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Farming Chit Chat

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  • #5822
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    50 shades of Grey I bet :p
    Someone gave that book to the wife for her birthday . Talk about sh*te:D
    Fair play to whoever wrote it though she is coining it in for throwing together a few dirty thoughts she had .


  • #5823
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    What were you reading d'ya mind me asking?

    War and Peace by Tolstoy:D

    (Ah no it wasn't.......It was Darragh, My Life. Middling enough read!)


  • #5824
    tismesoitis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 858 ✭✭✭tismesoitis


    leg wax wrote: »
    well done on getting a weanling into the ploughing,he must be red in colour, did they pay for all vacinations for pneumonia as its a very stressfull time on them,last year on the blue stand bottles were on the go,and i was in the part stand and there was concern about animals blowing in there aswell ,i did not see any bottles on the go but they were talking about getting a vet at one stage.
    Thanks Legs we giving them all their boosters tomorrow but no they not payin.gettin tickets off them. tbh chuffed to have one they see fit to want! He very very easy going so think he'l be ok.sending down a bucket of the meal he's on to try limit upset


  • #5825
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    50 shades of Grey I bet :p

    Yup, can't wait til I go to the cinema to watch that sh*te:D
    Bizzum wrote: »
    War and Peace by Tolstoy:D

    (Ah no it wasn't.......It was Darragh, My Life. Middling enough read!)

    Ah War and Peace, my favourite bit of light reading.
    I'm after seeing the strangest occurance outside, it was like a line of lights going through the sky and then fading out, almost like a comet breaking up and burning out, roughly nine lights in a line. Its baffling!!:eek::confused:


  • #5826
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'm after seeing the strangest occurance outside, it was like a line of lights going through the sky and then fading out, almost like a comet breaking up and burning out, roughly nine lights in a line. Its baffling!!:eek::confused:
    Chinese lanterns. They're like miniture hot air baloons that are let off for occassions like weddings. Should be banned in my opinion. They have a paper mache ball which is hung from a ring which is about 15" in diameter. The mache disappears to nothing but the ring which it all hangs from could get wrapped around a beast's leg and cause damage.


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  • #5827
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


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  • #5828
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    just do it wrote: »
    Chinese lanterns. They're like miniture hot air baloons that are let off for occassions like weddings. Should be banned in my opinion. They have a paper mache ball which is hung from a ring which is about 15" in diameter. The mache disappears to nothing but the ring which it all hangs from could get wrapped around a beast's leg and cause damage.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056761402

    NOPE! It's national news now!:eek:


  • #5829
    Richk2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056761402

    NOPE! It's national news now!:eek:

    Just after lookin at the other posts on that link there. I was outside at that time too . Missed it :confused:


  • #5830
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056761402

    NOPE! It's national news now!:eek:
    Slightly more dramatic than chinese lanterns!!! Seen from Scotland, Liverpool, Dublin and Leitrim!!


  • #5831
    salmonkat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭salmonkat


    that was spectacular! we were in town at culture night. we thought of fireworks too. we saw over the liffey from parliament street. amazing! never seen anything like that. it was so slow and serene.


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  • #5832
    salmonkat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭salmonkat


    http://www.meteotimes.net/2012/09/fireball-blazes-across-ireland-friday.html


  • #5833
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Cold one folks.
    Just back in, 1c and a hard white frost, had to get hot water to defrost the window of the jeep.


  • #5834
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Track machine left the farm yesterday after nearly 7 full days:eek:. About 5 days of that was for me. He's a great lad so I'm happy to see him pick up a few other bits for neighbours just because they saw him in my place.

    The downside - a load of fencing to put back up:rolleyes:. I'll post a few photos in due course....


  • #5835
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    Track machine left the farm yesterday after nearly 7 full days:eek:. About 5 days of that was for me. He's a great lad so I'm happy to see him pick up a few other bits for neighbours just because they saw him in my place.

    The downside - a load of fencing to put back up:rolleyes:. I'll post a few photos in due course....
    did ya get the bill, i nearly had a heart attack when i got mine, he was here for 10 days:eek::eek: in tracks machine... but did a great job


  • #5836
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    just do it wrote: »
    Chinese lanterns. They're like miniture hot air baloons that are let off for occassions like weddings. Should be banned in my opinion. They have a paper mache ball which is hung from a ring which is about 15" in diameter. The mache disappears to nothing but the ring which it all hangs from could get wrapped around a beast's leg and cause damage.


    Should be banned :rolleyes:


  • #5837
    Black Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Black Smoke


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    50 shades of Grey I bet :p

    Yup, can't wait til I go to the cinema to watch that sh*te:D
    Bizzum wrote: »
    War and Peace by Tolstoy:D

    (Ah no it wasn't.......It was Darragh, My Life. Middling enough read!)

    Ah War and Peace, my favourite bit of light reading.
    I'm after seeing the strangest occurance outside, it was like a line of lights going through the sky and then fading out, almost like a comet breaking up and burning out, roughly nine lights in a line. Its baffling!!:eek::confused:

    Don't worry about them lights. They are just the disadvantage area payments flying into our accounts. Curious how they are so heavily concentrated in the east of the country -:)


  • #5838
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    just do it wrote: »
    Track machine left the farm yesterday after nearly 7 full days:eek:. About 5 days of that was for me. He's a great lad so I'm happy to see him pick up a few other bits for neighbours just because they saw him in my place.

    The downside - a load of fencing to put back up:rolleyes:. I'll post a few photos in due course....

    Fair play ... Good job I hope.

    That's the way it is here too .. Machine in the village and everyone has small jobs for doing that they wouldn't purposely order in a track machine but no prob giving the lad E100 if he here anyway :-)


  • #5839
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    whelan1 wrote: »
    did ya get the bill, i nearly had a heart attack when i got mine, he was here for 10 days:eek::eek: in tracks machine... but did a great job

    Usually give a local boy with a 12t a months work, being doing it for the last 5 yrs or so, promised him the same again this year but with the weather we have done absolutely nothing.

    If you want to know what expense is, you should hire a dozer. I was nearly crying filling up the 600ltr tank every day and a half last summer but the output of work is immense. Had it on self drive and drove it for a day while my driver was away. Serious fun to drive, the power and sound the machine is amazing even though the one we had was only 25t, cant even imagine the stuff you could shift with a big girl


  • #5840
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDAUNN4F-8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    Are anyone's bulls as mad as these?

    Bottlified or nursed, it makes no difference!!!!!!!


  • #5841
    Pat the lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭Pat the lad


    If you want to know what expense is, you should hire a dozer. I was nearly crying filling up the 600ltr tank every day and a half last summer but the output of work is immense. Had it on self drive and drove it for a day while my driver was away. Serious fun to drive, the power and sound the machine is amazing even though the one we had was only 25t, cant even imagine the stuff you could shift with a big girl[/Quote]


    drove a D65 for a few hours one time. serious power. joy stick controls were class. Foot throttle took a little bit of getting used to- push down to slow down/stop and release to give power/ speed up. great fun though, get some work done in a short space of time


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  • #5842
    Black Smoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 315 ✭✭Black Smoke


    Lads, whatever else ye bring up, don't mention rats! It could be a straight red -:)


  • #5843
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    We have a 6 tonne international dozer for years , the father is a dinger at taking out the humps of a field with it and leveling out the clay again , I am brutal on it though I would be just wasting diesel :D


  • #5844
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Pat the lad wrote: »

    drove a D65 for a few hours one time. serious power. joy stick controls were class. Foot throttle took a little bit of getting used to- push down to slow down/stop and release to give power/ speed up. great fun though, get some work done in a short space of time

    yeah it was a D65 I was hiring, once you can get a good bite on the surface you can do serious shoving. the guy I had driving it make it look like childsplay. He said the CAT with the high tracks was the dogs as you can see the lip of the blade easily from the seat. Many poor guys suffered down through the years pulling and pushing levelers on the old girls


  • #5845
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bob charles wrote: »
    cant even imagine the stuff you could shift with a big girl

    TMI bob.... TMI :D


  • #5846
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    Muckit wrote: »
    TMI bob.... TMI :D



  • #5847
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    whelan1 wrote: »
    did ya get the bill, i nearly had a heart attack when i got mine, he was here for 10 days:eek::eek: in tracks machine... but did a great job
    i think its around 35-40 euros an hour for a 13 tonnes, i have to get a lad meself in for a couple of days. Often thought about buying one myself


  • #5848
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    €600 per day:eek:


  • #5849
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    i think its around 35-40 euros an hour for a 13 tonnes, i have to get a lad meself in for a couple of days. Often thought about buying one myself
    What about hiring a self drive digger, should get one for less than grand a week, achieve two things, get the job done and show you whether you'd want one of your own, I've seen lads put 100 hrs on them on a weeks hire


  • #5850
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,032 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Well worth trying once, even just for the crack.

    However what one lad can do in 100hrs an experienced operator who knows how to plan his work will do it in 30-40hrs. Diesel is expensive! we have one machine munching through 35lts per hr and that is on economy setting. Moves mountains though.


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  • #5851
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    I got my reseeding finished and rolled in there this evening ... A little late maybe ?!


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