Farming Chit Chat II

Bizzum · 08-05-2013 02:50PM

bbam wrote: »

People have some nerve.
I wouldn't entertain them at all, if you did - what is the cutoff? A week ? A month ?

They'll them it's unfortunate but luckily you have another if they want to buy a replacement

Tell em you have another calf for sale, not as good a calf, but as a goodwill gesture, you'll take a tenner less. :-)

bbam · 08-05-2013 04:28PM

quadboy wrote: »

The cousin has made a few weed lickers so I might get him to make one but hes fairly busy so might be a while waiting for it so might just pay the 265 or whatever for the boominator and work away with it and it will be handy for spot spraying too, Was quoted nearly 800 for a logic sprayer with boom.

There's a fair bit of making in one.
We hobbled one together two years ago, mostly from scrap round the place. It's a bit "scrap heap challenge" but works well enough, and I think we only spend about €100 getting it going.

Dampintheattic · 08-05-2013 04:30PM

whelan1 wrote: »

i hung up... and then got 2 missed calls from her, really annoyed me. I think she was expecting me to go an collect the calf and then i would have to pay disposal cost, but i posted the cert yesterday:) so its in her herd now

Tell her to hang on to it, and use it for parts:cool:

quadboy · 08-05-2013 04:52PM

bbam wrote: »

There's a fair bit of making in one.
We hobbled one together two years ago, mostly from scrap round the place. It's a bit "scrap heap challenge" but works well enough, and I think we only spend about €100 getting it going.

Ah hes probably well used to making them by now, he made a calf creep feeder a few years ago too I think

whelan1 · 08-05-2013 06:19PM

Dampintheattic wrote: »

Tell her to hang on to it, and use it for parts:cool:

thanks that made me laugh:D

Birdnuts · 08-05-2013 07:59PM

Awful day here down on my place in North Mayo and equally awful outlook. Any bit of drying will be well reversed with poaching again becoming an issue on the back of the tough spring on heavy and peaty soils:( The last several years certainly have been the toughest weatherwise I can remember to the extent that I'm beginning to wonder are we in some sort longer term climatic deteriation like what happened with the little ice-age from 1500 to the 1850's

1chippy · 08-05-2013 08:07PM

moving cows and calves this evening and had a twine tying the latch on the gate. of course when one of the calves went past he decided to bite on to it and swallowed it before i could catch him. am i in trouble or will he pass it?
On a better note I finally hit majic day here.

Conmaicne Mara · 08-05-2013 08:36PM

Well it was a lovely day today, somewhere.

Did buy a small trailer of donedeal though, put it to work before I even got it home collecting a few bags of 0.7.30 & granlime for a bit of a clover over sowing experiment.

whelan1 · 08-05-2013 09:36PM

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=526680017396560&set=a.160123287385570.43642.144961662235066&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

Dampintheattic · 08-05-2013 11:00PM

Savage day here since early afternoon. Heavy cold rain. Driving wind. Serious setback after a bit of a good spell.

Dampintheattic · 09-05-2013 06:38AM

Terrible night all through. Two fields under water this morning. Storm drains all backed up. Cattle out miserable. Calves looking like rats.
WTF is going on?

kevthegaff · 09-05-2013 06:44AM

mouldy here as well gona keep the calves in for another week meself

simx · 09-05-2013 06:54AM

Could have done without that rain last night setting back things well again now

maxxuumman · 09-05-2013 07:07AM

Bloody hell, it's like winter out there

hugo29 · 09-05-2013 07:49AM

Such a night, floods everywhere, have to turn them out Saturday and place is swimming, fcuk this for a game of soldiers

delaval · 09-05-2013 08:09AM

We planned to touch up tail paint at milking, decided against it as was spitting rain. Feck all rain lots of wind could have done it. Will do at evening milking now instead

bbam · 09-05-2013 08:16AM

The weather is all in a heap !

Rain beating off the windows all night and morning, it would cut the face of ya, it would be a bad February morning never mind a May morning!

Things are not shaping up well.

Muckit · 09-05-2013 08:26AM

let's just hope that old saying will ring through.... 'A wet and windy May...'

Manoffeeling · 09-05-2013 08:29AM

Only about 6 weeks to the longest day, seems like the shortest is more appropriate

Muckit · 09-05-2013 08:30AM

http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/wet-and-windy-may-has-given-a-boost-to-tired-crops-26290569.html

dzer2 · 09-05-2013 08:40AM

About to go out a windy morning but not much rain thank god. Looking at the radar we are just in the area where the rain split about time we got some luck.

Milton09 · 09-05-2013 08:50AM

Was driving through Galway last night and it was unreal - cows and calves with humps on them sheltering under bushes , ewes sheltering behind stone walls and lambs at their feet - looks like a repeat of last year, fcuking depressing !

whelan1 · 09-05-2013 09:23AM

Muckit wrote: »

let's just hope that old saying will ring through.... 'A wet and windy May...'

my mother was saying that yesterday;) where will it all end, really annoying now, i suppose at least there is grass now

Conmaicne Mara · 09-05-2013 09:26AM

Muckit wrote: »

let's just hope that old saying will ring through.... 'A wet and windy May...'

Last may was wet and windy here if I remember.

whelan1 · 09-05-2013 09:56AM

felt like throwing my computer away yesterday.... was trying to email cash flow to bank manager but he couldnt open it, brought it on key to teagasc they couldnt open it either and when i went to print it off my printer broke:mad: so got a neighbour to come and look at it there this morning and he sorted it out....

bob charles · 09-05-2013 10:07AM

whelan1 wrote: »

where will it all end, really annoying now, i suppose at least there is grass now

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche

hugo29 · 09-05-2013 10:12AM

whelan1 wrote: »

my mother was saying that yesterday;) where will it all end, really annoying now, i suppose at least there is grass now

grass that is just going to be walked into the ground, its depressing,

i am going to a neighbours wedding tomorrow and am going to get steamed, told herself to just prop me up at the bar and leave me there, id safely say with this weather i wont be on me own

whelan1 · 09-05-2013 10:14AM

youngest lad is 5 today, when he was born the weather was really hot, totally different to the weather we have had this last few years

Conmaicne Mara · 09-05-2013 10:55AM

whelan1 wrote: »

felt like throwing my computer away yesterday.... was trying to email cash flow to bank manager but he couldnt open it, brought it on key to teagasc they couldnt open it either and when i went to print it off my printer broke:mad: so got a neighbour to come and look at it there this morning and he sorted it out....

Was it plugged in?

bob charles · 09-05-2013 11:00AM

whelan1 wrote: »

felt like throwing my computer away yesterday.... was trying to email cash flow to bank manager but he couldnt open it, brought it on key to teagasc they couldnt open it either and when i went to print it off my printer broke:mad: so got a neighbour to come and look at it there this morning and he sorted it out....

did you turn it off and back on?:)

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