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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #1472
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Weather not ok up there Whelan? Sunny out here all day, pity I'm stuck inside, doing college work (or trying to, between wasting time on the internet ha!). I've been milking the old wagtail spreader here last few years, threw a new set of bearings inside in it 3years ago, more patches than fiberglass on it now but in fairness it hasn't let us down!

    Slurry spreader a different matter, still in pieces, the rotor never came in for the pump. Saw afew 2nd hand pumps on DD for 400quid, tempted to pick one of them up, not many close by and maybe too much of a gamble?


  • #1473
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Yeah but they are giving buckets of rain for tomorrow and next Sunday.

    But how much rain is a problem?
    And how reliable is the forecast for that matter either.

    You'll never be guaranteed the perfect weather to spread.
    Ground is moist, it was 14c here for a while today and shoots of growth showing here and there. Hard to think things aren't about to turn for the better.


  • #1474
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭dzer2


    bbam wrote: »
    But how much rain is a problem?
    And how reliable is the forecast for that matter either.

    You'll never be guaranteed the perfect weather to spread.
    Ground is moist, it was 14c here for a while today and shoots of growth showing here and there. Hard to think things aren't about to turn for the better.

    I know the forecast is hard to predict but jesus when they say rain it K**King pours here over 18mm yesterday in 3 showers I feel like your man writing the letters home it only rained twice in the week once for 3 days and the other time for 4 days. We are saturated here, couldnt spread for at least a week and thats only if we have no rain in between.

    Any where I got slurry out in Feb is really greening up and growth is coming at last but the ground thats being grazed off is suffering and not coming back.


  • #1475
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Average Soil Temperatures back up to normal now.

    http://www.met.ie/latest/agricultural.asp


  • #1476
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Jayus was up at shed feeding and cow slipped sideways along barrier with her head out, she couldn't get her legs back under her, head jammed at jawbone and she could hardly breathe, eyes started rolling , thought she was going to choke in front of me, such a job to get her head out, eveantually got her out, don't know who was more shocked , me or her, god I will be glad to see back of this winter


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  • #1477
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Jayus was up at shed feeding and cow slipped sideways along barrier with her head out, she couldn't get her legs back under her, head jammed at jawbone and she could hardly breathe, eyes started rolling , thought she was going to choke in front of me, such a job to get her head out, eveantually got her out, don't know who was more shocked , me or her, god I will be glad to see back of this winter

    as will many including myself


  • #1478
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Just watched a dvd I found earlier called cash cows made by the farmers journal, some nice looking parlours in it, half a million euro for a 32 unit rotary


  • #1479
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    quadboy wrote: »
    Just watched a dvd I found earlier called cash cows made by the farmers journal, some nice looking parlours in it, half a million euro for a 32 unit rotary
    I have a 20 unit that cost 26k, no need to go mental. Good dvd though


  • #1480
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    I have a 20 unit that cost 26k, no need to go mental. Good dvd though

    I know of a new setup that cost big money and has everything except the actual milking palour itself:D:D. the pit is just empty where the parlor should be, it even has automatic drafting gates outside the parlor costing over 15k and they havnt being used yet. must be going on 2 years now


  • #1481
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    I know of a new setup that cost big money and has everything except the actual milking palour itself:D:D. the pit is just empty where the parlor should be, it even has automatic drafting gates outside the parlor costing over 15k and they havnt being used yet. must be going on 2 years now
    Is it for sale?


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  • #1482
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Some amount of rain down here at moment, Christ floods again, mild though


  • #1483
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    I am the only one that thinks the weather is seriously fooked up. We had dust in the fields 2 weeks ago, now we have mud. I was thinking today as I was getting soaked that, we never seem to get drizzle any more. No more soft rain. It all seems to be heavy rain, with bigger drops.:(


  • #1484
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Not out the door yet, but I'm considering putting on the lifejacket :D


  • #1485
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Its not only the rain but the gale force winds, a few year ago we put a shed and we stood the 8 uprights with a shovel of concrete and then poured the floor. Last week we put up more uprights for a neighbour and we had to pour a meter of concrete around each one as the wind would just blow them away. The jet stream needs to move about 500km north and its getting late in the year for this to happen and the weather to straighten up.


  • #1486
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Some amount of rain down here at moment, Christ floods again, mild though

    Shocking to see fields with ponds of water again so quickly..
    This will further delay turnout for farms that are already under pressure for feed..

    I let stock out to access a field at the yard on Saturday.. Went to check last night and they were all back in the shed... they were still there thismorning at seven.


  • #1487
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    Shocking to see fields with ponds of water again so quickly..
    This will further delay turnout for farms that are already under pressure for feed..

    I let stock out to access a field at the yard on Saturday.. Went to check last night and they were all back in the shed... they were still there thismorning at seven.

    got lucky and got 6 bales silage from friend, bought another fill of meal, thats it when its gone there out, there seems to be a bit of growth, was laughing to think a week ago the aul lad was telling me to pull a bush around the field to break up caked slurry, not much fcuking caked slurry there now


  • #1488
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,993 ✭✭✭dzer2


    hugo29 wrote: »
    got lucky and got 6 bales silage from friend, bought another fill of meal, thats it when its gone there out, there seems to be a bit of growth, was laughing to think a week ago the aul lad was telling me to pull a bush around the field to break up caked slurry, not much fcuking caked slurry there now

    Yeah laughed at that meself need to dig it out of the dyke now:rolleyes:


  • #1489
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    anyone know a company that sells a 6meter diesel hose and nozzle kit?

    got quoted €11.80 a meter plus nozzle of €70 plus vat.


  • #1490
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Yeah laughed at that meself need to dig it out of the dyke now:rolleyes:

    mother of fcuk. its absolutely hammering down here, I fcuking had enough this ****e, does anybody have the big man in the skies phone number, enough is enough:D


  • #1491
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    anyone know a company that sells a 6meter diesel hose and nozzle kit?

    got quoted €11.80 a meter plus nozzle of €70 plus vat.

    Where did u get that quote Lakill?


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  • #1492
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    anyone know a company that sells a 6meter diesel hose and nozzle kit?

    got quoted €11.80 a meter plus nozzle of €70 plus vat.

    use normal yellow flexi hose that is used in every milking parlor here, stick a on/off tap at the end of the line if you want as you probably have a tap on the tank anyway. stuff your quoted for must be for filling F1 cars :D


  • #1493
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    mother of fcuk. its absolutely hammering down here, I fcuking had enough this ****e, does anybody have the big man in the skies phone number, enough is enough:D

    you would have to wonder what was going through Noah's head before he decide to build the Ark. :D


  • #1494
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bob charles wrote: »
    you would have to wonder what was going through Noah's head before he decide to build the Ark. :D

    to be honest bob he might have to come back with that ark if this keeps up, :D


  • #1495
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    hugo29 wrote: »
    to be honest bob he might have to come back with that ark if this keeps up, :D

    It would want to be a big one!


  • #1496
    Viewtodiefor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭Viewtodiefor


    bob charles wrote: »
    use normal yellow flexi hose that is used in every milking parlor here, stick a on/off tap at the end of the line if you want as you probably have a tap on the tank anyway. stuff your quoted for must be for filling F1 cars :D

    Bit dodgy using the yellow stuff as the inner liner is not designed for diesel and will go mushy after time leading to fuel contamination


  • #1497
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    anyone know a company that sells a 6meter diesel hose and nozzle kit?

    got quoted €11.80 a meter plus nozzle of €70 plus vat.

    Did you try cahills clonmellon 087 8207907


  • #1498
    larrywithalorry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭larrywithalorry


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    anyone know a company that sells a 6meter diesel hose and nozzle kit?

    got quoted €11.80 a meter plus nozzle of €70 plus vat.

    Try mchugh components
    Part no is tog1021
    It inc a tap at either end


  • #1499
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    bbam wrote: »
    Plenty of fert being spread all over today. Great to see it.
    dzer2 wrote: »
    Yeah but they are giving buckets of rain for tomorrow and next Sunday.

    Well you called it right..
    Lots of stuff probably lost at this stage..


  • #1500
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    bbam wrote: »
    Well you called it right..
    Lots of stuff probably lost at this stage..

    lads fertiliser just doesnt run away if you get a good fall of rain, unless on very very steep inclines. I wouldnt be concerned if you got 20mm of rain after applying fert, all the better in my eyes but most of my land is flatish


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  • #1501
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    just in from having my first rhf(lm) calf out of a ch heifer all ok, bit of a pull but got the calf out alive, things would want to be going ok from the losses ive had in march, 4 more heifers to go now, was talking to a neighbour yesterday and he told me he had 16 dead calves and 25 more to calf yet, sick looking at 5 fine ch calves piled up against a wall


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