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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #2462
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    more like scraping the bottom of the barrel:P
    What we all want to now was there something in the barrel when you scraped?


  • #2463
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    delaval wrote: »
    Probably a 175:P:P:P
    I worked on a farm ith 2500 cows 2- 188's and a massey yellow 50b and about 6 atv's

    About 10 years ago, my brother did 6 months on a farm in the south island. Just under 2000 cows. Same type of tractors. He said there usedto be the odd argument about the 1 tractor with a radio. The farm boss heard about it after a few days. He went over to the lads one morning after ripping the radio out and fe5ked it on the ground in front of them. Problem solved!


  • #2464
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    delaval wrote: »
    Probably a 175:P:P:P
    I worked on a farm ith 2500 cows 2- 188's and a massey yellow 50b and about 6 atv's
    I'll walk back down the road to the farm he just left and hop into one of NHs


  • #2465
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    bob charles wrote: »
    more like scraping the bottom of the barrel:P


    Work a bit of oul rubber anyway bejaysus. You can't always depend on high reverse in boggy ground :p


  • #2466
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    What we all want to now was there something in the barrel when you scraped?

    I can't remember:D:D, first mass was nearly on when we finished the hooch
    Manoffeeling wrote: »
    Work a bit of oul rubber anyway bejaysus. You can't always depend on high reverse in boggy ground :p
    pull out on time like cie - but sure with the strike and all on at the moment t'would be easy to get confused


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  • #2467
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    quadboy wrote: »
    Think were being put up in a pub in new Zealand for Christmas, brother just moved to new farm I asked what kind of tractor ill be driving when im over, a massey he said, giddy up!

    Where abouts you heading??


  • #2468
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    hard to disagree with that synopsis alright Hugo. Do you find that the extra little bit of effort is paying off on sale day?

    It is with the good ones junior hurler but the poor ones your only wasting your money with meal, the old saying applies well to the blues, feed the good ones, cut your losses on the poor ones

    I actually sold the blue bull end of last year and he has left a serious crop of calves behind him


  • #2469
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    bob charles wrote: »
    I can't remember:D:D, first mass was nearly on when we finished the hooch


    pull out on time like cie - but sure with the strike and all on at the moment t'would be easy to get confused

    Yeah but confusion like that can lead to some costly mistakes with long term ramifications.:D


  • #2470
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Where abouts you heading??
    Hokitika its on West coast on south island


  • #2471
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    RIP young Donal Walsh

    your courage is a lasting inspiration to many


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  • #2472
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Anyone check this out yethttp://phaedrus.cs.tcd.ie/petty/petty/landowners.php


  • #2473
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    quadboy wrote: »
    Anyone check this out yethttp://phaedrus.cs.tcd.ie/petty/petty/landowners.php

    Just looked up where i am and the townland is on it.Some of the counties dont have all the records to really check them out,pity very interesting.


  • #2474
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Have you seen this one? Modern day Land Registry. Very interesting too.
    http://www.landdirect.ie/eng/


  • #2475
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Oh my god..
    Was down an open field there and got caught in a blowing shower of cold driving rain.. Now our fields aren't too big but by the time I got to the hedge at the bottom I swear I had a brain freeze from the driving cold rain on my face :eek:
    Cattle are eating some amount of grass, regrowth is slowed terribly, near stopped... damn this autumnal spring mish-mash crap !

    Is there much feed value in rushes:confused:, we're working on a bumper crop.:P


  • #2476
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Just looked up where i am and the townland is on it.Some of the counties dont have all the records to really check them out,pity very interesting.

    Where you able to see who useta own your land


  • #2477
    Damo810
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭Damo810


    Looking into getting a stocking loan, manager is sending out a form in the next few days, but we've never had one for years! So a few questions,

    1. How would we be looking to pay it off? All in 12 months time? quarterly payments? Over a year?
    2. What kind of interest rate would be considered normal? Tis with the AIB...


  • #2478
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Time to go loading bale wrap into a trailer


  • #2479
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Folks..
    What HP to pull a mole plough or subsoiler, single leg??
    Ground is heavy..

    Would I be mad to think 85HP 4WD would manage ??


  • #2480
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Dirty oul job. Brought a load off there a few weeks ago. At least the yard looks a bit tidier!


  • #2481
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    bbam wrote: »
    Folks..
    What HP to pull a mole plough or subsoiler, single leg??
    Ground is heavy..

    Would I be mad to think 85HP 4WD would manage ??

    Well then I'm mad!! 4WD 85hp NH with R&M mole plough. Not a bother


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  • #2482
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Have pulled a single mole plough in marly ground with a 4wd TL90. Bit of a pull but she did it nonetheless.


  • #2483
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,977 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Damo810 wrote: »
    Looking into getting a stocking loan, manager is sending out a form in the next few days, but we've never had one for years! So a few questions,

    1. How would we be looking to pay it off? All in 12 months time? quarterly payments? Over a year?
    2. What kind of interest rate would be considered normal? Tis with the AIB...

    I have one I am paying a monthly installment with a balloon payment at the end of 24 months as thats when the cattle will mature. Basically I hope to clear half the loan and then when I sell I am hoping to be left with a few bob.


  • #2484
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    quadboy wrote: »
    Hokitika its on West coast on south island

    Know it, not seen round to many farms there. I've a mate moving to karamea which is about two hours north. Tis real middle of nowhere country, one road In one road out!


  • #2485
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Know it, not seen round to many farms there. I've a mate moving to karamea which is about two hours north. Tis real middle of nowhere country, one road In one road out!
    Quadboy, they get 3 meters of rain there also so it will feel like home:):)


  • #2486
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Ah but i bet there summers are proper summers, the brother is always getting sun burned. Bullock jumping on heifer there but shes not standing for him and shes trying to jump other heifers, i assume shes not quite bulling yet


  • #2487
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Know it, not seen round to many farms there. I've a mate moving to karamea which is about two hours north. Tis real middle of nowhere country, one road In one road out!

    Its one road in and out around here too god if the small bridge ever collapses were in trouble


  • #2488
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    quadboy wrote: »
    Bullock jumping on heifer there but shes not standing for him and shes trying to jump other heifers, i assume shes not quite bulling yet

    She'll be on during the night or early morning.


  • #2489
    C0N0R
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭C0N0R


    Summers over there would be warm. And wet! Would be just like home! Apart from the warm bit like.


  • #2490
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Bizzum wrote: »
    She'll be on during the night or early morning.

    Yeah ill be out early checking them, was there now for nearly hlf an hour. Hes been sniffing around her the last few days


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  • #2491
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Summers over there would be warm. And wet! Would be just like home! Apart from the warm bit like.

    He says they dont get the crap kind of rain that we get and when they say its gona rain tomorrow it does not like our weather forecasters.


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