No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

SuperTortoise · 15-11-2020 03:53PM

Check the brushes?

_Brian · 15-11-2020 03:53PM

kollegeknight wrote: »

I did both to no effect.

Pop out the brushes and see if they are ok.
Sometimes they just need replacing but sometimes they just get stuck.

You can get brushes online for a few bob

kollegeknight · 15-11-2020 04:25PM

Could be that too. I’ll have a look. Thanks very much.

Might buy one also- handy to have to spare to loan out. Can’t not loan things while my mother is alive or I’d be listening to the moaning.

Murang · 15-11-2020 04:41PM

What is the vat rate if buying a tractor from the north and does it cost much to get the cleared here

White Clover · 15-11-2020 04:48PM

Murang wrote: »

What is the vat rate if buying a tractor from the north and does it cost much to get the cleared here

Vat rate in the North is 20%. If you're vat registered here, you don't pay any vat in the North then, though the vendor will require your irish vat number.
The vrt is €200 here in the south.

keepalive213 · 15-11-2020 05:23PM

kollegeknight wrote: »

The younger brother borrowed my angle grinder and returned it broken. Think it’s a wiring issue. Wonder would it be worth fixing. It’s a 2008 hitatchi 9”. They are only about €130 to replace- although I’ve to check the W.

It was a great grinder, I was hoping to go working with it today. Neither a borrower or a lender be.

I recently got 2 grinders, big 9" and small 4", hikoki (hitachi) for €138 delivered. From NI if i remember right, advertised on DD

patsy_mccabe · 15-11-2020 07:17PM

Had one of those days today. Had to work this morning in the rain. Cold and miserable went in for the dinner. Noticed a cow had passed some slime. Checked her and noticed pins down some bit. She not due for another 10 days. Came back out and she had calved in the sh1te. Hardy little Lodge hamlet heifer. Calving area not ready so had to go inthe pouring rain and get gates a mile away. Had planned to do all this tomorrow. You'd get really sick of it some times.

Siamsa Sessions · 15-11-2020 09:36PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Had one of those days today. Had to work this morning in the rain. Cold and miserable went in for the dinner. Noticed a cow had passed some slime. Checked her and noticed pins down some bit. She not due for another 10 days. Came back out and she had calved in the sh1te. Hardy little Lodge hamlet heifer. Calving area not ready so had to go inthe pouring rain and get gates a mile away. Had planned to do all this tomorrow. You'd get really sick of it some times.

This time of year is the worst - wet, miserable, cold, short grey days, and no end in sight. Xmas should be brought forward to 25-Nov

whelan2 · 15-11-2020 09:39PM

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

This time of year is the worst - wet, miserable, cold, short grey days, and no end in sight. Xmas should be brought forward to 25-Nov

Was thinking this evening we've another 5 weeks of this ****e until the days start getting longer

Siamsa Sessions · 15-11-2020 10:00PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Was thinking this evening we've another 5 weeks of this ****e until the days start getting longer

I’m always happy when November is passed. Countdown can start then to Xmas, New Year, brighter evenings, lambing/calving. But nothing happens on most farms in November only feeding, slogging and rain. And sh*te days like Patsy had today

dzer2 · 15-11-2020 10:04PM

Shortest evening the 12 Dec after that it's the mornings that get darker until.21st.

Odelay · 15-11-2020 10:11PM

dzer2 wrote: »

Shortest evening the 12 Dec after that it's the mornings that get darker until.21st.

Yep, almost there. keep the head up.

wrangler · 15-11-2020 10:39PM

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

I’m always happy when November is passed. Countdown can start then to Xmas, New Year, brighter evenings, lambing/calving. But nothing happens on most farms in November only feeding, slogging and rain. And sh*te days like Patsy had today

You must have forgotten feeding the ewes and lambs through the first two months of this year........remember the rain and lack of grass

A neighbour tells me that if you're getting out of sheep you should sell them in may while you can still remember the lambing

Birdnuts · 15-11-2020 10:45PM

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

I’m always happy when November is passed. Countdown can start then to Xmas, New Year, brighter evenings, lambing/calving. But nothing happens on most farms in November only feeding, slogging and rain. And sh*te days like Patsy had today

Noticed some folk near my parents place in Naas have the Tree up already - too early IMO, as a child the tradition was not to install the Tree until Dec 8.

Birdnuts · 15-11-2020 10:48PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Was thinking this evening we've another 5 weeks of this ****e until the days start getting longer

Did u see that programme 2nite on the Leinster Final in 2010 that Meath robbed from Louth?? - not suprised that Ref was never seen again in Croker as it was probably the worst deceision ever seen on a Gaa pitch!!:mad:

whelan2 · 15-11-2020 10:54PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Did u see that programme 2nite on the Leinster Final in 2010 that Meath robbed from Louth?? - not suprised that Ref was never seen again in Croker as it was probably the worst deceision ever seen on a Gaa pitch!!:mad:

I had erased that day from my memory......

Water John · 15-11-2020 11:06PM

whelan2 wrote: »

I had erased that day from my memory......

You can blame Birdnuts if you can't sleep tonight.

Base price · 15-11-2020 11:10PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Had one of those days today. Had to work this morning in the rain. Cold and miserable went in for the dinner. Noticed a cow had passed some slime. Checked her and noticed pins down some bit. She not due for another 10 days. Came back out and she had calved in the sh1te. Hardy little Lodge hamlet heifer. Calving area not ready so had to go inthe pouring rain and get gates a mile away. Had planned to do all this tomorrow. You'd get really sick of it some times.

The main sproket thingie in the diet feeder wrung earlier today as we just started feeding. OH and I spent most of the morning in the bowels of the feeder forking out the feed over the side.

I'm feckin getting too old and worn out for dealing with this **** but I love rearing, feeding and breeding cattle

blue5000 · 15-11-2020 11:11PM

Birdnuts wrote: »

Did u see that programme 2nite on the Leinster Final in 2010 that Meath robbed from Louth?? - not suprised that Ref was never seen again in Croker as it was probably the worst deceision ever seen on a Gaa pitch!!:mad:

whelan2 wrote: »

I had erased that day from my memory......

Water John wrote: »

You can blame Birdnuts if you can't sleep tonight.

What's this? You mean Louth actually played in Croke Park?:P

Looks promising for Limerick this year.

Lime Tree Farm · 15-11-2020 11:15PM

Water John wrote: »

You can blame Birdnuts if you can't sleep tonight.

reminded me of the poet Brendan Kennelly

“I still wake up in the middle of the night shouting ‘**** you Jackson’” . He then added with that wonderful lilt of his, “You can overcome a bad marriage, you can grapple with and overcome alcoholism, but you’ll never get over losing an All-Ireland Final.”

patsy_mccabe · 16-11-2020 12:03AM

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Hows the calf now?

She's hardy out. Problem is cow just wanted to lay down and calf is so small she can actually stand in under cows belly and drink. I was afraid she'd lay down on top of her. I tried that thing where you rub the calf's nose to get it to suck (someone put it up on a video a while back). It seems to work as calf started to dig the cow's udder.

Nekarsulm · 16-11-2020 12:26AM

Base price wrote: »

The main sproket thingie in the diet feeder wrung earlier today as we just started feeding. OH and I spent most of the morning in the bowels of the feeder forking out the feed over the side.

I'm feckin getting too old and worn out for dealing with this **** but I love rearing, feeding and breeding cattle

Should of rolled it over with the 50b.
That's fair hardship all right.

whelan2 · 16-11-2020 06:48AM

Base price wrote: »

The main sproket thingie in the diet feeder wrung earlier today as we just started feeding. OH and I spent most of the morning in the bowels of the feeder forking out the feed over the side.

I'm feckin getting too old and worn out for dealing with this **** but I love rearing, feeding and breeding cattle

Only on a sunday

whelan2 · 16-11-2020 03:15PM

Drawing in calf heifers home from outfarm all morning. Would love to go to local for my dinner

Hard Knocks · 16-11-2020 03:20PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Drawing in calf heifers home from outfarm all morning. Would love to go to local for my dinner

Know the feeling
Something we use to do & miss too

Siamsa Sessions · 16-11-2020 04:22PM

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Know the feeling
Something we use to do & miss too

Habit around here the last few years was dinner in the local pub on a Friday.

I mean at the real dinner time (middle of the day) not this new dinner time in the evening.

Maybe that's when the world started to change - when people started eating their dinner in the evenings

Panch18 · 16-11-2020 04:33PM

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Habit around here the last few years was dinner in the local pub on a Friday.

I mean at the real dinner time (middle of the day) not this new dinner time in the evening.

Maybe that's when the world started to change - when people started eating their dinner in the evenings

that should be banned i reckon!!

I wonder have many people working from home gone back to have dinner in the day?

_Brian · 16-11-2020 04:34PM

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Habit around here the last few years was dinner in the local pub on a Friday.

I mean at the real dinner time (middle of the day) not this new dinner time in the evening.

Maybe that's when the world started to change - when people started eating their dinner in the evenings

We Try to eat dinner as a family every day.
Dinner in the evening is the only way. Same when I was a kid at home growing up. Dinner was held back to let as many sit, chat and have dinner as a group. That’s going back over 40 years so I don’t think it’s a “new” thing.

blue5000 · 16-11-2020 04:58PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Drawing in calf heifers home from outfarm all morning. Would love to go to local for my dinner

Yeah miss the social aspect of that too, 10 euro well spent. Too many of us on our own all day, but at least we don't have to listen to all the bitching going on in offices all over the country.

Siamsa Sessions · 16-11-2020 05:48PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Yeah miss the social aspect of that too, 10 euro well spent. Too many of us on our own all day, but at least we don't have to listen to all the bitching going on in offices all over the country.

Try listening to that office bitching via endless Zoom calls. Drawing meal and silage out thru muck to out-wintered weanlings is 100 times easier. And better for your health!

No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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