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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,479 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    KatyMac wrote: »
    My OH was delighted to discover the C of I didn't do marriage course!! We must have managed to muddle through somehow - yesterday was our 23rd anniversary!

    Poor man


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    that became rich


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    in the things that matter most


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    When you're driving up a forest track in a car and there's a trail of oil all along the centre of track.
    It means don't drive any further but reverse back the way you came.

    #fortunecookie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Likewise a trail of blood!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Muckit wrote: »
    Likewise a trail of blood!!

    Well it was blood to someone's poor car. :rolleyes:

    Edit: not mine though.:D


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


    The Dept want people to notify them if they come across any rabbits or hares dead or acting strangely. Details in the link below.
    https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/forestry-enviro/environment/deadly-disease-found-in-irish-hares-and-rabbits-public-asked-to-report-any-sightings-38390007.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    The Dept want people to notify them if they come across any rabbits or hares dead or acting strangely. Details in the link below.
    https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/forestry-enviro/environment/deadly-disease-found-in-irish-hares-and-rabbits-public-asked-to-report-any-sightings-38390007.html

    We got cleaned out of rabbits with disease about a month ago, TBH I'm not sorry, I'm fed up of twisting my ankle in holes they're digging, place was polluted with rabbits


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,830 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Liverpool top of the league...


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


    wrangler wrote: »
    We got cleaned out of rabbits with disease about a month ago, TBH I'm not sorry, I'm fed up of twisting my ankle in holes they're digging, place was polluted with rabbits

    I wouldn't argue with that but I doubt the hare population would be as quick to recover.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Be God. Justin Timberlake has done well for himself lately.

    https://mirimichigreen.com/mg_products/weed-control-concentrate/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,349 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    The Dept want people to notify them if they come across any rabbits or hares dead or acting strangely. Details in the link below.
    https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/forestry-enviro/environment/deadly-disease-found-in-irish-hares-and-rabbits-public-asked-to-report-any-sightings-38390007.html
    Biodiversity Ireland have been running a hare survey since September last year. They would like people to record any sightings of hares - http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/record-biodiversity/surveys/national-hare-survey/


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


    Base price wrote: »
    Biodiversity Ireland have been running a hare survey since September last year. They would like people to record any sightings of hares - http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/record-biodiversity/surveys/national-hare-survey/

    Loads of them here still, thankfully.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Be God. Justin Timberlake has done well for himself lately.

    https://mirimichigreen.com/mg_products/weed-control-concentrate/

    Nobody interested in the new nitrogen based herbicide alternative to Glyphosate launched by the Timberlake family?


  • Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    Nobody interested in the new nitrogen based herbicide alternative to Glyphosate launched by the Timberlake family?

    One of the features is: results in 15 minutes.? You could watch the rushes die!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    MeTheMan wrote: »
    One of the features is: results in 15 minutes.? You could watch the rushes die!

    No waiting 2 weeks before reseeding!

    And people say there's no money in agriculture?
    The richest companies in the world have a foot in farming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    No waiting 2 weeks before reseeding!

    And people say there's no money in agriculture?
    The richest companies in the world have a foot in farming.

    Nothing new about i presume is Nonanoate
    It is just hidden on the litrature and scacely on the equired data panel. Re-inventing the wheel for a quick quid. Glyphos is so cheap allternatives don't get a look in.


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


    Nobody interested in the new nitrogen based herbicide alternative to Glyphosate launched by the Timberlake family?

    What's in the rest of the product outside the active ingredient? I'm wondering why it's not listed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Nothing new about i presume is Nonanoate
    It is just hidden on the litrature and scacely on the equired data panel. Re-inventing the wheel for a quick quid. Glyphos is so cheap allternatives don't get a look in.

    Whatever the exact formulation is. It seems they have the speak of suitable for organic gardening and they've got OMRI listed. Not sure if that means approved but it's interesting anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,830 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Loads of them here still, thankfully.

    Was watching 2 of them tearing around a field this morning, also a crane and a fox in the same field.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Whatever the exact formulation is. It seems they have the speak of suitable for organic gardening and they've got OMRI listed. Not sure if that means approved but it's interesting anyway.

    Ad-blue;)

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    I read a great quote there online now.

    "You control people by exploiting their ignorance and their fears".

    Nice quote there for all aspects of life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    The Dept want people to notify them if they come across any rabbits or hares dead or acting strangely. Details in the link below.
    https://m.independent.ie/business/farming/forestry-enviro/environment/deadly-disease-found-in-irish-hares-and-rabbits-public-asked-to-report-any-sightings-38390007.html

    Also outbreak of Newcastle disease. Affects racing pigeon owners and poultry facilities including backyard flocks

    https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/animalhealthwelfare/diseasecontrol/newcastledisease/
    Newcastle Disease

    Sporadic outbreaks of Pigeon Paramyxovirus (PPMV-1) occur in domestic pigeons and wild birds throughout Ireland and this increases the risk of Newcastle Disease in poultry in Ireland. 


  • Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    Anyone for tullamore tomorrow? Seems like the rain will clear in the morning and will be a decent day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Serious amount of cattle trucks on the road today.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    MeTheMan wrote: »
    Anyone for tullamore tomorrow? Seems like the rain will clear in the morning and will be a decent day.

    Make sure to take a pic of where the meat factory tents should be


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    Whatever the exact formulation is. It seems they have the speak of suitable for organic gardening and they've got OMRI listed. Not sure if that means approved but it's interesting anyway.

    Ah ignore me i was being negative about the marketing behind the product rather than the active.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was watching 2 of them tearing around a field this morning, also a crane and a fox in the same field.


    I hate being pedantic but I suspect you mean "Heron";) - Cranes have not bred in this country for at least 400 years, a few visit every year and have been recently re-introduced to the Uk so hopefully they will return here sometime in the next few years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,830 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    I hate being pedantic but I suspect you mean "Heron";) - Cranes have not bred in this country for at least 400 years, a few visit every year and have been recently re-introduced to the Uk so hopefully they will return here sometime in the next few years
    we always called this a crane, you are more than likely 100 per cent right . There's also a sparrow hawk or something that goes crazy when the cows go near a field he seems to stay in. last time I topped it he was flying around the tractor giving out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan2 wrote: »
    we always called this a crane, you are more than likely 100 per cent right . There's also a sparrow hawk or something that goes crazy when the cows go near a field he seems to stay in. last time I topped it he was flying around the tractor giving out


    A lot of folk still do - the name appears to have simply passed over to a similar looking bird when our native Crane population died out.


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


    whelan2 wrote: »
    we always called this a crane, you are more than likely 100 per cent right . There's also a sparrow hawk or something that goes crazy when the cows go near a field he seems to stay in. last time I topped it he was flying around the tractor giving out

    When even the birds are giving out about topping, it can't be far from being banned:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,830 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    When even the birds are giving out about topping, it can't be far from being banned:D
    I love going topping tbh, I can see something for what I'm doing and gets me away from other stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Spent the days visiting aunts and uncles in tipp today, called to a cousin who is a retired carpenter and he has started making model tractors out of timber. did them by eye and perfectly scaled- beautiful tractors with equipment- fingerbar mower working and everything. And all fired into a box because the wife doesn’t want them in the house. I was nearly crying seeing them come out of the box.

    Met a barn owl in the driveway into home.
    My bird expert neighbour inspected the pheasant and reckons it was something like a peregrine falcon that killed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Birdnuts wrote: »
    I hate being pedantic but I suspect you mean "Heron";) - Cranes have not bred in this country for at least 400 years, a few visit every year and have been recently re-introduced to the Uk so hopefully they will return here sometime in the next few years
    we always called this  a crane, you are more than likely 100 per cent right . There's also a sparrow hawk or something that goes crazy when the cows go near a field he seems to stay in. last time I  topped it he was flying around the tractor giving out
    We have sparrow hawks here aswell , the young ones seemed very loud this year over other years . I don't know if theres a link but the swallow population has declined massively aswell in the last few years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Spent the days visiting aunts and uncles in tipp today, called to a cousin who is a retired carpenter and he has started making model tractors out of timber. did them by eye and perfectly scaled- beautiful tractors with equipment- fingerbar mower working and everything. And all fired into a box because the wife doesn’t want them in the house. I was nearly crying seeing them come out of the box.

    Met a barn owl in the driveway into home.
    My bird expert neighbour inspected the pheasant and reckons it was something like a peregrine falcon.

    Do you mean it was a Peregrine that likley killed the pheasant?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭mayota


    Spent the days visiting aunts and uncles in tipp today, called to a cousin who is a retired carpenter and he has started making model tractors out of timber. did them by eye and perfectly scaled- beautiful tractors with equipment- fingerbar mower working and everything. And all fired into a box because the wife doesn’t want them in the house. I was nearly crying seeing them come out of the box.

    Met a barn owl in the driveway into home.
    My bird expert neighbour inspected the pheasant and reckons it was something like a peregrine falcon.

    Are you sure it wasn’t the topper?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    gozunda wrote: »
    Do you mean it was a Peregrine that likley killed the pheasant?

    Yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    mayota wrote: »
    Are you sure it wasn’t the topper?

    Definitely not- ‘‘twas our of my cutting range and photos previously, innards and head removed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭MeTheMan


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I love going topping tbh, I can see something for what I'm doing and gets me away from other stuff

    I'm the same. Headphones on, podcast if I feel like learning or a bit of music otherwise. Got this done yesterday.
    attachment.php?attachmentid=487810&d=1565473846
    attachment.php?attachmentid=487811&d=1565473846

    The amount of rain that has falling in the last week meant I couldn't got the whole right side done, but looks better all the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Cripes, if it keeps the man happy, let him make the models. I find these sort of things really annoying, we need to give each other a bit of space and wonder at each others talents. Why create grief over nothing?
    If the man then had a breakdown, how much medical care would it take, if you just want to be monetary about it. Sorry Knight for getting tetchy with your story.

    Heron or Crane, just call it a Joanny the Bogs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Water John wrote: »
    Cripes, if it keeps the man happy, let him make the models. I find these sort of things really annoying, we need to give each other a bit of space and wonder at each others talents. Why create grief over nothing?
    If the man then had a breakdown, how much medical care would it take, if you just want to be monetary about it. Sorry Knight for getting tetchy with your story.

    Heron or Crane, just call it a Joanny the Bogs.

    I guarantee if he brought them to vintage rally’s/ shows he would have ques, they are that good. The talent is unreal.he’s getting my encyclopedia of tractor on the post for more reference material.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    He needs a, man's shed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Spent the days visiting aunts and uncles in tipp today, called to a cousin who is a retired carpenter and he has started making model tractors out of timber. did them by eye and perfectly scaled- beautiful tractors with equipment- fingerbar mower working and everything. And all fired into a box because the wife doesn’t want them in the house. I was nearly crying seeing them come out of the box.

    Met a barn owl in the driveway into home.
    My bird expert neighbour inspected the pheasant and reckons it was something like a peregrine falcon that killed it.

    Sounds like a form of abuse making him hide them. If he is happy making them in his retirement let him work away at it. ‘‘Tis his home too, he can display what he like within reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Odelay wrote: »
    Sounds like a form of abuse making him hide them. If he is happy making them in his retirement let him work away at it. ‘‘Tis his home too, he can display what he like within reason.

    Ah no, she’s not that bad, just happens to be that way about them. He has an amazing shed set up really well, he could even have them on a shelf. He was saying he will make two or three this winter again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I read a great quote there online now.

    "You control people by exploiting their ignorance and their fears".

    Nice quote there for all aspects of life.

    What's so "great" about it?

    I'd turn it around and say "DON'T allow people to control you by them feeding into your fears and self doubt."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Muckit wrote: »
    What's so "great" about it?

    I'd turn it around and say "DON'T allow people to control you by them feeding into your fears and self doubt."

    Why does everyone not want to become the next Adolf Hitler or head of Bord Bia?

    Maybe it's just me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,911 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Is it me or has the whole Farming/Boards gone a little weird lately. It must be the onset of winter. Never saw so many, so tetchy. :cool:

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,830 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Tis the season


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Tis the season

    Put on the frying pan with boxty, bacon & egg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Water John wrote: »
    Cripes, if it keeps the man happy, let him make the models. I find these sort of things really annoying, we need to give each other a bit of space and wonder at each others talents. Why create grief over nothing?
    If the man then had a breakdown, how much medical care would it take, if you just want to be monetary about it. Sorry Knight for getting tetchy with your story.

    Heron or Crane, just call it a Joanny the Bogs.

    Nice bit of irish mythology attached to it as well

    The celebrated bag of Irish tradition was made by Manannán mac Lir and contained many treasures. Aífe is transformed into a crane by a jealous rival, luchra; she subsequently spends 200 years in the household of Manannán mac Lir. When she dies, he uses her skin to hold things precious to him. These included his knife and shirt, the king of Scotland's shears, the king of Lochlainn's helmet, the bones of Assal's swine, and the girdle of the great whale's back. At high tide the treasures are visible in the sea, but at ebb tide they vanish. Modern commentators have speculated that the bag contained the letters of the ogham alphabet used in writing before the introduction of Christianity. The ogham ciphers may have been suggested by the legs of flying cranes. The bag has many owners, including Lug Lámfhota and Liath Luachra, from whom it is obtained by Fionn mac Cumhaill.


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