When townies get mixed up!

westcoast66

Anyone got any good ones?

There's a lad near me that keeps asking me if I spread much silage this year. We havn't the heart to tell him!

westcoast66

Move to F&F?

IH784man

When a townie thinks a bull has horns and a cow has none,same with rams and ewes

welton john

A non farming friend while looking at our hens one evening asked if the cock had to be in with them every night so they'd lay an egg in the morning

Base price

When a townie calls all bovines COWS

IH784man

Was gonna say that one myself bp :P

lakill Farm

when townies mix up hay as straw and straw as hay

lakill Farm

went looking for beestings /bisnings oone evening for lambs

about 3 days later herself asked where did I get the bee -stings from.

I said not from bees anyway :rolleyes:

endacl

Base price wrote: »

When a townie calls all bovines COWS

Indeed. Some bovines are oxen. Some cows are hippopotamus.

You'd want to be a 'townie' to know that.

Base price

endacl wrote: »

Indeed. Some bovines are oxen. Some cows are hippopotamus.

You'd want to be a 'townie' to know that.

Haven't seen many oxen or hippo grazing the fields of the Emerald Isle :rolleyes:
BTW I am a "townie" :-))

endacl

Base price wrote: »

Haven't seen many oxen or hippo grazing the fields of the Emerald Isle :rolleyes:

We have a few in Dublin.

A cow called Daisy

Heard of family from Dublin that moved to live close to me saying how they loved seeing the peacocks in the fields (pheasants) but couldn't cope with the number and size of the rats they often see in their garden (rabbits)
if it was me I'd of left none the wiser

Blackgrass

Used to do open farm Sunday but can't be bothered dealing with F**k wits that have never seen a cow/sheep/our few pigs in the wood or deciding to have a rant about growing your mutant wheats while pointing at a heap of barley... It's not even funny how little people know where what they're eating comes from yet decide all farmers are 'behind the times' and 'inefficient'.

Greengrass1

Blackgrass wrote: »

Used to do open farm Sunday but can't be bothered dealing with F**k wits that have never seen a cow/sheep/our few pigs in the wood or deciding to have a rant about growing your mutant wheats while pointing at a heap of barley... It's not even funny how little people know where what they're eating comes from yet decide all farmers are 'behind the times' and 'inefficient'.

Machinery lecturer in kildalton couldn't tell the difference between wheat barley and oats.
now that's bad

whelan2

oh is from dublin and every cow is a he! after nearly 20 years we are used to it

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

oh is from dublin and every cow is a he! after nearly 20 years we are used to it

Lock him into the bull pen and he will figure it out for himself

darragh_haven

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Machinery lecturer in kildalton couldn't tell the difference between wheat barley and oats.
now that's bad

I wouldnt have a clue either as the only crop we have every grown on our farm in my lifetime is ................. grass. (Altho I suppose I'm not suppose to teach it like a lecturer)
Same with 90% of the neighbours.

Blackgrass

darragh_haven wrote: »

I would have a clue either as the only crop we have every grown on our farm in my lifetime is ................. grass. (Altho I suppose I'm not suppose to teach it like a lecturer)
Same with 90% of the neighbours.

If unsure look through roots to see the seed until stem extension(should be around) and then look through the stem to find the grain head.

Dawggone

darragh_haven wrote: »

I would have a clue either as the only crop we have every grown on our farm in my lifetime is ................. grass. (Altho I suppose I'm not suppose to teach it like a lecturer)
Same with 90% of the neighbours.

I think it is a cultural thing.
Wife was a teacher back home (laying hen! Before you say it) and city kids gave the usual totally ignorant answers to the farm sources of foods.
We open the farm 3 to 4 days a year here and kids are much, much, better informed.

Dawggone

Blackgrass wrote: »

If unsure look through roots to see the seed until stem extension(should be around) and then look through the stem to find the grain head.

Not to go too much off topic...harvested 88 acres of wbarley today and it's coming in at 7.7t/ha at 69kph and 13.3% moisture. Happy enough.

Reggie.

When the city lads ask was I up early to milk the bulls :eek:

Brown Podzol

Dawggone wrote: »

Not to go too much off topic...harvested 88 acres of wbarley today and it's coming in at 7.7t/ha at 69kph and 13.3% moisture. Happy enough.

Are we looking at a bin buster? Won't auger well for milk price.

Kovu

Reggie. wrote: »

When the city lads ask was I up early to milk the bulls :eek:

Not too far wrong if ya work at an AI station though

Blackgrass

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Are we looking at a bin buster? Won't auger well for milk price.

redfacedbear

As a townie living in the sticks, can I ask a question I don't want to ask the neighbour for fear of looking stupid?

Why are the back wheels on his tractor narrower than the wheels on most other tractors? Is it just the make of tractor or are there practical reasons for it?

Dawggone

Brown Podzol wrote: »

Are we looking at a bin buster? Won't auger well for milk price.

No. Drought has hit yields.
We're looking at an estimated loss of 2 to 4 t/ha on maincrop wheat.
Rain came too late.
Winter barley was hit, but not as badly as it has a shorter growing season.

tanko

redfacedbear wrote: »

As a townie living in the sticks, can I ask a question I don't want to ask the neighbour for fear of looking stupid?

Why are the back wheels on his tractor narrower than the wheels on most other tractors? Is it just the make of tractor or are there practical reasons for it?

If he's a tillage farmer, the tractor has narrower wheels so that the wheels don't damage his crops as he sprays them (I think).

Greengrass1

..

Blackgrass

redfacedbear wrote: »

As a townie living in the sticks, can I ask a question I don't want to ask the neighbour for fear of looking stupid?

Why are the back wheels on his tractor narrower than the wheels on most other tractors? Is it just the make of tractor or are there practical reasons for it?

Does he normally have something like this on? If so it's for applying pesticides to crops with narrower tyres to run down narrow tracks taking out less crop

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tractor_and_Sprayer_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1913814.jpg
http://www.acareservices.co.uk/site/images/knightMTD03.jpg

Tails142

endacl wrote: »

Indeed. Some bovines are oxen. Some cows are hippopotamus.

You'd want to be a 'townie' to know that.

They're all ungulates at the end of the day.

uck51js9zml2yt

Did my LC Ag Science (honours) project on diseases in cattle and sheep and got a B for the subject.

Did I mention I'm a townie.

The difference between a bull and a bullock or being told a hogget is a small hog

quadrifoglio verde

IH784man wrote: »

When a townie thinks a bull has horns and a cow has none,same with rams and ewes

Had friends down in achill a few weeks ago, they couldn't get over how many rams there were and why the rams were always with the lambs :pac:

Deepsouthwest

Am the only one who this thread kinda immature? Why would we expect town/city folk to know pointless little pieces of info about our lives/jobs etc?

ganmo

sheeps...

IH784man

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Am the only one who this thread kinda immature? Why would we expect town/city folk to know pointless little pieces of info about our lives/jobs etc?

Because they try to chat to us about farming a get it all wrong.

Dawggone

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Am the only one who this thread kinda immature? Why would we expect town/city folk to know pointless little pieces of info about our lives/jobs etc?

Hmmm. Couldn't agree DSW.

We consume food everyday and I know ( I think) where that comes from.
Likewise fossil fuels.
Likewise interweb.
Tobacco/alcohol/currency/chewing gum/soap operas etc etc.


One of the most important consumables has to be food. We need to educate the masses...

uck51js9zml2yt

IH784man wrote: »

Because they try to chat to us about farming a get it all wrong.

Its like going on a foreign holiday and trying to speak the lingo. The locals love it.:)

Pookla

Dawggone wrote: »

We need to educate the masses...

There's educating the masses and then there's mocking people for not knowing as much as you about a niche subject.

Imagine if your doctor took his stories about you and what you didn't understand to have a good laugh at with his mates on the internet. Still appropriate?

Dawggone

Pookla wrote: »

There's educating the masses and then there's mocking people for not knowing as much as you about a niche subject.

Imagine if your doctor took his stories about you and what you didn't understand to have a good laugh at with his mates on the internet. Still appropriate?

Did I laugh at anybody? No.

Obviously you don't like the term "masses".
Should I say "populace"?

RightTurnClyde

We were out on the Aran islands last year with some friends from Cork city and their 16 year old son. There was a JCB loadall being used to move some pallets of building materials in from the boats up through the island. Every time the loadall passed us my 4 yr old son would start talking about the amazing "teleporter". After a half hour of this the confused city teenager turned to his father and asked "Why does he keep talking about Star Trek when the yellow tractor passes"

Pookla

Dawggone wrote: »

Did I laugh at anybody? No.

Obviously you don't like the term "masses".
Should I say "populace"?

Call groups of people whatever you want.

It's the sneering superiority that I dislike.

Bullocks

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Am the only one who this thread kinda immature? Why would we expect town/city folk to know pointless little pieces of info about our lives/jobs etc?

Exactly, why would they give a **** ? I don't care much for cornation St or premier league either !

frazzledhome

IH784man wrote: »

Because they try to chat to us about farming a get it all wrong.

Is that not being polite?

Dawggone

Pookla wrote: »

Call groups of people whatever you want.

It's the sneering superiority that I dislike.

No sneering from me...:)

Read back through my posts in this thread...

Pookla

Dawggone wrote: »

No sneering from me...:)

Read back through my posts in this thread...

Sorry, misread your username and post when I first quoted.

But I'll stand by comments for the thread as a whole.

John_Rambo

Pookla wrote: »

It's the sneering superiority that I dislike.

That's the internet for you. I help out on a friends farm in the real world and I must absolutely wreck his head asking questions but he seems happy enough to explain and let me dig in (sometimes too much ). He acts as if he's happy to share the knowledge. He's a bruiser, pure strength and will. I teach him how to surf and he turns in to a blubbering coward in two foot of water! You should hear the language out of him, along with his high pitched Clare accent, it's hilarious. (he still kept going back till he stood on the board though!)

lakill Farm wrote: »

when townies mix up hay as straw and straw as hay

Well, that's fair enough, you'd get mixed up between below the line and above the line marketing!!! Some of the other examples of townies ignorance is pure spoofs. Mixing up rabbits with rats?? Come on.

I do see culture clash problems with the boom of one of housing encroaching on farmland though. A lot of people would be quick to complain about normal seasonal farming practices. I think if you want to move to the country, you gotta put up with the country (to a degree).

Sam Kade

There's people that have lived in our local village for years and they still think 3 miles up the road is the middle of nowhere. They always use main roads and would get lost if they travelled back roads within a mile of the village :rolleyes: They drive 3 miles towards the local town to get on the main road to the city even though the town is in the opposite direction to the city

Jeju

City OH was shocked one day while driving in the rain "Agggg look at the poor cows all wet and cold out in the rain, wouldn't you think the farmer would put them in , aggggh.

Tea 1000

Would now be a bad time to bring up that the OP of the June thread refers to the 21st June as the Equinox?!

Dawggone

John_Rambo wrote: »

That's the internet for you. I help out on a friends farm in the real world and I must absolutely wreck his head asking questions but he seems happy enough to explain and let me dig in (sometimes too much ). He acts as if he's happy to share the knowledge. He's a bruiser, pure strength and will. I teach him how to surf and he turns in to a blubbering coward in two foot of water! You should hear the language out of him, along with his high pitched Clare accent, it's hilarious. (he still kept going back till he stood on the board though!)



Well, that's fair enough, you'd get mixed up between below the line and above the line marketing!!! Some of the other examples of townies ignorance is pure spoofs. Mixing up rabbits with rats?? Come on.

I do see culture clash problems with the boom of one of housing encroaching on farmland though. A lot of people would be quick to complain about normal seasonal farming practices. I think if you want to move to the country, you gotta put up with the country (to a degree).

Thanks, good post.

However you may be surprised the amount of culchies/boggers/farmers that would know about above/below the line marketing...

Likewise I am always surprised by the amount of people that can discuss teroir/provenance of cheese/wine etc

Should we change the thread to steryotyping?

Kovu

Dawggone wrote: »

Thanks, good post.

However you may be surprised the amount of culchies/boggers/farmers that would know about above/below the line marketing...

Likewise I am always surprised by the amount of people that can discuss teroir/provenance of cheese/wine etc

Should we change the thread to steryotyping?

Eh......no. We won't be doing that!