Most useless/ disappointing thing you ever bought ...

kerryjack · 28-01-2019 05:29PM

A stove sposenly able to heat 14 rads, it will if you stand beside it shoveling coal in to it.

Bazzer007 · 28-01-2019 05:58PM

AG Lime spreader bought secondhand. The farmer who sold it to me put in a bucket of lime and it flew out no bother. Got home and filled the barrel up it wouldn't even dispense the lime near a cubicle just straight on the slats. Motor is on its last legs and vanes don't have enough power to dispense the lime. When I've time will source a lawnmower engine and get it going. Also bought an air compressor new and it breaks my heart every time I use it. Other bad buys would be daisy lifter you need 2/3 lads to use it. Still use the hip clamps, thank god not too often.

Agree with other posters bought a UTV and find it better than my old quad. Safer and tipper is fierce handy for transporting equipment and tipping. I went for a Kubota RTV. Purposely got one with no doors so I could hop in and out quickly.

blade1 · 28-01-2019 06:00PM

Inflatable Dart board

Edit: oops, thought I was in After Hours!

lab man · 28-01-2019 06:07PM

9935452 wrote:

Are the malone mowers that bad ? Did you buy it new ? Ive never hard any bad reviews of them, Also never heard a god review eithre

Ya badly balanced they tip over very easily sheared the damper plate in the tractor last year twice total cost 8800 euro

foxy farmer · 28-01-2019 07:37PM

Bazzer007 wrote: »

Other bad buys would be daisy lifter you need 2/3 lads to use it. Still use the hip clamps, thank god not too often.

Jaysus that thing. A neighbour had one. Remember being on my hands and knees trying to get the bloody tarp under a downer cow on a few occasions. Some dose. You'd have to lift the cow with the hip clamp just to get the tarp under her. Never saw a cow lifted comfortably with it or a cow to get up and stay on her feet after using it. 3-4 lads doing the bollox sounds right.

lab man · 28-01-2019 08:46PM

foxy farmer wrote:

Jaysus that thing. A neighbour had one. Remember being on my hands and knees trying to get the bloody tarp under a downer cow on a few occasions. Some dose. You'd have to lift the cow with the hip clamp just to get the tarp under her. Never saw a cow lifted comfortably with it or a cow to get up and stay on her feet after using it. 3-4 lads doing the bollox sounds right.

Bought wan last year too , no good

148multi · 28-01-2019 08:46PM

A ch bull, 5,500. Seller said let me know how he turns out, rang two months later, your bull is firing blanks, seller : clink.

charolais0153 · 28-01-2019 08:52PM

148multi wrote: »

A ch bull, 5,500. Seller said let me know how he turns out, rang two months later, your bull is firing blanks, seller : clink.

Dear bloody bull

whelan2 · 28-01-2019 08:56PM

148multi wrote: »

A ch bull, 5,500. Seller said let me know how he turns out, rang two months later, your bull is firing blanks, seller : clink.

My dad often tells us a story of him and his brothers saving up and buying a ram at a fair day. The ram died fairly soon after they bought it. The next fair day they went back to the seller and told him your ram died. The man said back to them "No son, your ram died" lesson learnt

Castlekeeper · 28-01-2019 09:05PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Those who bought stock that died or didn't do well, did ye go back to the seller?

In my case no, it was a dispersal sale, he was a genuine well regarded bachelor farmer. I bought a mix of maiden and calved heifers. It was the early noughties and I would think they were just a step too far of commercial dutch holstein breeding with poor longevity, functional, and fertility traits.They were well minded after but they didn't fit in with our grass based system and friesan herd. Their mothers were probably fine cows. Still ciall ceannaithe (bought wisdom).

Castlekeeper · 28-01-2019 09:07PM

whelan2 wrote: »

The blue yard scraper on wheels was another disaster purchase.

We've one on them on the go for 20 years, the trick is to pull, not push, think they're fierce handy altogether.

Aravo · 28-01-2019 09:16PM

whelan2 wrote:

My dad often tells us a story of him and his brothers saving up and buying a ram at a fair day. The ram died fairly soon after they bought it. The next fair day they went back to the seller and told him your ram died. The man said back to them "No son, your ram died" lesson learnt

Happened here a few years back. Think he got a puck from another ram.

Timmaay · 28-01-2019 09:22PM

foxy farmer wrote: »

Jaysus that thing. A neighbour had one. Remember being on my hands and knees trying to get the bloody tarp under a downer cow on a few occasions. Some dose. You'd have to lift the cow with the hip clamp just to get the tarp under her. Never saw a cow lifted comfortably with it or a cow to get up and stay on her feet after using it. 3-4 lads doing the bollox sounds right.

Ugh jezz we got some sorta canvas yoke here with loads of hooks, ratchet straps etc on it, you put it behind the cow and had to roll her by the legs over her back onto it, racket it tight around her, and then you could lift her with the loader, absolute disaster of a yoke, pure dangerous with the cows legs flying everywhere, would take several attempts to get the canvas correctly around the cow, and eventually you'll get it ha half right, and give up and try lift up the cow only for her to either be very uncomfortable or slip out the back of it. The hips lifter is the only job, and thankfully I only need one at most once a yr, which I borrow off the neighbours.

whelan2 · 28-01-2019 09:35PM

Have a hip hoist a good few years. The threads got bent lifting a cow last year. I bought a new one just in case it was unusable again. Anyway on Stephens day a neighbour got a lend of the old one. That evening I had a cow go down. Opened the box of the new hoist it was in about 20 bits... Also only realised threads had to be equal on each side of the clamp when putting it together. Took about an hour to get it together. So now have 2 clamps. Cost about 200 euro

poor farmer · 28-01-2019 09:43PM

whelan2 wrote: »

The blue yard scraper on wheels was another disaster purchase.

I remember going to a farm where there was a milk tank for sale.
I spotted the "scraper on wheels". Is that yoke any good, says I.
"You'd want to be an ass to buy one and a bigger ass to push it." was his reply. ðŸ˜€ðŸ˜€

GrasstoMilk · 28-01-2019 09:44PM

lab man wrote: »

Bought wan last year too , no good

We find straps are the best for lifting cows tbh. Always seem to get them going with them, quick to get them under s cow compared to the daisy lifter (which we have).
Asap after a cow goes down were in to lift her, that's the key I think. Out to grass then and lift her a few times a day. It has worked well for us for a good while now. Dad drives the tractor and I position the cows legs so shes standing right

Willfarman · 28-01-2019 09:52PM

whelan2 wrote: »

My dad often tells us a story of him and his brothers saving up and buying a ram at a fair day. The ram died fairly soon after they bought it. The next fair day they went back to the seller and told him your ram died. The man said back to them "No son, your ram died" lesson learnt

A friend of mine sold a charolais bull to an elderly suckler farmer near me. 25 cows and 3 months. The young bull melted and went a bit ragged looking.

a local dairy farmer Lorry driver gangster factory agent was in the yard with the man and upon hearing where he had bought the bull (he wants every piece of ground that up for rent including a little bit my friend has been renting for 25 years) he very enthusiastically advised that the farmer should return the bull a
for a full refund.

My friend took back the bull and returned the price of him and a week or so later in the coop talking to the elderly farmers neighbor was astounded to hear the said bull was jumping a ditch and an electric fence to accompany 60 aa heifers and jumping back to the cows. The neighbor believed tipped heifers would fatten better if anything as they wouldn’t be bulling again so wasn’t too concerned.

razor8 · 28-01-2019 10:00PM

Aravo wrote: »

Happened here a few years back. Think he got a puck from another ram.

A neighbor here bought a fine ram years ago. He bought him in middle of tipping season and let him out with the flock. First ewe he jumped on another ram came thundering down the field and straight into his side killing him dead on the spotðŸ˜¡ðŸ˜¡ðŸ˜¡

wrangler · 28-01-2019 11:06PM

razor8 wrote: »

A neighbor here bought a fine ram years ago. He bought him in middle of tipping season and let him out with the flock. First ewe he jumped on another ram came thundering down the field and straight into his side killing him dead on the spot&#55357;&#56865;&#55357;&#56865;&#55357;&#56865;

He should've mixed the rams first, what was he thinking

Never wrestle with pigs · 29-01-2019 12:38AM

A load of bad wettish straw two years ago. It caked up and was impossible to spread out. Probably have farmers lung after it, lol. I'd go out after work to feed and bed a pen.

Should only take a few minutes to drop a bale into the pen and fire it around. No, this was so heavy that you would be solid fcuked pushing it around, then you would nearly cry trying to break it up and spread it around. It was after a bad year.

I'll be more than happy to pay a few quid more now every year for top knotch straw. Easy to deal with All winter and a better bed.

razor8 · 29-01-2019 12:58AM

wrangler wrote: »

He should've mixed the rams first, what was he thinking

Expensive lesson

orm0nd · 29-01-2019 08:42AM

razor8 wrote: »

A neighbor here bought a fine ram years ago. He bought him in middle of tipping season and let him out with the flock. First ewe he jumped on another ram came thundering down the field and straight into his side killing him dead on the spotðŸ˜¡ðŸ˜¡ðŸ˜¡

Know of a pedigree breeder that gave 2k for a ram at a premier sale. Left ram off into a pen and closed the gate. Ram made a run to get out and banged his head off 1 of the bars. Dropped dead. Had no insurance either.

wrangler · 29-01-2019 08:51AM

orm0nd wrote: »

Know of a pedigree breeder that gave 2k for a ram at a premier sale. Left ram off into a pen and closed the gate. Ram made a run to get out and banged his head off 1 of the bars. Dropped dead. Had no insurance either.

Yea, plenty of stories, my neghbours ram ran off the trailer and out onto road instead of into the field, got hit with a car and done a nice bit of harm to the car....ram dead of course

Keepgrowing · 29-01-2019 09:07AM

Non creosote treated stakes. Pure muck and need replacing every 5-6 years.

MeTheMan · 29-01-2019 09:15AM

Quad flail mower. Won't cut any clumps of rushes clean. Need to drive 1/2 mph on basically everything else. Only use is to smash up licked/dead rushes. Not sure of the make.

Anyone have a decent one?

wrangler · 29-01-2019 09:33AM

Keepgrowing wrote: »

Non creosote treated stakes. Pure muck and need replacing every 5-6 years.

+ 1
I've some 2012 PDM stakes not looking great either, Creosote isn't what it used to be it seems
I'm using these now, it's a neighbour importing them.....says they last forty years, yea , right :rolleyes:

https://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/40-yr-cresote-stakes-delivered-nationwide-/15008149

Reggie. · 29-01-2019 11:29AM

wrangler wrote: »

+ 1
I've some 2012 PDM stakes not looking great either, Creosote isn't what it used to be it seems
I'm using these now, it's a neighbour importing them.....says they last forty years, yea , right :rolleyes:

https://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/40-yr-cresote-stakes-delivered-nationwide-/15008149

Oh you didn't

L1985 · 29-01-2019 02:01PM

wrangler wrote: »

+ 1
I've some 2012 PDM stakes not looking great either, Creosote isn't what it used to be it seems
I'm using these now, it's a neighbour importing them.....says they last forty years, yea , right :rolleyes:

https://www.donedeal.ie/dairycattle-for-sale/40-yr-cresote-stakes-delivered-nationwide-/15008149

Wouldn't recommend too highly TBH-v different widths from stake to stake and not as good as others I've had.....splinter easily enough with the sledge and I'm not exactly iron man.

wrangler · 29-01-2019 02:30PM

L1985 wrote: »

Wouldn't recommend too highly TBH-v different widths from stake to stake and not as good as others I've had.....splinter easily enough with the sledge and I'm not exactly iron man.

I actually thought they were harder than any thing I'd used before, timber is more dense, I use a post driver all the time.
I can't get them now, ordered since before Christmas, unfortunately he didn't say which Thursday they were coming, they were supposed to be here last Thursday but alas, still waiting :mad:

Albert Johnson · 29-01-2019 03:16PM

L1985 wrote: »

Wouldn't recommend too highly TBH-v different widths from stake to stake and not as good as others I've had.....splinter easily enough with the sledge and I'm not exactly iron man.

I can't comment on the quality of the posts in question but they can't be any worse than the standard Co Op ones. As regards driving with a sledge it's not a method I'd recommend regardless of the post involved. It's only adding hardship to a miserable job and shortens the lifespan of the post as it splinters the tops and allows the water into the centres.

In an ideal world a post driver, digger bucket or front loader is a better solution especially if doing any great lenghts of fencing. For small job's or repairs I bought an aluminum mallet, a far better job as it's balanced and has a bigger striking head. I would hate to go back to the sledge and find the posts last a bit longer as the tops aren't splintered.

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