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F&F Chitchat a hocht, an feirmeoir bocht

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  • #8162
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Tractor has to be washed again. Worked it for an hour :D

    Have you considered making a storage locker incorporated into the top step?
    You could slip off the wellies before getting into the cab.

    A bit like truckers leaving their boots on the top step and then closing the door on them.

    Sock feet, or a pair of plaid slippers for inside.

    😆


  • #8163
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,322 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Cos they'll be sold on before they see a shed again
    Machinery has moved in for the summer
    Are the calves out or in? How long will you leave the jackets on them?


  • #8164
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    whelan2 wrote: »
    So how was Friday the thirteenth?

    :peeps out: is it over yet? At least it didn't rain here yesterday....


  • #8165
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Are the calves out or in? How long will you leave the jackets on them?

    Nah the babies are still in. Jackets still on. They are 6ish weeks Monday so might take them off then


  • #8166
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    How is the peat bed working out?


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  • #8167
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    longgonesilver wrote: »
    How is the peat bed working out?

    Great. Great soakage. No quelching anywhere under the straw


  • #8168
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,764 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Must be a Finnish thing.....my brother tried making it here before!

    Actually. How did he get on?
    Did he use any special thing a majigs in making it?


  • #8169
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Say my name wrote: »
    Actually. How did he get on?
    Did he use any special thing a majigs in making it?

    He used an old metal bin and placed it into a bonfire we had of scrub bushes. That's as far as it entertained me i'm afraid!


  • #8170
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,764 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    The swallows have landed!!

    Went out for the cows this morning and there were 3 swallows zipping around the cows feasting on dung flies.

    A great example of symbiosis going on.


  • #8171
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,322 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Hoofcare man was here this morning. Did 30 cows and dehorned the calves. I'm wrecked. Young lad off to do 5k now. Oh to be young


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  • #8172
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Hoofcare man was here this morning. Did 30 cows and dehorned the calves. I'm wrecked. Young lad off to do 5k now. Oh to be young

    The wind will push that fella along


  • #8173
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,322 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    The wind will push that fella along

    Will post his time later to annoy you :)


  • #8174
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Will post his time later to annoy you :)

    Don't you dare. I'm comforting myself knowing age will catch up with him at some stage :D


  • #8175
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Don't you dare. I'm comforting myself knowing age will catch up with him at some stage :D
    Age will.

    But you won't:D:p


  • #8176
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Age will.

    But you won't:D:p

    Oh if I had a ban hammer


  • #8177
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Hoofcare man was here this morning. Did 30 cows and dehorned the calves. I'm wrecked. Young lad off to do 5k now. Oh to be young

    Why are you tired W? It sounds like the hoofcare man did all the work?🀣


  • #8178
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    Why are you tired W? It sounds like the hoofcare man did all the work?🀣

    Start running now lad


  • #8179
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Anyone put on any bets? Big race at 5:15


  • #8180
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Anyone put on any bets? Big race at 5:15

    Chase the Spud, I Just know & Raz de Maree:D


  • #8181
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Chase the Spud, I Just know & Raz de Maree:D

    Maggio,bless the wings,thunder and roses,final nudge 1.50e/w.
    All high enough odds so if any of them come in it'll cover me


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  • #8182
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,322 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Don't you dare. I'm comforting myself knowing age will catch up with him at some stage :D

    18minutes 50. New pb


  • #8183
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,819 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Don't think I'll be bothering Anna May just yet! :pac::D

    IB1AgKFl.jpg
    Great to see your Dad and you are keeping the tradition alive.


  • #8184
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    18minutes 50. New pb

    I hate him


  • #8185
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Base price wrote: »
    Great to see your Dad and you are keeping the tradition alive.

    It'd take far longer than that for me to source a plough and find out how to work it and then to fix it cause it'd surely be broken. And then to start ploughing and see it's not set right so fix it again....and then i'd need the tractor for something else and I'd just have the plough ready to go and it'd rain....

    Few hours with the loy and i'm sorted for all I need! Plus it's coming near bikini season and nobody has told that to my winter fat storage :pac:


  • #8186
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,819 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    It'd take far longer than that for me to source a plough and find out how to work it and then to fix it cause it'd surely be broken. And then to start ploughing and see it's not set right so fix it again....and then i'd need the tractor for something else and I'd just have the plough ready to go and it'd rain....

    Few hours with the loy and i'm sorted for all I need! Plus it's coming near bikini season and nobody has told that to my winter fat storage :pac:
    I remember as a childer (c.72/73) my Grandad ploughing with the loy in the field to set spuds at the house/land that my Parents bought.
    Like you I'm awfully confused between left and right footed loys.


  • #8187
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Base price wrote: »
    I remember as a childer (c.72/73) my Grandad ploughing with the loy in the field to set spuds at the house/land that my Parents bought.
    Like you I'm awfully confused between left and right footed loys.

    I've just been taught on the left footed one so that's what I'm used to now. Had to make a video for someone on twitter as they wanted to se how it worked :D


  • #8188
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    It was a mystery to me why I wasn't able to use my mother's spade when I was a child. I used to have to twist my leg round in a funny way to stand on the spade. Turned out that I'm left footed and her spade was missing the left shoulder bit (she called it a lug!).


  • #8189
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Getting good cleanouts in the first paddock


  • #8190
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,174 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Getting good cleanouts in the first paddock

    That's the most irish looking gap in the history of gaps. Just missing a pallet.


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  • #8191
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Getting good cleanouts in the first paddock

    Good clean out and not much damage. For such a tidy operator you'll have to pay more attention to your hedges and gaps. I was expecting you to have them immaculate.
    There more like something I'd have.


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