Farm Sayings

zetecescort

Work on Sunday, fix on Monday

_Brian

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Borrowed horses have hard hooves...
The other mans horse gets worked harder that you'd treat your own one . ( also applies to tractors etc.)

A Friday flitting is a short sitting
There was some superstition about moving house or farm on a Friday.

"Not within an Ass's roar" something a long, long way from being right, or or from adding up correctly.

"A smell of him that'd smother young whins" a very bad smell indeed...

Same county

“Saturday flit, short sit”

Not my family but this was a big deal in wife’s family. Couldn’t move house, cattle, go on a trip etc on a Saturday

Lime Tree Farm

ruwithme wrote: »

There's no towbar on a hearse.

or no pockets in a shroud.

ruwithme

_Brian wrote: »

Same county

“Saturday flit, short sit”

Not my family but this was a big deal in wife’s family. Couldn’t move house, cattle, go on a trip etc on a Saturday

Bring home a new tractor,car or start to cut the silage off a saturday

Mossie1975

Can't recall whether this saying was mentioned by myself or another poster. Went to a funeral last week with my father. A friend was sypathising with my Dad and remarked that "they are picking from our team now". Not necessarily farming related but was very apt as both had played GAA back in the day.

Lady Haywire

Don't know if it's been mentioned here before but it was just used in the green cert class & I'd forgotten how much I loved the saying.

"Nearly never bulled a cow"

kerryjack

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Don't know if it's been mentioned here before but it was just used in the green cert class & I'd forgotten how much I loved the saying.

"Nearly never bulled a cow"

Unless the bulls name was nearly

Say my name

kerryjack wrote: »

Unless the bulls name was nearly

Surely you mean Nearly never?

Dakota Dan

50HX wrote: »

A johndoe of turf/hay........a small load

Father use to always say it when he'd see a neighbour passing with an 8x4 trailer of turf

There's Timmy heading home with a johndoe of turf

They used to say in Cork for a handy load of barley, a hawm pull off barley, I presume it was derived from a handful of barley.

Dakota Dan

Talking through the arse of his britches
Talking rubbish.

Dakota Dan

20silkcut wrote: »

That lad hasn’t the brains of a choc ice

That lad is so mean he’d steal the nail off a badgers toe

He wouldn’t give you the steam off his piss.

He wouldn’t give his sh1t to the crows.

White Clover

Dakota Dan wrote: »

They used to say in Cork for a handy load of barley, a hawm pull off barley, I presume it was derived from a handful of barley.

Next door neighbour always says that! He pronounces it hompull.

Dakota Dan

White Clover wrote: »

Next door neighbour always says that! He pronounces it hompull.

That’s it, wasn’t sure how to spell it.

foxy farmer

Had a good laugh at this one today. We were talking about someone who apparently had fathered 14 children. We were naming out all the family. The woman of the house in her 80s pipes up talking about the father in question-
"He knew it wasnt for stirring his tea with anyway."

patsy_mccabe

'I seen more brains in a blow up doll' - referring to someone not that bright.

Lime Tree Farm

It's like throwing biscuits to bears. (For someone who never has enough)

gozunda

"The child in the cot would know that"

Speaking of someone lacking basic knowledge on a topic

The Continental Op

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

It's like throwing biscuits to bears. (For someone who never has enough)

Like giving strawberries to a donkey.

CloughCasey1

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

'I seen more brains in a blow up doll' - referring to someone not that bright.

Lad in the next parish nickname is 'Bungalow'
I asked the auld lad when I was younger how did they come up with that name.
Well says he, the fella in question hasn't a lot going on upstairs!

Odeta

Years ago, I overheard this comment going in to Mass. Local lad was after getting engaged to an older lady. One fella asked what she was like and the other fella quipped "200 acres would put a face on her". The couple are still going strong while the two lads are still bachelors ...

Xtrail14

She would mind mice at a cross roads.

LilacNails

Odeta wrote: »

Years ago, I overheard this comment going in to Mass. Local lad was after getting engaged to an older lady. One fella asked what she was like and the other fella quipped "200 acres would put a face on her". The couple are still going strong while the two lads are still bachelors ...

As in a he's only with him for the land/money?

gozunda

Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

Hope for unlikely outcomes if you wish - but dont forget to take care of the ordinary stuff

Xtrail14

‘Twas like pushing a marshmallow through a keyhole

Mind the pennies,and the pounds will look after themselves

shortlegs

Referring to a contrary individual:

He (She) would run rats out of a haystack.


Referring to a cute hoor:

He’d build a nest in your ear - and raid it again.

kerryjack

It's a day for the high stool. meaning it's a ****ty day outside and we should all head to the pub, a distance memory now and can't see them opening any time soon

chooseusername

gozunda wrote: »

Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.

Hope for unlikely outcomes if you wish - but dont forget to take care of the ordinary stuff

No point praying for the jackpot if you're not in the draw.

Dakota Dan

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Mind the pennies,and the pounds will look after themselves

Mind the pennies, the pennies will look after the pounds and the pounds will look after themselves.

Dakota Dan

kerryjack wrote: »

It's a day for the high stool. meaning it's a ****ty day outside and we should all head to the pub, a distance memory now and can't see them opening any time soon

A high stool farmer, I made that up myself but it could go for any profession. They can solve any problem once they are perched on a high stool with a pint in their hand.