Turf season. Does it affect you?

whassupp2 · 18-07-2007 11:05PM #1

Who will be in the bog this summer?:D

2 stroke · 18-07-2007 11:10PM

If it keeps raining the whole country will be a bog

whassupp2 · 18-07-2007 11:12PM

aye but if the turfs not done then twill be a cold winter

Irish Wolf · 18-07-2007 11:17PM

Tell me this - how on earth do you get it dried in this weather? I remember a few summers in the bog when I went up to visit my grandparents but the weather was always lovely...

Ahhhhh.. cold milky tea from a washed out glass mineral bottle..

Thrill · 18-07-2007 11:18PM

The only bog I'll be doing anything in is the crapper. I haven't seen turf in ages. I thought that industry had dried up tbh.

whassupp2 · 18-07-2007 11:19PM

well ya foot it (stack it) in a few hours when its not rainin. tough becauce the bog will still be like a swamp!!!
Then ya pray that it wont rain!!
If all comes to the worst ya leave it on the bog till next year and buy briquettes

nesf · 18-07-2007 11:23PM

My days of using a slan, cutting and footing turf are behind me.

It's something I'm eternally grateful for. Long live the peat briquette etc.

Wishbone Ash · 18-07-2007 11:24PM

Those who cut early (i.e. in April) probably got off to a great start.

The summer of 1982 was great if memory serves me correctly. We cut it and we bagged it. Pure pleasure - no turning, no footing, no midgets etc.

crosstownk · 18-07-2007 11:26PM

I used to cut and foot turf years ago with my dad on the Wicklow mountains. AFAIK, that's not possible anymore as it's now a national park.

nesf · 18-07-2007 11:28PM

Wishbone Ash wrote:

The summer of 1982 was great if memory serves me correctly. We cut it and we bagged it. Pure pleasure - no turning, no footing, no midgets etc.

Midgets cutting turf? Gives a whole new meaning to stacking as high as your shoulder.

The midges must be a bitch for them though. They like to hover around ground level.

Wishbone Ash · 18-07-2007 11:30PM

nesf wrote:

Midgets cutting turf? Gives a whole new meaning to stacking as high as your shoulder.

The midges must be a bitch for them though. They like to hover around ground level.

:D:D

KdjaCL · 18-07-2007 11:31PM

God bless central heating.

kdjac

Wishbone Ash · 18-07-2007 11:33PM

My head has just become very itchy! :eek:

*scratches like mad*

whassupp2 · 18-07-2007 11:33PM

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

Thrill · 18-07-2007 11:37PM

KdjaCL wrote:

God bless central heating.

kdjac

Yep. All that dragging in coal from the shed in the rain and cold, lighting the fire, cleaning the bloody thing out every day or two. Pfft.

Flick of a switch and the place is warm in no time.

nesf · 18-07-2007 11:40PM

whassupp2 wrote:

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

It's a lot of work though, assuming that you live close enough to a bog to make it worth your while.

Kingp35 · 18-07-2007 11:41PM

I've never even seen a bog.

Anto McC · 18-07-2007 11:46PM

Good luck to you cluchies,i'll keep my central heating thank you very much.

nesf · 18-07-2007 11:46PM

Kingp35 wrote:

I've never even seen a bog.

Pfft, sure a soft city boy like you wouldn't last a day in the bog.

Gran Hermano · 18-07-2007 11:52PM

At least this thread will not get moved to one of the Dublin fora

KdjaCL · 18-07-2007 11:53PM

whassupp2 wrote:

turf is still cheaper. €400 worth of turf is more than enough for a year

And if i get paid €40 an hour how much have i lost getting the damn ****?

Country folk no idea about money, its all barter to you folk

kdjac

Wishbone Ash · 19-07-2007 12:10AM

nesf wrote:

Pfft, sure a soft city boy like you wouldn't last a day in the bog.

He is from Dalkey! The only thing softer than a soft city boy is a soft South County Dublin boy.

We're made of stronger stuff in North County Dublin!

Kingp35 · 19-07-2007 12:15AM

Wishbone Ash wrote:

He is from Dalkey! The only thing softer than a soft city boy is a soft South County Dublin boy.

We're made of stronger stuff in North County Dublin!

I'm hard as nails I'll have you know :cool:

Wishbone Ash · 19-07-2007 12:24AM

Kingp35 wrote:

I'm hard as nails I'll have you know :cool:

I've just spotted that you are the Darts moderator. That makes it a bit different.

BTW - I've never seen darts played south of the Liffey!

caesar · 19-07-2007 12:24AM

KdjaCL wrote:

And if i get paid €40 an hour how much have i lost getting the damn ****?

Country folk no idea about money, its all barter to you folk

kdjac

When I used to help my father with it, it would be done days he didn't work i.e Saturday, so how much he'd lose out on pay wouldn't come into it and it's free exercise too:p

Haven't gone to the bog in years though, I'd say we've enough turf and that to keep a range fire going every day for the next 5 years or more. So no more bog for awhile:D

yellowellie · 19-07-2007 12:48AM

Haven't been in the bog for years but I certainly did my fair share. Believe it or not, I had one of the best summers working in the bog (for payment, not at the family bog), it was the hot summer we had back in the early nineties, we were paid by the amount of work we did, so if you fancied stretching out on the heather for the day in the sun you could!

As for this year, my father has all the turf saved and home for about a month now. Dad's are great!

Wishbone Ash · 19-07-2007 12:54AM

yellowellie wrote:

we were paid by the amount of work we did, so if you fancied stretching out on the heather for the day in the sun you could!

It would be even better if you were paid for the day and laid out in the sun!

Terry · 19-07-2007 01:56AM

KdjaCL wrote:

God bless central heating.

kdjac

WTF is central heating?

My answer is that it is something which has turned you all into whining bitches.

'oh. this is the coldest summer ever. I better turn the gas/oil on'.

No radiators in my house and that's just how I like it.*

*running water next week

mjquinno · 19-07-2007 08:35AM

turf already home. wetter than a badgers belly

Tar.Aldarion · 19-07-2007 08:36AM

I have never used turf or gone near it, that was for my farmer cousins.

tallus · 19-07-2007 08:53AM

How about emissions from turf? is it environmentally safe to burn in a built up area? I was going to buy a few bags of it as there's a guy in Bohernabreena selling it for €3 per large bag. Sounds like a great deal tbh, briquettes are too expensive.

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