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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #2042
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    my mother is in hospital at the minute and i had visions of being in there beside her:eek:


  • #2043
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Was anyone else at the Angus Sale in Carrick today?
    Some lovely stock. One is arriving for me shortly:D


  • #2044
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Karen112 wrote: »
    Was anyone else at the Angus Sale in Carrick today?
    Some lovely stock. One is arriving for me shortly:D
    could accomadate you with angus stock any day;)


  • #2045
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan1 wrote: »
    could accomadate you with angus stock any day;)

    I'm not usually an Angus lady, but this one has relieved me of my Christmas partying account:o


  • #2046
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Muckit wrote: »
    Would the Jourdain type calf creep feeder that you hang on the gate be an idea?

    View2-7909951.jpeg

    they're a bit over €200 I think.

    I see another version on Donedeal.

    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/beefcattle/2804235

    Probably hard to beat the Jourdain though if the money is similar!


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  • #2047
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Karen112 wrote: »
    I'm not usually an Angus lady, but this one has relieved me of my Christmas partying account:o

    What did you go for Karen?
    Hope she is lucky with ya!


  • #2048
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    leg wax wrote: »
    a man died in carnew mart today very sad.

    Anymore info, accident ?


  • #2049
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,569 ✭✭✭Rovi


    bob charles wrote: »
    leg wax wrote: »
    a man died in carnew mart today very sad.
    Anymore info, accident ?
    Probably best not to get into detail on this; we have no idea of the circumstances of this incident, or if the person's relatives or friends are possibly reading this forum.
    RIP


  • #2050
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,960 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Karen112 wrote: »
    I'm not usually an Angus lady, but this one has relieved me of my Christmas partying account:o

    Congrats Karen,

    once you go black
    you'll never go back :D

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #2051
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bizzum wrote: »
    What did you go for Karen?
    Hope she is lucky with ya!

    "Mohedian Gwen", lovely little 14 month old for the shows next year. I would have even gone a thousand more on her:o


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  • #2052
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    bob charles wrote: »
    Anymore info, accident ?

    <SNIP>


    [MOD] Please DO NOT post details (speculative or otherwise) of this unfortunate incident.
    Have some respect for the deceased and their family & friends. [/MOD]


  • #2053
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    blue5000 wrote: »
    Congrats Karen,

    once you go black
    you'll never go back :D

    For the size of her, I'd rephrase that;)

    Karen112 wrote: »
    "Mohedian Gwen", lovely little 14 month old for the shows next year. I would have even gone a thousand more on her:o

    She was never shown before, placed middle in the show, yet I had three men ask me if I'd step down.
    T' fook. I buy out!!!:D


  • #2054
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    did you go to see the incalf sucklers in carnross sat legwax were they good stock there?


  • #2055
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    ellewood wrote: »
    did you go to see the incalf sucklers in carnross sat legwax were they good stock there?

    Presume you mean Carnew?
    I was there, some very good stock but the earliest of them will calve in late March/April with some not until June. Too late for my liking. You'd buy bulling heifers now and have a calf only 3 months later for a lot less cash.


  • #2056
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    ellewood wrote: »
    did you go to see the incalf sucklers in carnross sat legwax were they good stock there?
    no iwas in carnew mart on sat.


  • #2057
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    You'd buy bulling heifers now and have a calf only 3 months later for a lot less cash.

    The shortest gestation ever! :D:D


  • #2058
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Charlie Charolais wrote: »
    Hey,

    Does anyone know why rakerman is finishing his agri videos on YouTube?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTemRGo-ZhU&feature=uploademail

    Presumably he's running out of videos? In fairness there's only so many one man can make!


  • #2059
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    electronic bird scarer arrived in post this morning, set it off in the office to much giggling anyway so hopefully it works better on birds :)


  • #2060
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Muckit wrote: »
    The shortest gestation ever! :D:D

    Theres always one:D. I meant three months later than those june calving sucklers would be calving.


  • #2061
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    I was out buying meal on Saturday and weighted the jeep and totally shocked.

    For a pajero sport & Ifor williams 10x6 plant trailer, myself and herself and a few tools and a jfc empty meal bin wa 2980kg :eek:

    Add 600kg of meal and i was over 3.5t

    More shocking, i do pull a 3t digger on the trailer and well :rolleyes:


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  • #2062
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/facts-and-figures/mitsubishi/shogun-sport/station-wagon-1998/22231/

    They're only rated to 2.8T towing.


  • #2063
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/facts-and-figures/mitsubishi/shogun-sport/station-wagon-1998/22231/

    They're only rated to 2.8T towing.

    :eek:. 2.8T - Feck. I do have the ifor and mini digger on it maybe 10 - 12 times a year. and the cattle trailer and a few heifers about the same.


  • #2064
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    i pulled a forklift weighing 4500kg a spindle weighing 400kg on a predator plant trailer from kildare to Monaghan behind a pajero no bother only the diesel consumption.


  • #2065
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    having a crappy few days... last week the vaccuum pump was playing up on the milking machine, yesterday one of the scrapers would just do a few strokes then stop- its the main scraper that takes all the crap.... tried to fix it , ended up it was the solenoid... then yesterday another 2 scrapers broke, this morning the compressor that we use for the feeders in the parlour packed up... its gone off now to see whats wrong, looks like the motor!


  • #2066
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Having one myself Whelan, a black hole has appeared in the office today and six blue cards have vanished:(


  • #2067
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    1chippy wrote: »
    i pulled a forklift weighing 4500kg a spindle weighing 400kg on a predator plant trailer from kildare to Monaghan behind a pajero no bother only the diesel consumption.

    Jesus that sh*t annoys me no end.

    There is no way in hell a pajero can control the bones of 6 tonne behind it in an emergency.

    It's not what you can pull that counts, it's what you can stop that matters.


  • #2068
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    i could never imagine my pajero pulling 6ton. The digger and trailer is 4ton and to be honest i would be only tipping from my place to the parents or back which is 20km away and can take 45 mins. No harder than 70km/hr.


  • #2069
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    whelan1 wrote: »
    having a crappy few days... last week the vaccuum pump was playing up on the milking machine, yesterday one of the scrapers would just do a few strokes then stop- its the main scraper that takes all the crap.... tried to fix it , ended up it was the solenoid... then yesterday another 2 scrapers broke, this morning the compressor that we use for the feeders in the parlour packed up... its gone off now to see whats wrong, looks like the motor!
    got new motor... we had 1 weanling heifer that we didnt de horn in the spring as she had bad pnuemonia, the only animal in the place with horns and she got it caught this morning, had to get vet to come out and cut it off, it bled and bled took 45 mins to stop the bleeding after the horn came off, touch wood its stopped now...i looked like i had been in a row with a chainsaw when we where finished:cool:


  • #2070
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got new motor... we had 1 weanling heifer that we didnt de horn in the spring as she had bad pnuemonia, the only animal in the place with horns and she got it caught this morning, had to get vet to come out and cut it off, it bled and bled took 45 mins to stop the bleeding after the horn came off, touch wood its stopped now...i looked like i had been in a row with a chainsaw when we where finished:cool:

    Did the vet not pull the veins out? instant stop to the blood. I think its 4 veins on each horn.


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  • #2071
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    Did the vet not pull the veins out? instant stop to the blood. I think its 4 veins on each horn.
    yes she pulled the veins out... ended up with twine wrapped around her head.... took a load of veins from the bleeding side, the other side had feck all blood


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