Lock, Stock and Chitchat a Seacht

pedigree 6 · 15-02-2017 11:42AM

I just had a salesman selling fire extinguishers call in.
Fire safety something? on the van.
My father was talking to him first and then I go over and my father says that he's not the boss that I am.
So he gives a spiel that he's a farmer too and with bord bia that everyone has to have a working fire extinguisher.
I said I already have fire extinguishers.
Then he says he's sold some to (named ) local dairy farmer.
Then he says he sells blue paper towel for the parlour.
I said I was grand in that regard too.
He knew he was getting nowhere and I knew he was a chancer.

So he went fairly quickly then.

Lad in his twenties I'd say with black hair.

whelan2 · 15-02-2017 01:34PM

Just heard of a lad got a bone in his neck broken by a cow lifting her head when he was dosing her.

TITANIUM. · 15-02-2017 01:54PM

Lad's and ladies did or anyof ye use a wash on a dirty cow to clean her out?
Something like Metricure!
I have a first calver after slipping and she's after repeteing twice now and has a milky white discharge the odd time.

greysides · 15-02-2017 02:11PM

Wash her out, she won't hold a pregnancy in a septic environment. Those tubes are around a long time as they work.

TITANIUM. · 15-02-2017 03:14PM

greysides wrote: »

Wash her out, she won't hold a pregnancy in a septic environment. Those tubes are around a long time as they work.

Do I wash her over a few days and then estrumate her or should 1 wash be sufficient?

greysides · 15-02-2017 04:14PM

I would just wash her the once and go from there. The Estrumate brings them into heat which can help clean them out but as she's been in heat twice before.... she may just need some extra help. A white discharge the odd time would suggest she's nearly there anyway.

Lady Haywire · 15-02-2017 07:50PM

Was talking to a vet I rarely see any more after his dad got a couple of fingers inadvertently removed by a muck spreader :pac:
He was a farm recently enough and the farmer was complaining that the cows were pining away, incl one that had died a week or so previous and he wanted a PM. So away goes the cow and wasn't she full of plastic. This chap was taking cutting down the side of the bales and peeling back the black stuff leaving the rest on as the bales kept fresher :eek: I didn't think eejits like that actually fecking existed ffs.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-02-2017 08:59PM

This tweet made me laugh.

https://twitter.com/agricontract/status/830828346963554304

Base price · 15-02-2017 10:47PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Just heard of a lad got a bone in his neck broken by a cow lifting her head when he was dosing her.

I hope he is ok and makes a full recovery with no long term damage.
I broke bones in my neck (car accident) when I was a teenager and was lucky not to be paralysed. I've always suffered from nerve damage to my hands and elbows particularly in cold weather.

Grueller · 15-02-2017 10:51PM

Someone go rescue Sam Kade. He is over in after hours slagging off dubs and he will have them dragged back in here polluting our stomping ground.

ganmo · 15-02-2017 10:52PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

This tweet made me laugh.

https://twitter.com/agricontract/status/830828346963554304

just heard a great one on Aprés match

You'd stand out like a vegan!

Base price · 15-02-2017 11:06PM

Grueller wrote: »

Someone go rescue Sam Kade. He is over in after hours slagging off dubs and he will have them dragged back in here polluting our stomping ground.

Don't get so excited, there are already some of us Dubs polluting F&F

Reggie. · 15-02-2017 11:10PM

Base price wrote: »

Don't get so excited, there are already some of us Dubs polluting F&F

Unfortunately

ganmo · 15-02-2017 11:14PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Unfortunately

Oi! you Nutta!

Base price · 15-02-2017 11:15PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Unfortunately

I though you would be cleaning the dead flies off your tractor

Reggie. · 15-02-2017 11:16PM

ganmo wrote: »

Oi! you Nutta!

I'm allowed as I've to deal with ye daily

Base price · 15-02-2017 11:22PM

Reggie. wrote: »

I'm allowed as I've to deal with ye daily

The usual reply from the country folk who come to the big smoke stealing our jobs

I said · 15-02-2017 11:25PM

Base price wrote: »

The usual reply from the country folk who come to the big smoke stealing our jobs

Ye all have culchie blood in ye unless yer relations came over with the Black and Tans

Reggie. · 15-02-2017 11:31PM

Base price wrote: »

The usual reply from the country folk who come to the big smoke stealing our jobs

Let me clarify I NEVER wanted to go anywhere near your big smoke :P

whelan2 · 16-02-2017 09:06AM

very sad http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/give-your-kids-an-extra-hug-tonight-familys-devastation-after-boy-3-dies-in-tractor-incident-on-fife-farm-35456268.html

Reggie. · 16-02-2017 09:49AM

whelan2 wrote: »

very sad http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/give-your-kids-an-extra-hug-tonight-familys-devastation-after-boy-3-dies-in-tractor-incident-on-fife-farm-35456268.html

And yet you aren't allowed to keep kids in the cab which most have a seat and seat belt.

Username John · 16-02-2017 10:53AM

Reggie. wrote: »

And yet you aren't allowed to keep kids in the cab which most have a seat and seat belt.

Not all tractors have these tho...

And you might laugh at this - but some tractors are very high compared to a child's height. And often, these are the ones with the seat and seat belt...

Any accident involving children is a tragedy, so I can understand why legislation has erred on the side of caution here and introduced a blanket ban on kids in tractors...

patsy_mccabe · 16-02-2017 01:52PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Was talking to a vet I rarely see any more after his dad got a couple of fingers inadvertently removed by a muck spreader :pac:
He was a farm recently enough and the farmer was complaining that the cows were pining away, incl one that had died a week or so previous and he wanted a PM. So away goes the cow and wasn't she full of plastic. This chap was taking cutting down the side of the bales and peeling back the black stuff leaving the rest on as the bales kept fresher :eek: I didn't think eejits like that actually fecking existed ffs.

I bought a bit of land a while back and I am constantly pulling out bits and pieces of black plastic outta mounds of piled earth. Drives me insane. Is it that hard to remove the bloody thing before you pile up old rotten bales.

ganmo · 16-02-2017 02:26PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I bought a bit of land a while back and I am constantly pulling out bits and pieces of black plastic outta mounds of piled earth. Drives me insane. Is it that hard to remove the bloody thing before you pile up old rotten bales.

I had to go around home pulling up plastic too. Fairly easy to identify the spots by the ****e grass. So much easier to empty the last of the silage out and bring back the plastic when putting out the new one.

davidk1394 · 16-02-2017 03:12PM

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/cyclist-injured-after-being-hit-by-john-deere-hauling-a-slurry-tank/
Did ye see this lads. Cyclists are giving out saying it's unsafe on the road as people don't give enough space. I was heading down the main road last week on the tractor. I passed a few cyclists. Took more notice anyway once I passed them. Luckily I had nothing on the tractor at the time. One cyclists came right up behind me. I only spotted his helmet on the mirror inside in the cab. Now if that isn't stupidity I don't know what is

pedigree 6 · 16-02-2017 04:00PM

davidk1394 wrote: »

http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/cyclist-injured-after-being-hit-by-john-deere-hauling-a-slurry-tank/
Did ye see this lads. Cyclists are giving out saying it's unsafe on the road as people don't give enough space. I was heading down the main road last week on the tractor. I passed a few cyclists. Took more notice anyway once I passed them. Luckily I had nothing on the tractor at the time. One cyclists came right up behind me. I only spotted his helmet on the mirror inside in the cab. Now if that isn't stupidity I don't know what is

I was going for a load of straw with the bale trailer and a cyclist was in front of me for about 3 miles. He was doing the same speed as me 40km/hr.
Eventually he decided to wave me on. I was about half a mile from my destination and stupidly now I went to pass him as the road ahead was clear.
So I pulled out to pass him and then your man on the bike kept at the same speed 40km/hr.
So there's the cyclist on his side of the road and me trying to pass him on the other side with a 26ft trailer and we both doing 40km/hr. Then we both spotted a car oncoming and he slowed down. I couldn't pull up either as there was a car behind me too. All I could do was flash the lights at the oncoming car to warn him and try and get on my right side of road all the while, while trying not to kill the cyclist. I tell you my heart was in my mouth.
But when I got to where I was going your man on the bike gives me a big salute (in a sorry for that kind of way). I knew the cyclist as he's a neighbour and bloody well trying to break their personal best time. But it would frighten the life out of you, what could have happened.
I won't pass a cyclist now unless they pull right up.

ganmo · 16-02-2017 05:58PM

There's constantly cyclists on the roads around here. They'd wave ya on coming up to dangerous bends and what's worse is there's ppl who overtake them on those bends!

And then there's the ones that weave over and back goin up the hills

mf240 · 16-02-2017 08:41PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I was going for a load of straw with the bale trailer and a cyclist was in front of me for about 3 miles. He was doing the same speed as me 40km/hr.
Eventually he decided to wave me on. I was about half a mile from my destination and stupidly now I went to pass him as the road ahead was clear.
So I pulled out to pass him and then your man on the bike kept at the same speed 40km/hr.
So there's the cyclist on his side of the road and me trying to pass him on the other side with a 26ft trailer and we both doing 40km/hr. Then we both spotted a car oncoming and he slowed down. I couldn't pull up either as there was a car behind me too. All I could do was flash the lights at the oncoming car to warn him and try and get on my right side of road all the while, while trying not to kill the cyclist. I tell you my heart was in my mouth.
But when I got to where I was going your man on the bike gives me a big salute (in a sorry for that kind of way). I knew the cyclist as he's a neighbour and bloody well trying to break their personal best time. But it would frighten the life out of you, what could have happened.
I won't pass a cyclist now unless they pull right up.

No damage done only an underpants wrote off

Muckit · 16-02-2017 09:51PM

Anyone else go to see trainspotting 2? There's a scene in it where they stumble into a slatted shed. Spotted that your man had himalayan rock salt thrown in on silage

Bullocks · 16-02-2017 09:56PM

Muckit wrote: »

Anyone else go to see trainspotting 2? There's a scene in it where they stumble into a slatted shed. Spotted that your man had himalayan rock salt thrown in on silage

Just back from it , great film I thought

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