whelan2 wrote: » Aye am going to save the fertiliser bags for the pit. Pit is 120ft by 60
20silkcut wrote: » The contractor that used come here years ago had a theory that if a house had more than two chimneys you wouldn’t get well fed. Bigger farmers were stingier with the grub.
Odelay wrote: » Got called in for tea one day....rat trap tied to the leg of the kitchen table with baler twine....
Odelay wrote: » Two aul brothers near me. In the summer you can see the bare feet through the wellies. no socks. Machinery consists of an old Ford 5000 and a double bale handler for the straw off a neighbors field, that is it, no other (working) machinery. Rolling hay/straw bales out in the fields in winter to feed cattle. Hiace van driven at 15mph. Got called in for tea one day....rat trap tied to the leg of the kitchen table with baler twine....
SuperTortoise wrote: » You've got to remember that the old bucks are from a different time where nothing was thrown out, everything was repaired with a very limited ammount of tools, there was no such thing as heading into town to buy a new one because there was nothing but a grocery shop and a scatter of pubs in most towns, and even then there was no money around to buy anything. .
lab man wrote: » Drowned
Dunedin wrote: » Whilst I often heard my father say the same about no money being around years ago but they always seemed to have money to drink. Any of the old timers will always say that there was a crowd in our local (country pub) 7 nights a week. Covid aside, nowadays it’s Friday and Saturday and that’s basically it.
Danzy wrote: » Drink was cheap as, years ago. Even was up to the mid 90s.
Jjameson wrote: » A local octogenarian lorry man(don’t want to name him) used to run the bar. Was telling me all about it one day bringing home cattle. Was very messy at times but the place was hopping. Lads wouldn’t stand on for cattle they’d bid on and such.
Say my name wrote: » My father would be the same age. Back then they were all young fellas in their twenties and thirties and tough out. I think all the staff were mostly the same age brought on at the same time. Even the women in the office were a different breed to now. Think 'Heartbeat' in an Irish mart. :pac: The wives of the workers had a lot to put up with too. Not many places nowadays where workers would be coming home nearly drunk with the management involved.
Say my name wrote: » The father here used to work in the local livestock Mart since it's establishment. Well a bit before in a previous set up. But the Mart was built with canteen like nowadays and a well stocked bar not like nowadays. Farmers would be coming ringside fully cut and bidding on stock. I'm not sure how long that lasted but it didn't last. I think the drovers had to double as bouncers and marts going well passed midnight.
kerryjack wrote: » A well stocked bar back than was a tap of Guinness and another tap of Guinness and a few bottles of power whiskey and maybe a few bottles of red lemonade for the kids
kk.man wrote: » Oh and the bars of chocolate!
Jjameson wrote: » I was reluctantly brought on a night stay to a fancy hotel very near that mans place some years back. A prerequisite is that you go around the grounds in a bathrobe, utter pretentious boring hole! I was in mortal fear he’d go by with with a load of cattle and spot me!
carrollsno1 wrote: » Tbe grandfather (pioneer, anti drink) used to go on about farms being drank around here over the years etc, most of those farms were only smallholdings by irish standards and in fairness if they were drinking 7 nights a week like back then a small farm like it wouldnt be long going. Some of the finest farms around this part are ran by lads fond of a drop, whereas here it was teetotalers running the show and the farm has more or less stood still throughout the generations. My thinking behind it is that the fellas drinking needed more money to sustain their lifestyle compared to a pioneer so they had to get better and drive on the farm moreso than the abstainers who just tipped away at nothing too hectic. Also the fellas fond of a drop around here would have every inch of ground fenced, good handling facilities and infrastructure too as the last thing theyd want is to be held up in the evening if they were heading for a pint. Whereas here everythings stiil backwards and the auld fella is going until late most evenings and still getting SFA done.
Kevhog1988 wrote: » Often think lads with an interest outside of the gate, be it another job, a hobby/sport etc often have a good way of doing things as they value their own time. When youve all day to do something you fill your day. See it with myself here in work. at stages of the month where im flat out id never even dream of looking on here etc but on days im not flat out id easily fill the day.
laoch na mona wrote: » It doesn't help things like help to buy incintivise new builds as opposed to retrofitd
Jjameson wrote: » Sheep scanner came here years ago and while my setting up my Father noted blood splatters on ramp and on the back of his little trailer. “The man before ya got into an argument with a ewe” Transpired the nutter lost the plot with stubborn ewes and bludgeoned one to death on the ramp with a piece of a wooden stake..
Dickie10 wrote: » people like that shouldnt be farmers. i seen it before they get overly excited or maybe see failure to move an animal as failure on themselves. times like that you need to take a few breaths and actually look at what u look like to an outsider. few deep breaths and smile!
Kevhog1988 wrote: » Thats not rooting that's being a scumbag
White Clover wrote: » Agree on that. Such beautiful animals. When people say to me that sheep are stupid. I reply by saying it's not the sheep that's stupid if they can outwit a human!
