Farming Chit Chat II

bbam

Ah, it's not a big deal. They were two FRx bulls, €70-90 each and they are flying. Just a lad I met was there and said the dealer across from me was bidding the up, I reckoned if he haddnt someone else would as he wasn't the only bidder against me.

I'd hate a fella to think he was getting his leg across me, and dealers like doing that

whelan1

mechanic had to come back to tractor this morning turns out it wasnt the relay it was a fuse:p and we wanting to get at slurry early

Viewtodiefor

delaval wrote: »

Two parlours locked solid this am. Got milked but no water to wash up will do later, I hope Glanbia understand!!!

Machine frozen water frozen upset cows guess d rest!

whelan1

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Machine frozen water frozen upset cows guess d rest!

hate that....left a few taps dripping last night and drained all water out of machine, was grand this morning:D

Kovu

Come on the Cheltenham! I have a couple of bets on for the laugh

td5man

whelan1 wrote: »

hate that....left a few taps dripping last night and drained all water out of machine, was grand this morning:D

ice on the parlour floor,never seen it there before wind must have been from the north.
Machine was grand no hot water in the pit until near the end of milking

bob charles

any of you lads ever hear of a space heater, Or have you's all got the air conditioned NZ parlours

whelan1

bob charles wrote: »

any of you lads ever hear of a space heater, Or have you's all got the air conditioned NZ parlours

ah they are only for the real cold like -12

Viewtodiefor

bob charles wrote: »

any of you lads ever hear of a space heater, Or have you's all got the air conditioned NZ parlours

Yeah Bob heard of them alright! Problem is Just put in new parlour n still missing a wall or two! Nothing like a north easterly snow flurry to focus the mind!

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

any of you lads ever hear of a space heater, Or have you's all got the air conditioned NZ parlours

One of our parlours has 1 wall the other has half a wall designed for our balmy summers

just do it

bbam wrote: »

Quick question.
When a dealer buys stock and brings them to a mart to sell on.
Who's name appears on the board when the stock hit the ring??

Was told that the last two calves I bought were bid up by the dealer selling them .
I'm happy with the price but didn't notice his name on the board, should it have been ?

Not related to the question but have you ever gone back to the farmer directly when you've been happy with what you got at the mart?

bbam

just do it wrote: »

Not related to the question but have you ever gone back to the farmer directly when you've been happy with what you got at the mart?

Nope, not something I've done..

mf240

Not directed at anyone in this thread, but there are farmers who specify air conditioning in new land cruisers and tractors when buying them but they dont put walls around the milking palour because there "low cost" producers. This is not the costa del sol folks.

Tipp Man

mf240 wrote: »

Not directed at anyone in this thread, but there are farmers who specify air conditioning in new land cruisers and tractors when buying them but they dont put walls around the milking palour because there "low cost" producers. This is not the costa del sol folks.

I can't understand why anybody would build a milking parlour in Ireland without having as much walls around it as possible

bbam

Tipp Man wrote: »

I can't understand why anybody would build a milking parlour in Ireland without having as much walls windows around it as possible

Jesue there's little more depressing than being in a dark parlour.. Seen a lovely one done years ago on a farm visit in Cork, with windows above head height along two walls, and it was fabulous... hard to beat natural light and a white pvc celing to reflect it down..

bbam

Had quick look at the revenue website regarding the property tax. Some interesting stuff there.

One thing that I noticed that I haddnt heard publicised was that anyone who opted not to pay the household charge to the council, they now owe revenue €200 and this will be in addition to this years property tax. It's a Revenue debt now so it will be persued and collected with vigour.

bob charles

bbam wrote: »

One thing that I noticed that I haddnt heard publicised was that anyone who opted not to pay the household charge to the council, they now owe revenue €200 and this will be in addition to this years property tax. It's a Revenue debt now so it will be persued and collected with vigour.

and rightly so.

reilig

bbam wrote: »

Had quick look at the revenue website regarding the property tax. Some interesting stuff there.

One thing that I noticed that I haddnt heard publicised was that anyone who opted not to pay the household charge to the council, they now owe revenue €200 and this will be in addition to this years property tax. It's a Revenue debt now so it will be persued and collected with vigour.

Paid mine this morning - it's still at €130. I begrudge giving it to them. Paid over €5k in development charges when I started to build the house in 2007/08 and found out that Leitrim CoCo didn't collect development charges from builders of 75% of estates built in Leitrim between 2000 and 2008. Now most of these estates are exempt because they are unfinished. It's rough justice!

Muckit

whelan1 wrote: »

turns out it wasnt the relay it was a fuse:p a

call me a skeptic.... but why did the fuse blow?! I've a feeling your not out of the water yet!

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

Paid mine this morning - it's still at €130.

I held out as long as I could too. Paid it last month.

td5man

Muckit wrote: »

call me a skeptic.... but why did the fuse blow?! I've a feeling your not out of the water yet!

Could be a combination of both.

dzer2

just do it wrote: »

Not related to the question but have you ever gone back to the farmer directly when you've been happy with what you got at the mart?

Yes I have done and its being very successful to a point that I dont go to the mart any more.

Conmaicne Mara

reilig wrote: »

Paid mine this morning - it's still at €130. I begrudge giving it to them. Paid over €5k in development charges when I started to build the house in 2007/08 and found out that Leitrim CoCo didn't collect development charges from builders of 75% of estates built in Leitrim between 2000 and 2008. Now most of these estates are exempt because they are unfinished. It's rough justice!

I heard something a fair while ago, that Leitrim had the most ghost estates in Ireland? Whether that number was based on the people in the county, or houses in the county I can't remember.

Juniorhurler

bbam wrote: »

Had quick look at the revenue website regarding the property tax. Some interesting stuff there.

One thing that I noticed that I haddnt heard publicised was that anyone who opted not to pay the household charge to the council, they now owe revenue €200 and this will be in addition to this years property tax. It's a Revenue debt now so it will be persued and collected with vigour.

Paid mine last Thursday with it at €130. It only goes to €200 after the last day of April afaik.

reilig

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I heard something a fair while ago, that Leitrim had the most ghost estates in Ireland? Whether that number was based on the people in the county, or houses in the county I can't remember.

That's true afaik. The number was based on actual number of estates, not per head of population. After all, some parishes in other counties have bigger populations than us.

redzerologhlen

Just after finding a calf dead caught in a scolp in the winterage :mad:

Marooned75

An strip grazing a few weanlings and I'm delighted with them

reilig

Twins this evening. It balances out a loss from the end of last year. They were up and had sucked when I got home from work. It's nice to get a win every now and then.

whelan1

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Just after finding a calf dead caught in a scolp in the winterage :mad:

what is a scolp?

whelan1

Muckit wrote: »

call me a skeptic.... but why did the fuse blow?! I've a feeling your not out of the water yet!

will let ya know how we get on, changed fuel filters also