No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

gozunda · 31-10-2020 06:03PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I'm a real Halloween grinch. Cant wait for it to be over. Have colcannon cooking and money wrapped up to go into it. Have grapes and apples hanging off strings. Delighted there should be no trick or treaters calling around. Have pumpkin in the window too.

Don't forget to dust off the broomstick as well.

Tbh haven't seen any trick or treaters out at all. Normally we'd get the neighbours kids calling. Kids been kept at home i reckon.

Edit: Would this help :pac:

_Brian · 31-10-2020 06:05PM

gozunda wrote: »

Don't forget to dust off the broomstick as well.

Tbh haven't seen any trick or treaters out at all. Normally we'd get the neighbours kids calling. Kids been kept at home.

We had reverse trick or treaters here. Came and dropped bags of sweets to the two girls and off they went to drop bags with a few other kids in the family.

Water John · 31-10-2020 06:07PM

Rotting wood builds up humus in the soil, not all is released as carbon.
I think the figure given the other evening on Building Ireland was Ireland has 7% of the worlds peat.
That programme on the building of Turough Hill power station was very good.

gozunda · 31-10-2020 06:10PM

whelan2 wrote: »

What's the story with the pheasant shooting season.?

Prohibited at level 5 if it involves more than 5km

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/what-about-pheasant-shooting-during-level-5-.html

Say my name · 31-10-2020 06:24PM

gozunda wrote: »

Prohibited at level 5 if it involves more than 5km

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/what-about-pheasant-shooting-during-level-5-.html

There was a few dog trailers being towed today around here on the roads.
They were probably just making sure the tyres were ok..

NcdJd · 31-10-2020 06:26PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I'm a real Halloween grinch. Cant wait for it to be over. Have colcannon cooking and money wrapped up to go into it. Have grapes and apples hanging off strings. Delighted there should be no trick or treaters calling around. Have pumpkin in the window too.

It's like a war zone up here.

Say my name · 31-10-2020 06:32PM

wrangler wrote: »

I'd imagine a 30ton lorry of coal would last many times the length of a load of timber in the power station, They do be drawing cross country here and they have all the little roads wrecked ,

It's the trouble is there was only one point in this planet's history that that coal was made.

The Carboniferous period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

You can replace trees grown now.

You can't replace coal.

ganmo · 31-10-2020 06:36PM

wrangler wrote: »

I'd imagine a 30ton lorry of coal would last many times the length of a load of timber in the power station, They do be drawing cross country here and they have all the little roads wrecked ,

And the carbon in the coal would last longer in the ground too

gozunda · 31-10-2020 06:50PM

Say my name wrote: »

It's the trouble is there was only one point in this planet's history that that coal was made.

The Carboniferous period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

You can replace trees grown now.

You can't replace coal.

The new greens don't want anyone burning wood either

Say my name · 31-10-2020 07:05PM

gozunda wrote: »

The new greens don't want anyone burning wood either

That's how the regulations with no stoves allowed in new builds came about.
It's mostly just from the air particulate point of view.

Do they want to ban sex too?

Want and doing are two different things.
In the country in existing builds and approved woodchip and woodpellet burners it'll continue.
There's grants still available i believe for new housing estates to be run on a single community biomass burner. I'm not sure there's been much uptake though.

Genghis Cant · 31-10-2020 07:09PM

gozunda wrote: »

Prohibited at level 5 if it involves more than 5km

https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/what-about-pheasant-shooting-during-level-5-.html

I think it's prohibited even within the 5km travel limit.
Completely stalled at the moment under L5.
Unless there was an 11th hour reprieve I didn't hear about.
It begs the question... How can angling still go ahead, surely the same draconian rules would apply.

Lady Haywire · 31-10-2020 07:18PM

For the day that was in it, I dressed up Texel as a ghostie

Suckler · 31-10-2020 07:20PM

Listening to Darragh Maloney comment on the hurling is hard work. Grand for the soccer but the like of Ger Canning is even miles ahead of him

Buford T. Justice XIX · 31-10-2020 07:23PM

Lady Haywire wrote: »

For the day that was in it, I dressed up Texel as a ghostie

He'll be glad to be sold, just for the peace and quiet:p

zetecescort · 31-10-2020 07:23PM

Suckler wrote: »

Listening to Darragh Maloney comment on the hurling is hard work. Grand for the soccer but the like of Ger Canning is even miles ahead of him

Somebody should tell him the "stick" has a name

Lady Haywire · 31-10-2020 07:25PM

Buford T. Justice XIX wrote: »

He'll be glad to be sold, just for the peace and quiet:p

He loves it, just stood there while I was putting it on & cutting out the holes. He'll miss the attention when he goes!

gozunda · 31-10-2020 07:33PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I think it's prohibited even within the 5km travel limit.
Completely stalled at the moment under L5.
Unless there was an 11th hour reprieve I didn't hear about.
It begs the question... How can angling still go ahead, surely the same draconian rules would apply.

Yeah should have clarified. Banned for sporting groups. I believe an individual landowner can still shoot on their own land etc.

Water John · 31-10-2020 07:46PM

zetecescort wrote: »

Somebody should tell him the "stick" has a name

Want to open the debate again on whether it's a hurl or a hurley?

Suckler · 31-10-2020 07:48PM

Water John wrote: »

Want to open the debate again on whether it's a hurl or a hurley?

Ask Maloney if its a graip/fork/pike/sprong as well

Mac Taylor · 31-10-2020 07:48PM

Water John wrote: »

Want to open the debate again on whether it's a hurl or a hurley?

Hurl...... end of:D

Genghis Cant · 31-10-2020 07:51PM

Suckler wrote: »

Listening to Darragh Maloney comment on the hurling is hard work. Grand for the soccer but the like of Ger Canning is even miles ahead of him

Even Duignan sounds very subdued.

Water John · 31-10-2020 07:54PM

Whatever it is, knew plastic ones were on the market but see Torpeys are making ones with bamboo. Now what will we call them?

Say my name · 31-10-2020 07:56PM

Water John wrote: »

Whatever it is, knew plastic ones were on the market but see Torpeys are making ones with bamboo. Now what will we call them?

Panda sticks.

(Copyrighted).

whelan2 · 31-10-2020 08:02PM

Ireland's call sounded terrible without the crowd

farawaygrass · 31-10-2020 08:20PM

Any of ye have this type of NC sweeper or any other make of them? Are they a good job? Fairly straightforward or any issues with them?

Lime Tree Farm · 31-10-2020 08:23PM

Water John wrote: »

Want to open the debate again on whether it's a hurl or a hurley?

translate hurley to Irish = Camán (noun)
translate hurl to Irish = caith (verb)

Is Hurl new age or historical

Panch18 · 31-10-2020 08:42PM

Water John wrote: »

Want to open the debate again on whether it's a hurl or a hurley?

There’s no debate to be had!!!!

It’s clearly a Hurley

Odelay · 31-10-2020 08:47PM

farawaygrass wrote: »

Any of ye have this type of NC sweeper or any other make of them? Are they a good job? Fairly straightforward or any issues with them?

Used similar. Works great once dirt is a little wet and brushes are not worn. Check out the price of new brushes before buying.

Just noticed, no wheels for the brush only the chains? Need wheels or else the brushes will wear out quickly.

emaherx · 31-10-2020 08:58PM

Panch18 wrote: »

There’s no debate to be had!!!!

You have clearly come to the wrong place

Good loser · 31-10-2020 10:06PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Alot of spruce plantations in the West are near right offs due to windthrow, poor sighting and planting. Indeed a forestry guy we had on our place looking at a site I wanted to do for the native woodland scheme said many areas in the NW will probably not be re-planted. Alot of the stuff that comes out of spruce plantations that you see being transported around the country appears to be of little use for anything other than cheap pulp

The large, successful and expanding saw mill sector, from the data/tables published (until the recent hiccup with felling licences) has an adequate supply of logs. Obviously there must be enough successful plantations.
Before the switch to Sitka the Lodgepole Pine plantings were disastrous for form and windthrow - in those days Coillte did virtually all the planting, quite a lot on bogland.

It could be put this way Sitka is to forestry in this country as grass is to agriculture.

In recent years the Forest Service has dissallowed the cutting of deep enough drains (barely a foot in places) when sites are mounded, so when the trees get to any size they topple easily.

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