Farming Chit Chat

Lads, did any of ye buy a Jarmet sprayer lately? Looking for a 400 liter dipped sprayer. Do they come with a handlance and self fill pump and what kind of money would you be talking? From reading old threads it seems to be whites up north that are the cheapest.

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Lads, did any of ye buy a Jarmet sprayer lately? Looking for a 400 liter dipped sprayer. Do they come with a handlance and self fill pump and what kind of money would you be talking? From reading old threads it seems to be whites up north that are the cheapest.

ya got one from whites there a yr or two back, came with handlance, we went for model that wasnt self filling, i think it was 1150 or something like that, courier brought it down. a few small problems with seals which they posted down to me after. the hand wash part the little taps doesnt work, only small things, for the money they are grand

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Well for all I would be doing it would do. Normally borrow one of your man I do the silage with but its so hard to get a right day to go spraying you would want your own one really. A friend over the road was going to go halves on it.

ya same as that, cousin is halves with me, sure its barely used

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I emailed whites and the brogans yesterday but I got no reply!!

Have to say that really annoys me...
Companies need to be on the ball, it suits some of us to email in queries... We still have money to spend !!

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

I mean without putting the probe through the rectum and instead scanning from the side of the animal ?

Great stuff. I'd never heard of it being done for cattle.

lakill Farm wrote: »

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Well for all I would be doing it would do. Normally borrow one of your man I do the silage with but its so hard to get a right day to go spraying you would want your own one really. A friend over the road was going to go halves on it.

Whats the difference in going halves or borrowing it? It will still never be in your place when u want it.

The lad I borrow it off is a contractor I work with 8 miles away, when I want to go spraying he normally has spraying to do aswel. The lad I was going buying it with works 5 days a week, has a small farm and would only need to use it one or 2 days in the year and we only live over the road from each other, the land I have to spray is actually closer to his house than mine. It's very hard to get agood day for spraying and by the time I'm gone down to borrow the other one the most of the day is gone if he's not using it himself.

Muckit wrote: »

Has JohnGalway fallin' off the face of the planet? Haven't seen any posts/pics from him in a while... ??

Two guys are walking through the woods and come across this big deep
hole.
"Wow...that looks deep."

"Sure does... toss a few pebbles in there and see how deep it is."

They pick up a few pebbles and throw them in and wait... no noise.

"Jeeez. That is REALLY deep... here.. throw one of these great big rocks
down there. Those should make a noise."

They pick up a couple football-sized rocks and toss them into the hole
and wait... and wait. Nothing.

They look at each other in amazement. One gets a determined look on his
face and says, "Hey...over here in the weeds, there's a
railroad tie. Help me carry it over here. When we toss THAT sucker in,
it's GOTTA make some noise."

The two men drag the heavy tie over to the hole and heave it in. Not a
sound comes from the hole.

Suddenly, out of the nearby woods, a sheep appears, running like the
wind. It rushes toward the two men, then right past them,
running as fast as it's legs will carry it. Suddenly it leaps in the air
and into the hole.
The two men are astonished with what they've just seen...
Then, out of the woods comes a farmer who spots the men and ambles over.
Hey... you two guys seen my sheep out here?

You bet we did! Craziest thing I ever seen! It came running like crazy
and just jumped into this hole!

Nah, says the farmer, That couldn't have been MY sheep. My sheep was
chained to a railroad tie.


John is still looking for that sheep.....:D

johngalway wrote: »

(Must remember to bring the tagger the next time I'm in Mayo and even out that other ear )

:pac:

Muckit wrote: »

make sure you can get parts handy for whatever sprayer you purchase. You'I always need to get a few nozzles etc or more if it gets frost damage over a hard winter

in fairness there seems to be heaps of the jarmet stuff about and whites have sent me nozzles etc twice, on both occasions they had the address wrong but the stuff still arrived eventually :rolleyes:

bbam wrote: »

-1.5 here last night.
Good white frost all round and had to leave car running to defrost. No sign of a burst of growth just yet. Madness!

Ken Ring (NZ long range forecaster) was on radio the other day. He didn't exactly have a great prediction for Ireland. Below average temps and higher rainfall. Dry spells end of June, end of July and sometime in October.

I'm not sure I believe in long range forecasting, but all the same after last year In this part of the country) it didn't make for the happiest listening!

redzerologhlen wrote: »

After spending the last 5 hours walking looking for a cow that's gone missing calving and no sign of her, I'm fit to crack up now!!

well get back out there and keep walking:D,nothing worse when you know what she is at, fingers crossed its a bull.