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Turf

  • 01-06-2017 12:13AM
    #1
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    It has come to my notice that not everyone here is familiar with this most fundamental of Irish traditions. 'What's footing?' the say. 'What's windrowing?' What's 'bogging to the hoozles?'

    How well are you up on your turf?


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  • #2
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Are you asking me?

    Who are your people? Do you know where you come from?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It has come to my notice that not everyone here is familiar with this most fundamental of Irish traditions. 'What's footing?' the say. 'What's windrowing?' What's 'bogging to the hoozles?'

    How well are you up on your turf?



    Bogging to the hoozles is obviously some kind of dance craze involving country music, home-made liquor and flanelette shirts.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Candie wrote: »
    Bogging to the hoozles is obviously some kind of dance craze involving country music, home-made liquor and flanelette shirts.

    Candie, if you were ever bogged to the hoozles, fancy music, fancy drink and fancy shirts would be the last thing on your mind.


  • #5
    Persephone kindness
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    How well are you up on your turf?

    I know my home. I know my people.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm afraid to ask now, TBM. :(


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  • #7
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I know that it's pronounced "torph"


  • #8
    howdoyouknow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭howdoyouknow


    The Backwards Man wrote:
    Candie, if you were ever bogged to the hoozles, fancy music, fancy drink and fancy shirts would be the last thing on your mind.


    In to the axles up here


  • #9
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yeah...I'm not a bogger.


  • #10
    Persephone kindness
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    seamus wrote: »
    Yeah...I'm not a bogger.
    My family is Five generations Dublin on one side and three generations on the other. :)

    Dublin pride!


  • #11
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    This is pure mulchie


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  • #12
    Persephone kindness
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    seamus wrote: »
    Yeah...I'm not a bogger.
    I love your sig. I am so proud of my grandparents !


  • #13
    Persephone kindness
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    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    This is pure mulchie
    I don't look down on culchies. Or mulchies. GO RURAL IRELAND!


  • #14
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    What is it with you and turf Backwards man ? Do you make love to it every night or wha ?


  • #15
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Anyway I am a small town girl in a place like london.


  • #16
    Persephone kindness
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    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    What is it with you and turf Backwards man ? Do you make love to it every night or wha ?
    It's an issue worthy of intense political debate.


  • #17
    selectamatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,284 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »
    What is it with you and turf Backwards man ? Do you make love to it every night or wha ?

    Turf is a giver not a taker


  • #18
    Persephone kindness
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    Protect our right to turf on.


  • #19
    Jim Bob Scratcher
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    selectamatic wrote: »
    Turf is a giver not a taker

    Yeah but yer man is coming across as a proper turfophile


  • #20
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I know my turf. I don't know your turf.


  • #21
    Persephone kindness
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    My Godfather is a gaelgoir from Donegal....he is an engineer .I texted him what windrowing was ..he said 'Dry Up' Is that irish for something?


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  • #22
    Persephone kindness
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    Persephone kindness wrote: »
    My Godfather is a gaelgoir from Donegal....he is an engineer .I texted him what windrowing was ..he said 'Dry Up' Is that irish for something?
    I googled it Uncle Johnny just told me to shut up :mad: :mad:


  • #23
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    a windrow is when you have turned the turf but couldnt be bothered footing it, you throw it into a continues heap the length of the rows, you could put 3-4 ten sod rows into the heap.
    great job. we did it a few times. much easier then all that footing. it allows it to dry out but slows down the drying if its a scorcher of weather ,


  • #24
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    If convicted criminals were made to foot turf for a couple of days, crime rates in Ireland would halve.


  • #25
    Totofan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    I love the sound of the word 'turf'.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQqv4BEcUvs


  • #26
    Persephone kindness
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    Well you learn something new every day :)





  • #27
    Persephone kindness
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    I found this on the forestry and farming forum. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057122626


  • #28
    Bogfairy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭Bogfairy


    When I lived in the UK a good mix of us used to be out having the craic when a few of us Irish lads and lassies would be going on about stories from the bog. Buck from hong-kong was fascinated with it. Londoner says to us "the bog? Isn't that something you sh1t in?"

    Well yeah, kind of but not really......

    When we were going on about the midges same Londoner thought we were being racist and that small people couldnt be cannibals.

    Anyways, dragged him out to the bog one time he came over and worked the hole off him. He gets it now....


  • #29
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I am quite au fait with the noble art of turf. In Elder Days Goose the Elder would buy the use of a bank or two of Grageen Bog, near Murroe in East Limerick. This was unusual as bogs go, but not atypical of much of the geography around there, inasmuch as it was in an extinct volcanic crater at an altitude of a few hundred feet. This made drawing the stuff away by tractor and trailer interesting to put it mildly, with ten or twelve tons of the stuff pushing you down a one-in-six gradient in places. :D


  • #30
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Spent a week or two my summers until the age of 18 or so turning, footing, bringing home turf. Bent-over, back-aching stuff, as the end of those six parallel lines inched closer.

    It has a nice nostalgia to it now, but if I ever did it again that would disappear pretty quickly.


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  • #31
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    osarusan wrote: »
    ...those six parallel lines...

    Tractor-mounted chain peat-cutter with six-way extruder, yes? At least we didn't need small armies of fellas belting away with sleans. :D


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