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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #2132
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    happy christmas from me and ours to you and yours... thanks for listening to me during the year:)


  • #2133
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    cows milked, 5 cubicle sheds sawdusted, silage troughs cleaned out, calves fed all before 9am, now to clean the house:o

    :eek::eek:

    Now your only posting that to make the rest of us look bad :o

    Happy Christmas folks...
    Particularly magic for those of us blessed enough to still have Santa calling round tonight... It's fever pitch round here now !!


  • #2134
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Happy christmas everyone. Hope its peaceful and pleasant.

    We just took delivery of our conacht agri drainage pipes and spent the morning stacking them safely away from prying eyes. We will get them in the ground when it dries out in spring.

    Its been a good year on farms across the country with beef and dairy prices very favourable. Hope the trend continues for 2012.

    Have the ham on the range and the turkey in the oven and the mini kegs of heiniken on ice. Hopefully all will be palatable tomorrow.

    Enjoy!!


  • #2135
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    got a local young lad to make a hen coop for my son who is 10... a hell of a job. got 2 hens to go in it... coop is very heavy , wonder how santa will put it in situ!


  • #2136
    same 130
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭same 130


    happy christmas to all.:)


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  • #2137
    PMU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭PMU


    have a happy and safe christmas everyone. pat


  • #2138
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Christmas morning here and I'm having irrigation problems, not a smooth start to the day but things will get better. Merry Christmas to all enjoy the day with family and friends.


  • #2139
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    whelan1 wrote: »
    got a local young lad to make a hen coop for my son who is 10... a hell of a job. got 2 hens to go in it... coop is very heavy , wonder how santa will put it in situ!

    Great present, I must keep that one in the memory bank for a few years time. Mine are 4 and 2 so really enjoying Christmas this year. I've them wound up to the last. They're going to be exhausted by bedtime so there is no fear of them giving Santa a surprise later on;).

    Happy Christmas to all on here and looking forward to a few more good debates in the New Year!


  • #2140
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Christmas morning here and I'm having irrigation problems, not a smooth start to the day but things will get better. Merry Christmas to all enjoy the day with family and friends.

    I take it you're not in Ireland then;). Happy Christmas to you and all the Irish where ever you are!


  • #2141
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir !


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  • #2142
    spt88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 ✭spt88


    happy christmas to all and i wish you all a very prosporous 2012 :)


  • #2143
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Christmas morning here and I'm having irrigation problems,.

    I'm pretty sure the doctor can give you tablets for that :p


  • #2144
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


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    ˛ °_██_*。*./ \ .˛* .˛.*.★*MERRY CHRISTMAS*★ 。*
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    and hope that 2012 brings you all Good Health and Prosperity


  • #2145
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    Well lads happy christmas to one and all, now go to sleep or santy wont come!!!


  • #2146
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,463 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Happy Christmas one and all. Remember it all started in the first century equivilent of a slatted shed with a baby in a feed trough.

    doesnt sound so romantic now does it? :D

    Have a good one!


  • #2147
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    bbam wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the doctor can give you tablets for that :p

    I may just have woken the entire house laughing!!:D:D:D:D


  • #2148
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    bbam wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the doctor can give you tablets for that :p

    Cheers for that! Dodgy curry last nite!


  • #2149
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    santa came! despite false starts at 11.30pm, 1.45am, 3am and 5am he had eventually come at half 6:D, i was out milking at 6 so i came in to see them seeing the presents, all thrilled... phew its done for another year, was really afraid of the eldest lad seeing me in his room... happy christmas one and all cheers


  • #2150
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    What's the first thIng a farmer unwraps on Christmas morning?












    A round bale of silage

    Merry christmas everybody


  • #2151
    djmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭djmc


    Happy christmas hope next years farming is twice as good as last.
    Stayed up late last nite and drank a bottle of wine with santa so tired now
    must go out to wish cows happy christmas


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  • #2152
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    went out to milk early this afternoon, pushed button for mliking machine- nothing:eek: , only on christmas day, checked fuseboard all ok, spent 8k on an electrical overhaul of everything in the yard during the summer, rang electrician, he came 5 minutes later- great service on xmas day, apparently faulty overload switch... got us going anyways and got milking done.... :rolleyes:


  • #2153
    topgeas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭topgeas


    another calf today, in the middle of dinner. fine sim bull. them cameras worth every cent.


  • #2154
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    went out to milk early this afternoon, pushed button for mliking machine- nothing:eek: , only on christmas day, checked fuseboard all ok, spent 8k on an electrical overhaul of everything in the yard during the summer, rang electrician, he came 5 minutes later- great service on xmas day, apparently faulty overload switch... got us going anyways and got milking done.... :rolleyes:

    You'd be supprised how many calls come in.
    I went out late one Christmas eve to a guy who couldn't quite figure out which way the three way valve worked, even though the machine was near twenty years old
    Twat just had a few too many in town and then demanded I came out when he couldn't milk
    Then moaned at being charged £50, never went back- ever!


  • #2155
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    bbam wrote: »
    You'd be supprised how many calls come in.
    I went out late one Christmas eve to a guy who couldn't quite figure out which way the three way valve worked, even though the machine was near twenty years old
    Twat just had a few too many in town and then demanded I came out when he couldn't milk
    Then moaned at being charged £50, never went back- ever!
    also had a puncture on back wheel of digger yeaterday! , lad came out at half 7 this morning to fix it....


  • #2156
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    bbam wrote: »
    You'd be supprised how many calls come in.
    I went out late one Christmas eve to a guy who couldn't quite figure out which way the three way valve worked, even though the machine was near twenty years old
    Twat just had a few too many in town and then demanded I came out when he couldn't milk
    Then moaned at being charged £50, never went back- ever!

    Lol- I had to bypass a switch altogether to the fusebox myself yesterday. Have to replace the lot today :(


  • #2157
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    smccarrick wrote: »
    Lol- I had to bypass a switch altogether to the fusebox myself yesterday. Have to replace the lot today :(
    only on christmas day!


  • #2158
    The_Conductor
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,286 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    whelan1 wrote: »
    only on christmas day!

    Tell me about it.
    Now to figure where to get a 2KW switch on Stephen's Day......


  • #2159
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    fooking milking machine wouldnt start this evening either! electrician by passed overload switch as he is getting drunk tonight :D


  • #2160
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Holy crap what a day!
    Were having 50kph winds and driving rain. A real misery to be out in. We have large steel frame galvanise sheeted swinging doors and they are lethal in this weather.


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  • #2161
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bbam wrote: »
    Holy crap what a day!
    Were having 50kph winds and driving rain. A real misery to be out in. We have large steel frame galvanise sheeted swinging doors and they are lethal in this weather.

    Ya deadly I'd say. There's alot of force behind a small pedestrian door, could only imagine a big shed door. I think all doors over 4' had to be sliding to get the grant for slatted sheds. You could see the rationale behind it


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