Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

whelan2 · 15-10-2020 05:16PM

Panch18 wrote: »

I found myself in a serous health situation going up the M1 there a few years ago and was taken to Our Lady's in Drogheda

Have to say i got excellent attention from all when i was there, really dealt with situation very well and i was there for a decent amount of time. My specialist later told me that they had done everything by the book and i was lucky it was that hospital that i had been taken to.

So i have a lot of time for the guys at Our Lady's - big thanks to them

I dont know how nurses face into work each day.

wrangler · 15-10-2020 05:22PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I dont know how nurses face into work each day.

Small supermarket owners are the real heroes, without any crisis involved they've sold their soul to the likes of Centra AND supervalue, working all hours and now they're ensuring we all have food etc ..... no 38 hr weeks there and taking the same risks as hospitals

gozunda · 15-10-2020 05:49PM

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone know what type of horse this horseshoe would have been on ? It's massive and heavy. Cigarette lighter for scale.

Heavy farm horse I'd imagine. Maybe something like a clydsdale or similar. They have hooves the size of dinner plates.

The downturns on the shoe in your photo were designed to prevent slipping when pulling a heavy load or ploughing or where traction was needed such as in snowy conditions.

Put it up on a shed with the ends pointing upwards and it will bring luck and protection against bad things

NcdJd · 15-10-2020 05:57PM

gozunda wrote: »

Heavy farm horse I'd imagine. Maybe something like a clydsdale or similar. They have hooves the size of dinner plates.

The downturns on the shoe in your photo were designed to prevent slipping when pulling a heavy load or ploughing or where traction was needed such as in snowy conditions.

Put it up on a shed with the ends pointing upwards and it will bring luck and protection against bad things

Thanks gozunda, just showed it to me father and he said same, plough horse. Some weight in it. I'll buy a lotto ticket and put it behind. If I win the euro millions I'll send an envelope for advising the correct way to hang a horseshoe in a shed.

No wonder I'm not having much luck these days ha.

gozunda · 15-10-2020 06:04PM

Some shop brand milk recalled

https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1171809/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=upday

Lady Haywire · 15-10-2020 06:21PM

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone know what type of horse this horseshoe would have been on ? It's massive and heavy. Cigarette lighter for scale.

Plough horses were much of a muchness back then, bit of heinz 57 about them.
Have a shoe here from the old farm my Great grandfather came from, we used to put it under a clocking hen in thunder (hen sitting on eggs Say My Name:p)

Say my name · 15-10-2020 06:36PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Plough horses were much of a muchness back then, bit of heinz 57 about them.
Have a shoe here from the old farm my Great grandfather came from, we used to put it under a clocking hen in thunder (hen sitting on eggs Say My Name:p)

Clucking hen down here.

Did ye put the hen in the dresser drawer?

NcdJd · 15-10-2020 06:40PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Plough horses were much of a muchness back then, bit of heinz 57 about them.
Have a shoe here from the old farm my Great grandfather came from, we used to put it under a clocking hen in thunder (hen sitting on eggs Say My Name:p)

It's my best find of 2020. I'm always looking around for clay pipes and bits of plates. I'm easily amused ha

Mac Taylor · 15-10-2020 07:58PM

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1015/1171802-sour-milk-court/

Jeez.........what the hell is the world coming to................

Birdnuts · 15-10-2020 07:58PM

NcdJd wrote: »

Anyone know what type of horse this horseshoe would have been on ? It's massive and heavy. Cigarette lighter for scale.

One of the big Draught or Irish Shire breeds - we still had them doing work on my Mothers place well into the 70's, happy simpler times they were and loved helping out during harvest and hay season as a young lad:)

wrangler · 15-10-2020 08:06PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

One of the big Draught or Irish Shire breeds - we still had them doing work on my Mothers place well into the 70's, happy simpler times they were and loved helping out during harvest and hay season as a young lad:)

I worked horses up to my late teens, nearly the last in the country to get a tractor ....... or so it felt

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-10-2020 08:11PM

Mac Taylor wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/2020/1015/1171802-sour-milk-court/

Jeez.........what the hell is the world coming to................

I'm due a fortune, I drink yogurt every day:pac:

15-10-2020 08:18PM

wrangler wrote: »

I worked horses up to my late teens, nearly the last in the country to get a tractor ....... or so it felt

A new enterprise idea came to me late last year. Part of solving the challenge is moving something mobile around the land. Funny enough I shacked up with a horsey woman, and she suggested horse power. I went looking at logging horses and it's fantastic what they can do on land unsuitable for machines. I'll make do with a special winch, but when I make my first million Rodney I'll get a couple of horses or ponies. They are not a small cost to be fair!

wrangler · 15-10-2020 08:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

A new enterprise idea came to me late last year. Part of solving the challenge is moving something mobile around the land. Funny enough I shacked up with a horsey woman, and she suggested horse power. I went looking at logging horses and it's fantastic what they can do on land unsuitable for machines. I'll make do with a special winch, but when I make my first million Rodney I'll get a couple of horses or ponies. They are not a small cost to be fair!

Have you still got the quad, just as good ....... or am I mixing you up with someone else
We always had one horse and then borrowed one for ploughing.
Workman used to feed the cattle during the week and I did it at weekends, when I'd be coming home the horse would swing in the workmans gate..... obviously he'd pull in for tea when he'd be finished foddering during the week, The horse would throw you off the bloody cart if you weren't expecting the swerve in the gate

Say my name · 15-10-2020 08:34PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

A new enterprise idea came to me late last year. Part of solving the challenge is moving something mobile around the land. Funny enough I shacked up with a horsey woman, and she suggested horse power. I went looking at logging horses and it's fantastic what they can do on land unsuitable for machines. I'll make do with a special winch, but when I make my first million Rodney I'll get a couple of horses or ponies. They are not a small cost to be fair!

My father tells me about the conditions the logging horses lived under and only surviving on the bit of grass, tied next to the trees. He said it was absolute cruelty.
It's amusing now that the current generation look through rose tinted nostalgic glasses when logging horses are thought of. And some who'd condemn horse racing would like the idea of horse logging.
It's based on what your experience is probably though.

15-10-2020 08:38PM

wrangler wrote: »

Have you still got the quad, just as good ....... or am I mixing you up with someone else
We always had one horse and then borrowed one for ploughing.
Workman used to feed the cattle during the week and I did it at weekends, when I'd be coming home the horse would swing in the workmans gate..... obviously he'd pull in for tea when he'd be finished foddering during the week, The horse would throw you off the bloody cart if you weren't expecting the swerve in the gate

Quad is a great tool in certain situations, but when dealing with weight on grassy slopes it's looking for trouble. Mine isn't operational atm, must do a rebuild over the Winter.

Say my name wrote: »

My father tells me about the conditions the logging horses lived under and only surviving on the bit of grass, tied next to the trees. He said it was absolute cruelty.
It's amusing now that the current generation look through rose tinted nostalgic glasses when logging horses are thought of. And some who'd condemn horse racing would like the idea of horse logging.
It's based on what your experience is probably though.

I was looking at modern day logging horses, they're much in demand. Lots of bits on YouTube about them.

Say my name · 15-10-2020 08:51PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was looking at modern day logging horses, they're much in demand. Lots of bits on YouTube about them.

Logging is logging.
Big difference pulling something with a wheel or even a plough on flat ground than a tree trunk on hilly ground.

The only reason the green types like horse logging is it's slow and there's no clear fell.
If it was just the idea of a horse dragging a heavy load and no forest or trees involved they'd be calling it animal abuse.

15-10-2020 09:01PM

Say my name wrote: »

Logging is logging.
Big difference pulling something with a wheel or even a plough on flat ground than a tree trunk on hilly ground.

The only reason the green types like horse logging is it's slow and there's no clear fell.
If it was just the idea of a horse dragging a heavy load and no forest or trees involved they'd be calling it animal abuse.

I'm not getting the point tbh :pac::pac: I'm at that age where I tune out what others think. I have an aunt that has a great trick, she'll agree with absolutely anything but she'll do what she wants herself, it sends a message once you figure it out. I was looking at the horses for their talents on what would be dangerous ground for machinery around my own farm. They're a lot more stable, pardon the pun. They'd also be a nice traditional element for the farm, an asset in itself.

Say my name · 15-10-2020 09:03PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm not getting the point tbh :pac::pac: I'm at that age where I tune out what others think. I have an aunt that has a great trick, she'll agree with absolutely anything but she'll do what she wants herself, it sends a message once you figure it out. I was looking at the horses for their talents on what would be dangerous ground for machinery around my own farm. They're a lot more stable, pardon the pun. They'd also be a nice traditional element for the farm, an asset in itself.

Cross a Spanish Jack on a nice hairy Blagdon mare.

Best of luck.

Danzy · 15-10-2020 09:09PM

NcdJd wrote: »

It's my best find of 2020. I'm always looking around for clay pipes and bits of plates. I'm easily amused ha

Old musket ball In the photo as well

Dinzee Conlee · 15-10-2020 09:13PM

wrangler wrote: »

I worked horses up to my late teens, nearly the last in the country to get a tractor ....... or so it felt

Ha - my grandfather worked with a horse til I was in my early teens... and I’m a bit younger than you wrangler...

I liked the horse but hated that we were so backward that we still worked with a horse - like that, I wished we had a big tractor like everyone else...

Have forgotten all that went along with me now, to tackle em up and all that - and funnily would love to have a horse and be able to work with one now...

Dinzee Conlee · 15-10-2020 09:20PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm not getting the point tbh :pac::pac: I'm at that age where I tune out what others think. I have an aunt that has a great trick, she'll agree with absolutely anything but she'll do what she wants herself, it sends a message once you figure it out. I was looking at the horses for their talents on what would be dangerous ground for machinery around my own farm. They're a lot more stable, pardon the pun. They'd also be a nice traditional element for the farm, an asset in itself.

When I was about 10, we reclaimed ground and I was told it was too high for a tractor - so all the work was done with the horse...
It seemed like we spent the summer harrowing it pulling up clumps of black fern roots with a spring harrow... (It was probably less than a week harrowing really)
Spread rape seed with a bucket...
Harrow with a pin harrow...
Roll with the horse - rolling with a horse in hilly ground is a skill... I wasn’t allowed so that, with good reason

Nothing that we used was sold - spring harrow, pin harrow, roller... bit they’re all gone now... left in ditches or corners of fields til they eventually rusted or rotted into the ground...

gozunda · 15-10-2020 09:24PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

One of the big Draught or Irish Shire breeds - we still had them doing work on my Mothers place well into the 70's, happy simpler times they were and loved helping out during harvest and hay season as a young lad:)

My g.grandfather ran a team of Clyde crosses. Have a bit from the bridle of one. You could nearly use it as a belt.

One famous Irish Plough horse who originally came from Donegal - was "Master Robert" who went on to win the 1924 Grand National.

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-grand-national-1924/query/1924+Aintree

older by the day · 15-10-2020 09:28PM

Say my name wrote: »

My father tells me about the conditions the logging horses lived under and only surviving on the bit of grass, tied next to the trees. He said it was absolute cruelty.
It's amusing now that the current generation look through rose tinted nostalgic glasses when logging horses are thought of. And some who'd condemn horse racing would like the idea of horse logging.
It's based on what your experience is probably though.

My father used to tell me how a neighbour killed his horse long ago pulling a plough. His grand children now are killing tractors. Rough genes. But yes, a lot of horses had a tough live. Did ye ever watch black beauty

cute geoge · 15-10-2020 09:38PM

I can remember vividly a few horses bringing the milk churns to the cremerary up to 1988 even more donkeys doing this job for smaller suppliers .My father in law remember him saying he did not get the 35x until 1979 and he had up to 16 cows

Genghis Cant · 15-10-2020 09:42PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Plough horses were much of a muchness back then, bit of heinz 57 about them.
Have a shoe here from the old farm my Great grandfather came from, we used to put it under a clocking hen in thunder (hen sitting on eggs Say My Name:p)

What's this now with the clocking hen and horseshoe in thunder?
I was always told thunder ruins the eggs.
I've hatched enough now though to know that it makes not the slightest bit of difference.
I have a dim memory of my granny doing something similar but it's dim an distant!

Say my name · 15-10-2020 09:44PM

older by the day wrote: »

My father used to tell me how a neighbour killed his horse long ago pulling a plough. His grand children now are killing tractors. Rough genes. But yes, a lot of horses had a tough live. Did ye ever watch black beauty

There was a chestnut mare in that.
Can't remember the name.

Sure it's how the spca started up in England with carriage horses.

War horse was another good one.

All the proper working horses are gone out of this country.
Even the big 16.3 piebald caravan pullers are no more. It's only runts of things bred now. The work is gone.

whelan2 · 15-10-2020 09:48PM

Think war horse is a great film. Kids did it in school and went to see it in bord gais energy theatre.

NcdJd · 15-10-2020 09:57PM

Danzy wrote: »

Old musket ball In the photo as well

I think it's out of an old kettle Danzy.

Danzy · 15-10-2020 10:00PM

NcdJd wrote: »

I think it's out of an old kettle Danzy.

Shot in to an old kettle?

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