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Irish obsession with turf?

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    #32
    dmc17
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Time consuming me arse!

    Where else would you want to be on a warm summer's evening? Lying in watching Eastenders and scratching your hole? In some beer garden with wasps and kids and drunken bores everywhere?

    Turf give you fresh air, exercise and a oneness with nature that you won't get anywhere else, and you get to heat your house for next to nothing as a bonus.

    I don't believe in God, but if I did, I'd get down on my knees and thank the bejaysus out of him for creating turf!

    On a train bound for nowhere!


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    #33
    Cantremember
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I don't believe in God, but if I did, I'd get down on my knees and thank the bejaysus out of him for creating turf!

    Turf you are and unto turf you shall return.


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    #34
    heldel00
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    WhiteWalls wrote: »
    sorry I did my sums wrong, 50 yards?

    ???


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    #35
    AboutaWeekAgo
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    Can't bate a nice turf sandwich after a day in the bog!


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    #36
    WhiteWalls
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    heldel00 wrote: »
    ???

    50 yards at 5e per yard for the man that cuts it?


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    #37
    Baggy Trousers
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    muslimstudent wrote: »
    It is okay to get the fire going but coal is far superior to generate heat.

    Good dry turf can give great heat in a stove and is dirt cheap if you save it yourself or buy in bulk. Also coal is filthy.
    The best option really is turf + dry logs. The turf sustains the fire while the wood provides high heat.


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    #38
    cml387
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    I bring in turf for my aunt sometimes.

    It struck me that it's just dried mud.

    Yet deny men the right to cut turf and you'll have death threats and excrement in the mail.

    Who would want to rule this country?


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    #39
    conorh91
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    jive_bunny wrote: »
    turf is more expensive if you put any kind of value on time
    Not if you have child labour available to you.

    Cheap fuel AND cut down on your childcare costs.


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    csallmighty
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »

    Turf give you fresh air, exercise and a oneness with nature that you won't get anywhere else, and you get to heat your house for next to nothing as a bonus.

    Don't forget the cleggs and the midges.


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    #41
    Buona Fortuna
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    jive_bunny wrote: »
    with the price of oil today , turf is more expensive if you put any kind of value on time

    FYP.

    Plus you can get it done weekends and in the long evenings. If the feckin midgets stay away its quite pleasant.

    Wife has an uncle who goes to the bog and regularly takes all his clothes off - you gotta worry about that gene pool :(


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    #42
    boobar
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    I burn briquettes in a stove, living room is nice and toasty and we've cut our oil bill by 2/3.

    However, I help a neighbour bring home his turf every year. Back breaking work, but I don't mind that. It's when we go to the pub and the turf tales are told, sweet jebus they like to talk about good dry black turf, laugh at the guy who always leaves it too late to draw the turf home, how such and such is not worth a sh1te on the bog, hasn't a clue how to foot turf and on and on and on.


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    #43
    boobar
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    cml387 wrote: »
    I bring in turf for my aunt sometimes.

    It struck me that it's just dried mud.

    Yet deny men the right to cut turf and you'll have death threats and excrement in the mail.

    Who would want to rule this country?

    That's turf and we call it "in the post" over here


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    Connemara Farmer
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    thestar wrote: »
    What's the big fascination with it?

    It's traditional, if you own a bog then you can harvest your own fuel.

    With laws now attempting to ban people cutting it it just becomes more important.

    I prefer timber but like the idea of turf, and people cutting it!


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    Sh1tbag OToole
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    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    It's traditional, if you own a bog then you can harvest your own fuel.

    With laws now attempting to ban people cutting it it just becomes more important.

    I prefer timber but like the idea of turf, and people cutting it!

    I like the yoke they use for cutting turf. Looks like a massive chainsaw that goes onto the back of a tractor. Looks way more daycent than an actual chainsaw


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    #46
    ewinslet
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    thestar wrote: »
    In comparison to coal there is a lot less heat out of it, doesn't last near as long and when labor, storage and transportation are taken into account I don't think it is cheap at all.

    What's the big fascination with it?

    The fascination is that the whole bloody midlands is comprised of turf. The land is sh1te. Turf is their only livelihood.


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    #47
    conorh91
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    boobar wrote: »
    However, I help a neighbour bring home his turf every year. Back breaking work, but I don't mind that. It's when we go to the pub and the turf tales are told, sweet jebus they like to talk about good dry black turf, laugh at the guy who always leaves it too late to draw the turf home, how such and such is not worth a sh1te on the bog, hasn't a clue how to foot turf and on and on and on.
    Footing turf is very competitive. There is a culchie convention that you at least offer to help your bog-neighbour after footing your own load. Some people think that's altruism. No. That's total showboating.

    And don't bet me started on those shirkers who buy their turf in by the fertilizer-bag.

    Turf snobbery does be vicious.
    ewinslet wrote: »
    The fascination is that the whole bloody midlands is comprised of turf. The land is sh1te. Turf is their only livelihood.
    jive_bunny wrote: »
    the midlands has loads of great land

    Want good land? Follow the Protestants. Loads of Protestants in the midlands. Q.E.D.


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    #48
    The Backwards Man
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    csallmighty wrote: »
    Don't forget the cleggs and the midges.

    As much a part of Irish fauna as you our I.

    When they start it's time to head home though


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    #49
    Baggy Trousers
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    I just filled the basket of turf for today. Even looking at a big basket of nice turf makes me smile. I don't know what it is.


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    #50
    kneemos
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    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    I just filled the basket of turf for today. Even looking at a big basket of nice turf makes me smile. I don't know what it is.

    Probably turf.Going by the evidence.


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    #51
    dmc17
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Probably turf.Going by the evidence.

    A big basket of nice turf, on closer inspection.


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    #52
    Grayson
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    Because it looks better than trying to burn a seal cub but it's just as damaging to the environment?


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    #53
    FTA69
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    Nodin wrote: »
    And you can bury people in a bog. Try doing that with a bag of coal.

    Arthur Morgan telling that one at the Ard Fheis again was he?


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    #54
    anncoates
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    Coal mine warrior doesn't have the same ring to it.


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    manyoung
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    #56
    marketty
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    I'm not going to take turf that's been on the dirty ground and bring it into my house...ewww... /s


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    #57
    jester77
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    Couldn't pay me to use turf or coal. More than happy with my district heating system, and sensors outside to regulate the heating inside. Nothing better than waking in from the cold onto under-heated floors.


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    #58
    AstraOwner
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    Hard to beat a good load of timber. Cut it to size and stacked neatly. Watch it dry out over the summer. Even in the warmest of days it's comforting to have a generous stack of firewood drying out to see you through the following winter.

    A fine sycamore that came down in the storm last winter is keeping us going for the next few months.


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