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carrollsno1 · 06-01-2018 09:52PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

To do what? Construction ?

No go to an IT over ag college solely. I wouldn't knock doing a trade and doing the green cert part time afterwards, once youve a trade you can travel anywhere.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 06-01-2018 09:55PM

George Sunsnow wrote: »

I’ll just leave this here having just seen a piece on ch 4 news about it :eek:

https://www.openbiome.org/stool-donation/

Where there's muck, there's money:p

whelan2 · 06-01-2018 09:57PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

No go to an IT over ag college solely. I wouldn't knock doing a trade and doing the green cert part time afterwards, once youve a trade you can travel anywhere.

Ballyhaise and Dundalk 4 year course, number one choice

carrollsno1 · 06-01-2018 10:02PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Ballyhaise and Dundalk 4 year course, number one choice

Always the option of transferring to UCD afterwards too, know a few who went on that course out here, all doing well living comfortable some not milking cows either.

whelan2 · 06-01-2018 10:05PM

Now the cao form wont recognise course numbers. Time to give up for tonight I think

Kevhog1988 · 06-01-2018 10:19PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Thanks. Will just get the application in for now I think .

If hes interested a construction course is never a bad shout. I did quantity surveying and there is a serious shortage of them in ireland at the moment. Companys seem to prefer us lads from a rural backgroubd also. I find it leaves me plenty of time to do work at home as only 5 days and if your good they will be as flexible as they can to keep you.

carrollsno1 · 06-01-2018 10:26PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Ballyhaise and Dundalk 4 year course, number one choice

If you dont mind me saying also maybe yere both happy commuting but usnt DKIT fairly close to ye? Would you not rather ship him off and he rather fly the nest?

whelan2 · 06-01-2018 10:28PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

If you dont mind me saying also maybe yere both happy commuting but usnt DKIT fairly close to ye? Would you not rather ship him off and he rather fly the nest?

Afaik there's pleny of oppurtunities to travel in the later years of the course

carrollsno1 · 06-01-2018 11:03PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Afaik there's pleny of oppurtunities to travel in the later years of the course

Im not on about that travel im more on about letting him off to stand on his own two feet eg WIT/ CIT, hope im not intruding by anyway. Id advise to keep away from uk ag universities too from what ive seen of them. Only a place for spoilt landed gentry types wno want to keep animals indoors ayr.

whelan2 · 06-01-2018 11:05PM

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Im not on about that travel im more on about letting him off to stand on his own two feet eg WIT/ CIT, hope im not intruding by anyway. Id advise to keep away from uk ag universities too from what ive seen of them. Only a place for spoilt landed gentry types wno want to keep animals indoors ayr.

Aye sure I went to a uk ag college and look how I turned out

Panjandrums · 06-01-2018 11:05PM

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Kevhog1988 · 06-01-2018 11:07PM

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What are you studying

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carrollsno1 · 06-01-2018 11:12PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Aye sure I went to a uk ag college and look how I turned out

Well im quitened now fairly lively....

Kevhog1988 · 06-01-2018 11:17PM

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In dit? I did that and then transferred to the qs course when i was finished

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Kevhog1988 · 06-01-2018 11:25PM

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Are you doing any work experience? Or summer work

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Bass Reeves · 07-01-2018 12:05AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Now the cao form wont recognise course numbers. Time to give up for tonight I think

I would not worry overly about course choices at the moment. Get the application set up with at least one course on it and application fee paid. Choices can be changed until after the leaving cert. A good idea is at some stage over the next 2-3 months to take him to a good career guidance professional. Check it out there are bound to be some good ones near you. I think they charge 60-100 euro they will have a chat with him, do some IQ tests and recommend some courses that you or he may not consider.

I agree with Carrolls, go and get his qualification he can do the short distance Green cert after, but he will have a qualification and can travel. Depending on what he qualify's at he may down the line be able to work and farm as well. Education broadens the mind. As well Carrolls as well that living away from home is a good idea all mine went to college away from home and it helps them to develop but they must be focused.

I hope you have him on the books and paying him a wage;)

Kevhog1988 · 07-01-2018 01:03AM

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Do you want me to ask in work? Based in blanchardstown

Base price · 07-01-2018 04:13AM

We're just home after watching a film that was made locally by adult childer of friends. We went to see it last Saturday but I was slightly distracted the first time I watched it trying to recgonise some of the locals and set locations. However, I made up for it tonight and I'm going to regret it in the morning

The film is "No Party For Billy Burns"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7085008/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtn8T86je0

sea12 · 07-01-2018 10:41AM

Selling an artic load of haylage. Don't have a front loader so have to get the contractor in to load. What the normal cost to load an artic and who normally pays. The buyer or seller?

Base price · 07-01-2018 12:10PM

sea12 wrote: »

Selling an artic load of haylage. Don't have a front loader so have to get the contractor in to load. What the normal cost to load an artic and who normally pays. The buyer or seller?

The seller would include the cost of loading in the price of the bales. They would have a loader/tractor with front loader.

Reggie. · 07-01-2018 01:04PM

sea12 wrote: »

Selling an artic load of haylage. Don't have a front loader so have to get the contractor in to load. What the normal cost to load an artic and who normally pays. The buyer or seller?

I charge €30 and hour inc vat for that job.

Bullocks · 07-01-2018 01:40PM

Reggie. wrote: »

I charge €30 and hour inc vat for that job.

How long does it take to load ? It would want to be pretty local to make it worth your while at that I'd say

Say my name · 07-01-2018 01:41PM

I've been thinking about whether i should post this or not for awhile. But i think i will anyway.

I was in church on Christmas Day and the sermon was about the birth of Christ and the Christmas story.

The sermon went like this..
In Judea, Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. There were shepherds tending their sheep on the hills. Now shepherds at the time were considered very low in society. (How are they now?). But God sent a message to the shepherds that a saviour Christ the king was born in a stable in Bethlehem. The shepherds didn't know what to do as who would look after the flocks if they went?
Eventually they decided they'd go for a quick look and get back as quick as they could. In the first stable they looked ..No sign of anything.
Second stable same thing no sign.
Third stable the same.
Now by now the shepherds were getting worried as they were wondering did they get the whole thing wrong. But with each empty stable there was one shepherd who was getting more and more excited.
They asked him "What the hell is wrong with you? You loon. There's nothing here."
He replied " That just means we're one step closer to finding the Lord".
And sure enough in the twelfth stable there was the baby Jesus lying in the manger.

Now in the far east. A group of "wise" men who had studied under the greatest theologians and thinkers at the time and who knew the stars like the back of their hand. Noticed a new star that was moving slightly west each night. They knew this was something special and could only take from it that a new king of men was going to be born sent from God.
They decided to travel west following the light to where this messiah was born.
Finally they arrived in Judea. Now Judea was a land ruled by king herod. Herod was a very paranoid king as most kings are and had anyone in his family who was a potential threat to his rule executed.
Now a particular trait amongst learned or wise men is that they usually lack common sense.
The wise men decided to go to the court of Herod and ask him where this new messiah king of kings was born as they had been following this star and he was somewhere in his kingdom. Herod replied he had no idea but that when they find him to report back so that he could too give him a gift and worship him.
The wise men continued on their journey until they got to the spot where Jesus was born in the stable.
After they gave him gifts they finally copped on what the hell they were after doing. So they went home a different way.
As they were on their journey home Herod began a massacre of any boys aged 2 years and younger.

There's a thought for the day.
Merry a few days after Christmas.

Bullocks · 07-01-2018 01:44PM

Say my name wrote: »

I've been thinking about whether i should post this or not for awhile. But i think i will anyway.

I was in church on Christmas Day and the sermon was about the birth of Christ and the Christmas story.

The sermon went like this..
In Judea, Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem. There were shepherds tending their sheep on the hills. Now shepherds at the time were considered very low in society. (How are they now?). But God sent a message to the shepherds that a saviour Christ the king was born in a stable in Bethlehem. The shepherds didn't know what to do as who would look after the flocks if they went?
Eventually they decided they'd go for a quick look and get back as quick as they could. In the first stable they looked ..No sign of anything.
Second stable same thing no sign.
Third stable the same.
Now by now the shepherds were getting worried as they were wondering did they get the whole thing wrong. But with each empty stable there was one shepherd who was getting more and more excited.
They asked him "What the hell is wrong with you? You loon. There's nothing here."
He replied " That just means we're one step closer to finding the Lord".
And sure enough in the twelfth stable there was the baby Jesus lying in the manger.

Now in the far east. A group of "wise" men who had studied under the greatest theologians and thinkers at the time and who knew the stars like the back of their hand. Noticed a new star that was moving slightly west each night. They knew this was something special and could only take from it that a new king of men was going to be born sent from God.
They decided to travel west following the light to where this messiah was born.
Finally they arrived in Judea. Now Judea was a land ruled by king herod. Herod was a very paranoid king as most kings are and had anyone in his family who was a potential threat to his rule executed.
Now a particular trait amongst learned or wise men is that they usually lack common sense.
The wise men decided to go to the court of Herod and ask him where this new messiah king of kings was born as they had been following this star and he was somewhere in his kingdom. Herod replied he had no idea but that when they find him to report back so that he could too give him a gift and worship him.
The wise men continued on their journey until they got to the spot where Jesus was born in the stable.
After they gave him gifts they finally copped on what the hell they were after doing. So they went home a different way.
As they were on their journey home Herod began a massacre of any boys aged 2 years and younger.

There's a thought for the day.
Merry a few days after Christmas.

I prefer Dave Allen's one about the pope and the atheist myself

Reggie. · 07-01-2018 01:50PM

Bullocks wrote: »

How long does it take to load ? It would want to be pretty local to make it worth your while at that I'd say

Ah loading does be handy enough. It's just sometimes it's straight from a shed to trailer where other times it's has to be dragged from a field. So has to be charged per hour than bale. Usually an hour will load an artic

visatorro · 07-01-2018 01:59PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Ah loading does be handy enough. It's just sometimes it's straight from a shed to trailer where other times it's has to be dragged from a field. So has to be charged per hour than bale. Usually an hour will load an artic

If you were drawing bales, would you charge by the bale?
I think your undercharging, your first hour should be fifty euro anyway. If a job only takes an hour it's not your fault but I don't think 30 is enough to start the tractor for an hour iykwim

ganmo · 07-01-2018 02:16PM

Base price wrote: »

We're just home after watching a film that was made locally by adult childer of friends. We went to see it last Saturday but I was slightly distracted the first time I watched it trying to recgonise some of the locals and set locations. However, I made up for it tonight and I'm going to regret it in the morning
The film is "No Party For Billy Burns"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7085008/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEtn8T86je0

I'm always at that in films/programmes where they go to the dublin mountains

F&F Chitchat a hocht, an feirmeoir bocht

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