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Saving Turf

  • 14-07-2015 11:10am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭


    Many here do it? I suppose it varies depending on the part of the country you live in.

    You'd be run over here on the roads atm with lads drawing turf.

    22 hoppers to get home ourselves between home place, our own and brothers & sisters.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    old fella has it home in the shed since start of June every year he says we won't do any more.
    Still plenty around us doing it but hen harrier areas are making life difficult for lads cutting.

    saving it isn't the problem, you'd swear it was 20 euro notes he puts so little into the stove:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Re-footing it here but the bog is awful wet. It's soaking up from the ground into the turf now lol
    Bog to wet to even get in with a trailer here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭Arrow in the Knee


    Won't be footing for another 2 weeks since it was only cut not too long ago.

    Worst thing about it, is I have to bring my turf home and also me neighbour's turf home as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    2 banks of 24 hoppers here. Ready for the road whenever I'm in the humour


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Reggie. wrote: »
    2 banks of 24 hoppers here. Ready for the road whenever I'm in the humour

    Tell us regg. Haven't you a root bucket for the loader. Is that just for shoving it into the shed or can you run up alone the crogs and fill the trailer in the bog? Hear of a few lads using conveyors now to fill sheds.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Plenty of men round here drawing home turf. An awful lot of it just simply isn't fit for drawing home but it seems to be a big competition round here to get the turf home first! some of the stuff boys have brought home was still that wet ya could stick your finger up through the middle of it. Don't really see the point of rushing to get it home back in the day the auld fella's would be drawing it home closer to September now men want it home in May. Bogs round these parts are very wet also alot of rain has fallen in the last week and a half and we got very little of that good weather from about 3 weeks ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭RoscommonTom


    Plenty of men round here drawing home turf. An awful lot of it just simply isn't fit for drawing home but it seems to be a big competition round here to get the turf home first! some of the stuff boys have brought home was still that wet ya could stick your finger up through the middle of it. Don't really see the point of rushing to get it home back in the day the auld fella's would be drawing it home closer to September now men want it home in May. Bogs round these parts are very wet also alot of rain has fallen in the last week and a half and we got very little of that good weather from about 3 weeks ago.

    where abouts are you, it's the same up my neck of the woods


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Muckit wrote: »
    Tell us regg. Haven't you a root bucket for the loader. Is that just for shoving it into the shed or can you run up alone the crogs and fill the trailer in the bog? Hear of a few lads using conveyors now to fill sheds.

    I use it for shoving into the sheds. It gathers up too turf mould to scoop up the turf. I leave the trailer outside the bank on the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Have 17 hoppers to bring home between myself and my brother. We also save a few row for 2 elderly neighbours and draw theirs home for them.
    Not a chance of getting near the bank as the bog is too wet and the turf only about fit.
    I was checking on it last Friday and noticed that another neighbour had started drawing theirs home. No way was it dry enough to go into a shed, besides the fact that they cut up the pass again this year :mad:
    If my Uncle was alive the shotgun would have been produced :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Have 17 hoppers to bring home between myself and my brother. We also save a few row for 2 elderly neighbours and draw theirs home for them.
    Not a chance of getting near the bank as the bog is too wet and the turf only about fit.
    I was checking on it last Friday and noticed that another neighbour had started drawing theirs home. No way was it dry enough to go into a shed, besides the fact that they cut up the pass again this year :mad:
    If my Uncle was alive the shotgun would have been produced :eek:
    Hate that. There's a fella that uses the 4wd the whole time on the bog and the entrance has to be leveled by the digger after him as he tears it to bits every year


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Same problem here, neighbours teenage son in 3yo 4wd Zetor with narrow tyres that have good treads.
    Pic of the pass last year after the young lad.
    I tried getting our first load out but got stuck and we had to get the lad that cuts to bring his machine and pull us out backwards back onto the bank.
    He made a new track for us over cutaway but it's dodgy to say the least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Same problem here, neighbours teenage son in 3yo 4wd Zetor with narrow tyres that have good treads.
    Pic of the pass last year after the young lad.
    I tried getting our first load out but got stuck and we had to get the lad that cuts to bring his machine and pull us out backwards back onto the bank.
    He made a new track for us over cutaway but it's dodgy to say the least.

    No chance of putting some hardcore in that area plus is there a drain near that area?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,891 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Plenty of men round here drawing home turf. An awful lot of it just simply isn't fit for drawing home but it seems to be a big competition round here to get the turf home first! some of the stuff boys have brought home was still that wet ya could stick your finger up through the middle of it. Don't really see the point of rushing to get it home back in the day the auld fella's would be drawing it home closer to September now men want it home in May. Bogs round these parts are very wet also alot of rain has fallen in the last week and a half and we got very little of that good weather from about 3 weeks ago.

    If they have a years supply ahead of them it wouldn't be any harm taking it off a wet bog and reeking it outside to dry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Father is about 3 yrs ahead of himself with turf now. We burn very little since he got back to site work as he brings all waste timber home from the site


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Reggie. wrote: »
    No chance of putting some hardcore in that area plus is there a drain near that area?
    As you look at the pic there is a drain on the right hand side but it is between the field and pass. On the left hand side there is a 5 or 6' drop to cutaway.
    No point in putting in stone as it would just be lost. Only way of travelling is to cut birch and lay it cross ways in the worst areas.
    We and the neighbour are now the only ones using it now and there is no point in asking the neighbour to do anything as it ain't going to happen.
    The land that the pass is on was sold last year and the new owner has done a lot of work reinstating the pass further on (opposite direction to the photo) where it goes into a field - stoned it and cut back the hedge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    As you look at the pic there is a drain on the right hand side but it is between the field and pass. On the left hand side there is a 5 or 6' drop to cutaway.
    No point in putting in stone as it would just be lost. Only way of travelling is to cut birch and lay it cross ways in the worst areas.
    We and the neighbour are now the only ones using it now and there is no point in asking the neighbour to do anything as it ain't going to happen.
    The land that the pass is on was sold last year and the new owner has done a lot of work reinstating the pass further on (opposite direction to the photo) where it goes into a field - stoned it and cut back the hedge.

    Reason I ask as that seems to be the only part that's damp. It seems that water is holding there. The bank behind looks dry compared to it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    We have 90 yards between two houses and ill save 15yards for a mate. I can drive in the rav and ivor williams 10x5 aeound the bog and load it with bags. Dry bog makes saving turf easy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Reason I ask as that seems to be the only part that's damp. It seems that water is holding there. The bank behind looks dry compared to it
    The bank behind (and turn left ) is OH's bank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    where abouts are you, it's the same up my neck of the woods

    Not too far from ya judging by the name! I'm from down near the Roscommon Mayo boarder. Tis a shame as we seem to be getting the worst of the weather this July, there only a couple of weeks ago there were men saving hay up round Athlone and down here ya'd just about get silage!
    Ay alot of men are a few years ahead of themselves and some others are selling it so they couldn't care less how fit it is! Haven't seen anyone reeking turf outside now for quite a while and any ya would see is well wrapped in tarpaulin. A good airy shed will dry turf a bit but any wet stuff that's well buried usually won't dry much! I've seen some wet stuff go a shade of white and sort of musty when thrown into a shed for a couple of years. We heat everything off turf no oil at all so we never have anything left over but then again we don't cut a mad amount either just enough to see us through to next years stuff.
    The grandfather used to say that the only place turf will dry properly is on the bog or in the fire and I think he wasn't too far wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Not too far from ya judging by the name! I'm from down near the Roscommon Mayo boarder. Tis a shame as we seem to be getting the worst of the weather this July, there only a couple of weeks ago there were men saving hay up round Athlone and down here ya'd just about get silage!
    Ay alot of men are a few years ahead of themselves and some others are selling it so they couldn't care less how fit it is! Haven't seen anyone reeking turf outside now for quite a while and any ya would see is well wrapped in tarpaulin. A good airy shed will dry turf a bit but any wet stuff that's well buried usually won't dry much! I've seen some wet stuff go a shade of white and sort of musty when thrown into a shed for a couple of years. We heat everything off turf no oil at all so we never have anything left over but then again we don't cut a mad amount either just enough to see us through to next years stuff.
    The grandfather used to say that the only place turf will dry properly is on the bog or in the fire and I think he wasn't too far wrong.
    He sounds like my auld lad :D

    Could never understand the panic to draw turf off the bog. Give it plenty of time


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭jimmy G M


    Reggie. wrote: »
    He sounds like my auld lad :D

    Could never understand the panic to draw turf off the bog. Give it plenty of time

    16 hoppers footed, ready to come home. Will give it another 10 days or so to be sure. Agree only place to dry turf is in the bog. Badly saved turf a b@lls, sliw to light, no heat, & smokey in the winter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    jimmy G M wrote: »
    16 hoppers footed, ready to come home. Will give it another 10 days or so to be sure. Agree only place to dry turf is in the bog. Badly saved turf a b@lls, sliw to light, no heat, & smokey in the winter.

    Ours was heaped a month ago and will give it another week or two to be sure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    10 hoppers this year footed last week. for the first time ever I paid 3 lads to do it. 10 hoppers, 8 sods wide, 105 yards long

    cost €58 to buy, (cutting, bank and turf) and €12 to foot

    Im only burning 2011 turf now, sold all my 2012 turf in 2012 for a mint and have 2013 and 2014 here.

    father has about 16 of the same hoppers and he burning 2013 turf as I sold all his 2012 turf for him also :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Suckler


    Base price wrote: »
    Not a chance of getting near the bank as the bog is too wet and the turf only about fit.
    I was checking on it last Friday and noticed that another neighbour had started drawing theirs home. No way was it dry enough to go into a shed, besides the fact that they cut up the pass again this year :mad:
    If my Uncle was alive the shotgun would have been produced :eek:

    There's always at least one in every parish. We're close to our bank so we'd often spot locals heading up to check conditions plenty of times before heading in. Another neighbour decided his turf was too important to stay another day on the bog, landed in with the biggest tractor he could get his donkey hooves on and duly got it and the trailer stuck. Summoned his donkey brother who dragged the whole lot out leaving the place in sh1te. Thought it'd calm a few locals when he went in with the digger to smooth out the ruts but just made more of a mess the more he moved.
    Also a lad you'd have to watch if there was talk of putting a "roadwway" in to the bog. Aul builders rubble with some wrapping plastic and domestic waste fire under it if he could get away with it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    If we get a half decent week lads will be flat out getting the last of the turf home


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    I said wrote: »
    If we get a half decent week lads will be flat out getting the last of the turf home

    ours is in the shed with a month.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Is this brown turf or black turf ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Is this brown turf or black turf ?

    ours is black anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    ours is black anyway

    Once you go black you'll never go back #alledgly


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Once you go black you'll never go back #alledgly

    thats what she said


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ours is in the shed with a month.

    Same as that. Over for another year


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    ours is in the shed with a month.

    Often brought it home Xmas week.no probs on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    I said wrote: »
    Often brought it home Xmas week.no probs on it.

    drew once in october for an great uncle. hands were blue travelling to the bog on the trailer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Dozer1 wrote: »
    old fella has it home in the shed since start of June every year he says we won't do any more.
    Still plenty around us doing it but hen harrier areas are making life difficult for lads cutting.

    saving it isn't the problem, you'd swear it was 20 euro notes he puts so little into the stove:P

    Is he using an artifical drier or something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    Dozer1 wrote: »
    old fella has it home in the shed since start of June every year he says we won't do any more.
    Still plenty around us doing it but hen harrier areas are making life difficult for lads cutting.

    saving it isn't the problem, you'd swear it was 20 euro notes he puts so little into the stove:P
    Hen harrier have nothing to do with turf cutting restrictions on the 53 SAC raised bogs (2% of total raised bogs). Hen Harrier is an easy scapegoat for all ills.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭morebabies


    Our turf is still very damp in the bog, was wondering if we brought it home and left it drying in a redundant polytunnel we have would that help at all or would it retain the moisture in there? Anyone have a clue?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    morebabies wrote: »
    Our turf is still very damp in the bog, was wondering if we brought it home and left it drying in a redundant polytunnel we have would that help at all or would it retain the moisture in there? Anyone have a clue?

    Leave it for another week or two weathers not to bad till next weekend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    morebabies wrote: »
    Our turf is still very damp in the bog, was wondering if we brought it home and left it drying in a redundant polytunnel we have would that help at all or would it retain the moisture in there? Anyone have a clue?

    What you need is an open shed or use pallets on the sides and cover the top of the pile turf when brought home so that the wind can blow through it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Reggie. wrote: »
    What you need is an open shed or use pallets on the sides and cover the top of the pile turf when brought home so that the wind can blow through it

    grandfather always said the place for drying turf is in the bog!! id chance another week or two


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    grandfather always said the place for drying turf is in the bog!! id chance another week or two

    Agreed but that's a last resort


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭mf240


    The father has more turf and sticks, youd think there was an ice age forcast.

    Hes not sure if its 2012 or 2011 hes burning at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    mf240 wrote: »
    The father has more turf and sticks, youd think there was an ice age forcast.

    Hes not sure if its 2012 or 2011 hes burning at the moment.

    My father has turf over 15 years old


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    My father has turf over 15 years old

    Is it still wet?

    Will have all ours home before the Mayo v Dubs this evening. then collect a few more tickets for tomorrow and off croker in morning.

    THERE WILL BE NO TURF BROUGHT HOME IN GALWAY NEXT WEEK


    with the help of God and Joe anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    mf240 wrote: »
    The father has more turf and sticks, youd think there was an ice age forcast.

    Hes not sure if its 2012 or 2011 hes burning at the moment.


    father has every shed in the place full of turf and sticks. even filled a stable last year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Is it still wet?

    Will have all ours home before the Mayo v Dubs this evening. then collect a few more tickets for tomorrow and off croker in morning.

    THERE WILL BE NO TURF BROUGHT HOME IN GALWAY NEXT WEEK


    with the help of God and Joe anyway
    No it's just he cuts that much every year he can't burn through it all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,249 ✭✭✭GY A1


    Have all ours home a few weeks apart from about a load of stuff that was in a wet spot. But goin having a look and if its middlin its comin home today


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,458 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Since my last post in July unfortunately our pass has suffered an even worse faith. The same young fella tried to draw a load out in early August. He got stuck in the new pass, phoned a friend with a 4wd John Dick to toe him out, which also got stuck and between them they tore the place up.
    Apparently they have made a pure ****e out off the new pass.
    I only learned about this latest fiasco on Friday night when OH told me.
    I have not been on the bank since mid June when we lifted the sods and made windrows.
    TBH I had a major rant/tantrum with OH which was offset by his comments about good neighbours and young fellas learning the ways of the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Base price wrote: »
    Since my last post in July unfortunately our pass has suffered an even worse faith. The same young fella tried to draw a load out in early August. He got stuck in the new pass, phoned a friend with a 4wd John Dick to toe him out, which also got stuck and between them they tore the place up.
    Apparently they have made a pure ****e out off the new pass.
    I only learned about this latest fiasco on Friday night when OH told me.
    I have not been on the bank since mid June when we lifted the sods and made windrows.
    TBH I had a major rant/tantrum with OH which was offset by his comments about good neighbours and young fellas learning the ways of the world.

    Did you get any home yet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Since my last post in July unfortunately our pass has suffered an even worse faith. The same young fella tried to draw a load out in early August. He got stuck in the new pass, phoned a friend with a 4wd John Dick to toe him out, which also got stuck and between them they tore the place up.
    Apparently they have made a pure ****e out off the new pass.
    I only learned about this latest fiasco on Friday night when OH told me.
    I have not been on the bank since mid June when we lifted the sods and made windrows.
    TBH I had a major rant/tantrum with OH which was offset by his comments about good neighbours and young fellas learning the ways of the world.

    A kick in the hole they need


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭mf240


    Base price wrote: »
    Since my last post in July unfortunately our pass has suffered an even worse faith. The same young fella tried to draw a load out in early August. He got stuck in the new pass, phoned a friend with a 4wd John Dick to toe him out, which also got stuck and between them they tore the place up.
    Apparently they have made a pure ****e out off the new pass.
    I only learned about this latest fiasco on Friday night when OH told me.
    I have not been on the bank since mid June when we lifted the sods and made windrows.
    TBH I had a major rant/tantrum with OH which was offset by his comments about good neighbours and young fellas learning the ways of the world.

    A bog is a great education for those lads that think a big fwd and power will go anywhere.

    Theres lads that get stuck every year and a lot of it is there own fault.


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