5 worst farm jobs....

whelan2

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/#fragment-3 I think forking dung should be there too, or paperwork

the_pen_turner

Where list.
Most if that can be avoided by using the right machinery.

My list

Up All night caving and lambing

Dehorning calf's , especially ones that are bought in with horns

Dealing with dead animals, especially when bloated up or dead calves inside mother

Trying to round up sheep that have broke out and are gone everywhere

Spreading slurry. Long monotonous days and your stink

whelan2

1. Pulling ragwort
2. Dagging sheep
3. Picking stones
4. Powerwashing sheds
5. Covering pit
thats the journals top 5

the_pen_turner

What's wrong with power washing sheds or covering the pit. Nothing bad about that.

Surely picking g stones can be avoided by hiring in one of the contractor with a stone Collecting yoke whatever it's called.

Can ragwort be sprayed

Can you not clip the sheep before it grows and gets all matted. I know nothing about looking after sheep

whelan2

the_pen_turner wrote: »

What's wrong with power washing sheds or covering the pit. Nothing bad about that.

Surely picking g stones can be avoided by hiring in one of the contractor with a stone Collecting yoke whatever it's called.

Can ragwort be sprayed

Can you not clip the sheep before it grows and gets all matted. I know nothing about looking after sheep

Can think of worse job than their top 5. Taking rotten cleanings from a cow, or trying to get through to the department of agriculture bps section would be other ones.

tractorporn

whelan2 wrote:

1. Pulling ragwort 2. Dagging sheep 3. Picking stones 4. Powerwashing sheds 5. Covering pit thats the journals top 5

My top three

1. Uncovering the pit
2. Picking stones
3. The bog.

charolais0153

tractorporn wrote: »

My top three

1. Uncovering the pit
2. Picking stones
3. The bog.

Spent half the summer in the bog and a week pickling stones. Bog is still far better IMO

Don't mind the small tyres on the out but the lorry tyres are pure *****.

Oowerhosung is grand if you have good water supply and long hose and powerful washer.

Forking out dung isn't the worst really as long as you don't gave to be wheelbarrowing it over stones and the like.

I hate sweeping as you have to go over the small earea a few times and just is very time consuming.

Building stone walls can be a right pain with round stones and when there's briars and trees knocking the walls in the first place.

Hate dehorning calves though, horrible job

emaherx

Here's my list

1. Pulling ragwort.
2. Pulling ragwort.
3. Pulling ragwort.
4. Pulling ragwort.
5. Pulling ragwort.

The_Chap

Cleaning up a bad dose of flystrike on sheep has to be up there

whelan2

emaherx wrote: »

Here's my list

1. Pulling ragwort.
2. Pulling ragwort.
3. Pulling ragwort.
4. Pulling ragwort.
5. Pulling ragwort.

was reading somewhere else today were a womans daughter was invited to a ragwort pulling party at her friends house. They pulled ragwort , slept in a tent had a barbecue and pulled more ragwort the next day, she said it was the best fun EVER, slept for a full day when she came home. They cleared 2 fields of ragwort

emaherx

whelan2 wrote: »

was reading somewhere else today were a womans daughter was invited to a ragwort pulling party at her friends house. They pulled ragwort , slept in a tent had a barbecue and pulled more ragwort the next day, she said it was the best fun EVER, slept for a full day when she came home. They cleared 2 fields of ragwort

Do you have their number?

Sam Kade

charolais0153 wrote: »

Spent half the summer in the bog and a week pickling stones. Bog is still far better IMO

Don't mind the small tyres on the out but the lorry tyres are pure *****.

Oowerhosung is grand if you have good water supply and long hose and powerful washer.

Forking out dung isn't the worst really as long as you don't gave to be wheelbarrowing it over stones and the like.

I hate sweeping as you have to go over the small earea a few times and just is very time consuming.

Building stone walls can be a right pain with round stones and when there's briars and trees knocking the walls in the first place.

Hate dehorning calves though, horrible job

How did you pickle the stones

50HX

trying to get lazy CHX calves to suck

trying to treat mastitis on a "lively" suckler cow

herd test with dept vet

The part time boy

1. Pulling ragworth
2. Picking stone
3. Cleaning out a hard with pike
4. Disposing of dead cattle
5. Sunday evening milking when you been away some where

whelan2

The part time boy wrote: »

1. Pulling ragworth
2. Picking stone
3. Cleaning out a hard with pike
4. Disposing of dead cattle
5. Sunday evening milking when you been away some where

What's a pike?

50HX

whelan2 wrote: »

What's a pike?

a cousin of a grape:D

whelan2

50HX wrote: »

a cousin of a grape:D

A pike is a fish, a grape you make wine with and sprong is just wrong, its a fork

foxy farmer

whelan2 wrote: »

What's a pike?

Don't start that again:)

K.G.

Myself and the young lad went at ragworth on new rented ground today.god he loves pulling it.he hate s ragworth with a passion and will pull it when ever he see it.

Notoldorwise

emaherx wrote:

1. Pulling ragwort. 2. Pulling ragwort. 3. Pulling ragwort. 4. Pulling ragwort. 5. Pulling ragwort.

emaherx wrote:

Here's my list

I'm guessing that you didn't spend the Bank Holiday at the seaside.....

Sam Kade

whelan2 wrote: »

What's a pike?

You eat your dinner with a fork you feed cattle with a pike

emaherx

Notoldorwise wrote: »

I'm guessing that you didn't spend the Bank Holiday at the seaside.....

I did, twas a yellow sea!

theaceofspies

Forcefeeding milk back a calves throat with a big syringe. Did this for 7 days (suffering from scour and too weak to drink).
The calf survived.:)
Pulling ragwort is Mary Poppins in the Sound of Music if you have been through the regime on top.

theaceofspies

5 litres twice a day with 50ml syringe - forgot this little detail.

The part time boy

Can never get my head around people calling a pike a fork .

A fork is what towie people would call it .

Plus what do u ask for if u want Some one to go get you a 4 pronk pike or a 2 pronk pike

Cavanjack

Surely the tb test is the worst job ever. The guts of two days gone for nothing. Stress on man and beast and nothing at the end of it only the possibility of bad news and the chance of somebody getting hurt or an injury to an animal. And it's not cheap.

emaherx

The part time boy wrote: »

Can never get my head around people calling a pike a fork .

A fork is what towie people would call it .

Plus what do u ask for if u want Some one to go get you a 4 pronk pike or a 2 pronk pike

Pronk? Is that just a misspelling?

Pitch fork or dung fork simples.

The part time boy

Ya pronk . I can't spell .

What to you use to move sillage ?

I use a 4 pronk pike !

emaherx

The part time boy wrote: »

Ya pronk . I can't spell .

What to you use to move sillage ?

I use a 4 pronk pike !

A 5 foot tine grab......

whelan2

If the 5 worst farming jobs were being discussed in spring time would ragwort even get a mention?

The part time boy

emaherx wrote: »

The part time boy wrote: »

Ya pronk . I can't spell .

What to you use to move sillage ?

I use a 4 pronk pike !

A 5 foot tine grab......

By hand lol

emaherx

whelan2 wrote: »

If the 5 worst farming jobs were being discussed in spring time would ragwort even get a mention?

Yes..... Because I always think I'm going to spray them but either can't get a good weather window or can't see the rosettes and think I must nearly beaten them from all the pulling last year, only to find the little yellow backstards were just hiding.

jimini0

I was at 2 of the top five this weekend. Spent Saturday picking stones. Anything smaller than my fist stayed on the ground.
Spent a while yesterday pulling bouchalains. Its piss easy compared to stones. Its actually satisfying when you see the field or part of it with no yellow flowers

emaherx

The part time boy wrote: »

By hand lol

I don't do anything by hand except pull ragwort and if I can find a machine for that, I will be quite easily parted with my money.

Green farmer

The_Chap wrote: »

Cleaning up a bad dose of flystrike on sheep has to be up there

Pulling out a dead lamb that died a few days previous but the ewe couldn't push it out ain't a nice job either.

Keepgrowing

whelan2 wrote: »

What's a pike?

A fish ffs

Suckler

I had to replace the everun hangers on the hay shed last year. Last time the hangers were put on was when the shed was being put up in the 60's so no roof to deal with. I'll try to explain this clearly; Tedious bloody job to get the hangers in under the roof sheet on to the timber but you had to have the length of the gutter clipped in to it as you couldn't get it in after. So 2/3 hangers + a length of gutter trying to be slid in one side, the aul lad on a ladder inside to try to get a screw in at an angle to hold it in place. Swap positions and I'd go up the ladder to get some bolts screwed down while he was the opposite side making sure that as I screwed the bracket down the gutter came up in to place under the lip of the roof sheet. Then trying to join the sections of gutter, seal the joints, test the flow, bate the hanger to force them down in places and test again. I don't know why we didn't just take the curved sheets off to begin with. Anyone passing would have just heard the two of us shout at each other, swear at gutters and constant drilling/banging. Never again.

Bullocks

Suckler wrote: »

I had to replace the everun hangers on the hay shed last year. Last time the hangers were put on was when the shed was being put up in the 60's so no roof to deal with. I'll try to explain this clearly; Tedious bloody job to get the hangers in under the rood sheet on to the timber but you had to have the length of the gutter clipped in to it as you couldn't get it in after. So 2/3 hangers + a length of gutter trying to be slid in one side, the aul lad on a ladder inside to try to get a screw in at an angle to hold it in place. Swap positions and I'd go up the ladder to get some bolts screwed down while he was the opposite side making sure that as I screwed the bracket down the gutter came up in to place under the lip of the roof sheet. Then trying to join the sections of gutter, seal the joints, test the flow, bate the hanger to force them down in places and test again. I don't know why we didn't just take the curved sheets off to begin with. Anyone passing would have just heard the two of us shout at each other, swear at gutters and constant drilling/banging. Never again.

Snap , had to do it on one of the sheds last year and hopefully it will be a long time before we have to do it again .

Covering the pit is a job I hate the most .
Did you have a thread about this last year Whelan or am I dreaming ?

whelan2

Bullocks wrote: »

Snap , had to do it on one of the sheds last year and hopefully it will be a long time before we have to do it again .

Covering the pit is a job I hate the most .
Did you have a thread about this last year Whelan or am I dreaming ?

Yes the farmers journal copied us again.....

Bullocks

whelan2 wrote: »

Yes the farmers journal copied us again.....

You should try them for a job

Mehaffey1

Managed to get my introduction to farming the last spring New Zealand dairy farmers were allowed to induce late calvers. 10% allowance on any herd size and we were calving 1500. Needless to say never had any vomit issues with calving, piggIngs, cleanings/afterbirth or dead stock since.

The_Chap

Green farmer wrote: »

Pulling out a dead lamb that died a few days previous but the ewe couldn't push it out ain't a nice job either.

Amen to that, especially when they don't come out whole

mf240

Anything to do with sick animals. Followed a close second by dealing with officialdom.

Gawddawggonnit

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Managed to get my introduction to farming the last spring New Zealand dairy farmers were allowed to induce late calvers. 10% allowance on any herd size and we were calving 1500. Needless to say never had any vomit issues with calving, piggIngs, cleanings/afterbirth or dead stock since.

*****!

DJ98

Cavanjack wrote: »

Surely the tb test is the worst job ever. The guts of two days gone for nothing. Stress on man and beast and nothing at the end of it only the possibility of bad news and the chance of somebody getting hurt or an injury to an animal. And it's not cheap.

What does it cost for the TB test, have no cattle, just curious?

kk.man

1. Clearing blocked pipes to spectic tank
2. Dealing with abortions
3. Maggots in sheep
4. Picking stones
5. Drawing bales of silage

Note the 1st one I will not do myself for love or money!

queueeye

theaceofspies wrote: »

5 litres twice a day with 50ml syringe - forgot this little detail.

10 litres of milk a day.
No wonder it was scoured!

John_Rambo

emaherx wrote: »

Here's my list

1. Pulling ragwort.
2. Pulling ragwort.
3. Pulling ragwort.
4. Pulling ragwort.
5. Pulling ragwort.

Ha! I did Ag-science for me leaving (in a Dublin inner city school ), I learned lots and it still stands by me, not for work, but for various social skills and basic cultural skills holidaying and hanging around Ireland.

There was a gang of us that used to canoe and camp around the inland waterways, huge trips across Ireland on canals and rivers, most of them not navigable back then.

We'd rock up to a farmers house asking for permission to camp and they'd be very accommodating, actually over accommodating offering us sheds or outhouses to camp in, sometimes dinner!! Basically, classic, Irish welcoming rural farmers and families that were impressed at us using the waterways.

We'd get the odd suspicious type (in fairness, eight teenage Dubs in rubber suits), they'd be reluctant without being rude.

As soon as I mentioned we'd pull ragwort from the field we were camping in the deal was done!!

Fantastic memories, we met so many really nice people, brought their kids out in the canoes on the river, went shooting with one of them! Used our canoes to rescue mud/water mired livestock... Pre-facebook times, and we were accessing these places from the rivers, not the road. I'd never find them now, but we met so many brilliantly nice people. Just thought I'd share!
And the ragwort thing was a novelty for us!

Biscuitus

Ragweed? ha! The children can do that.

How about having to hand milk out a kicky suckler cow until your hand is on fire and there is still 2-3 litres left in her knowing you will have to bring her in again in 2 days time.

Hoof rot in sheep. Nothing can clear your nostrils after that. I got the call the dinner was ready, marched down into the kitchen, got a bang of seafood which triggered the hoof rot smell still in my nostrils and got sick.

Finding a bloated weanling dead. In fact having to deal with any dead animal is the worst.

I hate dehorning with a passion but its an easy job. Skulling on the other hand I will never do.

feargale

What is skulling?

whelan2

feargale wrote: »

What is skulling?

Taking horns off cattle