Farming Chit Chat II

newholland mad · 20-05-2013 01:53PM

reilig wrote: »

Do you have the booms on the front of the tractor?

The cover on our weedlicker was rusted off it within 5 or 6 years. The second cover that we made and sprgalvanised ourselves and it corroded through in about 10 years.

booms not in front but they fold right up tight beside the cab and would always be dripping for a while when finished, after a few days spraying the tractor would be white and in irregular shaped fields its impossible not to drive on whats already sprayed and the sprayer booms are in the thick of it and rust not a problem there either.Every chemical ever made has the corrosive warning on the can to cover themselves, when the spuds used to be burned off with sulphuric acid now THAT was corrosive, but in fairness the roundup concentration in a weedlicker is higher than overall application so thats prob doing the rusting. perhaps you should invest in a power washer

reilig · 20-05-2013 02:02PM

newholland mad wrote: »

booms not in front but they fold right up tight beside the cab and would always be dripping for a while when finished, after a few days spraying the tractor would be white and in irregular shaped fields its impossible not to drive on whats already sprayed and the sprayer booms are in the thick of it and rust not a problem there either.Every chemical ever made has the corrosive warning on the can to cover themselves, when the spuds used to be burned off with sulphuric acid now THAT was corrosive, but in fairness the roundup concentration in a weedlicker is higher than overall application so thats prob doing the rusting. perhaps you should invest in a power washer

We have a power washer, but it takes an age to take off covers, like most weedlickers. Therefore it gets washed only a couple of times per year. It's usually used once or twice a week in summer months as we lick fields when the cows move off them.

Iverjohnston was talking about mounting a licker on the front of the tractor. It was his post that I was responding to based on using my own licker and the chemicals that go with it.

Every chemical has a corrosive warning

Put roundup into a metal can and see what it does.

It won't be in the can for too long!

iverjohnston · 20-05-2013 02:37PM

pakalasa wrote: »

Thanks, I was thinking of using a hydraulic motor aswell. Just need to get some free time to have a crack at it.

Missed out on a hydraulic motor on ebay.co.uk yesterday, sold for £31, would have been perfect! Will take a swing past the local metal recycling place in the morning. The stuff that's baled up there would make you cry...........

delaval · 20-05-2013 02:49PM

Dampintheattic wrote: »

Put ten cows with calves in the yard this morning, to inject calves for with Bimectin.
Most of the cows, licking the gates of the yard like crazy!!! Must be lacking in zinc, despite havin been on granular mineral mix all winter long, and also since I let them out eight weeks ago.
No wonder, they are not coming bulling.
Cows are in good condition, thanks to my pocket and meal feeding as well as mineral supplementation.

Hi Phos post calving mineral ad lib in trough not buckets. They will eat like mad for day or two then return to normal levels. That should do the trick

whelan1 · 20-05-2013 06:07PM

i now have 2 fertiliser spreaders and will sell one... have a 2 tonne lely centreliner that we have just fixed up did bearings etc, also have a 1 tonne bogbelle that i bought cheap enough a month ago to tide me over. The bogbelle is a tidy spreader. which would you sell, realistically we havent gone with 2 tonne due to ground conditions in a while, but 2 tonne spreader would be handy in the spring when doing the big spread

bbam · 20-05-2013 06:12PM

whelan1 wrote: »

i now have 2 fertiliser spreaders and will sell one... have a 2 tonne lely centreliner that we have just fixed up did bearings etc, also have a 1 tonne bogbelle that i bought cheap enough a month ago to tide me over. The bogbelle is a tidy spreader. which would you sell, realistically we havent gone with 2 tonne due to ground conditions in a while, but 2 tonne spreader would be handy in the spring when doing the big spread

You can always have a tonne in the two tonne spreader, But never the other way round. Always better to keep your options open. And you know the work is done so it should be reliable now too.
When the ground is eventually dry and your stuck for time you might be gla of the extra capacity.

easymoney! · 20-05-2013 06:48PM

Username John wrote: »

I had one of last years lambs left, plus one or two old sheep... and I sent em to the factory there 2 weeks ago.

The hogget was a real runt... she was running with the in-lamb ewes all winter, got a small bit of feeding when they were being fed the 6 weeks before they lambed, and was put in with them after they lambed again, so had access to good grass...

Just got the factory cheque, 113 euro...

That runt made more than some nice lambs last summer... :eek:

I know that lamb was here a lot longer, and ate some ration, and had some more doses... so more costs than lambs sold in the Autumn.
But makes you wonder should you ever feed much ration to 'leftover' lambs, and just leave em run til the next Spring?

what did you get for the ewes john? good price for the hogget what did you get a kg for the hogget and the ewes?

Username John · 20-05-2013 08:19PM

easymoney! wrote: »

what did you get for the ewes john? good price for the hogget what did you get a kg for the hogget and the ewes?

Ewe was 35kg @ 1.9/kg = 67euro.
I was happy out with this price, as I was sure that ewe would die, she was down for a week after lambing... but she came good...

The price for the hoggets was 5.20/kg.

There was 1 hogget, 12 months old.
And 2 others, but they would have been 2 years almost. But they killed em at the same price, so they killed at max kg (23kg) at the hogget price. I thought they would be priced less...

So I was happy enough overall...

SKIPPY150 · 20-05-2013 09:12PM

mf240 wrote: »

Mcpa

Fairly liquid works well as a sticking agent.

How much fairy liquid do you need to use with the MCPA

mf240 · 20-05-2013 09:16PM

SKIPPY150 wrote: »

How much fairy liquid do you need to use with the MCPA

just a very small bit. It will froth up if you put to much.

Anyone else care to comment maybe it would be allright without it in dry weather?

blue5000 · 20-05-2013 10:08PM

A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)

moy83 · 20-05-2013 10:10PM

blue5000 wrote: »

A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)

You will have Lost Covey back with talk like that

mf240 · 20-05-2013 10:18PM

blue5000 wrote: »

A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)

Genuinely (don't read in a Miriam o Callahan accent)

Does that work? We don't want skippy to explode himself.

How much fairy do you use.

1chippy · 20-05-2013 11:03PM

does anyone have the no for whites in portadown cheers.

AntrimGlens · 20-05-2013 11:16PM

have you bust the sprayer already chippy?:D:D 00447885866373 or 07762773411

Timmaay · 20-05-2013 11:25PM

Another fr heifer calf today, nice 190ebi calf off a british fr bull (RHS), 1st full br fr calf we will have had here in many yrs. Should be interested how she stakes up in the parlour against the HOs and JExs. Calving getting going again by me, have 6/7 of the stragglers calving over the next 2/3wks.

Timmaay · 20-05-2013 11:28PM

AntrimGlens wrote: »

have you bust the sprayer already chippy?:D:D 00447885866373 or 07762773411

Goddam boards f&f has me really wanting to buy a sprayer and a subsoiler now ha, Defo don't have the time to use either yet so they would become expensive ornaments for the minute if I did get either!

1chippy · 20-05-2013 11:35PM

AntrimGlens wrote: »

have you bust the sprayer already chippy?:D:D 00447885866373 or 07762773411

Met them at balmoral and bought a harrow and a sprayer off them. They rang today but when i returned the call it had that fax machine sound on it. Going with a 400l jarmet and a chain harrow. New to this whole spraying crack but sure have to start somewhere.

Conmaicne Mara · 21-05-2013 12:22AM

blue5000 wrote: »

A cap ful of diesel will stop the fairy liquid frothing:)

Bad for seals is it not?

whelan1 · 21-05-2013 09:33AM

discussion group meeting here this morning.... will be told everything i am doing wrong, my farm is the wettest farm in the group, some of the lads have land like the sahara compared to mine:o

freedominacup · 21-05-2013 09:50AM

whelan1 wrote: »

discussion group meeting here this morning.... will be told everything i am doing wrong, my farm is the wettest farm in the group, some of the lads have land like the sahara compared to mine:o

Snap except they'll be after me about cow type.

whelan1 · 21-05-2013 09:53AM

freedominacup wrote: »

Snap except they'll be after me about cow type.

they will tell me to stop winter milk- i am on the fence on that one, yup will probably tell me to use jerseys due to heavy land and will also go on at me about yield.....- obviously they have been on a different planet for the last year

freedominacup · 21-05-2013 09:56AM

whelan1 wrote: »

they will tell me to stop winter milk- i am on the fence on that one, yup will probably tell me to use jerseys due to heavy land and will also go on at me about yield.....- obviously they have been on a different planet for the last year

I'm an awkward f**ker though kinda looking forward to a robust exchange.

mf240 · 21-05-2013 09:59AM

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm an awkward f**ker though kinda looking forward to a robust exchange.

Tell them nz friesans are "Holsteins for beginners" and that you won't use jerseys because your afraid of the rabbits bullying them.

hugo29 · 21-05-2013 10:04AM

day brightening up and looks like we might get a dry one, have the sprayer all reved up and ready to go after work, then realised have a fcuking discussion group meeting tonight,

hugo29 · 21-05-2013 10:06AM

also bloddy cow that was lame on the slats is ten times worse out in the field, ground holding surprisingly well after all the rain, first year using paddock system, dont know why i didnt do it years ago,

jomoloney · 21-05-2013 10:12AM

Timmaay wrote: »

Another fr heifer calf today, nice 190ebi calf off a british fr bull (RHS), 1st full br fr calf we will have had here in many yrs. Should be interested how she stakes up in the parlour against the HOs and JExs. Calving getting going again by me, have 6/7 of the stragglers calving over the next 2/3wks.

we used some RHS straws this year

I used to buy maiden and calved heifers from the brother in law but he's retired from dairying, and we are now breeding our own.

Actually I was better of financially when buying in

simx · 21-05-2013 10:38AM

hugo29 wrote: »

also bloddy cow that was lame on the slats is ten times worse out in the field, ground holding surprisingly well after all the rain, first year using paddock system, dont know why i didnt do it years ago,

Yeah I plan to have a better paddock system in future, paddocks are the buisness imo

whelan1 · 21-05-2013 10:48AM

freedominacup wrote: »

I'm an awkward f**ker though kinda looking forward to a robust exchange.

jeez i've a headache before they even arrive:o

Bodacious · 21-05-2013 12:39PM

Lads/ladies

Can you give same mobile number for BVD tagging results /icbf, mine is in use already but elderly neighbour has no mobile and asked me to give mine to get results etc, was in a rush to post samples before work this morning so just lamped down my contact number but wondering now will my number not already be on system for my own herd and will they flag it up

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