I didn't think farmers ever had any fun?

The Continental Op

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/farmer-swimming-in-hay-in-make-shift-pool-1337146.html

Nice to see thats not true :-)

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119354082#Comment_119354082

Wonder if all the water was rain water ;-)

Anto_Meath

That is the Farrellys that were on contractors on TG4, when it comes to been up for the craic and enjoying a bit of fun there would be no better crew.. nothing is ever a problem and if there is a laugh in it then its twice as good. They have old milk lorry tanks for collecting water off the shed roofs so I would say it is all rain water. They use it for power washing machines and lorrys.

straight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119354093#Comment_119354093

What does that matter. Either way farmers don't get free water like the common folk...

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375142#Comment_119375142

I'd say you're great crack altogether, op is obviously giving a lighthearted dig.

On another note isn't all water rain water at some point in time

Still stihl waters 3

I hope they've chlorine in it or they'd better be well stocked with bog roll when the bacteria starts multiplying 😂

straight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375158#Comment_119375158

No

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375217#Comment_119375217

OK, thanks

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375142#Comment_119375142

@straight, you need to get your facts straight.

I'm a livestock farmer and I get free water. Who are "the common folk" you speak of?

newholland mad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375441#Comment_119375441

Unmetered mains water or your own water?

barneygumble99

Rainwater is free, drinking water is not!! Any farmer I know has a well and pump and getting that water certainly ain’t free. Rainwater isn’t much good to cattle in a field away from the sheds in the middle of summer.

straight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375441#Comment_119375441

Where u get it for free?

A quick Google search will give you a definition for common folk. The general population if you like but there are several ways of defining them.

straight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375526#Comment_119375526

Storing and pumping rainwater isn't free either. Unless all you want is the odd bucket for washing your knickers.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375441#Comment_119375441

We are on a mains line here. Houses here are unmetered. The yard connection is metered though. It is considered a commercial connection. We also have a well which was sunk recently enough.

You're probably using the water from your residential connection which you likely wouldn't be supposed to do.

Still stihl waters 3

Jaysus, so this is where fun goes to die, a nice topic to highlight a bunch of farmers having a good time and the usual bitches here cribbing about the price of something, it was obviously a lighthearted dig without malice but the victim complex is strong here with some

barneygumble99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375699#Comment_119375699

I was only referring to rainwater collected from the roof and flows into a concrete tank which is used for cows after they’ve milked and waiting in the collecting yard.

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375753#Comment_119375753

Would you not consider an accusation of wasting that amount of tap water during a heatwave as a serious one? I would. It would be a selfish waste of a valuable resource to do so.

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375766#Comment_119375766

No need to treat everything so serious, one day does not a heatwave make, maybe you can contact the farmers in question to assuage any fears you have of wrongful accusations

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375800#Comment_119375800

Well there are plenty of people who would think nothing of filling a big temporary pool in their back garden during a heatwave when water would be at a premium. Whether that be an inflatable pool from Aldi or one made with silage cover. Obviously they'd be the people who thought it wasn't a big deal to waste it like that.

No need for yourself to be stressing out over anyone else pointing out it would be a fairly bad mark to have done so. The man in the article is obviously aware of that given that he made sure to emphasize that it was his collected rainwater that filled it.

10-10-20

Christ on a bike, the bickering. 😂

Anyhow, I wondered it myself, but it's written in the text: "Michael Farrelly used 20 bales of hay and a silage cover for the temporary pool which is filled with about 30 tonnes of harvested rainwater"

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375170#Comment_119375170

Yep! But will the chlorine eat his fancy liner before the good weather goes...? Bit of a trade-off there but looks like the weather beat him anyway!

Glad to see he has a lifeguard anyway!!

Still stihl waters 3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375816#Comment_119375816

Is there restrictions on filling paddle pools or any water restrictions in place, you're on about heatwaves but we've had none so far, more power to them in their little pools, the fine weather is to be enjoyed

The Continental Op

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375753#Comment_119375753

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375142#Comment_119375142

Sorry, apologies, I have to admit I was thinking of one local farmer with a very large dairy heard when I wrote the OP. There is a local joke that there is a water leak in the area that IW have never been able to find. Also the supply for the troughs in the fields near our house come from our house supply and we don't own the fields but its hard to say no to neighbors.

Base price

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375718#Comment_119375718

It's mains water and comes into the yard (the stop valve is at the yard gate) and then branches to the house. It was put in sometime in the early 70's. Prior to that we used the well. Location is Dublin.

alps

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119375441#Comment_119375441

How can you get free water....gravity supply?

J.O. Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119376983#Comment_119376983

Free domestic allowance?

Where the house and farm are on the same connection this would be how it's dealt with.

ginger22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119377065#Comment_119377065

Well not quite unlimited free. There is a domestic allowance, any consumption over that you pay. But the thing is the the person with domestic connection only no farm can use as much as they like.

It's not that they don't have fun, they just have a very different definition of it ....

J.O. Farmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119377798#Comment_119377798

This is true and in reality why there should be water charges in some form.

For example leaving taps running to stop taps freezing is wasting water.

However the domestic allowance means everyone gets some free water.

For years group schemes paid once you were on it. There was no free water like was available in urban areas.

Of course nobody gets free mains piped water, a lot is paid for by the magic money tree....sorry I mean general taxation.