Have Ye The Turf Cut Yet?

The Backwards Man

Well, folks it's that time of the year again, the days are getting longer, the larks are singing and the midges are starting to bite. As I write this I am getting ten bins of the hopper spread in the bink-hole and the sausage machine will be ready to go in two or three days time once the double wheels are on, and I'll get €200 worth cut on the brew. I love this time of year.

So, good people of AH, are you heading for the bog this year?

MagicMarker

The Backwards Man wrote: »

So, good people of AH, are you heading for the bog this year?

Went this morning, actually.

Tea-a-Maria

Have you looked outside the window this year!????

The Backwards Man

Tea-a-Maria wrote: »

Have you looked outside the window this year!????

Aye, couple of warm days this time of year doesn't be long drying it out.

Tea-a-Maria

We have stuff cut from last year that still hasn't dried out.:(

The Backwards Man

Tea-a-Maria wrote: »

We have stuff cut from last year that still hasn't dried out.:(

What you need to do is build a stack as high up on the hill as you can, on a good hard stale, and thatch it with rushes. Be sure to put the wettest ones on the outside and you'll be burning them in not time.:)

Miseryguts

I have my 300 bags spread,going footing in the mornin

Duggy747

I shave my turf.

The Backwards Man

Miseryguts wrote: »

I have my 300 bags spread,going footing in the mornin

Ah, you must have cut them before the eek was up in them, a common mistake that people make, the first week in May is the earliest anyone should cut turf, to get the best goodness out of them.

Peregrine

Am I the only one here who doesn't speak culchie?

Schism

Nope

The Backwards Man

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Am I the only one here who doesn't speak culchie?

I'm not a culchie meself, and the people that work the binks either side of me, one is a doctor and the other is an optician.

You don't have to be a culchie to appreciate a good black turf.

snubbleste

Is turf cutting forbidden these days?

Miseryguts

There won't be a thing wrong with them come next winter when da shed will be stocked up.

norrie rugger

next week.

The Backwards Man

snubbleste wrote: »

Is turf cutting forbidden these days?

Only in certain areas. Most blanket bogs can still be cut afaik, mostly raised ones that are forbidden.

YbFocus

This years turf?????

Sure we may get last years off first!!!

biko

With such a blessed warm winter we didn't need all the turf already cut.
Will have more time for the spuds, beets and cabbage now.

The Backwards Man

biko wrote: »

With such a blessed warm winter we didn't need all the turf already cut.
Will have more time for the spuds, beets and cabbage now.

The crows pulled my peas out of the drills but didn't eat them, that's a sure sign of a bad winter ahead.

IM0

fierce bang of cow**** from this thread

HondaSami

I loved going to the bog when we were kids, we would only be there and we would want to eat our lunch.
Happy days jumping across the drains, not much turf turned but we had great craic.

SeaFields

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You don't have to be a culchie to appreciate a good black turf.

no but being a little backwards helps!

Banjo String

My next door neighbor was cuttin his turf yesterday. I've a sneaking suspicion he might be gay, I met him returning from the bog yesterday evening you see, hot and sticky looking, with beads of sweat running down his nose.


When I asked him was he just back from cutting the turf, he said he "was up to his balls in Pete all evening".....

Pumpkinseeds

We buy turf from our coal man and could only get about a dozen bags at most from him this year. He just couldn't get it anywhere, or so he said and we got a couple of bags from a different fuel merchant on one occassion and couldn't get anymore after that. We don't have enough room to store a load of it so we'd only buy about 6 bags at a time. We really missed having it, it smells great and makes the coal go a lot further.

Goody2Shoes77

I've bought mine locally at €3.75 - €4 a bag. I'm assuming the €200 mentioned is for a year's supply? It kills me buying it per bag but no choice in the matter. Haven't got that big a shed either so can only get around 60 bags in at a time. Am currently stocking up on seasoned hardwood and briquettes from my local fuel merchant so I've got something to start off on when winter comes.

Thatnastyboy

Trying to find a bank to work off,

c*nts won't let us cut on ours anymore, last year was the final effort.

Now we're stuck with nothing but this mucky sh1te from 3 years ago that still hasn't dried and is mostly stones anyway, f*ckin scutter :mad:

Workin on it though, hopefully we'll be out tearing the sh1te out of our hamstrings soon, or we'll have no hot water for the forseeable future

The Backwards Man

Goody2Shoes77 wrote: »

I've bought mine locally at €3.75 - €4 a bag. I'm assuming the €200 mentioned is for a year's supply? It kills me buying it per bag but no choice in the matter. Haven't got that big a shed either so can only get around 60 bags in at a time. Am currently stocking up on seasoned hardwood and briquettes from my local fuel merchant so I've got something to start off on when winter comes.

Na, it's €200 worth of fresh cut turf, we have to do a wee bit of work with it before it's ready for bagging. It differs by location and turfcutter, but I would usually get around 1800 bags from €200 of sausage turf, less than half of that from hopper turf which is probably what you are buying.

kneemos

It's the 21st century folks,buy some oil.

Thatnastyboy

kneemos wrote: »

It's the 21st century folks,buy some oil.

Would it burn well in the pot belly?

Goody2Shoes77

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Na, it's €200 worth of fresh cut turf, we have to do a wee bit of work with it before it's ready for bagging. It differs by location and turfcutter, but I would usually get around 1800 bags from €200 of sausage turf, less than half of that from hopper turf which is probably what you are buying.

Knew I was being robbed blind!!!! :rolleyes: I know there's a bit of work with it, wouldn't mind that, used to go to the bog every Summer as a kid and of course the highlight was bringing home the turf sat up on the trailer

The Backwards Man

kneemos wrote: »

It's the 21st century folks,buy some oil.

No to fossil fuels.



















:pac:

Mint Sauce

Growing up as kids, any time we came here on holiday in the summer, we were all dragged up to the bog for a day or two to go footing, stacking, and bagging, or what ever the hell its called. Usally came home cold, wet, and covered in cuts and bites. I can honestly say I have never stepped foot in one since I moved here, nor am I in any hurry to.

HondaSami

irish-stew wrote: »

Growing up as kids, any time we came here on holiday in the summer, we were all dragged up to the bog for a day or two to go footing, stacking, and bagging, or what ever the hell its called. Usally came home cold, wet, and covered in cuts and bites. I can honestly say I have never stepped foot in one since I moved here, nor am I in any hurry to.

It's a great place to get a suntan and it's free, can't say it's painless. :P

The Backwards Man

Thatnastyboy wrote: »

Trying to find a bank to work off,

c*nts won't let us cut on ours anymore, last year was the final effort.

Now we're stuck with nothing but this mucky sh1te from 3 years ago that still hasn't dried and is mostly stones anyway, f*ckin scutter :mad:

Workin on it though, hopefully we'll be out tearing the sh1te out of our hamstrings soon, or we'll have no hot water for the forseeable future

In every bog there is a old guy that tells who has been cutting where for the last 80 years. It's not that he has a great memory, it's just that no one is able to contradict him.

seven_eleven

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Am I the only one here who doesn't speak culchie?

I was just waiting for an offended dub to have a hissy fit

Sergeant

Can't beat a good day in the bog. Sitting around drinking tea and eating ham sandwiches out of a biscuit tin while telling the lad footing the hopper beside you that, 'jaysus, we've got an Indian Summer'.

Until that wool jumper wearing gimp Ming called around to tell me about my entitlements.

Packed it in and now exclusively using briquettes.

pragmatic1

Sergeant wrote: »

Can't beat a good day in the bog. Sitting around drinking tea and eating ham sandwiches out of a biscuit tin while telling the lad footing the hopper beside you that, 'jaysus, we've got an Indian Summer'.

Until that wool jumper wearing gimp Ming called around to tell me about my entitlements.

Packed it in and now exclusively using briquettes.

Don't know what kind of bog you were in but when I go to help the family its a different story. I used to be informed with half an hours notice, on the hottest day of the year, with a massive hangover/comedown.

This was then followed with about six hours of backbreaking work. Picking cotton was hard me hole. The slaves never had a day in the bog with a thick Irish father.

Rasheed

Done in one bank but not the other. We even got a new turf trailer this year for extra excitement! Woo farmer tans!

Sergeant

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Don't know what kind of bog you were in but when I go to help the family its a different story. I used to be informed with half an hours notice, on the hottest day of the year, with a massive hangover/comedown.

This was then followed with about six hours of backbreaking work. Picking cotton was hard me hole. The slaves never had a day in the bog with a thick Irish father.

It's all worth the effort when you get 25 sturdy sorts from the parish to call down to the bog to help you get the tractor unstuck from the rut it has found itself in. That's community.

Rasheed

Sergeant wrote: »

It's all worth the effort when you get 25 sturdy sorts from the parish to call down to the bog to help you get the tractor unstuck from the rut it has found itself in. That's community.

Then all into the pub for a quick one on the way home for ham sandwiches, covered in sweat and turf mould. Jesus, it's a sexy look.

pragmatic1

Sergeant wrote: »

It's all worth the effort when you get 25 sturdy sorts from the parish to call down to the bog to help you get the tractor unstuck from the rut it has found itself in. That's community.

Meh we filled about half a dozen trailers every year with just four of us. But I am a double hard bastard.

cml387

I hate the smell of turfsmoke in the morning.....it smells like..poverty.

Sergeant

cml387 wrote: »

I hate the smell of turfsmoke in the morning.....it smells like..poverty.

You should consider a move to the Big Smoke then. Take a job in a haberdashery.

HondaSami

cml387 wrote: »

I hate the smell of turfsmoke in the morning.....it smells like..poverty.

Does it smell differently in the evening?

The Backwards Man

Rasheed wrote: »

Then all into the pub for a quick one on the way home for ham sandwiches, covered in sweat and turf mould. Jesus, it's a sexy look.

Or that one glorious evening where you stay on the pub and head to the disco with a your face black with dirt and a clod of turf still stuck down the trough of your sweaty arse.

HondaSami

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Or that one glorious evening where you stay on the pub and head to the disco with a your face black with dirt and a clod of turf still stuck down the trough of your sweaty arse.

Were you born in 1930?

The Backwards Man

cml387 wrote: »

I hate the smell of turfsmoke in the morning.....it smells like..poverty.

That's where you're wrong, us turfcutters are rich beyond your wildest dreams because our heating bills are so low.:p

The Backwards Man

HondaSami wrote: »

Were you born in 1930?

Na, in the middle of the night as far as I know.

cml387

HondaSami wrote: »

Does it smell differently in the evening?

It's a quote from Abogalypse Now.

moy83

I saw a hardy ould wan cutting with the slean one time . She had her top off like a man and her saggy right tit was thrown over her shoulder to keep out of the swing of the slean . Caitin Kat was her name , some worker she was

Miseryguts

Now where did i leave them feckin' Fert bags??