Extreme cold weather from Feb 25th on, and now St. Patrick's Day on...

farmersfriend · 02-03-2018 05:21PM

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Five foot deep in my yard now
Everything buried
Nightmare

brutal here too, power went, but its back now

Doltanian · 02-03-2018 05:51PM

What a morning of it, the Quad saved the lives of many a ewe today, with four wheel drive on it was full throttle to keep going uphill in blizzard total whiteout conditions. I eventually reached the top with ration and the hoggets were joined by a few Red Deer and Mountain goats eating Hay and Silage. There was three metre snowdrifts in places and I had a hard time keeping to the road and I was absolutely blinded and on the second run I had to wear welding goggles with a balacava as the White is totally blinding as I have sensitive eyes. My father remembers 1962 and 1963 and this morning was the worst he has seen since then, a few of the older boys remember 1947 and he said that while the snow now is as bad we are much more equipped to deal with it. Their main priority in those days was to get enough to ate as Rationing was still heavily enforced after World War Two.

_Brian · 02-03-2018 06:03PM

Don’t they always want to drink more when drinkers frozen.

gvPVsn

TL17 · 02-03-2018 06:30PM

Have just been following a lot of threads here over the last while and dont post much but really want to say huge thanks to George and all others on the weather thread who warned us well in advance.
Thanks to them I stock piled feed water and drew silage bales to yard. Its hard going at moment but without the heads up here I dont know how I would manage

freedominacup · 02-03-2018 06:40PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Met eirean after extending the red alert fir the east until tomorrow morning

Thawing and sleeting here now. Most drinkers running thankfully. Esb went at the house. Only four on the spur. Everyone called it in. Linesmen arrived at 4.30. Biggest thing they had to do was walk to the offending pole. I hope they have it as handy everywhere else they go. Other than poor fools like us they were the only people travelling today. They're well paid but on days like this you see the value.

arctictree · 02-03-2018 06:56PM

Really bad here in Roundwood. All of the roads Blocked with numerous 6 foot drifts. I spent last night in the lambing shed, 2 miles from the house. Jeep is now stuck down there so I have no transport. I'm just going to have to stay at home tonight, can't risk the walk in the dark. Hopefully the ewes will be alright and won't need assistance if any lamb. Still a whiteout outside, worst I've ever seen here.

Reggie. · 02-03-2018 06:58PM

Bit of late night road clearing

visatorro · 02-03-2018 07:35PM

There's a couple of contractors around here doing savage work with teleporters and a couple with snow ploughs. Only for them. I don't know where they'll send invoices to but I'm certainly grateful of the work they are doing. Be along time waiting for the council.

Reggie. · 02-03-2018 07:42PM

visatorro wrote: »

There's a couple of contractors around here doing savage work with teleporters and a couple with snow ploughs. Only for them. I don't know where they'll send invoices to but I'm certainly grateful of the work they are doing. Be along time waiting for the council.

No invoice here. Just trying to get roads open for neighbours

whelan2 · 02-03-2018 07:43PM

Reggie. wrote: »

No invoice here. Just trying to get roads open for neighbours

Gets ya out of the house too

Reggie. · 02-03-2018 07:50PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Gets ya out of the house too

Ssssh...dint let her hear ya

GrasstoMilk · 02-03-2018 07:54PM

Reggie. wrote: »

No invoice here. Just trying to get roads open for neighbours

Wexford CoCo are asking farmers to try clear there local roads. We did a bit today

wrangler · 02-03-2018 07:56PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Bit of late night road clearing

Had to do a road this morning, 300mtrs long 3mtrs wide and nowhere to put the snow which was a mtr deep one side down to a .3mtr on the other. I had to go the whole way back to the start with every bucketful
2.5 hrs it took

Say my name · 02-03-2018 08:05PM

farmersfriend wrote: »

still snowing here, had to dig the cows into n out of parlour, machine frozen, major amounts of snow, drifts 4-5ft high. BUT we have power, every one is home, and freezer is full of food, we just have to keep going,

Kind of the same here. Had to dig cows in and out of parlour. Hot water pipes frozen in parlour and the rest.
Reckon there was about 3 ft of snow but the drifts made it worse. 5ft drift at the calf house door. Didn't get started milking till 2 after I could make some semblance of the yard. Cow's may do with being milked the once today and calves only fed once. Then the rest of the day was clearing the snow from the feed barriers and then clear a path to silage bales at back of the shed. Hopefully that's the end of the snow.
Tomorrow hopefully if it stops snowing will be spent getting rid of the mountain piles of snow out of the yard.

foxy farmer · 02-03-2018 08:09PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Wexford CoCo are asking farmers to try clear there local roads. We did a bit today

Fair play. Around here you'd be told by CC to stop as you'd have no insurance cover. One contractor well in with the council and wants all the action. Did a huge amount of gritting back in 2010. Using lime spreaders without any mods most of it was flung into the grass margins. Great value for money there
I'd love to do my own road. Continuous hill rising 250ft in about 1/4 mile. Except 2 awkward "neighbours " below me who'd probably have an accident after I cleared the snow. Not worth the risk.

Say my name · 02-03-2018 08:09PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Wexford CoCo are asking farmers to try clear there local roads. We did a bit today

I think a digger went on ours and then a snow plough later on. The road is still impassable really except to the best of 4 x 4's.

Angus2018 · 02-03-2018 08:21PM

Farmer wrote: »

Drinkers should free out with a bit of help at todays temperatures. Got going yesterday after a night at -5 with about 5 gallons of hot water and kept moving from drinker to drinker.

Sometimes they just go clear an hour after you've given up. Good luck, it makes a savage difference.

Fed my lot hay and dry meal last night so that they'd keep the water moving

Not a hope when I got out to the yard, all the pipes running along the shed were covered in a few inches of snow. I had a tanker filled with water so I just filled up troughs and buckets for everyone again. Exhausting work along with shovelling and pushing snow.

Its at its worst this evening here, horrible wet sleet snow. I got soaked and had to change into waterproofs. Could barely see through some of the snow getting from shed to shed. Animals are utterly miserable but they have food and water. Got a hot shower and the dinner into me there but feeling a little sick, hopefully just tiredness, still a day or two of dealing with this snow before the rains come to melt it. Hope this is the last night and the last we see of this for another 20-30 years.

GrasstoMilk · 02-03-2018 08:51PM

Say my name wrote: »

I think a digger went on ours and then a snow plough later on. The road is still impassable really except to the best of 4 x 4's.

They did a lot of ploughing today. They've got from clough to the bottom roundabout in Wexford and all the way into new Ross and from Ross into Enniscorthy onto Bunclody and they went as far as the big bridge in kiltealy

whelan2 · 02-03-2018 08:58PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

They did a lot of ploughing today. They've got from clough to the bottom roundabout in Wexford and all the way into new Ross and from Ross into Enniscorthy onto Bunclody and they went as far as the big bridge in kiltealy

Cousins wedding was to be down in your area tomorrow was cancelled today, must be bad enough there

Muckit · 02-03-2018 09:01PM

https://youtu.be/dxnnalEfKPs

Sums it all up in 3min

Waffletraktor · 02-03-2018 09:03PM

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

They did a lot of ploughing today. They've got from clough to the bottom roundabout in Wexford and all the way into new Ross and from Ross into Enniscorthy onto Bunclody and they went as far as the big bridge in kiltealy

`Did ye end up with much snow after?

morclc · 02-03-2018 09:06PM

How long can cattle survive without water?

emaherx · 02-03-2018 09:36PM

morclc wrote: »

How long can cattle survive without water?

That question has been asked a lot recently.
The answer is not long, if your cattle are without water and look like they will be for some time then you need to either draw water to them, let them out to drink or run hoses from where you have running water.

Say my name · 02-03-2018 09:37PM

Waffletraktor wrote: »

`Did ye end up with much snow after?

I reckon about nearly 3ft.
But drifts could be anything (depends on length of field and then on roads at field gates etc).

Willfarman · 02-03-2018 09:40PM

Drifts here 12ft high shed roofs collapsing. Snow just too deep in places for any machine to move and nowhere to move it. No preparations made a bit of difference here. The sheep out at least have snow to lick. The ones in are causing major problems. Met eir have been spot on in fairness. Electric water and even wifi is holding up thank god. And the wife lets me in from time to time....

freedominacup · 02-03-2018 09:43PM

Some rain falling here now mixed with sleet.

L1985 · 02-03-2018 09:45PM

We are leaving ours out in batches to a field that has a stream. First lot today-u know the saying you can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink?? I was standing in the stream calling them and they were standing over it looking at me like I was the eejit. Left them out for an hour but they are bawling there now so I'd say they are after getting thirsty! They will have to wait until morning-it's some pain-6 separate groups to leave on and out and no matter what direction I was going the snow was in my face!!! I can't wait for this snow to go!!!

BigSteaks · 02-03-2018 09:52PM

Just looking at news there. Bucks robbed aldi and centra in dublin last night and set them on fire. Guards caught most of them, they should be put down!

Woman swimming in sandycove this morning, had to be fished out. Reckon they should have let nature take its course there.

kevthegaff · 02-03-2018 10:05PM

Bad here won't be able to get to shop till next week I'd reckon, unless the comes don't know when the milk collection will happen

memorystick · 02-03-2018 10:07PM

Will 2-3 degrees be enough to thaw pipes that have been frozen since Tuesday night with snow on top of them?

Extreme cold weather from Feb 25th on, and now St. Patrick's Day on...

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