ploughing 2012

corkery

Awful night here in cork some rain fell the past hour. If this weather continues will it put the ploughing under threat. A lot of Ag shows cancelled or postponed in Cork this Summer due to the weather, even the Cork Summer Show. I suppose the ploughing is gone too big now to be cancelled. Will be some mud fest though!

MidlandsM

2 words..........


......steel roadways!

Sam Kade

corkery wrote: »

Awful night here in cork some rain fell the past hour. If this weather continues will it put the ploughing under threat. A lot of Ag shows cancelled or postponed in Cork this Summer due to the weather, even the Cork Summer Show. I suppose the ploughing is gone too big now to be cancelled. Will be some mud fest though!

You must be too young to remember Castletownroche.

corkery

Sam Kade wrote: »

You must be too young to remember Castletownroche.

I remember it well! Disaster of a day out and that was after a relatively dry summer

nashmach

Ploughing will go ahead as always.

From what I have seen and heard lots of work is being done to take account a continuation of this weather.

flat out !!

Sam Kade wrote: »

You must be too young to remember Castletownroche.

Oh god, i'll never forget that. I remember walking out of the site that day, looking at a house on the side of a hill, the muck was flowing in the front door and out the back.

Fermec

The Ploughing Match is Like The Banks, Too Big to Fail!;)

goat2

i remember one of my wellies came off, and i had a job pulling it out of the mud there was such suction, when it got loose i fell back as i was putting my whole weight behind the pull, it was tug of war, when i got that out the other got stuck right in, thank god i had taken a change of clothes, as i had experience of that kind of thing, but it was fun,
worst thing i find about the thing is the parking, i have sometimes come out wrong end and ended walking miles to find vehicle, it can be so hard sometimes,

but it is an event i thoroughly enjoy each year,

snowman707

flat out !! wrote: »

Oh god, i'll never forget that. I remember walking out of the site that day, looking at a house on the side of a hill, the muck was flowing in the front door and out the back.

I remember coming down the road and sea of mud "burst its banks" on to the road, on the way out of the car park mud went into the alternator, (I was driving a car I had traded :eek:)

stopped some where on the way home, (mitchelstown I think) in supermacs or similar and daughter caught her finger in the toilet door and had to get stitched and a tetanus jab.

what year was that ? 97/98 ??

td5man

flat out !! wrote: »

Oh god, i'll never forget that. I remember walking out of the site that day, looking at a house on the side of a hill, the muck was flowing in the front door and out the back.

Remember it well 99 i think didn't start raining until we got to tipp didn't stop till we got home. i remember the whole field a ctually moving down the hill.
Its just starting to pour down outside again supposed to be a couple of dry days at the weekend....

Sam Kade

I remember a lorry bogged near the stands. They were trying to pull it out when a shower of gob****es stood straight in front of the lorry with bags in hand and mouths open looking stupid at them trying to get the lorry out. The lorry coun't move as the gob****es were blocking it the man directing the lorry left a roar out of him get out of the way they just stayed where they were and looked at him stupid.

goat2

what date is it on, and i wonder will there will be new additions to it this year, i furst saw the eco fan at the ploughing match a couple yrs ago and bought it later on and find it a brilliant thing, for the multifule stove, i love looking at new inventions, there were unusual clothes lines i would love to have on of them only the price was an issue but there is beautiful new enventions coming on and it is brilliant, a bought one of those long poles with an aattachment for cleaning the water guttering around the home, and have been using it in the spring and autunm without having to use a ladder to clean guttering, i come home most yrs with something that is of brilliant use to me and make life easy,
i look forward to browsing again this year, and hope to find something that is useful to me.

What date is it on this year

goat2

goat2 wrote: »

What date is it on this year

The National Ploughing Championships, are in Heathpark, New Ross, Co. Wexford,
25th – 27th September

goat2

Deleted User wrote: »

The National Ploughing Championships, are in Heathpark, New Ross, Co. Wexford,
25th – 27th September

where can one get the layout of the whole event, i would like to see what is on offer this year, so that i can study before i go

Bizzum

goat2 wrote: »

where can one get the layout of the whole event, i would like to see what is on offer this year, so that i can study before i go

The Farmers Journal always runs a Ploughing supplement in the weeks leading up to the event, so that will be very soon!

Some info here too http://www.npa.ie/