need turf

smokeater

looking for someone to ship peat to the states. i'll pay shipping. what would you like in trade?
tim
smoke_eater_350@hotmail.com

billy the squid

how much turf are you looking for?

you can get it here for 25 dollars a sod, which is a little bit of a rip off considering you can get a sack of it for about €2

smokeater

looking for hand cut, not bord na mona, which i can get here. and it would be an ongiong thing need all i can get
tim

billy the squid

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26381&item=5559669910&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

If you come back here in a to this forum days someone might reply to it.

you might want to remove duplicate messages in other forums on the site that sort of thing is frowned upon.

smokeater

yup that is my auction and it is bord na mona, i would like real turf hand cut.
tim

billy the squid

you could leave this message here or try the wanted forum.

joejoem

hmmm how dissapointing, I thought you meant a different type of turf

Dempsey

smokeater wrote:

looking for hand cut, not bord na mona, which i can get here. and it would be an ongiong thing need all i can get
tim

Bord na Mona only produce turf at one location in ireland and its a limited supply. They aint interested in sod peat production anymore. Most private plots produce turf by machines similar to bord na mona.

Buy one of those shovels and run out to a bog and hand cut it yourself
It be hard to get loads of hand cut turf.

Wertz

Couldn't say for certain but fresh cut peat/turf may just fall under the banned list for importation into the US under the soil and also under plants/agricultural products list. Tread warily or the dept of homeland security will get you :rolleyes:

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/kbyg/prohibited_restricted.xml#top

Canis Lupus

After spending one Summer years back cutting out turf by hand I can safely tell u it's highly unlikely yur gonna find any amount in great quantities. Even finding someone willing to ship machine cut turf would be difficult imo.

smokeater

i would love to cut it my self but there are no peat bogs in the states thet produce "irish" peat. love the shovel tho, and if it is illegal to import turf to the states then how can the guys from ireland sell it on ebay and have it shipped to the states? and bord na mona is redily available, but very expensive. one bale (22) bricks is about30.00 U.S. per bale
tim

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=159&item=6158118209&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20554&item=4359581659&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38220&item=4358675646&rd=1

Canis Lupus

smokeater wrote:

i would love to cut it my self but there are no peat bogs in the states thet produce "irish" peat. love the shovel tho, and if it is illegal to import turf to the states then how can the guys from ireland sell it on ebay and have it shipped to the states?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=159&item=6158118209&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20554&item=4359581659&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38220&item=4358675646&rd=1

Cos there is always an American willing to pay over the odds for a bit of burnable earth

Wertz

Bord na mona's briquettes are heat treated, I think, so the seeds and microbes that US customs are worried about are inactive. They're more concerned about something like foot and mouth or BSE than anything else.
BTW I was being sarcastic; they have a lot more to worry about in their mail system than a few lumps of bog. Worst that can happen is you get negative feedback when the buyer doesn't get their package...

CrowdedHouse

Canis Lupus wrote:

Cos there is always an American willing to pay over the odds for a bit of burnable earth

......Well I've seen it all now !!.......

Flukey

People still cut turf the normal style, in many parts of Ireland. I live in Dublin and we cut it every year in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. As a result of a bit of interest in this, here is a site I put together about it last year.


http://homepage.eircom.net/~flukey/Turf.htm

We have none for sale by the way.

DirtyHarry

joejoem wrote:

hmmm how dissapointing, I thought you meant a different type of turf

what could that be??

smokeater

Flukey wrote:

People still cut turf the normal style, in many parts of Ireland. I live in Dublin and we cut it every year in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. As a result of a bit of interest in this, here is a site I put together about it last year.


http://homepage.eircom.net/~flukey/Turf.htm

We have none for sale by the way.

all that turf and ya cant fit two in a box and send my way...... i'll make it worth your while with a care package from the states.
tim

D!ve^Bomb!

Jesus, does this thread *actually* exist? Why?

Capall86

I'm willing to send you hand won turf(sorry to be pedantic, but thats what it is called) from the bogs round clifden in connemara, for a care package in return, do live in kentucky, or can you get your hands on a drink called ale8 1? but anyway pm me your details and i can the ball rolling... better be a nice package in return!!

Wertz

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

Jesus, does this thread *actually* exist? Why?

Yes, it's been posted solely to annoy you and illicit a response like the one above, thus prolonging it's existence...