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just do it · 20-07-2012 01:12PM

vanderbadger wrote: »

how did you cut the wall, did you cut doth sides with consaw?

Yip spot on. It turned into a monster of a job as the wall was 9' thick rather than 7'. The consaw he had could cut 4' so there was still an inch left. On top if that there was rebar in the wall which he said he'd never come across before. 2 hrs became 10hrs :eek:

redzerologhlen · 20-07-2012 06:02PM

Probably the fattiest calf in Ireland, the resulted cross of a limo onto a black whitehead cow and she has no meal got

ZETOR_IS_BETTER · 20-07-2012 06:25PM

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Probably the fattiest calf in Ireland

Nice condition alright Red

Whats the age?

redzerologhlen · 20-07-2012 06:30PM

ZETOR_IS_BETTER wrote: »

Nice condition alright Red

Whats the age?

About 4 and a half months. She is actually falling with fat around her elder and pin bones. I hope she grows now because its a bit unnatural really.

tismesoitis · 20-07-2012 10:14PM

Bigbird1 wrote: »

TVR is a class looking young bull but there are no calves off him yet,so really his calving difficulty means very little to me, take ERE standing in Dovea for example when he first came on the scene as a unproven lim bull out of tully, his calving figure was aout 3%,"ideal for heifers":rolleyes:. Today this figure is at 21.79%, i have heard of a good few lads who ran into trouble wit this guy on heifers and cows.

A similar situation would be with cottage devon.

In Dovea we have found PAM to be good on heifers,

Also has anyone on here used or seen may calves of the lim bull Haltcliffe Dancer, i hear hes breeding super stuff!

Have 2 dancer calves on the ground now. Great calves big and getting super shape. Definatly not for heifers!

johngalway · 21-07-2012 05:43PM

I was putting pour on on the ewes and lambs today seeing as it was a dry day. Look at what I found below, three more going the same way :mad: Poxy electronic tags, all the button ones it's happening to. Never had this problem with the older non electronic tags, suffering for the sheep but sure who gives a **** once the pen pushers are kept in work.

johngalway · 21-07-2012 05:47PM

Anyway, after that job was done I went shearing some of Dads ewes and got to see a bit of the regatta as well!

dar31 · 21-07-2012 06:00PM

the 2nd and 3rd ones are very good, should be on postcards

johngalway · 21-07-2012 06:03PM

Thanks Dar, I couldn't see what I was taking really, was using my phones camera. The sun (what's that thing in the sky? :eek: ) made it awful hard to see the screen. Had neither proper camera with me of course

johngalway · 22-07-2012 09:38AM

Years ago, we used to bring sheep out to an island by currach. A local man took a photo of us in the harbour just about to leave. I knew he had used the photo to do a painting, and I just found it online while looking for something else

http://www.oisingallery.com/Painting.asp?PaintingID=2003021910

That my uncle at the stern fiddling with the outboard. Myself and Dad are ahead, but I can't figure who is who from the painting, it was a long time ago.

(We never brought sheep to the island mentioned, artistic license methinks).

Haha, just talking to Dad I was wrong myself in remembering which island we brought them to, it was yet another one!

pakalasa · 22-07-2012 09:56AM

John,
You should get a few prints and put them hanging in the house.

johngalway · 22-07-2012 10:09AM

I will do that alright, I have very good memories from days like those.

1chippy · 22-07-2012 05:28PM

Is that leenane John?

johngalway · 22-07-2012 08:42PM

1chippy wrote: »

Is that leenane John?

Nope

redzerologhlen · 23-07-2012 12:37AM

Probably one of our best heifer calves this year, out of a black limmy cow with only 2 tits and about 4 and a half months old, another one for the bull somewhere down the line I think, like the other one she has no meal got either.

vanderbadger · 23-07-2012 06:24AM

she's a nice one alright

pakalasa · 23-07-2012 08:59AM

Redz,
Nice heifer. Just wondering does your upland really benefit from all this wet weather we are getting? It being so dry and all that.

redzerologhlen · 23-07-2012 12:46PM

pakalasa wrote: »

Redz,
Nice heifer. Just wondering does your upland really benefit from all this wet weather we are getting? It being so dry and all that.

Well its green instead of a yellow/brown at the moment which is strange for the winterage's any time of the year. The most of our summer land is saturated at the moment though, actually have about 8 acres completely submerged today. Might have to let cows clip some of the winterage for a few weeks and hope this weather straightens out a bit. Its no different then all the lads having to house cattle but if we got a few good months after grazing the winterages they should grow again and save us having to buy feed for the winter.

Richk2012 · 23-07-2012 03:38PM

Never thought in a million years that id get any hay this year .
Cut Thursday morning and baled today at in 24degrees heat with an absolute gale blowing .
Had to keep the rake right infront of the baler the whole time as the rows were being blown all over the place ..

Box09 · 23-07-2012 03:46PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

Never thought in a million years that id get any hay this year .
Cut Thursday morning and baled today at in 24degrees heat with an absolute gale blowing .
Had to keep the rake right infront of the baler the whole time as the rows were being blown all over the place ..

Theres the Big Sugarloaf in the background... my guess is you are near Kilternan.....! Great looking hay.

just do it · 23-07-2012 04:33PM

Richk2012 wrote: »

Never thought in a million years that id get any hay this year .
Cut Thursday morning and baled today at in 24degrees heat with an absolute gale blowing .
Had to keep the rake right infront of the baler the whole time as the rows were being blown all over the place ..

Richk, you're pulling our leg surely, those photos must be from last summer!!;):D

Seaba · 23-07-2012 05:35PM

Redz,
Lovely heifer - just wondering what bull she is off?

redzerologhlen · 23-07-2012 07:20PM

This lad seaba, hes by genial.

Richk2012 · 23-07-2012 08:35PM

just do it wrote: »

Richk, you're pulling our leg surely, those photos must be from last summer!!;):D

I knew i should have got in the picture holding todays newspaper for evidence

johngalway · 23-07-2012 08:51PM

just do it wrote: »

Richk, you're pulling our leg surely, those photos must be from last summer!!;):D

If that was last Summer here there would be black clouds in it. I think the photos are from abroad :pac:

JohnBoy · 24-07-2012 11:18AM

I spent the day yesterday out and about in what I can only describe as a low cloud. 19 or 20 degrees, but only around 300m visibility.

Pulled an armful of ragworth from the road ditches, but only four or five in the fields, last years efforts have hopefully paid off to some extent. Mother in law is giving me awful grief about the state of the ditches, this year is the first time we've managed to get her to accept the notion of a closed period for hedge cutting!

I was freaking out about fertiliser getting washed away a few weeks ago. looks like bob_charles might have been right in his heroin suggestion.

That was cut the first weekend of June and is looking well, could maybe do with a bit more bulk, but the quality seems good to my untrained eye.

The reseed is looking well, no pics, but it got a half dose of doxstar two weeks ago and needs grazing badly now, seems very solid under foot.

This was the "second worst" paddock, now far and away the worst. Considering a different approach to a full reseed here though as apart from the docks there's only two big patches of nettles.

Gonna burn off the patches with roundup in the quad sprayer and get one pass done with the power harrow drill and see how it works out, then spray the docks specifically.

I walked the forest too, wanted to see how the trees were looking, and also wanted to look at the drains to see how much cleaing needs to be done. there's a half acre in the bottom of the silage that's gone soft and mad with rushes. on a whole the drains are ok, but a few localised problems are stopping the system as a whole from working. the diggerman will be in the day hedge cutting season opens!

The trees are in my opinion looking poor enough, need to get onto the forester, there's ragwort all over the shop and half the trees are looking like they could be swamped by weeds/rushes. I though the 5 foot rushes I'd found were serious until I came across this fella. an 8 foot thistle. I didnt know whether to be proud, or scared.

Oh and my one positive from all this horrible weather? those ragworths I was pulling.... every one of them brought the roots clean out of the wet soft ground.

johngalway · 24-07-2012 11:27AM

JohnBoy wrote: »

an 8 foot thistle. I didnt know whether to be proud, or scared.

Remember to shout Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmbbbbbberrrrrrr!

whelan1 · 24-07-2012 12:07PM

yup thankfully ragworth are alot easier to pull this year, and here too we can see the rewards from last years back breaking efforts pulling them- great to see we are slowly winning the war against them

pakalasa · 24-07-2012 12:19PM

I've got a technique going for pulling ragwort. Instead of pulling straight up, pull it sideways until you feel some roots given way, then pull back to the other side. A lot easier on the back.

whelan1 · 24-07-2012 12:20PM

pakalasa wrote: »

I've got a technique going for pulling ragwort. Instead of pulling straight up, pull it sideways until you feel some roots given, then pull back to teh other side. A lot easier on the back.

yup alot easier on the back also, hate when the roots dont come up also

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