Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

Waffletraktor · 09-08-2016 12:49PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Was tedding till 2am last night. Never woke till 10 am this morning. Half the ****ing day gone it was

I thought you squaddies run on 2hrs sleep and can fall off within 2 mins if needed.

A cow called Daisy · 09-08-2016 01:58PM

Heading into town earlier and when went round sharpish corner I meet 2 girls about 7/8 year old on bicycles in middle of narrow country road. Luckily I was able to stop as only doing about 25 mph. The two girls kept on going oblivious to the fact that if I or someone else had been travelling much faster they could of been on news this evening. Gave me one hell of a fright. :eek:

whelan2 · 09-08-2016 02:02PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Heading into town earlier and when went round sharpish corner I meet 2 girls about 7/8 year old on bicycles in middle of narrow country road. Luckily I was able to stop as only doing about 25 mph. The two girls kept on going oblivious to the fact that if I or someone else had been travelling much faster they could of been on news this evening. Gave me one hell of a fright. :eek:

This is driving me mad this last few weeks, cycling on both sides of the roads, dropping bikes in the middle of the road, no helmets. A lad went straight through the stop sign in the village the other evening on his bike and I missed him by a millimetre... great to see kids out on their bikes, if only they had a bit of cop on when on them it would be great, not an adult to be seen with them either

laoch na mona · 09-08-2016 04:56PM

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Heading into town earlier and when went round sharpish corner I meet 2 girls about 7/8 year old on bicycles in middle of narrow country road. Luckily I was able to stop as only doing about 25 mph. The two girls kept on going oblivious to the fact that if I or someone else had been travelling much faster they could of been on news this evening. Gave me one hell of a fright. :eek:

I used to cycle on country roads a lot as a young lad (I still cycle but not on back roads if I can help it) I used to stay in on 'my' side, not that there's a right side on a 5 foot wide road, until one day when i was about 13 a tractor going up the road forced me in onto the ditch instead of slowing down. After that I stayed at least 2 foot away from the edge of the road which was more or less the middle of the road, a neighbour complained to the mother once that I was cycling in the middle of the road I told her to many idiots try to run people of the road and that at least if I stay out a bit they can't try force past me.

Cycling is dangerous mostly because to many drivers don't want to share the road

ganmo · 09-08-2016 06:29PM

laoch na mona wrote: »

I used to cycle on country roads a lot as a young lad (I still cycle but not on back roads if I can help it) I used to stay in on 'my' side, not that there's a right side on a 5 foot wide road, until one day when i was about 13 a tractor going up the road forced me in onto the ditch instead of slowing down. After that I stayed at least 2 foot away from the edge of the road which was more or less the middle of the road, a neighbour complained to the mother once that I was cycling in the middle of the road I told her to many idiots try to run people of the road and that at least if I stay out a bit they can't try force past me.

Cycling is dangerous mostly because to many drivers don't want to share the road

And then there's the ones who only look at their front wheel and are shocked and appalled when they have to stop when they meet a car on a narrow road...or the ones who weave back and across the road and end up on the wrong side of the road going around bad bends

Ní maith liom na rothaíocht i lycra

Bullocks · 09-08-2016 07:05PM

Anyone having trouble logging onto agfood this evening ?
I sent cows to the mart today and one of them came back cos they said they couldnt do a movement for her , thought it was a BVD mix up but they said no that she was gone out of the herd long ago . Couldnt get through to the dept either today and now agfood is saying access denied .
This is the part of farming I really hate :mad:

Username John · 09-08-2016 07:06PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Was tedding till 2am last night. Never woke till 10 am this morning. Half the ****ing day gone it was

Why would you be tedding at night? I thought that would kinda defeat the purpose, to be just turning over dew covered grass?

whelan2 · 09-08-2016 08:18PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Anyone having trouble logging onto agfood this evening ?
I sent cows to the mart today and one of them came back cos they said they couldnt do a movement for her , thought it was a BVD mix up but they said no that she was gone out of the herd long ago . Couldnt get through to the dept either today and now agfood is saying access denied .
This is the part of farming I really hate :mad:

saying forbidden here too, edited to say I assume she has been tested in your herd?

Bullocks · 09-08-2016 09:42PM

whelan2 wrote: »

saying forbidden here too, edited to say I assume she has been tested in your herd?

I got logged in after a few more go's . Its saying she was only moved out of our herd no. today and into the mart's number .
The mart said that they couldn't process her at all so I reckon they made a boo boo .
She was tested here a few months ago and the card is stamped

Reggie. · 09-08-2016 09:46PM

Waffletraktor wrote: »

I thought you squaddies run on 2hrs sleep and can fall off within 2 mins if needed.

I ain't no squaddie but yes we can. Was pushing it a bit lately tho

Reggie. · 09-08-2016 09:50PM

Username John wrote: »

Why would you be tedding at night? I thought that would kinda defeat the purpose, to be just turning over dew covered grass?

It was for the harvester the next evening so it was ready for the morning sunrise. It had Got plenty of rain and unfortunately i was too busy with hay today.

Plus there was no dew here the last week only gale force winds

Muckit · 09-08-2016 09:50PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Was tedding till 2am last night. Never woke till 10 am this morning. Half the ****ing day gone it was

New teagasc studies reckon moonlight will wilt silage better than sunshine

Reggie. · 09-08-2016 09:53PM

Muckit wrote: »

New teagasc studies reckon moonlight will wilt silage better than sunshine

You wanna see me going around the strange fields in the dark seeing if I missed any rows. Say I looked like a drunk driver

Kovu · 09-08-2016 09:56PM

Muckit wrote: »

New teagasc studies reckon moonlight will wilt silage better than sunshine

It'll be like that lullaby milk, there'll be cows dropping asleep like flies this winter

carrollsno1 · 09-08-2016 09:58PM

Anybody else see the ad on ag recruit for a dairy internship on agri recruit will try post a link seems to me it's someone looking for slave labour what's yere thoughts?

carrollsno1 · 09-08-2016 10:03PM

No sign of the ad on their website here's a screenshot from the app

davidk1394 · 09-08-2016 10:32PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

No sign of the ad on their website here's a screenshot from the app

Dya reckon your good enough? :P

Water John · 09-08-2016 10:55PM

Last Min of Ag was saying, scarcity of good staff was one of the major problems for farmers. Parallel universe.

rangler1 · 10-08-2016 06:54AM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

No sign of the ad on their website here's a screenshot from the app

internship probably means rip off alright, pfft

carrollsno1 · 10-08-2016 07:29AM

davidk1394 wrote: »

Dya reckon your good enough? :P

No I was thinking of applying but might be lacking experience lad

davidk1394 · 10-08-2016 09:21AM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

No I was thinking of applying but might be lacking experience lad

I started working for a dairy farmer with zero experience and learnt all I know now from him. If your a good stock person you'd get on fine

orm0nd · 10-08-2016 10:24AM

On the way home from the factory earlier, passed a fellow with a vacuum tank with the suction hose still attached and dragging along the road.

Wasn't safe to stop,so my passenger let down his window and waved his arm up & down & I gave 3 bips on the horn.

Your man waved back and flashed his lights kept going, guess he knows by now anyhow.

Limestone Cowboy · 10-08-2016 11:14AM

He's up

Kovu · 10-08-2016 11:31AM

Good stuff LC! Great to see them get up after they lie a while.

Odd-ear has adopted a new calf after I took her bull off her. An early May calf had been raiding a heifer who calved a month ago, so the young calf was getting very little. So I put the mother and him in with Odd-ear when they were in for testing. Was just down the shed there and she's standing chewing her cud while the calf is sucking away beside her :eek:
Possibly the best outcome I could have got as she broke when 4/5 months incalf so isn't calving til middle of next year, she won't be as fat going into the shed now and raiding calf gets what he wants!

Muckit · 10-08-2016 11:45AM

I see Pat Smith is suing the IFA over defamation of character.

Separately, and in no way related, l was thinking to myself one needs a brass neck to get ahead in this world.

rangler1 · 10-08-2016 11:57AM

Muckit wrote: »

I see Pat Smith is suing the IFA over defamation of character.

Separately, and in no way related, l was thinking to myself one needs a brass neck to get ahead in this world.

Smith is no soft touch, when he was director of organisation the lads in the local offices had to deliver targets on selling membership or they were gone.
Our guys were simple when they thought they could out manoeuvre him.
IFA is lucky they weren't sued over something flor Mc Carthy said about him too.

whelan2 · 10-08-2016 12:32PM

Topping this morning, went through 9 shear bolts:eek:

Nekarsulm · 10-08-2016 12:57PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Topping this morning, went through 9 shear bolts:eek:

Or as we call it, land levelling.

whelan2 · 10-08-2016 01:01PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Or as we call it, land levelling.

Field is called the rox, plenty of rocks just peeping through on the ground, broke 4 on the first run around the field

conseng · 10-08-2016 01:11PM

Mine never breaks a shear bolt, what would the reason for that be? I hit a stone yesterday and broke a blade but not the shear bolt. I'm sure more damage could be happening when the shear bolt should be breaking and isn't.

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