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F&F Chitchat a hocht, an feirmeoir bocht

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  • #5732
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    CloughCasey1 wrote: »
    And GS plays the weather trump card to take the heat off the other discussion. Tis asy known why you are the mod.☺



    Shhhlhhhhhush!


    :D

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #5733
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,979 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    Anyone know of the top of their head, the resin joint on the power to a deep well pump - how long to cure before it can be lowered into the well ??

    We left it overnight. Probably about 15 hours


  • #5734
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,151 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    We left it overnight. Probably about 15 hours

    Fuuuuck


  • #5735
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,979 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    Fuuuuck

    We had the mains on in the meantime. So no rush on getting supply back. Plumber just said he'd leave it overnight.


  • #5736
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    _Brian wrote: »
    Anyone know of the top of their head, the resin joint on the power to a deep well pump - how long to cure before it can be lowered into the well ??

    Ive done it here after about 2 hrs. Just make sure its well mixed beforehand and filled with no air pockets. Don't have any strain on the cables in the joint when tying up the cable to the pipe afterwards.
    If you're doing it yourself use gloves the resin is a hoor to get off.


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  • #5737
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    https://www.nationalist.ie/news/home/290537/long-standing-grudge-over-two-blind-ferrets-lead-to-assault-on-tipperary-street.html

    Some man to hold a grudge!


  • #5738
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,979 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    My dad got a phonecall to the landline this morning that his debit card had been used frauduently twice during the night. He played dumb, asked was that the card he uses for free bus travel, he kept asking the lad to repeat everything he was saying, pretending he was deaf. He said sure I never leave the house how could anyone have the card number. The lad got annoyed and hung up :D


  • #5739
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    I saw a few loads going out round here this morning, I wonder if they looked for the new permission to spread:rolleyes:

    Saying that, I'm tempted myself but have enough storage till next week so might go with a few half loads on drier ground from Tuesday for a few days to get a bit of breathing room again.


  • #5740
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    We have discovered that I fit a bull ring :pac::D

    438357.jpg


  • #5741
    davidk1394
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,365 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    https://www.nationalist.ie/news/home/290537/long-standing-grudge-over-two-blind-ferrets-lead-to-assault-on-tipperary-street.html

    Some man to hold a grudge!

    Ooh theirs some great lads in there to stay thick at you for a long time :D

    Sold a truck load of straw to a fella. Got 25\bale for them. He was very happy with the quality and density and I was happy with the price. Good days work


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  • #5742
    tanko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,485 ✭✭✭tanko


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    We have discovered that I fit a bull ring :pac::D

    438357.jpg

    Did nobody tell you, it goes in your nose!!!!


  • #5743
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,563 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    We have discovered that I fit a bull ring :pac::D

    438357.jpg

    Ya better get one in the other ear too.

    You know to balance the weight out a bit...in case your head falls off.


  • #5744
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,563 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    I've seen a fertilizer spreader on the road.
    Must be getting ready for tomorrow.

    Spring is here.


  • #5745
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    It's barmy.. ground temperature in mid September to mid November allows for a moderate to good response to nitrogen here which would benefit my sheep no end.. (Heavy ground) but anything spread here before mid march is a complete waste most years.


  • #5746
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,563 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Willfarman wrote: »
    It's barmy.. ground temperature in mid September to mid November allows for a moderate to good response to nitrogen here which would benefit my sheep no end.. (Heavy ground) but anything spread here before mid march is a complete waste most years.

    I must get one myself but I bet you'd get some surprises from a field soil EC (electrical conductivity) reader.
    The readings from it are dependent on nutrient level, soil temp, salinity level (can be linked to nutrient level as fert is salt based), organic matter and soil life, soil moisture and rainfall washing.

    I spread my dolerite (stone dust) on all the land and some free organic microbe tea ( only known to me) on some of it. I'm going to spread urea as the first spread on all this and I'm hoping for/expecting a great response from the urea. As there should be a great range and big amount of bacteria in the soil to take it up.

    Locally here you'd only get a reasonable/great response from urea if you spread dung or slurry beforehand. So I'm hoping/expecting my little theory to work.


  • #5747
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Say my name wrote: »
    I must get one myself but I bet you'd get some surprises from a field soil EC (electrical conductivity) reader.
    The readings from it are dependent on nutrient level, soil temp, salinity level (can be linked to nutrient level as fert is salt based), organic matter and soil life, and rainfall washing.

    I spread my dolerite (stone dust) on all the land and some free organic microbe tea ( only known to me) on some of it. I'm going to spread urea as the first spread on all this and I'm hoping for/expecting a great response from the urea. As there should be a great range and big amount of bacteria in the soil to take it up.

    Locally here you'd only get a reasonable response from urea if you spread dung or slurry beforehand. So I'm hoping/expecting my little theory to work.

    Would you leave a stripe through the field for demonstration purposes?


  • #5748
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,563 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Would you leave a stripe through the field for demonstration purposes?

    I will not.
    (I'm not wasting ground).

    I spread dung on the 30th Oct and 2t/ac dolerite after on top on a ten acre field.
    Finished grazing this around the 15th oct.
    I'd estimate there's a 1700 ( I must measure and have been shown how) cover on this now. That's the best field/cover I have now.

    My own thinking and by reading other reports is that the best quickest responses come from mixing dung and a stone dust together in a compost pile and they complement each other very well.


  • #5749
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    tanko wrote: »
    Did nobody tell you, it goes in your nose!!!!
    Say my name wrote: »
    Ya better get one in the other ear too.

    You know to balance the weight out a bit...in case your head falls off.

    Ah we stuck it in the bull instead! I'd need more than a ring to be led about the place :P


  • #5750
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,548 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Anyone ever have a bull destroy a ring on its nose? Young yearling bull here broke his in 2, with one half bent out of shape. His nose was perfect.


  • #5751
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Say my name wrote: »
    I've seen a fertilizer spreader on the road.
    Must be getting ready for tomorrow.

    Spring is here.

    He could be like me, taking it to get fixed:(


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  • #5752
    emaherx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,560 ✭✭✭emaherx


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Anyone ever have a bull destroy a ring on its nose? Young yearling bull here broke his in 2, with one half bent out of shape. His nose was perfect.

    Picked our stock bulls ring out of the silage last week....... Going to be fun putting a new one in... Don't think his head/neck will fit in our crush gate.


  • #5753
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,979 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    emaherx wrote: »
    Picked our stock bulls ring out of the silage last week....... Going to be fun putting a new one in... Don't think his head/neck will fit in our crush gate.

    If you get the hoofcare man with the automatic crush. We used it before Christmas. Worked a treat


  • #5754
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,047 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    emaherx wrote: »
    Picked our stock bulls ring out of the silage last week....... Going to be fun putting a new one in... Don't think his head/neck will fit in our crush gate.

    Put him in crush between two big cattle/cows and trap his head up. Halter him to the top rail. No slack. Loop rope around his head/neck and the rail too. Do it soon while the hole is still fully open. Go easy with him, take your time and if he's any way normal you won't have a problem.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #5755
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    In Nenagh tonight with the mother to see foster and Allen. Must be the youngest by 40/50 years so far.


  • #5756
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Anyone ever have a bull destroy a ring on its nose? Young yearling bull here broke his in 2, with one half bent out of shape. His nose was perfect.

    Did it open at the joint?


  • #5757
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    In Nenagh tonight with the mother to see foster and Allen. Must be the youngest by 40/50 years so far.

    Enjoy! Is your mother driving that at least you could have a few pints?


  • #5758
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,979 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    In Nenagh tonight with the mother to see foster and Allen. Must be the youngest by 40/50 years so far.

    It could be worse you could be doing parent teacher meetings. Just back from daughters one .


  • #5759
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Muckit wrote: »
    Enjoy! Is your mother driving that at least you could have a few pints?

    No I’m Des. Long drive home so she wouldn’t be up to driving- in early so mosh pit

    Off to Waterford tomorrow after school for a bunk bed so going racking. Up mileage.


  • #5760
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,568 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    In Nenagh tonight with the mother to see foster and Allen. Must be the youngest by 40/50 years so far.

    Mick foster was very funny on tommy tiernan lately.
    He's well able to laugh at himself anyway.....aye, laughing all the way to the bank I'd say


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  • #5761
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,388 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    whelan2 wrote: »
    It could be worse you could be doing parent teacher meetings. Just back from daughters one .

    There’s that in it too.

    Shur it’ll be better than midsummer Murders or fair city for the evening.

    No mosh pit though. :)


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