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Contractors show on TG4

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,550 endainoz
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    You can get it on the tg4 player any time too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,313 Hard Knocks
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 Dakota Dan
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    She isn’t a great plough woman, just drop it and drive on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 Dakota Dan
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    This thread is dead, anyone see last nights episode where your man spreading the lime with the utility vehicle on boggy ground and he starts spreading on the roadway 20 yards before the field entrance? Wouldn’t you like to be employing him and his pyjama shirt to spread lime for you?

    The ould lad getting a fill of green diesel must be getting a heart attack these days.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,606 Dunedin
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    Have it set to record so I’ll catch up on it during the week.

    find it very good so far.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 French Toast
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    Excellent program. Good approach to have small, medium and large outfits on the best of land and marginal land.

    A season 2 focusing on different lads would be an idea.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 YellowRattle
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    Anyone else notice the amount of docks in the sileage grounds. Spent last year digging out docks , Seems now I am able to spot them a mile away .

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 Easten
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    Only saw one episode (the last one). Is it just following silage contractors around?

    Also what's with all the drivers/contractors they all look really unhealthy carrying massive belly guts in front of them. Is that from being in a sited position all day?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,642 FintanMcluskey
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    Also what's with all the drivers/contractors they all look really unhealthy carrying massive belly guts in front if them. Is that from being in a sited position all day?

    I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

    Sitting down, smoking cigarettes and eating **** food does not suit us



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ruwithme
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    Yeah, most folk who sit on the back side to earn a living will carry a touch of weight. Suppose you could live with that if you were well paid on a iron horse with rubber wheels. Guessing most aren't though.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 Odelay
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    That is a cute hoor buying a fire engine as a man lift to cut down big trees, and possibly wash industrial buildings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 timple23
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    Are you sure? Might be just throwing good money after bad. Given the insurance requirements for saw work I'd imagine any lifting equipment would have to be certified.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 Odelay
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    It will have to be certified. That can be done. Costs money, but who else will have a 100ft boom at their disposal. He didn't build up that enterprise by making bad decisions, and if he did, the lad that never made a mistake never made anything.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 Anto_Meath
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    I know him, he is a good lad, works hard and would have it sussed out what was needed before he bought the lift.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 JustJoe7240
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    To be fair, They're not all carrying the massive beer guts you're referring to, The donegal fellow would want to take a look at his lifestyle but he's the only one i've seen bar the auld boy who's carrying extra timber



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,447 AlanG
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    Very good show although it will be interesting to see if they can vary it a bit to fill six episodes without the scripting you usually get on these things. TG4 show what quality can be done on a small budget and put RTE to shame. Even their player is better than RTE.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 cute geoge
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    There is a great mix of contractors from Donegal to Kerry out to Conamara .I would never have known of all the small contract work around conamara and they are all likeable characters .Is it Pat or Allister is the tougher case ,surely Allister seems to manage everything himself from cows to repairs to driving .

    Bualadh bos to tg4!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ezra_
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    Season 2,3 and 4: The lads try to get paid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,820 Cavanjack
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    I’d say the amount of lads that don’t pay are few and far between. I know we hear the stories of the lads that don’t pay but I’d say 99% or more pay up. Contractors are generally a disaster when it comes to sending bills or looking for money.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 Anto_Meath
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    Any of the lads in business a few years know who to work for & who not to. It the new lads starting out that get caught. There is a lad around here has a very bad reputation, he is a right miserable f#@ker and his son coming on is as bad & not even as smart as the auld lad at hiding it. No one around will do any work for him & any lad starting off is warned not to work for him. This last few years a crew from Monaghan have been doing his silage but I hear they are well connect and insist on payment before the last field is lifted... It's a terrible for both the contractor or the farmer to have to work.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 Jim Simmental
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    How many staff would pat have working for him? - seems to have a serious fleet and set up


    interesting to hear him say agriculture makes up only 15% of his work these days



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 Anto_Meath
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    Hi Jim, there could be up to 40 lads working for them, they have a serious about of machines and are involved in a lot of stuff. They would do a lot of site clearing for roads, gas lines and that kind of thing. Ah they are great lads and brilliant for the community around here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 rs8
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    The chap from tipperary with all the hedgecutters has a very impressive fleet. Must have great experience mechanically to split and tractor and fix gearbox. By the looks of it he must go on the railway with some of them ..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 Anto_Meath
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    The Bob Dylan fan is a fantast musician, pre COVID if he was playing anywhere around it would be packed. He is also a very good farmer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,453 Grueller
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    To be fair, splitting a tractor is handy enough done. I have small enough experience and have split a TL90 here a couple of times and replaced the clutch in her, the gearbox is the impressive bit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,069 Dickie10
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    yeah Ollie Clarke is a brilliant entertainer very intelligent all round i would think !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,239 Pussyhands
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    Watchable programme. Interesting to see a lady driver and a lady driver that's not butch. Usually the types into driving tractors etc are very men like.

    Not sure about the fire engine. How many jobs will you really get that a teleporter wouldn't do?

    Yer man in Donegal.....might be carrying some amount of extra pounds but he has a fine missus.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 leoch
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    Think u need glasses



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 French Toast
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    Last episode of this tonight I believe.

    An enjoyable series, a much more accurate view of Irish farming than Ear to the Ground usually is.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ruwithme
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