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  • #7142
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    I got new seals put on the rams of the loader the other day and the auld lad put them back on yesterday. He made a bit of a hiccup and put the rams on upside down and when he lifted the loader he made ****e of the thread part where the hose goes on both rams, Anyone know can it be fixed?


  • #7143
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    The awful sad one is very good too, reminds me of nearly every funeral I have been to

    The Fat Rabbit one has to be the best ha! I certainly know afew people like that ha!


  • #7144
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I got new seals put on the rams of the loader the other day and the auld lad put them back on yesterday. He made a bit of a hiccup and put the rams on upside down and when he lifted the loader he made ****e of the thread part where the hose goes on both rams, Anyone know can it be fixed?
    Ya, you can weld on a new fitting to the ram? I had it done to a ram here recently. It needs to be a decent weld though. MIG welding might be more suitable than arc welding. Welds tend to be cleaner, so no leaks.

    Are you sure the male part of the fitting can't be removed from the rams and replaced?


  • #7145
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I got new seals put on the rams of the loader the other day and the auld lad put them back on yesterday. He made a bit of a hiccup and put the rams on upside down and when he lifted the loader he made ****e of the thread part where the hose goes on both rams, Anyone know can it be fixed?

    job for martin tierney id say redzer


  • #7146
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Ya, you can weld on a new fitting to the ram? I had it done to a ram here recently. It needs to be a decent weld though. MIG welding might be more suitable than arc welding. Welds tend to be cleaner, so no leaks.

    Are you sure the male part of the fitting can't be removed from the rams and replaced?
    It will have to be cut off pak, no other way of taking it off.
    vanderbadger wrote: »
    job for martin tierney id say redzer

    Thanks for that vander, never even thought of him, was going to bring it to tj but he might be better at them kinda jobs.


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  • #7147
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Went shooting today with Dad for the first time in a while. Not for rabbits or aout, just for fun. First time I've ever shot with larger pellets, strange, I wasn't ready for it but I still peppered the lid 30mtrs away:D


  • #7148
    Charlie Charolais
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 263 ✭✭Charlie Charolais


    Hey pak, you must be working really hard these days... Based on your signature! :p
    Salt/grit truck out here this evening, flashing 0c in the van


  • #7149
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Charlie Charolais wrote: »
    Hey pak, you must be working really hard these days... Based on your signature! :p
    Salt/grit truck out here this evening, flashing 0c in the van

    0 degrees? Where abiuts are you Charlie?

    It's lashing rain here with the past few hours, and it rained savage as well early this morning :(


  • #7150
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Anyone any experience of having a calf born with a front on him like a bulldog. The shoulders rotating in and out, cant rightly get up or walk about?


  • #7151
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Anyone any experience of having a calf born with a front on him like a bulldog. The shoulders rotating in and out, cant rightly get up or walk about?

    I had something similar with a dwarf calf last year. If it's the same thing it would look like his 'elbows' are backwards? It took mine 5/6 days of nursing to walk and suck by itself. Anyways I'm off to Carrick for the day:D


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  • #7152
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    mother of jayus,

    the council want fcuking 1500 euro for a water connection, am setting up paddocks

    764 for administration and plumbing and fitting charges, 715 for the privilage of providing me the water

    what a shower of you know what

    you know what they then send a list of approved contractors to find the main and dig the road for another 700 euro, are these fellas out of the boom times at all yet,

    i am awful tempted to tap on and say fcuk all, my man can bore under the road,


  • #7153
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    and while i am moaning

    whats the story with this weather

    i thought it was cold dry frosty days, its showery here at moment although in fairness it has been good all weekend

    crikes is the pub open


  • #7154
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    hugo29 wrote: »
    and while i am moaning

    whats the story with this weather

    i thought it was cold dry frosty days, its showery here at moment although in fairness it has been good all weekend

    crikes is the pub open
    ah now, drink never solved anything, just eases the pain for a while.:D sfp should be in next week so happy days- for a few days- have santa letters to fulfill


  • #7155
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ah now, drink never solved anything, just eases the pain for a while.:D sfp should be in next week so happy days- for a few days- have santa letters to fulfill

    SFP

    Santas
    Final
    Payment


  • #7156
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    ah now, drink never solved anything, just eases the pain for a while.:D sfp should be in next week so happy days- for a few days- have santa letters to fulfill

    i will have to tell the kids that santy cant come, had to pay the council for a water connection

    just to finish myself off altogether, i rang the Suckler sections today about payments for Welfare Scheme, seen on journal that payments were to commence next week, checked status of my calves on line and none were approved yet, called to see what was happening, "apparantly the good old systems are being checked" i wonder how these fellas can keep a straight face when they say that

    i wonder have the americans any of those bunker busters going spare


  • #7157
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    bbam wrote: »
    SFP

    Santas
    Final
    Payment

    :D:D


  • #7158
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    hugo29 wrote: »
    mother of jayus,

    the council want fcuking 1500 euro for a water connection, am setting up paddocks

    764 for administration and plumbing and fitting charges, 715 for the privilage of providing me the water

    what a shower of you know what

    you know what they then send a list of approved contractors to find the main and dig the road for another 700 euro, are these fellas out of the boom times at all yet,

    i am awful tempted to tap on and say fcuk all, my man can bore under the road,

    It doesn't sound too bad compared to boring your own well. How much per m3 are they going to charge you for the supply?


  • #7159
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,416 ✭✭✭naughto


    hugo29 wrote: »
    mother of jayus,

    the council want fcuking 1500 euro for a water connection, am setting up paddocks

    764 for administration and plumbing and fitting charges, 715 for the privilage of providing me the water

    what a shower of you know what

    you know what they then send a list of approved contractors to find the main and dig the road for another 700 euro, are these fellas out of the boom times at all yet,

    i am awful tempted to tap on and say fcuk all, my man can bore under the road,

    say nothing untill you hear more.


  • #7160
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I had something similar with a dwarf calf last year. If it's the same thing it would look like his 'elbows' are backwards? It took mine 5/6 days of nursing to walk and suck by itself. Anyways I'm off to Carrick for the day:D

    I was planning to splash out there today for some fancy little sim/hrd heifers but got sidetracked and wont make it...
    Will you let us know what the trade was like later?;)


  • #7161
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    freedominacup wrote: »
    It doesn't sound too bad compared to boring your own well. How much per m3 are they going to charge you for the supply?
    dont know have to check with Veoila on that one as well as the quarterly rates

    this country is a rip off


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  • #7162
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    naughto wrote: »
    say nothing untill you hear more.

    yep my thoughts exactly, except some nosey git will spot it


  • #7163
    JohnBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭JohnBoy


    freedominacup wrote: »
    It doesn't sound too bad compared to boring your own well. How much per m3 are they going to charge you for the supply?

    yeah? I was talking to some guys at a show in millstreet a few weeks ago, and they said a 200ft well would be fairly typical, and would cost around 3 grand.

    If hugo's at €2200 already, and with water charges to come on top I'd be seriously exploring my options.


  • #7164
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    D sfp should be in next week so happy days- for a few days- have santa letters to fulfill
    Did you get it in writing or was it a verbal agreement if the latter it could be subject to change as a neighbour found out last year after she had spent nearly €2k on her 2 darlings.


  • #7165
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    yeah? I was talking to some guys at a show in millstreet a few weeks ago, and they said a 200ft well would be fairly typical, and would cost around 3 grand.

    If hugo's at €2200 already, and with water charges to come on top I'd be seriously exploring my options.

    I put in a well 3 years ago - 400ft deep + 1.5HP submersible pump for around 4k. I would imagine prices haven't increased by that much (if any)

    As John Boy said - I'd look at all options...


  • #7166
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    JohnBoy wrote: »
    yeah? I was talking to some guys at a show in millstreet a few weeks ago, and they said a 200ft well would be fairly typical, and would cost around 3 grand.

    If hugo's at €2200 already, and with water charges to come on top I'd be seriously exploring my options.


    Pumps don't run for nothing and they don't last forever either. Hard water pllaying f**k with square D switches, presure vessels needing replacing it's endless costs with your own supply. Our elec bills are around €150 per 2 months more than any of the in-laws with similar sized houses and familes who don't have their own pumps/supply. My pump supplies the farm and house. We had another well supplying the farm for 20 years but it was close to a km from the yard and the head of the bore was over 100ft below the yard now that was expensive to run.


  • #7167
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Did you get it in writing or was it a verbal agreement if the latter it could be subject to change as a neighbour found out last year after she had spent nearly €2k on her 2 darlings.
    fook 2k ... some people never learn, only setting themselves up for trouble imo... my youngest lad wants a black hat and a sword:D


  • #7168
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fook 2k ... some people never learn, only setting themselves up for trouble imo... my youngest lad wants a black hat and a sword:D
    She went out and bought what they asked for the second time as well


  • #7169
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    hugo29 wrote: »
    mother of jayus,

    the council want fcuking 1500 euro for a water connection, am setting up paddocks

    764 for administration and plumbing and fitting charges, 715 for the privilage of providing me the water

    what a shower of you know what

    you know what they then send a list of approved contractors to find the main and dig the road for another 700 euro, are these fellas out of the boom times at all yet,

    i am awful tempted to tap on and say fcuk all, my man can bore under the road,

    I think you're mad!

    Paying that for a few drinkers for paddocks??

    Have you got any low points in your fields where you could dig down a large corri pipe and then just hook a moveable pasture pump to it. Or if you have a stream or a drain close by, dig the corri pipe into it, good and deep and just let the pasture pump suck it out.

    Unless you live in an area that suffers from extreme drought, this is your best and cheapest option!!


  • #7170
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fook 2k ... some people never learn, only setting themselves up for trouble imo... my youngest lad wants a black hat and a sword:D
    mine are getting 2 shovels so they can dig for that fcuking watermain


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  • #7171
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    I think you're mad!

    Paying that for a few drinkers for paddocks??

    Have you got any low points in your fields where you could dig down a large corri pipe and then just hook a moveable pasture pump to it. Or if you have a stream or a drain close by, dig the corri pipe into it, good and deep and just let the pasture pump suck it out.

    Unless you live in an area that suffers from extreme drought, this is your best and cheapest option!!

    i aint paying it, i am going under the road and saying fook all, and am going to buy a council camber and lid and stick it in the ground to keep the neighbours at bay,

    also lads them prices for well seems dear, seen a well done for house for 2200 euro last year


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