Turf season. Does it affect you?

gucci · 19-07-2007 09:06AM

helped my ould lad foot ours about 6 weeks back, was very tough cos the bog was drenched, sods were breakin in ur hands etc, would hate to see what state the bog is in now, not a notion of getting in near them id say!!
i used to work on bord na mona harvesting peat for the power stations too, which meant you had to work every hour that came during the warm weather, or else you didnt really get paid!! but money was great for the long hours you put in. poor lads that are on it this summer are having a bad time of it.

petes · 19-07-2007 09:27AM

Stacked turf with my dad years ago. I'm a lazy fecker though and stopped because I couldn't be arsed. Make a nice fire though.

Ishmael · 19-07-2007 09:58AM

Never actually went turfing, most of the rest of Brothers and Sisters did though. I got away with it cause i was the youngest

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I did have to do my fair share of moss picking though.

kevmy · 19-07-2007 11:22AM

Christ ours was missed when they came to cut it in April and it's just been sinking back in since they actually got around to cutting it a few weeks back.

If the weather doesn't pick up twill be as bad as '97, I think, when we had to put it all up on pallets to dry it out cos the fecking bog was that wet.

Stephen · 19-07-2007 11:57AM

Hooray for not living in a bog area \o/

Being from kilkenny, i am not, of course, using bog in the Dublin anywhere-outside-the-pale sense.

Turf season. Does it affect you?

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