Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

Whatever works I suppose. Stanfit has posted pics of some of the best grassland I have seen on this forum. Feck all weeds in any if it. Camera never lies

defadman wrote: »

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The first picture is of A BBX cow I bought and this is his her heifer calf,which is only 6 months!

Now the photo of cow makes sense. Nice calf at only 6 months:). What's she sired by? Any trouble calving the cow and finally how old is she? A bit of grey hair always adds a few years;)

Some fencing photos.

Some photos of interest following work on the land with a 13t track machine. Photos shown are of 3 new trench crossings put in.

Photo 1 - Hill where we suspected there would be gravel. Turned out there is nice "spoil" - not clean gravel but ideal for farm roadways and trench crossings. That's a 5"6' stake to give an idea of scale.


Photo 2 - Close up of photo 1.


Photo 3 - Short roadway over boggy section to widest trench crossing. This was necessary to allow dumper trailer to get to crossing.


Photo 4 - Crossing in the process of being filled. I don't have a photo of it finished.



Photo 5 - Two 9" corrie pipes as it takes a lot of water. I only put one in a separate crossing further up the same trench a few years ago and it just can't take the water sometimes when there's floods. The scraws (not sure of spelling) on the sides allowed him to build the sides steeper meaning 1 pipe in length was sufficient. Without this given the width of the trench it would have meant another corrie pipe cut in two to add the extra few feet of width to allow the roadside to slope away (understand?).


Photo 6 - Side of trench. It's around 6" deep with around 5" feet of peat before you meet blue clay.


Photo 7 - 2nd crossing. All three are finished off like this.


Photo 8 - 2nd crossing.


Photo 9 - 3rd crossing, not packed down yet.


The 2nd and 3rd crossing really open up the land to the farmyard. The field in photo 9 is now broken into 6 paddocks. Without these crossings I had to bring the cattle through 7 paddocks and erect alot of temporary fencing to get them back to the yard. Now when I've the roadway fenced (track machine pushed in all the posts;)) all the paddocks will open onto the roadway and straight back to the yard.

Tipp Man wrote: »

I was wondering what was going on there myself

We banned the plough a few years ago for the reseeding - straight in witht th e one pass - does a fantastic job

move to direct drilling and you will be creaming yourself so:D

just do it
how much per hr. was the 12 tn digger

milkprofit wrote: »

just do it
how much per hr. was the 12 tn digger

I'm charging €35+ vat some are charging €40

td5man wrote: »

Nice digger how do you like them,had one of them a couple of years it was as good as a small bulldozer to push.

Seemed a horse to push alright, he tidied a shed for me moving a load of hay, straw and silage and while it wasnt a hard job the floor was smooth and wet and it just walked through it.

Sadly I didnt get to play, I was the man on the ground running round like a headless chicken making sure the hired in man wasnt idle.

got a massive amount of work done in 2.5 hours, that's only one of the jobs, but the only one that's finished.

reilig wrote: »

€35 + VAT around here for a Hitachi ex135 You can get less experienced drivers for less, but he might only get through 2/3 of the work of an experienced one.

Around that for a jcb in cork.

bob charles wrote: »

i had a decent guy last year all in for 260 a day. 8 - 6 and work away with the machine if I wanted to in the evening, which I didnt at that price

260? what would he have left for the machine after paying for diesel and even giving himself minimum wage?


Couldnt resist tipping away on it for the evening, I just love driving diggers.

milkprofit wrote: »

just do it
how much per hr. was the 12 tn digger

€300/day for 13ton.