I would have gone back to my jeep pulled out the Bessie and explained to them the errors of there ways.
I would have explained to them that if anything happened to me or anything disappeared from my yard I would hold them personally responsible. The day you walk back from them F@@kers is the day you lose.
You have to make them understand that you too are will to go to the dark side.
How do I explain that. It's best to use the words of Don Corelone
You can watch it all to get the flavor of it, however if you want the shortened version watch from 4 minutes 40 seconds on to understand the mortality/immorality
If you ever really coached Gaelic games you would really understand about an individual who would go where other would not
I have had to explain it on one occasion I explained it clearly to an individual. He went a bit pale.
You have to read the book The Godfather to understand where I come from.
It's not about physical strength it's about a certain moral/immoral strength
It's about the willingness to loose everything on a certain point of principal
Bass you may be a tough man but always remember there are always tougher men out there .There are some men you wont coward and these crowd seem to fit that category ,what hope has one man to stand against these scum cut your losses in that situation and run for your life
Ah yes, the type of cavalier outlook that landed Mr Enoch Burke in hot water
I would not say that. But I have certain code, I will bargain, deal haggle. I will pay my debts. Unlike a dairy farmer I virtually never ask the baler man what he charges coming in the gate because he is coming in 5-10 days earlier than most lads. I pay his bill but if he overcharges I move on its the same with any tradespeople I deal with.
Enoch Burke is fighting a different type religious morality, in one way I respect him, however he has not played either the long or short game.
However if dealing with those that wish to work outside the system and physically threaten me I am willing to go there too.
I never want to go there but I will not be threatened with it.
Being cheated would make any ones blood boil. But heading in to a gang like that asking for your machinery back is mental. I don't give a shitttte how many YouTube clips you watch. ( A few clint Eastwood tough guy clips would be better) . It's so disappointing that the law won't deal with this. Last night we were saying about using a splash plate was a crime. Now stealing off a farmer seems ok too
I wouldn't waste my time with a mounted seed broadcaster to be honest,I have one on a 3m tine harrow and changed it for a air seeder with fan and pipes,the broadcaster is useless once there is a breeze of wind at all
Thanks for that, but would you have any idea if s person would use one on a chain harrow as opposed to a tine one.
Would be the exact same principle
Yeah that's what I was thinking, I just hadn't heard or seen anyone ever doing it. Would certainly be a lot more accurate.
When I was about 14 or 15 a travellers caravan pulled up about 1/2 a mile from our house. One of the young lads hopped into our lawn one day and took my hurley. I wasn't there at the time but my sister saw him take it. I arrived over to the caravan and demanded my hurley back. He said he didn't have it. Told him I wasn't leaving without it. He told his younger sister to get the big knife. Out she comes to the door of the caravan with this huge knife, blade about 9 inches long. "I don't care, I'm not leaving with out it." After a bity of a stand off, he gets the hurley and hands it to me.
And on that note Patsy.😀
Here's my sand blasted and painted and lights fitted dump trailer purchased second hand.
And then here's the plastic bin I was enquiring about before.
I'll use it for dung and odds and ends.
What HP you got pulling it? Would it tax a 100hp tractor fully laden?
I've 115hp. If it was fully laden with stone then yes you'd know where every hill is with a 100hp. You'd manage but then not all 100hp's are equal.
I'd like a bigger tractor myself with it. But it's only for very very local use with me.
Fair play to you, you have great gear. Do you use the forklift much?
Not really. Kind of needs a new starter. Brakes are so so too. The theory is sound with a forklift on a farm with maneuverability, lift, but grip can let it down. I'd nearly trade it in again for an all terrain one but that would be a bigger machine and the handiness size of this is a big plus.
It came up here lately that there's a nice farm for sale cheap. Local lunatic whom the law does not apply to said nobody else can buy it only him. I'm not afraid and was willing to take him on bit my wife said no, we don't need that hassle. Left it off for my family's sake.
But I think if I had spent time looking for stolen equipment and found it, and the guards wouldn't help, I wouldn't let it go. Phuck that like.
Is it solid or pumped wheels under it? Pumped wheels would have way more traction.
But as we were saying, how would you get it back. Would you go in to a yard full of a "certain ethnic minority". Would you ask neighbors, friends, some family to go with you, put them at risk too.
Now if it happens that they are in your yard, you might go all john Wayne on their asses.
I'm not a coward, but life is short, your wife maybe right. Did you want to be worrying about what the local luni does next. A shed of machinery was burned down in west cork before xmass. Nine cattle stolen in November locally.
There is no need to go looking for trouble
They are pumped but it does spin in an odd place. Places where a forklift shouldn't go..off concrete. But it can free itself through ignorance.
In reality they are limited to concrete
The ground clearance is only about 6 inches.
Know a man who chanced across a lawn in one on a November night to lift something.
Took 3 tractors to get it out 🙂
Yea you can move bales.
I've heard of places with buckets on them and scrapers. Digging into a dung bed is kind of too much I think though. Place where they had scrapers on had the rear weight removed to drive on slats and pushing in silage. Silage grab I think on in that place too. Biggish farm, I think with 3 forklifts doing different jobs.
The power is all in the front wheels, weight in the back. It leaves it a bit light in front then if not carrying anything which can give a bit of spin. 90 % of the place is OK here just one shed with no concrete floor and loose straw and uneven ground can make it spin.
I see on DoneDeal now where someone is selling euro hitches to fit on pallet forks for forklifts. But now your loader attachment is on the end of the forks. If it makes a difference..
I had the same idea as yourself regards the all terrain forklift vs the normal one. Found and bought an all terrain one on done deal before Christmas that needs a lot of work and it is still not back from the mechanic.
In hindsight a Moffet Mounty would maybe have been a better buy but we will see.
Ya. The wives are the sensible ones... Just wouldn't tell her that
Are you still looking for a digger?
Yep. But haven't properly looked and contacted sellers. Market seems to be getting easier for buyers.
It's not life or death with me. So it's being pushed on the long finger through laziness.
No wonder agriculture and the country in general is in the pits when there’s fear off causing hassle with someone that stole something off you and a let it be attitude.
I wouldnt ever go looking for trouble but if I ever had anything lifted you could be sure I’d be going to get it back no matter who took it.
We were talking about a guy who found his tractor in a yard full of hardy ethnic minority people. The guards were afraid to go near them. The insurance was paying. So how do you propose to get it back? Let's say there may be up to thirty grown men stopping you.
Reading the last few pages I found myself saying ‘’you’ll do nuttin’’ in my best Conor McGregor impression a lot.
Bring 31.
I genuinely find it unbelievable that someone would let something like that slide. Where do you draw the line?
