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  • #452
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,431 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    How long would a full heifer last you?

    Have no idea, this is first time because we had no pigs this year. It will be shared between two houses although we would be bigger meat eaters.


  • #453
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,814 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Are ye sitting down?

    Yes? Good.

    https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/spanish-startup-bio-makes-soil-microbe-powered-batteries/


  • #454
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    _Brian wrote: »
    Have no idea, this is first time because we had no pigs this year. It will be shared between two houses although we would be bigger meat eaters.

    Have to get down the heifer route soon too
    We’ve just finished our 2nd lamb and there’s comments if there is a 3rd available
    Can’t source a pig, local abattoir stopped doing them
    Love our meet too


  • #455
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,833 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    We used to get a heifer slaughtered when the boys were younger. Be prepared for a lot of mince and roasts. Ideally ask the butcher to cut some of the roasts into smaller sizes as that is what I did after we got the first one slaughtered.


  • #456
    Mrs cockett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Mrs cockett


    Too much round steak is what I used to find. Get as much as possible minced.


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  • #457
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Mrs cockett wrote: »
    Too much round steak is what I used to find. Get as much as possible minced.

    With the lambs we go for chops rather than legs


  • #458
    raypallas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭raypallas


    NcdJd wrote: »
    Some structure. Googled a couple of images seems to blend in very well with the landscape.

    Drove over it during the summer, it's a serious feat of engineering. Excellent views from it.


  • #459
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Jaz its baltic atm. Came in drenched as well.


  • #460
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,833 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    gozunda wrote: »
    Jaz its baltic atm. Came in drenched as well.
    I was at a funeral earlier on of a close friend and the wind would cut you in two at the graveyard.
    It's the first funeral that I have attended since Covid 19 took over our lives and it was awful not to be able to hug his family and friends. We decided to have a proper wake for him sometime in the future when we are safe from this feckin virus.


  • #461
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mark-goodman-to-take-step-back-from-role-in-abp/

    This might seem like a non story but it can only be good for the ordinary farmer


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  • #462
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    ganmo wrote: »
    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mark-goodman-to-take-step-back-from-role-in-abp/

    This might seem like a non story but it can only be good for the ordinary farmer

    Anytime i hear of the name goodman all i think of is a helicopter with the top brass landing at the old meat packing plant ( frylite) beside Dublin Airport to have a pit stop before they head off over to the UK. Not relevant but had to get it out of my head! Some lifestyle.


  • #463
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    We got a takeaway in a local business one evening for the last 3 weekends. Each time we were told the card machine was broken, bring cash. Now one weekend would be fine but getting cash off everyone is surely taking the......


  • #464
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,755 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    whelan2 wrote: »
    We got a takeaway in a local business one evening for the last 3 weekends. Each time we were told the card machine was broken, bring cash. Now one weekend would be fine but getting cash off everyone is surely taking the......

    Cash = No tax.


  • #465
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,637 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    whelan2 wrote: »
    We got a takeaway in a local business one evening for the last 3 weekends. Each time we were told the card machine was broken, bring cash. Now one weekend would be fine but getting cash off everyone is surely taking the......

    Off the books? Are they officially closed during Covid?


  • #466
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,040 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    whelan2 wrote: »
    We got a takeaway in a local business one evening for the last 3 weekends. Each time we were told the card machine was broken, bring cash. Now one weekend would be fine but getting cash off everyone is surely taking the......

    As long as the food is good I wouldn't worry about payment method.


  • #467
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Water John wrote: »
    Off the books? Are they officially closed during Covid?

    Lots of advertising done on local radio and Facebook that they are open for takeaway at weekends. Daughter works in local shop, one of the card machines went down on Saturday and a rep came to fix it within an hour. No receipt given for your order either. Food is nice but I think we'll go elsewhere next weekend


  • #468
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Cash = No tax.

    I wouldn't blame them, no paper trail, ....... would do it myself


  • #469
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    wrangler wrote: »
    I wouldn't blame them, no paper trail, ....... would do it myself

    It's not a nice thing for the businesses who are doing things above board to be watching.


  • #470
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    All cash
    reduced declared turnover
    wage subsidy scheme?


  • #471
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    This was on Nationwide tonight, I'd say there was some santys put under pressure already

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGYoudaIyw&feature=emb_logo


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  • #472
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    wrangler wrote: »
    This was on Nationwide tonight, I'd say there was some santys put under pressure already

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOGYoudaIyw&feature=emb_logo

    Any idea on price. Oh would love one for Christmas


  • #473
    zetecescort
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,501 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    longgonesilver wrote: »
    All cash
    reduced declared turnover
    wage subsidy scheme?

    aren't they charged for card payments too?


  • #474
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Any idea on price. Oh would love one for Christmas

    €4500 for the truck
    There a lovely trailer as well about ten foot triple axle


  • #475
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,637 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    €4.5K Scania.


  • #476
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Water John wrote: »
    €4.5K Scania.
    You'd nearly get a real one for that


  • #477
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,669 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    You'd nearly get a real one for that

    He's talking to mercedes now too. A nice little earner assembling in his garage


  • #478
    zetecescort
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,501 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Tricked out tractors about to start on BBC 1 NI. restoring a Ford model F


  • #479
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,449 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    zetecescort wrote: »
    aren't they charged for card payments too?

    Isn't there a scheme that you can claim back money spent in restaurants etc during covid?


  • #480
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Great news
    Would like to do same ourselves, let us know now you get on
    Have you a big chest freezer?

    I think it’s a 500L one. The biggest we could get at the time with the intention of putting half a heifer in it.

    I’m going to share her with two of my brothers. Both are there if I’m badly stuck. All depends how she kills out, this is more a trial this time and see how it fairs out.

    My oh is Australian and loves and misses beef sausages. For her 40th she wanted a kitchen aid so I’ll get the sausage maker attachment for her for Christmas.


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  • #481
    [Deleted User]
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    ganmo wrote: »
    https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/mark-goodman-to-take-step-back-from-role-in-abp/

    This might seem like a non story but it can only be good for the ordinary farmer

    He done work experience in our local place, he was in the lairge for a few weeks, worked the line for a bit too. Seemed alright never appeared aloof chatted away to us. He was there a week before I knew who he was.


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