Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

Shannon757 · 26-07-2016 05:56PM

Technical difficulties on the weather forecast.

whelan2 · 26-07-2016 05:57PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Technical difficulties on the weather forecast.

Fair play to her, she didn't panic

White Clover · 26-07-2016 07:16PM

Shannon757 wrote: »

Technical difficulties on the weather forecast.

There's more than technical difficulties with the weather forecast. Absolutely cat here at present, f**king spilling now. Ground just about holding up. Lads in the East of the country complaining of drought, oh to have such a problem....

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-07-2016 07:23PM

I came across this suicide jockey today while mowing rushes. The silly bugger kept jumping back in the way of the mower until I carried him over near the river.

He's about the size of my fist, the biggest frog I've seen in years. His home is about to receive a big makeover in the next year, poor lad:(

Kovu · 26-07-2016 07:30PM

I love frogs, I used to while away many hours chasing them on the bog. Love the baby ones that are the size of your thumbnail

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-07-2016 07:41PM

Kovu wrote: »

I love frogs, I used to while away many hours chasing them on the bog. Love the baby ones that are the size of your thumbnail

Bring a box, a big one, and carry as many as you can carry. I'll be getting a digger in next week, hopefully, to level out a few bumps and then a bit of grass on the leveled ground and a few tonnes of lime.

I reckon lime and frogs won't go well together:(

Kovu · 26-07-2016 07:44PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Bring a box, a big one, and carry as many as you can carry. I'll be getting a digger in next week, hopefully, to level out a few bumps and then a bit of grass on the leveled ground and a few tonnes of lime.

I reckon lime and frogs won't go well together:(

Squeeze of lime over frogs legs goes grand though

The French person I'd lost the other day offered to bring me back on the ferry today for a holiday with them. Had to decline but jaysus wouldn't a week in Toulon be nice right now.

Base price · 26-07-2016 07:51PM

Kovu wrote: »

I love frogs, I used to while away many hours chasing them on the bog. Love the baby ones that are the size of your thumbnail

I have to put the muzzles on the two rotties when I'm at the bog because the insist on hunting frogs :mad:

kollegeknight · 26-07-2016 07:54PM

Like that the other evening, met the biggest frog I had ever seen. Was delighted as they are declining in our area.

whelan2 · 26-07-2016 07:54PM

Base price wrote: »

I have to put the muzzles on the two rotties when I'm at the bog because the insist on hunting frogs :mad:

Hows is the turf going this year?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 26-07-2016 07:58PM

Kovu wrote: »

Squeeze of lime over frogs legs goes grand though

The French person I'd lost the other day offered to bring me back on the ferry today for a holiday with them. Had to decline but jaysus wouldn't a week in Toulon be nice right now.

A week in Toulon?

I wouldn't like that but I suppose I could suffer it if I had to.:pac:

But thankfully I never found any stray French tourists wandering around at night:D

Base price · 26-07-2016 08:02PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Hows is the turf going this year?

I was late footing it due to the wet weather but it was ok at the time. It had a good skin on it and I put it up into wind rows. OH's bank has a slight incline so it doesn't hold pools of water. TBH I have not been near it since. Intended to go last weekend to check it but we had heavy downpours so I didn't bother.
September will be a good month

Kovu · 26-07-2016 08:10PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

A week in Toulon?

I wouldn't like that but I suppose I could suffer it if I had to.:pac:

But thankfully I never found any stray French tourists wandering around at night:D

At least it'd be nice weather!! Can't even get out the door for a walk tonight.

Base price · 26-07-2016 08:16PM

Kovu wrote: »

At least it'd be nice weather!! Can't even get out the door for a walk tonight.

Of course you can. A bit of rain never hurt anyone

L1985 · 26-07-2016 08:37PM

Just spent an hour in the river trying to get some cattle back from our neighbours field. They had a great time neighbour had better grass then we did. Went back and forward 5times and they had a lovely time splashing in the river!!!im contemplating switching to farming cabbages-they don't move do they?? Fun and games was just what I needed this eveningÃ°ÂŸÂ˜Â¡.

Kovu · 26-07-2016 08:44PM

Base price wrote: »

Of course you can. A bit of rain never hurt anyone

I was going to walk up to the Nailors so would be a sorry looking state by the time I got there and back :P
Tomorrow perhaps.
Lad next to us has had a cow in standing heat for the last five days, what the fack is up with her?

Water John · 26-07-2016 08:45PM

L you are generous to your neighbour. Many years ago, even before time I remember, one neighbour's cows crossed to another. That was fine, but when he went to bring them back, he says that he could not understand why the cows wanted to change fields. The slight has lasted for generations.

Reggie. · 26-07-2016 08:46PM

Base price wrote: »

I was late footing it due to the wet weather but it was ok at the time. It had a good skin on it and I put it up into wind rows. OH's bank has a slight incline so it doesn't hold pools of water. TBH I have not been near it since. Intended to go last weekend to check it but we had heavy downpours so I didn't bother.
September will be a good month

Got the fathers turf home last weekend as the bog dryer up well. The other bank is still abit behind. Not a great year for the turf unfortunately

L1985 · 26-07-2016 08:56PM

Lol tbf they went from a rocky hill to a lovely meadow I can see their logic.not that generous to our neighbours-if they bothered doing any sort of fencing it would make everyone's life easier. We had to move cattle before because their bill was in the river trying to jump out ditch to get at a cow. I had visions of freshly killed steak as I ran up and down the river!!

Genghis Cant · 26-07-2016 09:07PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Got the fathers turf home last weekend as the bog dryer up well. The other bank is still abit behind. Not a great year for the turf unfortunately

Lads drawing out turf here beside me today and it's not near fit to bring home. Its not that long cut. The spread bank it's on is poor. I see they had a machine in to turn it and it's gone to the makers name.
It's a long time till October.

Reggie. · 26-07-2016 09:21PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Lads drawing out turf here beside me today and it's not near fit to bring home. Its not that long cut. The spread bank it's on is poor. I see they had a machine in to turn it and it's gone to the makers name.
It's a long time till October.

Mine aunt too bad in fairness but will wait another month I'd say.. many lads are panicking this year. Once one fella draws it starts a chain reaction

Base price · 26-07-2016 09:58PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Got the fathers turf home last weekend as the bog dryer up well. The other bank is still abit behind. Not a great year for the turf unfortunately

Saw the pics of the shiny new twin axle trailer. Well wear and best of luck with it.
As you probably know from previous posts, the biggest issue that we have is the ROW/access outta the bog and our neighbours son ploughing up same hauling half saved sods home :mad:
I eventually "encouraged"

OH to have a chat with his Dad a few weeks ago about the stupidity (my words) of bring wet turf home and driving on the pass when it was not fit for tractor & trailers. The jury is still out on the outcome.
Oh and I both remember (as youngesters) loading turf in hard frosts in Winter cause that was the only time the pass was suitable to drive on.
Two pics. The first from last year which was a temporary pass that the contractor made cause the young fella fecked up the ROW the previous year. The pic shows the aftermath of the young lad ploughing through it before we even thought about drawing our turf home.
Second pic is the ROW pass that he fecked up the previous year.

kollegeknight · 26-07-2016 10:03PM

I brought the last two hoppers home Saturday.
The turf was cut in the heat wave, and no need for turning- footed it 7 days after cutting. Mother was loosing her mind that it wasn't footed- had to tell her to calm down. Was saving it myself.

Had the mothers and the three brothers turf home with a fortnight but mine was left til last and with the harvest and hospital didn't get to look at the rest of it until this week. The turf wouldn't be touched if it was left to the brothers.

I said · 26-07-2016 10:13PM

No turf this year thank fcuk the bank is to wet will buy it on done deal and have plenty of timber to burn.

Reggie. · 26-07-2016 10:29PM

I said wrote: »

No turf this year thank fcuk the bank is to wet will buy it on done deal and have plenty of timber to burn.

Hope ya get good turf. My experience of DD turf is that over half of it is rubbish brown turf

Base price · 27-07-2016 01:28AM

I said wrote: »

No turf this year thank fcuk the bank is to wet will buy it on done deal and have plenty of timber to burn.

Get up the yard

I reckon you hate turf so much that you would prefer to dig oil/kerosine outta of the beach/sea with a sand bucket and spade

I said · 27-07-2016 06:01AM

Base price wrote: »

Get up the yard
I reckon you hate turf so much that you would prefer to dig oil/kerosine outta of the beach/sea with a sand bucket and spade

Correct turf is only a C U Next Teusday type of thing

Reggie. · 27-07-2016 07:09AM

I said wrote: »

Correct turf is only a C U Next Teusday type of thing

Ya big girl. No work in it at all

Grueller · 27-07-2016 07:35AM

I think ye are all stone mad. We have no turf in the south east here and nobody dies of hypothermia.

kollegeknight · 27-07-2016 07:40AM

Grueller wrote: »

I think ye are all stone mad. We have no turf in the south east here and nobody dies of hypothermia.

Come west of the Shannon and have a gander sometime. They don't call it the sunny south east for nothing.

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