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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭The Real Elmer Fudd


    just do it wrote: »
    Good stuff REF, did you sell the other one as well? How old was this one?

    No kept the heifer for the minute. Am considering keeping her for breeding. We'll see how she develops.

    The bull is 7 months. Don't think he was a bad weight given he got no meal


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


    No kept the heifer for the minute. Am considering keeping her for breeding. We'll see how she develops.

    The bull is 7 months. Don't think he was a bad weight given he got no meal
    Jeez man, you're onto a winning formula. ~1.3kg dwg and €2.64/kg. And all that with no meal! There's living proof of the value of milk;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭The Real Elmer Fudd


    just do it wrote: »
    Jeez man, you're onto a winning formula. ~1.3kg dwg and €2.64/kg. And all that with no meal! There's living proof of the value of milk;)

    Despite the bad year I had plenty of grass as I was understocked so I'd say that was a big help to bring on the milk. Only feeding silage this last 3 r 4 weeks now


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


    Despite the bad year I had plenty of grass as I was understocked so I'd say that was a big help to bring on the milk. Only feeding silage this last 3 r 4 weeks now

    No doubt grass is important. But a bit of breeding is hard to bate!


  • Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭porter shark


    was that in headford elmer? nice stock by the way.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭The Real Elmer Fudd


    Bizzum wrote: »

    No doubt grass is important. But a bit of breeding is hard to bate!

    I'm only starting to build a herd at min. Had all heifers calving here dis year at 24 months. Mainly sim x ch heifers. When crossed to mbp they seem to have brought good calves with nice bit of muscle on them. Have them all back in calf again this year to mbp plus few more heifers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭The Real Elmer Fudd


    was that in headford elmer? nice stock by the way.

    No little further north ha I'm in Monaghan.


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


    New second hand box I got yesterday.

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


    New second hand box I got yesterday.

    well wear, looks like a clean box red


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


    New second hand box I got yesterday.

    well wear, looks like a clean box red

    Its not too bad now vander. All original lights and working, brakes are perfect a 6 good tyres, spare isint great though. Theres a bit of a dent on the roof at the back of it but it isint too bad and one of the legs was broke off the dividing gate but I got it fixed today. Otherwise it's fairly straight. Was looking for a tractor trailer really but the money seemed fairly right for that box and I can still put it on the tractor for drawing cows around. Its getting too dangerous and awkward to be walking them along the road for a few miles in the summer. I will keep onto the 10x5 too for tipping around the place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭Richk2012



    Its not too bad now vander. All original lights and working, brakes are perfect a 6 good tyres, spare isint great though. Theres a bit of a dent on the roof at the back of it but it isint too bad and one of the legs was broke off the dividing gate but I got it fixed today. Otherwise it's fairly straight. Was looking for a tractor trailer really but the money seemed fairly right for that box and I can still put it on the tractor for drawing cows around. Its getting too dangerous and awkward to be walking them along the road for a few miles in the summer. I will keep onto the 10x5 too for tipping around the place.

    Same up our way Red .

    The way its gone now , in the summer we have to get up early in the morning (about half 6) , when there is no traffic on the roads when there is a good few of them together .
    If not the jeep and trailer is on the go .
    Sign of the times really .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Milton09


    Buying haylage bales from neighbour before starting on my own silage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Milton09 wrote: »
    Buying haylage bales from neighbour before starting on my own silage.

    Nice outfit there! Do you have a canopy for that trailer Milton?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Milton09


    Muckit wrote: »
    Nice outfit there! Do you have a canopy for that trailer Milton?

    I do, only move cattle in the summer so I figured the DP120 would be handy for jobs like that in the winter, mind you if they were silage bales I wouldn't be able to load it that much !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭red bull



    Its not too bad now vander. All original lights and working, brakes are perfect a 6 good tyres, spare isint great though. Theres a bit of a dent on the roof at the back of it but it isint too bad and one of the legs was broke off the dividing gate but I got it fixed today. Otherwise it's fairly straight. Was looking for a tractor trailer really but the money seemed fairly right for that box and I can still put it on the tractor for drawing cows around. Its getting too dangerous and awkward to be walking them along the road for a few miles in the summer. I will keep onto the 10x5 too for tipping around the place.
    nice trailer what kind of money?


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


    red bull wrote: »
    nice trailer what kind of money?

    3.5k


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭red bull


    red bull wrote: »

    3.5k
    Sounds good deal, well wear


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


    Busy day today, 2 gates hung and the new swimming pool landed, would I get to lift it enough with the tractor to get the planks out from underneath do ye think, the forklift he took it off the lorry with was struggling with our terrain and your man was afraid he would break it so wouldnt do any more with it.

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


    Busy day today, 2 gates hung and the new swimming pool landed, would I get to lift it enough with the tractor to get the planks out from underneath do ye think, the forklift he took it off the lorry with was struggling with our terrain and your man was afraid he would break it so wouldnt do any more with it.

    if you got a strap underneath the the edges you could lift one side at a time and take planks out


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


    Busy day today, 2 gates hung and the new swimming pool landed, would I get to lift it enough with the tractor to get the planks out from underneath do ye think, the forklift he took it off the lorry with was struggling with our terrain and your man was afraid he would break it so wouldnt do any more with it.

    if you got a strap underneath the the edges you could lift one side at a time and take planks out

    Its 3 tonnes so im not sure if the loader will lift it or not, I'll work something out anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭milkprofit


    Leave them there and put more gravel around it so it wont become a muck hole


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


    You could roll it, carefully, on 6" stakes.


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


    I'll work something out anyway.

    It can be done. There was no loader when Newgrange was built:D


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


    Bizzum wrote: »

    It can be done. There was no loader when Newgrange was built:D

    I suppose you dont have a number for the lads that built it :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭red bull


    I like the old fashioned gates didnt know they were still available


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



    Its 3 tonnes so im not sure if the loader will lift it or not, I'll work something out anyway.

    2 tractors with 2 transport boxes. They could reverse in under the ends. You could move it but one tractor would be reversing


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


    red bull wrote: »
    I like the old fashioned gates didnt know they were still available
    They are nice alright, there's a few lads still making them around here. Some weight in them compared to a normal gate.

    2 tractors with 2 transport boxes. They could reverse in under the ends. You could move it but one tractor would be reversing

    I dont really need to move it vander, I had the gravel levelled and all but I didnt think your man would have as much trouble trying to put it in. I will have a go with the tractor tomorrow, If it would lift it an inch one side at a time it would be enough.


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


    They are lovely gates redzer , there is good weight in the old ones anyhow there are a few hanging around here that the grandfather hung when he was a young lad so if they are a few bob dearer than the normal ones at least they will seee you out without having to replace them


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


    moy83 wrote: »
    They are lovely gates redzer , there is good weight in the old ones anyhow there are a few hanging around here that the grandfather hung when he was a young lad so if they are a few bob dearer than the normal ones at least they will seee you out without having to replace them

    They werent much dearer to be honest, €140 for the gates and €30 each for the pillars and I will get the most of the price of them back through the Burrenlife. I might get a few more next year aswell for the entrance to the yard and a few fields beside the road.


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


    Jeez thats a great price , whats the longest they make them and where did you get them ? If you had the time to build stone pillars to hang them from they would look even better I think .


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


    moy83 wrote: »
    Jeez thats a great price , whats the longest they make them and where did you get them ? If you had the time to build stone pillars to hang them from they would look even better I think .

    Thats what I was going to do originally but I am a bit stuck for time because the work has to be all done by the 4th of January and thats getting dangerously close now. A fellow in Boston made them, it wouldnt be too far from Gort and he will make them to whatever spec you want. If you want to know any more I can send you a pm.


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


    Thats what I was going to do originally but I am a bit stuck for time because the work has to be all done by the 4th of January and thats getting dangerously close now. A fellow in Boston made them, it wouldnt be too far from Gort and he will make them to whatever spec you want. If you want to know any more I can send you a pm.

    you might pm me his details red, lovely gate, i have an old rusty version, didnt think you could get them anymore without alot of hassle


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


    Do PM his number I might get two in the new year , thanks


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


    all sorts of ways to sort the trough using some decent sized timber as a crowbar.

    Lovin the gate, only thing is it looks narrow. would you still get the grant on a double gate?

    I've gone to the extreme on a new entrance, 28 feet wide, it's probably madness, but it's a narrow road, only 22 feet between the ditches, about 16 foot of tarmac and gear just keeps getting bigger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭red bull


    moy83 wrote: »
    Do PM his number I might get two in the new year , thanks
    PM me too please very impressed with gates


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


    Redzer,
    Are the gates galvanised? You might PM me too. Fine job. Yer man wont know where all the extra business is coming from. I love the double gate version with cut stone on the sides.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    They are nice alright, there's a few lads still making them around here. Some weight in them compared to a normal gate.

    I dont really need to move it vander, I had the gravel levelled and all but I didnt think your man would have as much trouble trying to put it in. I will have a go with the tractor tomorrow, If it would lift it an inch one side at a time it would be enough.
    A track machine? A good lad on one would tell you quick time the best way to move it. If you've a bit of gravel to level as well it could make it worth your while getting him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭mantua


    Did ya buy the trailer privately or off a dealer redser??? very clean looking trailer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭againstthetide


    One of the tractors used to shunt the finished Cultivators and Air seeders around after they are built.
    More pics to come

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  • Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Buncha Fives


    Picture of a couple of calves we have on the farm, they are calves from the first few sucklers that we ever kept on the farm.

    The two RHF calves are heifers and are about 6 weeks olds out of CHx heifers, both calved unassisted. The BZB calf on the left is a bull the other calf is a heifer, they are both about a month about of LMx heifers.

    The calves are sucking the cows twice a day, I welded up a barrier which ties over to the gate in the calf shed. The cows are lieing in matted cubicles and I let them out to the yard in the morning and evening, the calves run out under the barrier and after about 20 minutes, when they are full, they go back into the bedded shed and lie down and then I shut the cows back into the cubicle shed...working well enough so far.


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


    Picture of a couple of calves we have on the farm, they are calves from the first few sucklers that we ever kept on the farm.

    The two RHF calves are heifers and are about 6 weeks olds out of CHx heifers, both calved unassisted. The BZB calf on the left is a bull the other calf is a heifer, they are both about a month about of LMx heifers.

    The calves are sucking the cows twice a day, I welded up a barrier which ties over to the gate in the calf shed. The cows are lieing in matted cubicles and I let them out to the yard in the morning and evening, the calves run out under the barrier and after about 20 minutes, when they are full, they go back into the bedded shed and lie down and then I shut the cows back into the cubicle shed...working well enough so far.
    Nice calves there. Any chance of a pic of the set up you've described for the calves


  • Registered Users Posts: 145 ✭✭Buncha Fives


    Ye; no problem although it will be later in the week because I am working away from home for a few days and it is too dark when I get home to take a photo.

    Its a very simple set-up I actually wouldn't have believed it would work so well only I seen a similar set-up in another farmers yard. Although its not my best bit of work, I got my measurements a bit wrong originally and I had to make an alteration to it which made it look a bit clotty!!
    just do it wrote: »
    Nice calves there. Any chance of a pic of the set up you've described for the calves


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


    you might pm me his details red, lovely gate, i have an old rusty version, didnt think you could get them anymore without alot of hassle
    moy83 wrote: »
    Do PM his number I might get two in the new year , thanks
    red bull wrote: »
    PM me too please very impressed with gates
    Pm's sent to you all.
    JohnBoy wrote: »
    all sorts of ways to sort the trough using some decent sized timber as a crowbar.

    Lovin the gate, only thing is it looks narrow. would you still get the grant on a double gate?

    I've gone to the extreme on a new entrance, 28 feet wide, it's probably madness, but it's a narrow road, only 22 feet between the ditches, about 16 foot of tarmac and gear just keeps getting bigger.
    Its a ten foot, Its not a place I would need to be bringing machinery in and out of so its alright for the job, I could have got bigger ones but didnt really see the need for them to be honest.
    pakalasa wrote: »
    Redzer,
    Are the gates galvanised? You might PM me too. Fine job. Yer man wont know where all the extra business is coming from. I love the double gate version with cut stone on the sides.
    8771086.jpg?766
    Ya they are galvanised alright Pak...tell him who sent ye.....He might give me a good cut next year :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,081 ✭✭✭td5man


    Pm's sent to you all.

    Its a ten foot, Its not a place I would need to be bringing machinery in and out of so its alright for the job, I could have got bigger ones but didnt really see the need for them to be honest.


    Ya they are galvanised alright Pak...tell him who sent ye.....He might give me a good cut next year :D
    Are they welded or rivetted together i have a place for 2 of them


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


    td5man wrote: »
    Are they welded or rivetted together i have a place for 2 of them

    Welded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Dad bought this calf back in sepember to stick on a cow that had enough milk for two calves. the little so and so is currently drinking SEVEN cows. She looks it too. she is as wide as a bus :D. Its going to be some craic trying to wean her!

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


    My girlfriend sent me a Xmas list this year.. i just emailed her back this picture as all i want.. love this heifer.. powerful genetics in cavan bred and sold her and have embryos for sale.. some calf!

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


    Bodacious wrote: »
    My girlfriend sent me a Xmas list this year.. i just emailed her back this picture as all i want.. love this heifer.. powerful genetics in cavan bred and sold her and have embryos for sale.. some calf!

    Super super looking heifer. I'd love to be looking out at her.


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


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Super super looking heifer. I'd love to be looking out at her.

    me too I'll buy a PB heifer yet just in no rush until i get one that i want and not crazy money, could only be lim or ch as id shift calves out of them alot easier in my area, less of a market for a PBNR or a PBR say blonde or sim

    this lady is your neck of the woods, no? sold to co. clare now


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


    Bodacious wrote: »
    this lady is your neck of the woods, no? sold to co. clare now

    Are you suggesting I'm a Cavan man??????????????

    How very dare you:D

    Signed: BIFFO:cool:


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