddenly in the main lane, when they over ran the start of the queue.:eek: Saw a few near misses.
Also when you get to that first roundabout, take the right, then across over the M7 and exit for the Heath road. It will take you right into Stradbally. Not a car on this road.:D

no way! left Clare the same time as you and got in an hr after you, spent the extra hr in that traffic at portlaoise, wish I knew about that Heath route

red menace

Bring the waterproofs today.
Hammering rain in Dublin at the moment

5live

Good day there. Lots of cool stuff. Must buy that lotto ticket tonight. There were guys there at 6.30 yesterday morning and big crowd there at 8.30. The food is a bit on the dear side alright. Went to my beloved dept to sort out my DA payment problems. How does it take nearly 5 months to query an online mistake? Nice girl couldnt answer me but i decided to kick the bin outside the door rather than her. If more of them were as helpful.... Went looking at volac automatic feeders for calves. 10k for 120 calves and can feed milk and replacer in 4 different pens. Has anyone got santas mobile?:o It was sticky in spots yesterday so going to be messy today and tomorrow. Best of luck travelling folks. DRIVE SAFELY

whelan1

5live wrote: »

Good day there. Lots of cool stuff. Must buy that lotto ticket tonight. There were guys there at 6.30 yesterday morning and big crowd there at 8.30. The food is a bit on the dear side alright. Went to my beloved dept to sort out my DA payment problems. How does it take nearly 5 months to query an online mistake? Nice girl couldnt answer me but i decided to kick the bin outside the door rather than her. If more of them were as helpful.... Went looking at volac automatic feeders for calves. 10k for 120 calves and can feed milk and replacer in 4 different pens. Has anyone got santas mobile?:o It was sticky in spots yesterday so going to be messy today and tomorrow. Best of luck travelling folks. DRIVE SAFELY

there was an automatic caf feeder on done deal a while ago . looked the biz , think it was 7500 , nearly new

pakalasa

vanderbadger wrote: »

no way! left Clare the same time as you and got in an hr after you, spent the extra hr in that traffic at portlaoise, wish I knew about that Heath route

I travelled up an down to Dublin a lot, years ago. This was before the Kildare by-pass, so I know every little road up there.

5live

Thanks whelan1. Thought you were joining the rest of the sons and daughters of the soil in athy today?

MfMan

Are conditions welly-necessary or will hiking boots do?

whelan1

5live wrote: »

Thanks whelan1. Thought you were joining the rest of the sons and daughters of the soil in athy today?

husband off on a 3 day run in lorry - cant turn down work:rolleyes: so we didnt get to go ... would have spent money i dont have if i went anyways

5live

Yup. Know where you coming from there. Nice to dream though. Must go look at that calf feeder on donedeal soon. Was looking at autofeeding in the parlour. Saw EB feeder batch feeder same as rest but can feed 3 different levels of feed for 7800 for 14 unit parlour. Would suit bar i wont have 7800 for 2 more years. I just love my finances right now:)

Dutchie

pathway33 wrote: »

any word where the ploughing is next year?

Same place next year.

I've a trade stand. It has been really positive for the past two days. Everyone we have talked to is in good spirits and is willing to spend money.

Long days though, we are on site from before 8am and leave after 6.30pm.

Agri folk are a mad bunch, some craic.

Sam Kade

I went yesterday. People were going in wearing shirts jumpers and coats + wellingtons I went in wearing a T shirt jeans and shoes:) I was inside half an hour when I saw them walking around with their jumpers and coats on their arms :rolleyes:

Them ones selling the two packets of cornflakes on the way out were fairly annoying whether they have the worst pitch in Ireland or not also met a few chancer's selling tickets to fund themselves.