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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #9272
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Call to see her unannounced and ya might find out bullocks :D

    A Leitrim welcome !!


  • #9273
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,697 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Bullocks wrote: »
    A Leitrim welcome !!

    Ya could get a few "welcomes"


  • #9274
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,413 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Maybe this is a silly question but why is a young academic lady such as yourself carrying a bit of rebar with them ?
    Neither of my sister's can change a tyre and one of them even gets myself or the father to fill her car with petrol in case she uses the wrong pump !
    ah here ye are worse for doing it for them.


  • #9275
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    whelan2 wrote: »
    ah here ye are worse for doing it for them.

    I know !


  • #9276
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Changing a tyre should be part of the normal driving test. If ya can't do it you can't get a licence.


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  • #9277
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,413 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Changing a tyre should be part of the normal driving test. If ya can't do it you can't get a licence.
    agree entirely , as for not being able to put fuel in the car :eek:


  • #9278
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Base price wrote: »
    Came across this at about 5.15pm this evening on a major busy road (N4). The mind boggles...

    Apparently that guy brings cattle to Kildare chilling twice a week and brings a load of straw back every time.


  • #9279
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,413 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/meath-wholesaler-fined-e16000-for-labelling-polish-and-lithuanian-beef-as-irish/


  • #9280
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Maybe this is a silly question but why is a young academic lady such as yourself carrying a bit of rebar with them ?
    Neither of my sister's can change a tyre and one of them even gets myself or the father to fill her car with petrol in case she uses the wrong pump !

    Because Dad's van is a treasure trove of mysterious bits and pieces. The rebar has (more than likely) been thrown about the place doing odd jobs since our slatted shed was built 15 years ago!
    My aunt actually put petrol instead of diesel in her car during the week, rang me in a massive panic thinking she'd be stranded in Cavan (the horror!)
    I don't know how she did it as she has the car a couple of years but anyway, she was fully sure she had frigged the whole car up. Sure all she had to do was fill it up to the top with diesel and dilute it out but this never occurred to her (or the lad at the petrol station?!) at all. She won't forget what to put in it for the near future anyway ;)


  • #9281
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Kovu wrote: »
    Because Dad's van is a treasure trove of mysterious bits and pieces. The rebar has (more than likely) been thrown about the place doing odd jobs since our slatted shed was built 15 years ago!
    My aunt actually put petrol instead of diesel in her car during the week, rang me in a massive panic thinking she'd be stranded in Cavan (the horror!)
    I don't know how she did it as she has the car a couple of years but anyway, she was fully sure she had frigged the whole car up. Sure all she had to do was fill it up to the top with diesel and dilute it out but this never occurred to her (or the lad at the petrol station?!) at all. She won't forget what to put in it for the near future anyway ;)

    Much more serious to put diesel in a petrol car


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  • #9282
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Much more serious to put diesel in a petrol car

    Yes indeedy, she was very relieved when I said that to her. She knew one was worse than the other but didn't know which way round.


  • #9283
    Mrs cockett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Mrs cockett


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Maybe this is a silly question but why is a young academic lady such as yourself carrying a bit of rebar with them ?
    Neither of my sister's can change a tyre and one of them even gets myself or the father to fill her car with petrol in case she uses the wrong pump !

    I think Kovu is an exceptional young woman- Never changed a tyre in my long lifeor my daughters likewise


  • #9284
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Mrs cockett wrote: »
    I think Kovu is an exceptional young woman- Never changed a tyre in my long lifeor my daughters likewise

    I suppose in this day and age it's handier to call out a mobile tyre repair anyhow


  • #9285
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Bullocks wrote: »
    I suppose in this day and age it's handier to call out a mobile tyre repair husband anyhow
    :rolleyes:

    Herself was badly caught a few years ago. I was after showing her how to change a tire as i was going to be away for a few days. I was after driving 2 miles up the road when I got a call to come back, she had a flat tire.

    There was some colourful language used on the way back:o.

    So I showed the eldest lad what to do as well so between the two of them they should manage. Hopefully.


  • #9286
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Most insurance policies have the breakdown assist now. so if you've no tyre wrench, jack, have the good clothes on, haven't the competency or just couldn't be bothered, it's another option!


  • #9287
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Match is very lacklustre


  • #9288
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,413 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Muckit wrote: »
    Most insurance policies have the breakdown assist now. so if you've no tyre wrench, jack, have the good clothes on, haven't the competency or just couldn't be bothered, it's another option!
    years ago people had no phone, no breakdown policy etc and btw its not only women who cant change tyres


  • #9289
    awaywithyou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭awaywithyou


    Muckit wrote: »
    Match is very lacklustre

    match is rubbish..... hopefully ire can hold on... draw looks best bet at the min...


  • #9290
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    kerry cow wrote: »
    I asked the question earlier , how would our factories both milk and meat like us the farmers to employ the staff to test our milk content and our meat grade and then invoice them to pay us . We are already paying for this service but have no control .
    What other business would let the buyer set the price .We need to have some control and who is going to stand up and do it .
    Isn't it simple business that we show what we have to sell , set a price , agreed and get paid . Where do our farm political leaders stand or are there fingers in the pie ,

    Are ya not watching the match KC?


  • #9291
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    match is rubbish..... hopefully ire can hold on... draw looks best bet at the min...

    Not anymore.


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  • #9292
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,546 ✭✭✭tanko


    awaywithyou wrote: »
    match is rubbish..... hopefully ire can hold on... draw looks best bet at the min...

    Thought I'd get a load of slurry out at half time and missed the goal. Was it a good goal or a mistake by us?


  • #9293
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Feck


  • #9294
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    tanko wrote: »
    Thought I'd get a load of slurry out at half time and missed the goal. Was it a good goal or a mistake by us?

    Great shot by Luckaku (spelling?) couldn't be stopped.


  • #9295
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    Are ya not watching the match KC?

    I wouldn't cross the road to see it, you mustn't have much interest either seeing you're on here ;)


  • #9296
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,413 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    tanko wrote: »
    Thought I'd get a load of slurry out at half time and missed the goal. Was it a good goal or a mistake by us?
    Think ya should have stayed spreading slurry :mad:


  • #9297
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Think ya should have stayed spreading slurry :mad:

    May hope the rugby team does better


  • #9298
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,546 ✭✭✭tanko


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Think ya should have stayed spreading slurry :mad:

    Was just thinking the same, I'm in two minds here, if i go back to the slurry we might win 4-3:pac:


  • #9299
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    whelan2 wrote: »
    http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/meath-wholesaler-fined-e16000-for-labelling-polish-and-lithuanian-beef-as-irish/

    Keelaghan Wholesale Meats Ltd. was found guilty of six charges. The company was fined a total of €16,000, with €10,000 as an agreed contribution to costs.

    Is it just me, or does that seem rather a paltry amount for driving a horse and coach through our vaulted traceability rules?

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #9300
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    greysides wrote: »
    Is it just me, or does that seem rather a paltry amount for driving a horse and coach through our vaulted traceability rules?
    Just after reading this. The Netherlands will have the EU presidency this year.
    http://english.eu2016.nl/documents/publications/2016/05/31/food-of-the-future

    It should be the EU fineing them not the irish government.


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  • #9301
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I wouldn't cross the road to see it, you mustn't have much interest either seeing you're on here ;)

    It's called multi tasking my friend. Anyway they were doing grand till the started thinking they were better than they were.
    I've a trailer of turf emptied since and heading into shower now and we'll head to Castlebar to watch us get slaughtered in the rain!😢


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