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  • #5162
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


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  • #5163
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,179 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I got fencing stuff today. I had a list written out. You are not allowed to leave your vehicle. They come to you and get what you are looking for. A few people came in and they wouldn't give them what they were looking for. A few ignorant fookers beeping horns too to get the staff to come over to them. Another hardware store was closed due to selling stuff not to farmers

    Presume they are doing deliveries ?


  • #5164
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    whelan2 wrote: »
    No . If you are not a farmer you can't buy other things in the hardware store. Paint etc cant be sold. They are clamping down on it.

    I know that but I thought he meant meal and the likes


  • #5165
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I know that but I thought he meant meal and the likes

    No, the meal will be allowed to be sold but some of the other farm services who would also supply non farming customers are being pressured to cut out non farming sales and repairs is the way I took it from them.

    Not sales pressure, they're paid each month by DD.


  • #5166
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,020 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    No, the meal will be allowed to be sold but some of the other farm services who would also supply non farming customers are being pressured to cut out non farming sales and repairs is the way I took it from them.

    Not sales pressure, they're paid each month by DD.

    There was about 10 vehicles in the yard when I went today, only 2 of us actually got stuff


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  • #5167
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,020 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    Presume they are doing deliveries ?

    They don't do deliveries


  • #5168
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    First flight of many starting now well spaced out anyway reckon theres about 20 definitly no more than 30

    Better living everyone



  • #5169
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,357 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Good morning to you too. Post is a bit cryptic, elaborate.


  • #5170
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Water John wrote: »
    Good morning to you too. Post is a bit cryptic, elaborate.

    Flights half empty, flying home from New Zealand at the minute . Social distancing is no problem so far due to lack of numbers.

    Better living everyone



  • #5171
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Odelay


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    First flight of many starting now well spaced out anyway reckon theres about 20 definitly no more than 30

    You on the way home? Has your father got the cow box ready?


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  • #5172
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Flights half empty, flying home from New Zealand at the minute . Social distancing is no problem so far due to lack of numbers.

    Ah! That makes more sense. Thought you meant 20/30 flights coming over/ leaving and they were spaced out.


  • #5173
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Sounds like pressuring to me

    I'd say the coops are finding it hard to justify wages with such fall in demand. Probably trying for sales while they can. Can't blame them. Its not like people will be spending money on things they don't need right now.
    If people order from them rather than the competing store, well that's what a good sales person does.


  • #5174
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,357 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Great to hear you're on your way. They'll have the scealllans cut and ready for you to plant when you drop down. You can be isolating yourself, in the veg garden. Two whole weeks, it will be in great shape.


  • #5175
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,579 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Hope this doesn't sound callous or glorying..

    But.

    The road outside my house is a dream atm.
    I can move stock across it and n'er a vehicle is waiting either end and if there does happen to be someone going somewhere they have great patience atm and likely to give a big salute when the stock are off the road.

    Makes a change from cars and lorries trying to beat the satnav and pr1cks pointing to their Rolex.

    I could nearly put a tent up on the road.


  • #5176
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,357 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Back to the 1960s. Let the cows ramble up the road, in their own time. They'll turn into the correct field too, themselves. Stroll up later and close the gap.


  • #5177
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,579 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Water John wrote: »
    Back to the 1960s. Let the cows ramble up the road, in their own time. They'll turn into the correct field too, themselves. Stroll up later and close the gap.

    That's what my father used to and we were remarking that we could nearly do again.

    It's eerily quiet. Peaceful though.
    I'd actually love to live besides a quiet road.
    Go for a walk and not fear for your life.


  • #5178
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,179 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    They don't do deliveries

    Hope to get some fert delivered before the weekend.


  • #5179
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,020 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    A helicopter went over here today. It was kind of like when we were young and Larry's helicopter would be going by. Nearly no air traffic atm


  • #5180
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Say my name wrote: »
    That's what my father used to and we were remarking that we could nearly do again.

    It's eerily quiet. Peaceful though.
    I'd actually love to live besides a quiet road.
    Go for a walk and not fear for your life.

    I live in the house on the left, literally on the road. Fecking road has gotten much busier recently!! Between folks walking dogs & pleasure drivers it's a pain. I know it's horrid to be cooped up though so grin & bear it I guess.


  • #5181
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,020 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    Hope to get some fert delivered before the weekend.

    Ye just meant this place dont do deliveries


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  • #5182
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,579 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I live in the house on the left, literally on the road. Fecking road has gotten much busier recently!! Between folks walking dogs & pleasure drivers it's a pain. I know it's horrid to be cooped up though so grin & bear it I guess.

    My mother's side of the family came from a house something like that. The back of the house was flush with the road.
    People walking on the road could be looking at you in through the windows eating your dinner.
    I've land taken where there are ruins of dwelling houses on a lane and same thing the walls right on the edge of the lane.

    I guess every inch of land was needed times back for farmland and you weren't going to waste it between a house and a road.


  • #5183
    Snowfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A helicopter went over here today. It was kind of like when we were young and Larry's helicopter would be going by. Nearly no air traffic atm

    Think I’m on the flight path between the curragh and Athlone army barracks, an army helicopter flies by a few times a week.


  • #5184
    josephsoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭josephsoap


    [quote="Say my name;

    I guess every inch of land was needed times back for farmland and you weren't going to waste it between a house and a road.[/quote]

    Yeah I’d imagine when them houses were build there was very few cars on the roads - now a days you nearly want a KM private lane for privacy


  • #5185
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Say my name wrote: »
    My mother's side of the family came from a house something like that. The back of the house was flush with the road.
    People walking on the road could be looking at you in through the windows eating your dinner.
    I've land taken where there are ruins of dwelling houses on a lane and same thing the walls right on the edge of the lane.

    I guess every inch of land was needed times back for farmland and you weren't going to waste it between a house and a road.

    My house was here before the road, on the 1837 Geohive map it's marked as a dwelling here but no road across the hill, there was a laneway from the left :pac: It was a shop at one stage after the road came so I've really, really deep front windows.


  • #5186
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,579 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    josephsoap wrote: »
    Yeah I’d imagine when them houses were build there was very few cars on the roads - now a days you nearly want a KM private lane for privacy

    Maybe it's the army post above.

    But you'd wonder if there was a security/defensive aspect to the houses too. Anyone in them would know everything and everyone going the road.
    Perculars wouldn't have a hope without being noticed.
    Maybe it's the thriftiness of smaller farmers though.

    Edit: or as LH above, the road came after.


  • #5187
    Castlekeeper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭Castlekeeper


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I live in the house on the left, literally on the road. Fecking road has gotten much busier recently!! Between folks walking dogs & pleasure drivers it's a pain. I know it's horrid to be cooped up though so grin & bear it I guess.
    You'd want to hang a few gates!


  • #5188
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Odelay wrote: »
    You on the way home? Has your father got the cow box ready?

    Got a lend of a builders trailer and lie a pallet over me some way i reckon :,)

    Better living everyone



  • #5189
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Castlekeeper wrote: »
    You'd want to hang a few gates!

    Ha:D I have gates on my front & back street but the yards are open as the hayshed is in there & a way down to meadows. Right side used to have gates but they're the ones now blocking the opposite side! I can just hide in the turfshed & throw clods at people. Be grand!


  • #5190
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭Odelay


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Got a lend of a builders trailer and lie a pallet over me some way i reckon :,)


    Good to hear that. You look after yourself lad, times might be strange here, but I think we have most of it managed as best we can.
    If only we could put a roof over the country it would be paradise.


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  • #5191
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A helicopter went over here today. It was kind of like when we were young and Larry's helicopter would be going by. Nearly no air traffic atm

    Garda helicopter is the only one I've seen. It's been checking thr hills for walkers


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