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reilig · 08-06-2012 12:14PM

lakill Farm wrote: »

i have to run a pipe from my house to a stream about 100 meters away down through the yard. It will be onlyfor roof water (after my water tanks are full). It will be catching the house, and 4 sheds so days like today the tanks will fill and then through over flows flow into the pipe.

Im thinking of also draining the yard into it after filtering the water through a silt trap. The yard will be clean and no oil, milk or other stuff will have access to the stream. Am i missing anything?

So do i go 9" concrete pipes at €5.75 plus vat per meter

or is there a plastic alternative? The 9" corri twin walled pipe has small slits on it. SO the water would escape before it gets to the stream?

The Corri twin walled pipes are so handy. I'll never go back to concrete pipes. You can get both perforated and non perforated JFC ones. Last ones I bought were €46 + Vat for 9" from FRS.

lakill Farm · 08-06-2012 12:36PM

reilig wrote: »

The Corri twin walled pipes are so handy. I'll never go back to concrete pipes. You can get both perforated and non perforated JFC ones. Last ones I bought were €46 + Vat for 9" from FRS.

Reilig, is that for 6 meter lenghts? Non perforated i presume wount let water out? are the joiners expensice?

Which FRS did you deal with?

gazahayes · 08-06-2012 12:43PM

Joiners should be included with each pipe 55 euro including vat from my local hardware had to go in to get the joiners from them tho.

reilig · 08-06-2012 01:04PM

lakill Farm wrote: »

Reilig, is that for 6 meter lenghts? Non perforated i presume wount let water out? are the joiners expensice?

Which FRS did you deal with?

FRS in Roscommon. Non perforated means no holes (except at each end

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I presume that joiners come with them, but I never needed any so can't be sure.

lakill Farm · 08-06-2012 01:15PM

reilig wrote: »

FRS in Roscommon. Non perforated means no holes (except at each end )

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Ya can never be to careful :rolleyes:

Username John · 08-06-2012 02:11PM

On the train up to Dublin, have passed plenty of fields of fine grass fit for cutting under lakes of water :eek:

Just passed a field of winter barley (i think) and a lot of it was lodged...

Summer in Ireland ha...

PatQfarmer · 08-06-2012 03:02PM

Lads. Just walked a garden of long grass and it's dry. Could I knock some silage this pm and bale it Sunday. Am I mad to even think of it? Like that lad on the news last night:)

KCTK · 08-06-2012 03:45PM

PatQfarmer wrote: »

Lads. Just walked a garden of long grass and it's dry. Could I knock some silage this pm and bale it Sunday. Am I mad to even think of it? Like that lad on the news last night:)

Some serious drying out down this way at the moment anyway, where there was gaps with ponds of water this morning there is none now, looks like forecast isn't too bad until middle of next week again so maybe worth giving it until tomorrow so ground should be well soaked by then

pakalasa · 08-06-2012 07:41PM

With all the rain yesterday, it still was around a temperature of 18C. So not so severe on cattle. Ground was very dry and hard, around here anyway, so little poaching too.

jd6920s · 09-06-2012 10:14AM

wesleysniper38 wrote: »

Ford / NH 7740 , thinkin of buying one . Its 1996. any experiences out there either positive or negative ?

We have a Nh 7740 . No problems with it ours it's 1997 . Ours has the sldp gearbox which is reliable . The sle boxes are good when working but if they break it cost 2-3 k to fix . There a great tractor all round , good on diesel , great tractor to pull : ours pull a 2000 gallon tanker , very comfortable . Stay from early white cab 7740 , they give trouble .

thebishop · 09-06-2012 03:09PM

If all cows were this productive.
http://westcorktimes.com/home/?p=8808

wesleysniper38 · 09-06-2012 05:13PM

reilig wrote: »

The Corri twin walled pipes are so handy. I'll never go back to concrete pipes. You can get both perforated and non perforated JFC ones. Last ones I bought were €46 + Vat for 9" from FRS.

Agree totally. They're the only show in town for that job.

wesleysniper38 · 09-06-2012 05:17PM

jd6920s wrote: »

We have a Nh 7740 . No problems with it ours it's 1997 . Ours has the sldp gearbox which is reliable . The sle boxes are good when working but if they break it cost 2-3 k to fix . There a great tractor all round , good on diesel , great tractor to pull : ours pull a 2000 gallon tanker , very comfortable . Stay from early white cab 7740 , they give trouble .

Thanks jd but my local expert gave it the thumbs down so I stuck with the MF for this year. The one we checked over was immaculate but he detected a knock in the engine plus blow-by in the chambers so, although I thought it a gem, he advised me to let her go..

johngalway · 09-06-2012 10:34PM

Spent the late afternoon/early evening spraying some regrowth of rushes in the bottom third today. Hope I wasn't too late as the feckers already had some seeds growing, though thinking of the seed bank that must be in the ground I wonder why I'm worrying. Thistles are making some headway, but not at the right stage to be tackled yet. Giving the creeping gorse a break as the ewes and lambs are in there at the minute.

Muckit · 09-06-2012 10:43PM

johngalway wrote: »

Spent the late afternoon/early evening spraying some regrowth of rushes in the bottom third today. Hope I wasn't too late as the feckers already had some seeds growing, though thinking of the seed bank that must be in the ground I wonder why I'm worrying. Thistles are making some headway, but not at the right stage to be tackled yet. Giving the creeping gorse a break as the ewes and lambs are in there at the minute.

Get the side stone at the scythe and attack those thistles. No need for expensive spray, just a bit of elbow grease

johngalway · 09-06-2012 10:50PM

Muckit wrote: »

Get the side stone at the scythe and attack those thistles. No need for expensive spray, just a bit of elbow grease

Me and scythe

Well, I suppose becoming shorter would have the advantage of not hitting my head on stuff so much :pac:

Actually, I'm gonna try that, thanks Muckit

Be cheaper to buy a scythe and stone than yet more spray!

snowman707 · 10-06-2012 08:44AM

Muckit wrote: »

Get the side stone at the scythe and attack those thistles. No need for expensive spray, just a bit of elbow grease

"cut them in June
'tis a month too soon
cut them in July
they wilt and die"

johngalway · 10-06-2012 09:15AM

I've just been reading that "they" reckon pulling creeping thistle is supposedly more effective than cutting them as the regrowth has to come from below ground and uses up more of the food which the plant stores in it's root on regrowth of the above ground plant rather than extension of the existing root network.

bob charles · 10-06-2012 09:31AM

have had 4 animals with bloat in the last few days so keep your eyes open, growth has being bananas

Muckit · 10-06-2012 10:12AM

bob charles wrote: »

have had 4 animals with bloat in the last few days so keep your eyes open, growth has being bananas

Thanks for that bob. Good to know

Did you give them a shot of liquid paraffin or what?

1chippy · 10-06-2012 10:41AM

Do they still make scythes? Thought the strimmer replaced them.

pakalasa · 10-06-2012 10:55AM

1chippy wrote: »

Do they still make scythes? Thought the strimmer replaced them.

We've an old scythe hanging in the shed. Hasn't been used in 20 years though. You can pull thistles with leather glooves , but I think spot spraying is the only job.

bob charles · 10-06-2012 11:36AM

Muckit wrote: »

Thanks for that bob. Good to know

Did you give them a shot of liquid paraffin or what?

No, I always just vent them fully and then 10lts of water with bi carbonate of soda and calcium. These are animals on a 70% grass, 30% TMR blend. I will up the calcium levels in the TMR blend and it should solve my problems and maybe add a pinch of bi carbonate in aswell to be 100% confident. the land they are grazing would be well manured.

Butcher Boy · 10-06-2012 12:49PM

i took 4 weanling bulls to macroom yesterday .4 red lim 435 kgs born aug and september they made 1145 .there was a very good trade for them. a shipper bought them .

johngalway · 10-06-2012 01:45PM

1chippy wrote: »

Do they still make scythes? Thought the strimmer replaced them.

Yes they still make them, be a sorry day they stop making useful hand tools.

moy83 · 10-06-2012 01:58PM

I got a sythe on adverts awhile back for eight euros . It still had the rubber strip over the blade ,never used . They are a handy thing have , I used it this morning to cut a bit of grass for a heifer that is in the shed on her own .
Kinda like zero grazing on a small scale

johngalway · 10-06-2012 02:40PM

moy83 wrote: »

Kinda like zero grazing on a small scale

:pac: :pac:

And unlike the poor guy who turned over his zero grazing rig in the field (unhurt thankfully) you're not going to be too worried about upending the scythe

moy83 · 10-06-2012 02:59PM

johngalway wrote: »

:pac: :pac:

And unlike the poor guy who turned over his zero grazing rig in the field (unhurt thankfully) you're not going to be too worried about upending the scythe

I got upended myself a couple of times as a young lad when i broke the handles on the grandfathers scythe :-)

Muckit · 10-06-2012 03:09PM

pakalasa wrote: »

We've an old scythe hanging in the shed. Hasn't been used in 20 years though. You can pull thistles with leather glooves , but I think spot spraying is the only job.

It's easy kill the thistle. Top every year. After 3-4 years they should be gone completely

johngalway · 10-06-2012 03:25PM

The only topper I can use is for pencils

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