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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #4622
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    dar31 wrote: »
    enough with the rain, for f**k's sake

    the fun has gone out of it altogether

    looking out the window at the cows in the field out side this evening, thinking where the f**k will i put ye Monday morning


    some one please

    As was quoted earlier in this thread...,..early to make hay meant six weeks rain. (I'm short-cutting it in-case writer is reading) It should stop from now with any bloody luck.


  • #4623
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    dar31 wrote: »
    enough with the rain, for f**k's sake

    the fun has gone out of it altogether

    looking out the window at the cows in the field out side this evening, thinking where the f**k will i put ye Monday morning


    some one please
    ours will be in 2 weeks at night on monday... i would say they will be in another week at least. was looking at them on friday morning, they where in a field that was topped 3 weeks ago lovely grass, sun shining , lying back back chewing, i was thinking this is how it should be in july. Not muck and rain


  • #4624
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    I just had to share :D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79690402&postcount=131


  • #4625
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    terrible night again...pity ground was just coming round


  • #4626
    Butcher Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    lashing down here in west cork again today. all cattle inside now,what a year.





















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  • #4627
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Just back from holidays and it's unbelievable. Fields are sodden through, our land is heavy and it's just terrible. We could do with topping a few fields but it's not worth marking them badly.
    Silage is due to be cut next weekend but may push it out a week or two in the hope that a dry spell comes. We seem to have a decent crop but I just don't want to cut up fields, some of the fields near me are in bits and will need serious work to put them right.
    Lost a heifer while I was away, nice Lim/Ch cross, systemic infection was the vets best guess but he couldn't save her. :(


  • #4628
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I see even Adam on countryfile was feeling it last night. ......ah no not TB this time strangely enough ..... the weather!!

    His meadow absolutely flattened to the ground..... and he's aiming to make hay! The best of luck to him!! ;)


  • #4629
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Muckit wrote: »
    I see even Adam on countryfile was feeling it last night. ......ah no not TB this time strangely enough ..... the weather!!

    His meadow absolutely flattened to the ground..... and he's aiming to make hay! The best of luck to him!! ;)
    poor old adam, he only has the couple of thousand acres to work with :eek:


  • #4630
    PMU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭PMU


    johngalway wrote: »
    I just had to share :D

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=79690402&postcount=131
    THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT COULD BE TRUE!


  • #4631
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    A couple, more like a few. 3,000 acres would be nearer the mark.


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  • #4632
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    poor old adam, he only has the couple of thousand acres to work with :eek:
    pakalasa wrote: »
    A couple, more like a few. 3,000 acres would be nearer the mark.

    In a good year - that would feed a lot of cattle.
    In a bad year - those cattle would eat a lot.


  • #4633
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I think he does 1000 acres of arable between wheat, barley and oil seed rape. And God knows how many thousand acres he has under grazing.

    I was watching a few old episodes of Countryfile back to back yesterday that I had recorded on the skybox and never got to see. I only ever fast forward through boring old John Creavin (the poor God help us) and watch Adam's Farm bit.

    Back in late spring he was talking about that old saying 'Oak before ash, we're in for a splash...ash before oak, we're in for a soak'...

    Then in the next sentence he says, the oak was out first this year, so it looks like we're in for a good summer..... how wrong he was!!!

    Another 2 or so weeks and we're technically into autumn :o


  • #4634
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Another 2 or so weeks and we're technically into autumn :o[/QUOTE]

    are you sure we are not into winter already..
    fecking felt like it this morning feedings cows


  • #4635
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    are you sure we are not into winter already..
    fecking felt like it this morning feedings cows

    Tell us about it. Bloody sick of it now. Have you all in? Most cattle in here, bar a handful. And no sign of a chance to let them out. Ground is soaking. I can't complain much though, at least silage all made which is more than alot of lads. Here's hoping we get a dry enough Autumn to shorten the winter ;)


  • #4636
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    Muckit wrote: »
    Tell us about it. Bloody sick of it now. Have you all in? Most cattle in here, bar a handful. And no sign of a chance to let them out. Ground is soaking. I can't complain much though, at least silage all made which is more than alot of lads. Here's hoping we get a dry enough Autumn to shorten the winter ;)
    no about 20 cows and calves in, they were in 1 group, the rest outside in bits and bobs, if i had grass i would leave these ones out too but most of my place is bare and after a night like last night they plough it up..
    ground was actually fairly ok around us till last night, will be back to sq one now
    if it keeps going id say a glut of cattle will hit the marts soon


  • #4637
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    if it keeps going id say a glut of cattle will hit the marts soon

    I wonder will there be buyers for them? There will be export buyers for suitable buyers allright, but what about the rest if fodder is scarce?


    One good week, and it would all be forgotten about. We have had a dry week gone by and the ground has dried up well. If it wasn't for the lack of grass, things would be normal. With a few meadows cut, at least we will have a bit of extra grass "going forward" (BC).


  • #4638
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    reilig wrote: »
    I wonder will there be buyers for them? There will be export buyers for suitable buyers allright, but what about the rest if fodder is scarce?


    One good week, and it would all be forgotten about. We have had a dry week gone by and the ground has dried up well. If it wasn't for the lack of grass, things would be normal. With a few meadows cut, at least we will have a bit of extra grass "going forward" (BC).

    most of my silage cut 6 to 7 weeks ago, meadows slurried but there is feck all much in them, its been the worst year ever for growth except for a few weeks before silage was cut. as you say if the weather picked up again it might kick off


  • #4639
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    terrible year for growth is right. Even with cattle of the land the last 2weeks, not a whole pile of grass coming for the time of year. Even as you said Vander, land that was cut and got slurry isn't much better.


  • #4640
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    I went through a record book last night. On june 8th, I had 6 weeks of grass ahead of the cows. I only needed 3. I barely have a 14 day rotation now - and the cows are left hungry for a half day a couple of times in that rotation. Luckily only 10 cows are housed. Got fertilizer spread this morning. MT cranium on the weather forum is talking about the weather taking up from thursday and it getting pretty warm - hopefully it will make my fertilizer work.


  • #4641
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    got 110 bales made late last night, got a second double handler and and finished drawing them about 2am this morn, glad we did, it was raining for the last 45 minutes when we were drawing, but it absolutely milled out the heavens until about midday

    we have good re growth after the first cut , it got about 1500 gals. of very watery slurry and circa 20 u can per ac.

    grass wise we are ok'ish , however we let the incalf heifer in to a field we had intended to bale to avoid poaching, not much spare grass for flushing the early lambing ewes and will decide in the next couple of days whether we let lambing dates slip back a bit or feed some meal

    no stock housed but like most others on here the farm badly need some sunshine to heat up the ground and boost growth.


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  • #4642
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    went for the cows this evening, they are in a 30 acre field that i spoke about on here before- was very yellow- letting them graze it so i can start again with the field.... my dad had brought them in the last few evenings in the jeep and he is gone away for a few days, his last words to me where its a bit wet.... ffs , i got bogged down just inside the gap... if you stop at all you are stuck.... nice grass though cows are stuffed when they come in and eating feck all silage at night....... hope mt cranium is right


  • #4643
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Forecast is starting to look better for the weekend alright....FINGERS CROSSED.


  • #4644
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    sheared off the third axle in 8 months of the jeep trailer this afternoon. Starting to sound old by saying "there not made of the same stuff nowadays"


  • #4645
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭MfMan


    bob charles wrote: »
    sheared off the third axle in 8 months of the jeep trailer this afternoon. Starting to sound old by saying "there not made of the same stuff nowadays"

    Any harm to ask how, and what make have you?


  • #4646
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    MfMan wrote: »
    Any harm to ask how, and what make have you?

    How, probably too much hard work, just sheared turning in a yard with 6 store heifers inside, total weight of around 1800kgs inside, presume the stub was cracked from earlier. this axle only went under it last christmas.

    Maybe a bit unfair to name the make as it does a serious amount of work and hadn't give a problem for the first 3 yrs of its life, except since x has for some reason, due to be traded earlier this year but didn't get around to it


  • #4647
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bob charles wrote: »
    sheared off the third axle in 8 months of the jeep trailer this afternoon. Starting to sound old by saying "there not made of the same stuff nowadays"

    Is it a triple axle hudson or something like that? Was it the front axle that went? Really you could see how it could happen. Serious pressure on the axle if turning sharp, it's just dragging instead of turning. wide sweeps necessary when it's full. grand when empty.


  • #4648
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    Muckit wrote: »
    Is it a triple axle hudson or something like that? Was it the front axle that went? Really you could see how it could happen. Serious pressure on the axle if turning sharp, it's just dragging instead of turning. wide sweeps necessary when it's full. grand when empty.

    serious drag on tri axle boxes when trning alright,have a 12ft ifor and that drags enough,that said if was to trade it id probably go for 14ft ifor,i see the new ones have the flap at the front to allow wind flow through,took them long enough


  • #4649
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Muckit wrote: »
    Is it a triple axle hudson or something like that? Was it the front axle that went? Really you could see how it could happen. Serious pressure on the axle if turning sharp, it's just dragging instead of turning. wide sweeps necessary when it's full. grand when empty.

    no its a twin axle with 16" wheels, broke the two fronts on drivers side and back on the passenger side. New axle today going under it is of different design, old axle had a stub of 35mm in tickles whereas the new one has a thickness of 42mm so something around 70% (well 50% more steel) stronger if the steel is like for like in my quick tot


  • #4650
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Waiting to get my ram DNA tested, great to have internet on the go out George Hook would have me jumping off the bridge!


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  • #4651
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    johngalway wrote: »
    Waiting to get my ram DNA tested, great to have internet on the go out George Hook would have me jumping off the bridge!

    did you send off a wool sample or whats involved


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