Is it me??

Ginger83 wrote: »

I'm in Cavan and I got a price off a guy of 3500 to lay about 750 blocks, didn't even come and look and then said it was a cash price.

Are people on drugs? They want a months wages for a weeks work if that.

I can't get a digger and operator to dig a soak hole and drainage trench, stone on site weeks now. Nobody interested in small jobs.

Pull the covid payment and roll on the big bang please !!!

Out of curiosity does the at price include supply and fit?

Is he laying a new foundation for the wall?

How long is the wall? How high?

Good money if you can get it.

rs8 wrote: »

Is it me or are things gone back to the celtic tiger days ?

Machinery at a crazy all time high especially secondhand stuff ... wore out tractors/diggers fetching stupid money. Seen a fiat 110/90 for 45k on done deal like is there something I'm missing?

14 year old landcruisers/hiluxes with high mileage getting about 4k more than there worth!!

Man came at me to sell my mini digger and offered 3k more than I paid for it 2 years ago.

Sorry about the rant but do people not remember the years of 2010/2011/2012? Is anyone forecasting a big downturn and how soon do you reckon it will come?

Celtic tiger prices with recession wages isn't a good mix for the country


and the mad thing is some people seem to be welcoming it (probably think they can make a few euro) as if it didn't blow up spectacularly last time.


An auctioneer here is saying a cottage without a kitchen or central heating system will make 100k, absolute lunacy

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Plenty of people working from home on full wages, no commuting costs, no holidays to spend money on, no pubs or restaurants, kids at home during college, no accommodation costs, no expensive clothes shopping just basics bought online, no creche fees for some family's , a lot of money has been saved during the last year and it's burning a hole in people's pockets

yet on the other side of the economy a lot of people who aren't working due to covid have had to borrow to keep up with bills, the credit unions are giving out covid loans.


It's been good for those of us who can work from home and very bad for others

add to that that 40% of all the US dollars that have ever been printed have been printed have been printed in the last year. US companys are using this cheap money to buy back their shares which is driving the stock markets crazy when they should be investing their companies and innovating.
And bitcoin - noting but a glorified pyramid scheme making some people a lot of money I know but when you see crap like that you know we are in for some trouble ahead

K.G. wrote: »

Read between the lines.he didnt look at the job and quoted you a crazy price, he dosent want to do your job.

He might have had the decency to say

duffysfarm wrote: »

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And bitcoin - noting but a glorified pyramid scheme making some people a lot of money I know but when you see crap like that you know we are in for some trouble ahead

It's frightening the amount of so-called investors who think cryptocurrency is a good investment. :mad:

I am very tempted to now sell a fairly rough 165 I have after reading all this. It only does about 50 hours a year, has new tyres and mechanically good.

A fella was only saying to me today isnt it mad how a lot of first year and second year apprentices are driving fresh enough (less than 5 years old) Audis and other fairly classy brands of cars these days as well as the high insurance premiums The second year apprentice with us spent €14k on a fresh golf recently and the guts of €2k on insurance, this is his first car and hes still on his provisional. He cant even drive it to work and only gets a spin in it at the weekend at best he said and it could be another year before he gets his full licence due to covid. I have an 11 year old car and ive put up 40,000kms since i got her 9 odd months ago shes at 250,000 now and ill be hoping to get to near 400,000 on her all the same before i think of upgrading. I can see how lads are going mad spending all the same im still only on the first year rate myself and im putting away €110 a week between my employers savings club and my own savings which i will up close on to €200/week when i get the second year rate. The lads in work dont know how im surviving between commuting and paying into the savings club when im on €8/hr but they dont realise what wages are like down the country one lad told me before the only time he ever worked for €150/day cash was during the recession when he was on the scratcher as well. There is definitly a serious divide in this country.

timple23 wrote: »

PCP/Hire purchase, and probably a credit union loan for insurance.

He had no costs of commuting for the last year and a half and still doesnt, living at home, non smoker, never went wild yet, got a nice wedge of country money too over the last 6 months.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

i think this printing money is likely to continue for next 2 to 3 years.....everything from pedigree ewes,to vintage tractors to sheepdogs is rocketing well beyond its realistic value


No government has appitide for austrity and the populace wont take it either after the lost decade of 09 to 19 and massive restrictions of last year or so




Which is a balls really,as im hoping to be in a position to build towards end 2022,/early to mid 2023......fcuk knows what build prices will look like then

I’m the same. I would have had mortgage approved if this round of lock down didn’t happen or was delayed a few weeks. Hate to think of prices at the end of the year, early next year.

kerryjack wrote: »

Big push down these parts for lads to go to UK again mad looking for lads again, serious money being promised for trades men and semi skilled operatives. I was talking to a middle aged chap today, has 3 or 4 kids here itching to go, 1200 sterling into the hand accommodation paid for, working on utilities and pulling cable, tempting

Heard that too today. English companies are looking for Irish lads big time

duffysfarm wrote: »

i remember in secondary school and one teacher literally beating the school work into us and telling us that if we didn't learn anything at school we would end up on a building site!!

An awful snobbery that still exists in this part of the country anyway. A good few lads i went to school with are after getting into apprenticeships well into our twenties as they were looked down upon when we were studying for the leaving certificate.