Grass and Muck 2016

TGJD

Anyone going this year? Anything in particular you are eager to see?

mahoney_j

Yes and the newholland t 5 and 6 models

MickeyShtyles

Yep, first time going so just a mosy around.

orm0nd

mahoney_j wrote: »

Yes and the newholland t 5 and 6 models

is it clashing with the arrabawn agm jerry ?

RightTurnClyde

Will go up to have a look at some of the medium sized telehandlers, and a bit of bonding time with meself and junior.

mahoney_j

orm0nd wrote: »

is it clashing with the arrabawn agm jerry ?

That's the 12 Friday iirc .see were on first name terms !!!!,yet to figure out who ormond is!!!!!

tractorporn

Hoping to go and hoping to head to Balmoral the day before as well.

MickeyShtyles

mahoney_j wrote: »

That's the 12 Friday iirc .see were on first name terms !!!!,yet to figure out who ormond is!!!!!

I reckon ya can blame Twitter for that one!

X6.430macman

tractorporn wrote:

Hoping to go and hoping to head to Balmoral the day before as well.

Going to balmoral instead of grass n muck.

You will have two busy days

tractorporn

X6.430macman wrote:

Going to balmoral instead of grass n muck.

X6.430macman wrote:

You will have two busy days

Yeah the driving doesn't bother me in fairness I do it week in week out.
Never been to Balmoral before so when I got an invite for a free lunch I said I'd go and grass and muck is only down the road.

X6.430macman

tractorporn wrote:

Yeah the driving doesn't bother me in fairness I do it week in week out. Never been to Balmoral before so when I got an invite for a free lunch I said I'd go and grass and muck is only down the road.

Ya balmoral is dacent enough. Alot of plant, food tents and something less common down south, pig showing and also hens and all that.

darragh_haven

Heading to Balmoral myself as the company I work for has a stand there. As said before, I can't pass up a free lunch

Shannon757

Is Grass and Muck much good machinery wise? And how long would you want to spend there?

blue5000

Anyone in yet, what's traffic like?

MickeyShtyles

blue5000 wrote: »

Anyone in yet, what's traffic like?

Just passing the turn off for Portlaoise.
Not quite yet!

tractorporn

blue5000 wrote:

Anyone in yet, what's traffic like?

Just stopped now bout a mile out plain sailing up till then. Anyone on site? What's the ground like will I break out the wellies?

RightTurnClyde

Stuck in traffic about a mile out. Ground is looking sticky

blue5000

Just in the door, 1 hour driving out of the carpark and 10mins driving home, lucky day with the weather.

Shannon757

I heard it was cancelled?

Pacoa

A few videos up already I see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMjfkzZc8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_voTyngtD_U

tractorporn

blue5000 wrote:

Just in the door, 1 hour driving out of the carpark and 10mins driving home, lucky day with the weather.

Getting out of the car park was a joke in fairness the should have had stewards down in the car parks not stood up on the road

Shannon757

Pacoa wrote: »

A few videos up already I see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPMjfkzZc8k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_voTyngtD_U

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/pics-and-videos-couldnt-make-it-to-grass-and-muck-heres-what-you-missed/

RightTurnClyde

Just in the door here too, hard to get out of the car parks, saw one or two cases of road rage trying to get to the road.
Good day, but the crew doing the security were a 'classy' bunch. The guy controlling the flow of people over to the pits was some plonker. Give someone a hiviz jacket and a walkie talkie and they think they're some kind of hot sh1t

X6.430macman

RightTurnClyde wrote:

Just in the door here too, hard to get out of the car parks, saw one or two cases of road rage trying to get to the road. Good day, but the crew doing the security were a 'classy' bunch. The guy controlling the flow of people over to the pits was some plonker. Give someone a hiviz jacket and a walkie talkie and they think they're some kind of hot sh1t

Hahahaha what was your man doing that was letting them over to the pits??

RightTurnClyde

X6.430macman wrote: »

Hahahaha what was your man doing that was letting them over to the pits??

Just throwing his weight around with a few auld fellas. Anytime I passed him he was mouthing at someone. D1ckhead

blue5000

tractorporn wrote: »

Getting out of the car park was a joke in fairness the should have had stewards down in the car parks not stood up on the road

Agree with you there.

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Just in the door here too, hard to get out of the car parks, saw one or two cases of road rage trying to get to the road.
Good day, but the crew doing the security were a 'classy' bunch:rolleyes:. The guy controlling the flow of people over to the pits was some plonker. Give someone a hiviz jacket and a walkie talkie and they think they're some kind of hot sh1t

There would have been some road rage in the bottom car park if there had been a heavy shower at 3 pm.

I reckon the crowd was twice as big as what they were expecting. I couldn't believe the way spectators were let stand right behind the mowers starting off.

I thought the Joskin tank with the spikerator instead of the dribble bar was interesting, talking to a north of Ireland man there, he said 'It's one way to make a simple job complicated', 'ya' says I ,'and expensive'.

I'm not a contractor, but the margins aren't in farming for 99% of the kit that was there today,
Just my 2 cents.

X6.430macman

blue5000 wrote:

I reckon the crowd was twice as big as what they were expecting. I couldn't believe the way spectators were let stand right behind the mowers starting off.

I saw that in some of the videos. Always thought they were health and safety mad???

PMU

whats the deal with the black tractors. every manafacturer seemed to have one

carrollsno1

PMU wrote: »

whats the deal with the black tractors. every manafacturer seemed to have one

Because once you go bkack you never go back 😂

Waffletraktor

PMU wrote: »

whats the deal with the black tractors. every manafacturer seemed to have one

Abit like sign writing on trailers etc, just so owner can pay an extra few k stuff like chromed exhausts/twin twigs/twin beacons and a light bar/air horns etc thinking it looks flash. Really you look like a massive ****

tractorporn

blue5000 wrote:

I'm not a contractor, but the margins aren't in farming for 99% of the kit that was there today, Just my 2 cents.

+1 I priced a trailer on the Fleming stand a 14ft dropside with grain sides and a bale extension was coming in at over 10k! Everything is just too expensive even the chain harrow/air seeder combo was coming in over 4k

TGJD

Great day out. feel in love a bit with the black case cvx 165. Really gorgeous bit of kit.

A cow called Daisy

Anyone see an agitator with two 'outlets' on it. Made by bloke who be from cavan. Twin something or other it called.
Any opinion or thoughts on it

C0N0R

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Anyone see an agitator with two 'outlets' on it. Made by bloke who be from cavan. Twin something or other it called.
Any opinion or thoughts on it

Wasn't as this but have heard about it from someone who was shown a demo and he said it was a savage job. And easy to power. But as I said I haven't seen it myself.

X6.430macman

Waffletraktor wrote:

Abit like sign writing on trailers etc, just so owner can pay an extra few k stuff like chromed exhausts/twin twigs/twin beacons and a light bar/air horns etc thinking it looks flash. Really you look like a massive ****

Haha how do you look like a ****ing eegit?? It looks unreal and its business marketing for contractors.

Waffletraktor

X6.430macman wrote: »

Haha how do you look like a ****ing eegit?? It looks unreal and its business marketing for contractors.

Right if you hire a contract based on who has the flashiest gear?! Most contractors now don't take on full time staff bar a small handful of the best guys locally and they look after them well. The rest are the local trailer monkies in as owner driver for about 18£ an hour + fuel on zero hours contracts self employed. Arriving in with a tarted up machine gives the wrong impression.

X6.430macman

Waffletraktor wrote:

Right if you hire a contract based on who has the flashiest gear?! Most contractors now don't take on full time staff bar a small handful of the best guys locally and they look after them well. The rest are the local trailer monkies in as owner driver for about 18£ an hour + fuel on zero hours contracts self employed. Arriving in with a tarted up machine gives the wrong impression.

It shows professionality. Would you drop your own kids (if any oviously) into what looks like a kip of a school from the outside. A nice tidy looking place will look a bit more professional.

MF290

Have to say I like the look of the bluepower NHs and black beauty fendts. The only advantage I can think of for contractors around here is it'd be great way of letting farmers know you're charging them too much.

X6.430macman

MF290 wrote:

Have to say I like the look of the bluepower NHs and black beauty fendts. The only advantage I can think of for contractors around here is it'd be great way of letting farmers know you're charging them too much.

If they do it thought they oviously take pride in their work and should do a good job.

rs8

Any taughts on the krone wagon?

BlondeMoment

rs8 wrote: »

Any taughts on the krone wagon?

And did anyone get a Krone bucket!?

blue5000

Photo of the joskin tank with spiked applicator, wouldn't fancy spreading slurry from baled silage though.

MickeyShtyles

Was over looking at the lely gear and I found it odd that seeing as we now have robots milking cows and drones etc etc....
We still have a bitta rope to pull to drop mowers....!

X6.430macman

MickeyShtyles wrote:

Was over looking at the lely gear and I found it odd that seeing as we now have robots milking cows and drones etc etc.... We still have a bitta rope to pull to drop mowers....!

That's just safety

bogman_bass

X6.430macman wrote: »

If they do it thought they oviously take pride in their work and should do a good job.

If they are putting pointless kit on their gear it looks to me like they are more worried about being a flash Harry than doing a good job. A stainless steel exhaust isn't going to make my silage any better

X6.430macman

bogman_bass wrote:

If they are putting pointless kit on their gear it looks to me like they are more worried about being a flash Harry than doing a good job. A stainless steel exhaust isn't going to make my silage any better

I would think of that stuff as a promotion to the driver.

rushvalley

X6.430macman wrote: »

I would think of that stuff as a promotion to the driver.

What?! I'd rather an extra 100 euro in my wages as a promotion than a stainless steel exhaust or twin beacons...

X6.430macman

rushvalley wrote:

What?! I'd rather an extra 100 euro in my wages as a promotion than a stainless steel exhaust or twin beacons...

Haha ya suppose that's true but that's what young lads like and it is unreal

Waffletraktor

X6.430macman wrote: »

Haha ya suppose that's true but that's what young lads like and it is unreal

It makes you look like your man, Richard cranium.

rushvalley

X6.430macman wrote: »

Haha ya suppose that's true but that's what young lads like and it is unreal

I am a young lad and Id rather the money

X6.430macman

rushvalley wrote:

I am a young lad and Id rather the money

But then would you swap the comfort of a nice tractor for a ****ty ould yoke for the money, some probably would I know I wouldn't.