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ground lime or granulated lime value for money

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭micraX


    None of us disagre that it is more expensive. However some of use consider that it flexability give back a lot of the extra cost. Take wet land where you cannot get into until april taht there is a coat of grass on spreading lime will delay grazing. It has tax efficienty in that you can schedule as an annual cost. Bought with fertlizer it may drop 2 euro/ton off fertlizer cost. Transfered back to granlime etc this may drop it price bt 10/ton. Flexibility with spreading slurry and urea what is that worth. I also find that after spreading in the spring that cattle graze paddocks better.



    Thsi would be a month too late for me and should not be spread on silage ground. I could not have spread Groundlime this year with conditions.
    Who said anything about silage ground? It's for brassicas.
    4 lorry loads dumped in fields.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Guys, how do ye manage to spread Ground Limestone near a busy main road? Would the dust blowing off, not be a major problem?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭micraX


    Guys, how do ye manage to spread Ground Limestone near a busy main road? Would the dust blowing off, not be a major problem?

    Just close the gates so no one can come in and complain. Spread 100 ton on Saturday/Sunday in Lusk half it in ground along a main road and along a housing estate, and it was very windy, no complaints surprisingly. Haha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭visatorro


    neighbour was spreading lime on maize ground here a couple of years ago and the local bastard complained. the farmer had to pay for industrial cleaners to come and clean bastards house. probably the main reason i go with gran lime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭micraX


    visatorro wrote: »
    neighbour was spreading lime on maize ground here a couple of years ago and the local bastard complained. the farmer had to pay for industrial cleaners to come and clean bastards house. probably the main reason i go with gran lime

    Show up with a powerhose and tell him were to put the lance


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭visatorro


    easier said than done when your dealing with a full lunatic!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Round Bale


    micraX wrote: »
    Just close the gates so no one can come in and complain. Spread 100 ton on Saturday/Sunday in Lusk half it in ground along a main road and along a housing estate, and it was very windy, no complaints surprisingly. Haha


    Would you complain, if the residents of the housing estate, allowed their rubbish (papers, plasic bags, etc,.) to blow onto your land?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Round Bale wrote: »
    Would you complain, if the residents of the housing estate, allowed their rubbish (papers, plasic bags, etc,.) to blow onto your land?

    While I wouldn't agree with spreading ground lime on a windy day if it would inconvenience others (to a realistic degree), there's a substantial difference between a powder that will be washed off with a shower or two and non biodegradable garbage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    I would be worried that the dust cloud could cause an accident on the road. One field is right beside dual carriageway. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭micraX


    Round Bale wrote: »
    Would you complain, if the residents of the housing estate, allowed their rubbish (papers, plasic bags, etc,.) to blow onto your land?

    Never been an issue and they are there over ten years. But you can't controls the weather.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    This weeks journal, Reseeding section, page 5. Jack Kennedy saying that Granulated Lime is a waste of money, 5 times more expensive than ground limestone. It's basically the same thing just ground finer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    This weeks journal, Reseeding section, page 5. Jack Kennedy saying that Granulated Lime is a waste of money, 5 times more expensive than ground limestone. It's basically the same thing just ground finer.

    TBH he is not the greatest expert in the world. Over the years I have found out that the opposite to what he and Shane Ross expound is often not a bad idea.

    We all know that it is more expensive to buy the real question is will it flexibility and non damage to ground microbiology make up for the extra cost. Have heard no one state that it is five times more expensive was under the impression that it was near a factor of 3.

    He also expounded the theory of the woodchip pad. Everything has a place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭farmernewbie


    Lads I got these soil test results from 4 samples. Looks like I am ok for Lime now sure on the rest. Anyone understand the P and K values?

    Sample PH P K N P K
    1 6.85 7.83 27.20 125 20 175
    2 7.06 12.10 32.90 125 0 175
    3 6.93 9.82 29.80 125 0 175
    4 7.35 5.38 20.50 125 20 175


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Jack Kennedy has been wrong in the past, pads, outdoor cubicles, jerseys, crossbreeding but he is spot on this time with lime. Flexibility is a weak selling point, if you can't find a window every 5-6 years, you're asleep. Granted its uses in marginal land and short term leased land.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Round Bale


    Lads I got these soil test results from 4 samples. Looks like I am ok for Lime now sure on the rest. Anyone understand the P and K values?

    Sample PH P K N P K
    1 6.85 7.83 27.20 125 20 175
    2 7.06 12.10 32.90 125 0 175
    3 6.93 9.82 29.80 125 0 175
    4 7.35 5.38 20.50 125 20 175

    WTF is that? Panel from sudoku puzzle?? -;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Round Bale wrote: »
    WTF is that? Panel from sudoku puzzle?? -;)

    That's what it looks like:D:D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭satstheway


    My ground lime is going on today. Thanks for the help people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭farmernewbie


    Round Bale wrote: »
    WTF is that? Panel from sudoku puzzle?? -;)

    Might as well be to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Just wondering really but, does anyone know what Ag Lime cost per tonne delivered? By this I mean, not including the cost of spreading, just delieverd into the yard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭satstheway


    Mine was €450 for 26 ton not spread
    That was Feb or March .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭grange mac


    Bargained to 420 delivered for 22 ton. Price depends on distance from quarry. In John A Woods/Road stone anyway. I'm 40miles from castle more quarry in cork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭arctic8dave


    Paid 17 ton last spring from castle more quarries cork
    But I,m less than 2 miles from them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    €20/t is what I paid this yr, and I'm just over 50 miles from the quarry. Will be paying at least €2/tonne more nxt yr apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    €19/Tonne spread here, local lad wanted €24.70/tonne and wouldn't budge on price.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭caseman


    16 a tonne to buy 4 to spread and i loaded myself


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