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Deepsouthwest

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We're attacking this 'road' tomorrow. Awful mess when it gets wet

What's ur plan of action for it?

Greengrass1

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

What's ur plan of action for it?

Take away clay against ditch and middle and fill it up with 4 inch to down.
200m stretch.
Will blind from the end of that up to yard with 804 at a later stage. Must step it but that could be 800 m easy
7.50 + vat what were getting.
Decent price?

Deepsouthwest

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Take away clay against ditch and middle and fill it up with 4 inch to down.
200m stretch.
Will blind from the end of that up to yard with 804 at a later stage. Must step it but that could be 800 m easy
7.50 + vat what were getting.
Decent price?

Sounds v reasonable, all u'd get around here for €7 is quarry dust.

Dawggone

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

A gestation length of +18/21 days must be ruining ur calving interval.
And I'd say if u added up 20 days of lost milk solids it wouldn't be long bridging the gap between AA/HE calves and ur Lim calves, plus cows going back in calf a lot quicker.
Just a thought!

You're not wrong DSW.
However we are ayr calving...

Now those gestation lengths are from scanning results so probably wouldn't be 100% accurate.

We scan once per month and when cow is in calf and hits 18liters/day she's dried off or canned.

Deepsouthwest

C0N0R wrote: »

Where I'm on placement they have one and reckon it's no use. Ok if you trim them regularly but not fit for dirty knotty hairy tails.

Here's my tail trimmer, €24 in the coop, normally lasts 3/4 yrs, and all cows done twice a yr, around now and just before they start calving at the end of January.
Normally done when theyre feeding at the headfeed after a hungry few hrs, or the odd dirty one done in the parlour.
Often think to trim a cows tail is as good as dose sometimes!!

Greengrass1

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Here's my tail trimmer, €24 in the coop, normally lasts 3/4 yrs, and all cows done twice a yr, around now and just before they start calving at the end of January.
Normally done when theyre feeding at the headfeed after a hungry few hrs, or the odd dirty one done in the parlour.
Often think to trim a cows tail is as good as dose sometimes!!

That's what I'm using here atm. Takes alot of time to do one tail I find.

Maybe I'm trying to trim them too nice?

whelan2

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Here's my tail trimmer, €24 in the coop, normally lasts 3/4 yrs, and all cows done twice a yr, around now and just before they start calving at the end of January.
Normally done when theyre feeding at the headfeed after a hungry few hrs, or the odd dirty one done in the parlour.
Often think to trim a cows tail is as good as dose sometimes!!

scissors here, dont like the thoughts of clippers or whatever in the parlour

kevthegaff

Ya scissors here too, bloody submersible is the problem afterwards!

Greengrass1

http://www.donedeal.ie/view/6445734

Found this today.
Not a bad price

C0N0R

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Here's my tail trimmer, €24 in the coop, normally lasts 3/4 yrs, and all cows done twice a yr, around now and just before they start calving at the end of January.
Normally done when theyre feeding at the headfeed after a hungry few hrs, or the odd dirty one done in the parlour.
Often think to trim a cows tail is as good as dose sometimes!!

Getting sharp ones is half the problem!

blue5000

kevthegaff wrote: »

Ya scissors here too, bloody submersible is the problem afterwards!

The old dear's best fiskars dress making scissors comes in handy;)

whelan2

blue5000 wrote: »

The old dear's best fiskars dress making scissors comes in handy;)

5 pack of scissors 2.49 in aldi.

Greengrass1

whelan2 wrote: »

5 pack of rubbers 2.49 in aldi.

Jaysus whelan that's great value

whelan2

looking at a few bulls on icbf why did ksk's figures collapse in the August proofs?

Panch18

Greengrass1 wrote: »

http://www.donedeal.ie/view/6445734

Found this today.
Not a bad price

We bought one of those tail shears from Connaught agri at the ploughing, not cheap but seem to do a good job

Have only done a few with it so far so sample is small but does a good job it seems

stretch film

Panch18 wrote: »

We bought one of those tail shears from Connaught agri at the ploughing, not cheap but seem to do a good job

Have only done a few with it so far so sample is small but does a good job it seems

the original version was a ball o shyte which might be giving it such a bad reputation. I have the mark 2 and while its not perfect its still a much quicker way of getting through large numbers . a quick clip of the scissors to expose the tip of the tail will speed up the job no end .

freedominacup

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We're attacking this 'road' tomorrow. Awful mess when it gets wet

What time of day was the photo taken? Would it get more sun on other side of the ditch, assuming ye own the ground on the other side. It can make a massive difference to how well a road lasts if it dries out properly.

trixi2011

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Here's my tail trimmer, €24 in the coop, normally lasts 3/4 yrs, and all cows done twice a yr, around now and just before they start calving at the end of January.
Normally done when theyre feeding at the headfeed after a hungry few hrs, or the odd dirty one done in the parlour.
Often think to trim a cows tail is as good as dose sometimes!!

Use them here 2 much quicker than a battery operated clippers. On our second pair this year was Trying to shapen them this morning but no good . Time for a new pair

Greengrass1

freedominacup wrote: »

What time of day was the photo taken? Would it get more sun on other side of the ditch, assuming ye own the ground on the other side. It can make a massive difference to how well a road lasts if it dries out properly.

About 4 o clock. Sun rises to the right of it. Best place for it. Field on other side of that are small enough as is iykwim

Milked out

Greengrass1 wrote: »

About 4 o clock. Sun rises to the right of it. Best place for it. Field on other side of that are small enough as is iykwim

New rules are a balls but if ye own fiekd on other side right job would be flatten the ditch, road would last a long time then

Greengrass1

Milked out wrote: »

New rules are a balls but if ye own fiekd on other side right job would be flatten the ditch, road would last a long time then

I'd gladly flatten the ditch lol.
Be screwed then with sfp.
Have a decent road laid up to that corner and it fits in well with what way paddocks are here atm

PMU

whelan2 wrote: »

5 pack of scissors 2.49 in aldi.

they lose their edge too quick. a 3" stockmaster hand shears costs about 9 euro

whelan2

PMU wrote: »

they lose their edge too quick. a 3" stockmaster hand shears costs about 9 euro

Have 1 pair here since the spring, use for cutting milk tubes too. Agree some of them dont last long though

keep going

Greengrass1 wrote: »

We're attacking this 'road' tomorrow. Awful mess when it gets wet

Done alot of work in the last month on roads and the one bit of advice id give you is dont spare.new roads are 20 ft plus wide and 1 ft high and at time I was doing them it was nagging away was I going over the top but yesterday was the first run on some of them and have to say the best move I ever made.i took up the fences to widen put plenty fall on them and the cows are easily going twice as fast .

frazzledhome

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=F5i8CudktNg

Just to lighten the mood

Greengrass1

I stepped the road from yard to end of road were doing atm.
650m at 4m wide.
Anyone hazard a guess what it'll cost to cap it with 804? 9e ex vat.
I reckon 4,500 - 5k to cover it plus cost of digger for 2 days

Greengrass1

Greengrass1 wrote: »

I stepped the road from yard to end of road were doing atm.
650m at 4m wide.
Anyone hazard a guess what it'll cost to cap it with 804? 9e ex vat.
I reckon 4,500 - 5k to cover it plus cost of digger for 2 days

Would 650m x 4m x 4 inch be the right equation.
Giving me an answer if 94t?

fawlty towers

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Would 650m x 4m x 4 inch be the right equation.
Giving me an answer if 94t?

I make it out to be:

650.0m x 4.0m x 0.10m = 256m3 of filling

Approx 2.2t per m3 = 563t

Greengrass1

fawlty towers wrote: »

I make it out to be:

650.0m x 4.0m x 0.10m = 256m3 of filling

Approx 2.2t per m3 = 563t

Would your answer not be 120t?
I converted my 264m3 to tonne on Google came in at 93t

freedominacup

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Would 650m x 4m x 4 inch be the right equation.
Giving me an answer if 94t?

More like 500 tonne gg. 650×4×0.1 gives you 260 cube. Two tonnes per cube approx.