The EVA ones are 45 euros delivered.
I'm in the market for a pair of wellies. Just everyday tipping about if it's wet. Dry days I do have boots and runners in the summer
There a gift the high speed starters
Bought 2 pairs of baudou last week.for a while I couldn't get them and tried others and none were as good
I bought one of your high speed starters recently. Some job and great service. I often felt like burning my piece of sh1t tractor that was getting new batteries every year and no good. Got a starter off yourself and it's like a different machine.
He'll be out of stock by this evening. 🤣
bring me out a pair… cant be any worse than what i have already.. size 11. thanks
We could send you a pair if you want to try them. Have them here in the shop.
I haven't tried those ones but I'm on the techno boot Wellington at the moment and going well. Dunlop just fall apart. Was on a basic baudou for years but they stopped selling them.
EVA wellingtons are as good as any mat. Warm and soft and so light.. Wouldn't be without them
You'll see the difference straight away. Legs used to be dead here after milking. That went with the mats. And I'd have what's considered the hardest mats on the market.
If I could invent a one second elevator out of the pit to replace the three steps then I'd do so too.
6 calved here so the ball is rolling. I bit the bullet on the parlour pit mats. I never had much interest but they seem very popular and alot of good reports. Thinking if I spend another 10 years dairying it's better to buy them now than in 5 years time.
I was just surprised your wife was out the yard. The only time my one comes back the yard is when she can't get me on the phone. 🤣🤣
Ya I know that older. Wasn't having a dig and apologies if it came across that way. But I am in it for the glamour
We are fast getting to the stage where the efficiencies of spring calving grass based system are being eroded or by passed if you like by the costs of poor calf prices in the sunami,poor cull prices,poor labour distribution and high heifer rearing costs .
Was at a meeting in december Patrick gowing speaking at it and he just had up on the board 3 things, machinery repayments labour payment and contractor payments 1 of these payments should be high not all of them , so if your machinery repayments are high then your contractor payments should be low or if your contractor payments are high your machinery repayments should be low , thought it was a good way of looking at it said he has no problem with dairy farmers buying machinery provided you can justify it that your contractor payments are lower because of it and your labour bill/your time doesnt go through the roof affecting other things on farm. In a company formation buying machinery probably not as beneficial as in a sole trader imo but also no point having a herd of cows and having to employ someone full time and not having any work for them for the rest of the year after calving because you have no machines to drive , catch 22😅
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Seen it here when my mother passed away a lot off neighbours called in and asked was there anything they could do,all that really needed to be done was the milking, they all said they'd do anything but milk some of these were ex dairy farmers.
I was trying to be sarcastic, in fairness to siamsa, he is a very honest poster and it's a very steep learning curve he has been on the past two years. But things do get easier,
Once the heifers get settled in and the calves get weaned and go out, things will get into a routine. You will always have blips, a sick animal or failing a milk test.
But he is at the hardest part now, a lot of money spent and new heifers finding their way. Spring is fairly tough on most of us. T
Tis not for the money older, the wife came down to the yard this afternoon to find me wrapping up a cover of a silage pit I just finished. You know the state you'd be in then. All she said was that I was obviously in the job for the glamour.
I agree, surely when he was in hospital, he could find some relative/friends/ hired labor to step in. I think it probably was the last straw.
Big big money on the way for you. watch that white gold pumping in to the tank
Surely though there'd be family, especially over Christmas, just very sad that they were there unnoticed for so long.
it’s not always down to bad neighbours in fairness, some people don’t mix with others and there are plenty of people that are complete pricks and people don’t bother with them. I saw a neighbour yesterday for the first time in years, anyone that ever bothered with him or tried to help him he caused trouble and fell out with them so nobody bothers with him. I’m not saying that’s the case here but it happens.
You know when you see the likes of that couple found dead in kerry the other day and no one missed them for months, wtf is the world coming to. We're blessed here with good neighbours.
Just watched the video. He was in a bad place when there wasn't someone he could ring to give him a dig out when he was in hospital.
I would have 6 or 7 lads between relief milkers and neighbours milking cows who would step in if I got into bother. I would happily do the same for them.
Its really sad when lads isolate themselves so much.
Dead money…
Tell him he can get blank identitytags and a permanent marker pen. Put a different number on each calf.
”There’ll be no cow at your funeral”
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I don’t know the man but the above quote caught my ear as I sit (briefly) with a cup of tea and contemplate what the f*ck possessed me to think milking cows was a good idea 😂
I’m only half joking - it’s getting a little easier with the heifers in the parlour. They’re fairly quiet but wriggle around a bit. 14 out of 28 calved so far. 2 dead calves but the rest are flying.
Just buy tags from local co op and tag them to identify them until other ones come
Tell me you forgot to order tags without telling me that you forgot to order tags…..
My cousin forgot to and only put in his order last week. The lead time is about 2-3 weeks! 😂
