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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #2552
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    I was down in Kerry today. On the way home I think I counted 5 different 4WDs pulling trailers of hay. The difference in 10 miles or so was incredible. I was passing cut silage, (maybe zero-grazed) to bare fields with hungry wet cattle in them. God, land types change every few miles in Ireland.


  • #2553
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    pakalasa wrote: »
    I was down in Kerry today. On the way home I think I counted 5 different 4WDs pulling trailers of hay. The difference in 10 miles or so was incredible. I was passing cut silage, maybe zero-brazed to bare fields with hungry wet cattle in them. God, land types change every few miles in Ireland.

    Was in co-op this evening. 450 names down on the list, for hay from the next load!!! Where would you be going?

    It's bitter cold here this evening.


  • #2554
    GERMAN ROCKS
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭GERMAN ROCKS


    how much is land making in Australia. turned on home and away even though I never watch it and was thinking to myself that I wouldn't mind farming out there in that weather.


  • #2555
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,886 ✭✭✭mf240


    GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »
    how much is land making in Australia. turned on home and away even though I never watch it and was thinking to myself that I wouldn't mind farming out there in that weather.

    Never mind "home and away" if this weather continues I'm going to end up "away in a home"


  • #2556
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    mf240 wrote: »
    Never mind "home and away" if this weather continues I'm going to end up "away in a home"

    I'd say a lot of us will be sitting beside you


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  • #2557
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Have to head out to shed now to be met with a chorus of boos , how does one say in cow language "sorry no fodder left" and ye have to sit in until Saturday


  • #2558
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    GERMAN ROCKS wrote: »
    how much is land making in Australia. turned on home and away even though I never watch it and was thinking to myself that I wouldn't mind farming out there in that weather.

    With droughts that last the better part of a decade mixed with wild fires and floods, no thanks.


  • #2559
    adne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,232 ✭✭✭adne


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    With droughts that last the better part of a decade mixed with wild fires and floods, no thanks.

    Throw in snakes and termites in there too ..


  • #2560
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Have to head out to shed now to be met with a chorus of boos , how does one say in cow language "sorry no fodder left" and ye have to sit in until Saturday
    i wear slippers around the yard so they dont hear me!


  • #2561
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    adne wrote: »
    Throw in snakes and termites in there too ..

    Not to mention the spiders.


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  • #2562
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Not to mention the spiders.

    And the women they seem scary too


  • #2563
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    i wear slippers around the yard so they dont hear me!
    If you're seen in that kind of attire in the yard , you could be sent "away in a home " yourself


  • #2564
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    FFS Evelyn. ..... shag off with your misery of a forecast


  • #2565
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    FFS Evelyn. ..... shag off with your misery of a forecast
    dont watch it.... you are only annoying yourself


  • #2566
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    whelan1 wrote: »
    dont watch it.... you are only annoying yourself

    The old fella just rang. Giving out about the weather and how the cattle will walk the grass into the ground with this ****e weather. He only got his knee replaced 2 weeks ago today and cant go out and look at them. So I get the phone call every evening after the forecast - venting frustration


  • #2567
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    unreal down pour for 4 hours this pm
    cows left in to night, :(


  • #2568
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    The old fella just rang. Giving out about the weather and how the cattle will walk the grass into the ground with this ****e weather. He only got his knee replaced 2 weeks ago today and cant go out and look at them. So I get the phone call every evening after the forecast - venting frustration

    Try living with him
    as a female
    who puts every AI on for the love of dad say
    'Jaysus thats a beaut of a heifer'


    I love my da. :pac:


  • #2569
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=511002125619714&set=a.128436573876273.41934.109638942422703&type=1&ref=nf


  • #2570
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Don't knock the auld fellas!

    Passed a field in the midlands today looking at hunched up calves during a shower coming at horizontal. Then in the hedge I noticed an auld fella with usual three quarter length heavy coat, wellies and cap, .... and a new shiny crutch! Probably had the hip done but happy out standing in the ditch out of the rain observing the cattle :).


  • #2571
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    Don't knock the auld fellas!

    Passed a field in the midlands today looking at hunched up calves during a shower coming at horizontal. Then in the hedge I noticed an auld fella with usual three quarter length heavy coat, wellies and cap, .... and a new shiny crutch! Probably had the hip done but happy out standing in the ditch out of the rain observing the cattle :).

    Maybe it was the grim reaper you seen


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  • #2572
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    The old fella just rang. Giving out about the weather and how the cattle will walk the grass into the ground with this s ****e weather. He only got his knee replaced 2 weeks ago today and cant go out and look at them. So I get the phone call every evening after the forecast - pain nting frustration

    Mine got his hip done back in Jan, spent a month in hospital, 1st time in something like 40 yrs he'd been in hospital for more than afew hrs. I got the same, lots of phonecalls about anything and everything, but in fairness to him it was all so far removed from his normal life, hospitals are tough going, and very boring at the best of times. I ended up giving him some of the paperwork to do, calf registrations etc, kept him busy and took his mind off everything else for a while at least.


  • #2573
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    Off topic,but---what's going on. I'm farming in France and have a large amount of surplus fodder. I read this thread daily to keep up things at home. So I think to myself contact Co-ops and make them aware of what I've available. No real interest. Answer I get is send it into us and we'll sell it for you. Now I'm not a merchant and into organizing transport etc. so why so little interest?? Answers on a postage stamp........!!
    Btw on a bit early here but an hour ahead.


  • #2574
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Hot weather next Thursday week :D (24 May 2013)
    http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/avnpanel1.html


  • #2575
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    sheebadog wrote: »
    Off topic,but---what's going on. I'm farming in France and have a large amount of surplus fodder. I read this thread daily to keep up things at home. So I think to myself contact Co-ops and make them aware of what I've available. No real interest. Answer I get is send it into us and we'll sell it for you. Now I'm not a merchant and into organizing transport etc. so why so little interest?? Answers on a postage stamp........!!
    Btw on a bit early here but an hour ahead.

    Hey sheebadog, where abouts in France are you? What's your enterprise?

    If you don't mind me asking


  • #2576
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    Hey sheebadog, where abouts in France are you? What's your enterprise?

    If you don't mind me asking

    West, just south of the Loire.
    In decending order
    Arable
    Dairy
    Beef
    Poultry.


  • #2577
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    can you still get guards to sign some form to say vehicle was off road if you want to tax it and want to avoid the back tax


  • #2578
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    sheebadog wrote: »
    West, just south of the Loire.
    In decending order
    Arable
    Dairy
    Beef
    Poultry.

    How do you find farming in France v farming in Ireland??


  • #2579
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    can you still get guards to sign some form to say vehicle was off road if you want to tax it and want to avoid the back tax

    As far as I know ya still can


  • #2580
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Hot weather next Thursday week :D (24 May 2013)
    http://www.wetterzentrale.de/pics/avnpanel1.html

    I hope to jaysus your right pak


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  • #2581
    sheebadog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭sheebadog


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    How do you find farming in France v farming in Ireland??

    Now very easy in comparison. Things very difficult for you at the moment.


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