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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #3392
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    quadboy wrote: »
    Back from my greenkeeping duties, no vodka was needed to help me get up and at it

    Do you play as well quad boy


  • #3393
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Muckit wrote: »
    Best of luck with them What has ye up so bloody early? I remember as a young lad getting up at 4 and 5 O'clock for the mart but that was before they brought in the draw system

    First come first served for the numbers in Carnew. There at 6.50 and lot 110.


  • #3394
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Muckit wrote: »
    Best of luck with them What has ye up so bloody early? I remember as a young lad getting up at 4 and 5 O'clock for the mart but that was before they brought in the draw system

    First come first served for the numbers in Carnew. There at 6.50 and lot 110.


  • #3395
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Do you play as well quad boy

    No but id like to start, hard to get a few to go like


  • #3396
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    1chippy wrote: »
    Yeh i have them and like them. a handy tip for filling them is get a road cone turn it upside down between the spikes of a grab and just shovel into the upside down road cone.
    Now im off to get legless and make a complete show of myself down in leitrim. I'll keep an eye out for a redhead being stalked by a young lad on a quad.

    Look out for the tattoos :P Only way you might know me!


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  • #3397
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I don't even bother with it anymore unless I have the following day off. Just can't cope with the hangovers now. God be with the days I'd come in around the time you posted have a cuppa and a toastie and go and do a days work without a bother.

    Yeh defo defo need to find myself a relief milker, nights on the tiles are usually up in Dublin with the bro in law, so 7am drive home next morning, where I'm greeted by the impatient old man waiting to get going with the cows ha. Actually will probably be me tomorrow, funfun. And just so as yous old lads don't feel too bad :p, I'm only in my 20s still, and trust me the hangovers are still bad ha, I'd say yous are all just nostalgic about it ha!


  • #3398
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    would much prefer to be working outside with a hangover than inside, that would be a killer


  • #3399
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Yeh defo defo need to find myself a relief milker, nights on the tiles are usually up in Dublin with the bro in law, so 7am drive home next morning, where I'm greeted by the impatient old man waiting to get going with the cows ha. Actually will probably be me tomorrow, funfun. And just so as yous old lads don't feel too bad :p, I'm only in my 20s still, and trust me the hangovers are still bad ha, I'd say yous are all just nostalgic about it ha!

    Ah the 20's now them was the days, a distant memory, if you struggling now with a hangover timmaay don't drink in yer late 30,s
    Speaking of drink I think I'll try a few tonight,


  • #3400
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


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  • #3401
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Hangover day today. Didn't hit the leaba till 4.30. It was just about starting to get bright then. :rolleyes:


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  • #3402
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    whelan1 wrote: »
    would much prefer to be working outside with a hangover than inside, that would be a killer

    At least you can hide when on a farm


  • #3403
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Hangover day today. Didn't hit the leaba till 4.30. It was just about starting to get bright then. :rolleyes:

    You must be way put west because it was bright


  • #3404
    Henwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 633 ✭✭✭Henwin


    anyone know if ferns are poisonous to cattle. there are plenty of them around the headlands of a silage field we have. just wondering if we shud leave it out of the pit silage.


  • #3405
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Henwin wrote: »
    anyone know if ferns are poisonous to cattle. there are plenty of them around the headlands of a silage field we have. just wondering if we shud leave it out of the pit silage.

    Yes, it is poisonous when eaten as young shoots and can also be chronic poisoning when fed over a prolonged winter period. It destroys blood clotting and results in progressive anaemia.


  • #3406
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    pakalasa wrote: »
    Hangover day today. Didn't hit the leaba till 4.30. It was just about starting to get bright then. :rolleyes:

    It was fairly bright walking down the road before 5 in the kingdom


  • #3407
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Had ten in Carnew today. 6 bulls 4 heifers. All born last September or October. Weighed from 340 to 426 kg. Averaged €990 per head. Tops of €1360 back to a low of €780.


  • #3408
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    quadboy wrote: »
    It was fairly bright walking down the road before 5 in the kingdom
    we where in a hotel last night- cheap deal that had to be used by 31st may- at half 4 there was an unmerciful row out on the corridor-not us- it was getting bright then... was dying to run up and bang on their door at 8am fecking idiots


  • #3409
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    whelan1 wrote: »
    we where in a hotel last night- cheap deal that had to be used by 31st may- at half 4 there was an unmerciful row out on the corridor-not us- it was getting bright then... was dying to run up and bang on their door at 8am fecking idiots

    You should have had.
    I was in bed one night about 11 fast asleep and my cousin called my mobile, I cut the nose off him. Next morning I phoned him at 5.45 and his response was 'message received'!!


  • #3410
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    delaval wrote: »
    You should have had.
    I was in bed one night about 11 fast asleep and my cousin called my mobile, I cut the nose off him. Next morning I phoned him at 5.45 and his response was 'message received'!!


    There's nothing like the 5am phonecall/e-mail to emphasise a point.


  • #3411
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    There's nothing like the 5am phonecall/e-mail to emphasise a point.
    yup.... think people who dont have kids dont have a clue, ringing at stupid o clock, cant wait til some people i know have kids and then they'll know


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  • #3412
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    I saw on the paper that Bulmers are laying off 35 or 40 staff. I will have to do my best to help them keep their jobs. Decided to go for a savage pour of cider now. The swarths might not be too straight when I'm knocking grass tomorrow.


  • #3413
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/gardenplants/5131243


  • #3414
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    I saw on the paper that Bulmers are laying off 35 or 40 staff. I will have to do my best to help them keep their jobs. Decided to go for a savage pour of cider now. The swarths might not be too straight when I'm knocking grass tomorrow.


    A good friend of Mrs freedom is one of the 35. She's gutted to say the least.


  • #3415
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    freedominacup wrote: »
    A good friend of Mrs freedom is one of the 35. She's gutted to say the least.
    Are sale down or what ? Its an awful time to lose a job .

    A buddy of mine did his best for them a few sundays ago , went for the breakfast in the morning and started on the pint bottles and stayed at it for the day . The boys with him counted 36 pint bottles before he moved onto blue wkds (blue diesel he calls it ).


  • #3416
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    moy83 wrote: »
    Are sale down or what ? Its an awful time to lose a job .

    A buddy of mine did his best for them a few sundays ago , went for the breakfast in the morning and started on the pint bottles and stayed at it for the day . The boys with him counted 36 pint bottles before he moved onto blue wkds (blue diesel he calls it ).

    We have a lad round here like that except its Guinness. He gives up for Lent every year and goes on Smithwicks. He doesn't. count in pints but gallons ' hey young lad had a gallon and a half yesterday'

    He is so full that his knickname is The Ballcock


  • #3417
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    moy83 wrote: »
    Are sale down or what ? Its an awful time to lose a job .

    A buddy of mine did his best for them a few sundays ago , went for the breakfast in the morning and started on the pint bottles and stayed at it for the day . The boys with him counted 36 pint bottles before he moved onto blue wkds (blue diesel he calls it ).


    She said the writing is on the wall for a while for a while. They've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. It goes back to '06/'07 I think. They had the market to themselves in the U.K. and embarked on a big expansion on this basis. The U.K. competition pushed back the following year and they've been under pressure since. I think any of us planning big expansion post '15 should read the case history.


  • #3418
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    quadboy wrote: »
    It was fairly bright walking down the road before 5 in the kingdom

    Your a Kerry man quad boy, that explains a lot:D


  • #3419
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    moy83 wrote: »
    Are sale down or what ? Its an awful time to lose a job .

    A buddy of mine did his best for them a few sundays ago , went for the breakfast in the morning and started on the pint bottles and stayed at it for the day . The boys with him counted 36 pint bottles before he moved onto blue wkds (blue diesel he calls it ).

    Good god I hope it was a stainless steel toilet he was using next day


  • #3420
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,252 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Up to my eye balls running the local festival this weekend. All roads lead to Athboy!
    Just home for shower and a feed and back out again.
    Dont wait up!


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  • #3421
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    delaval wrote: »
    We have a lad round here like that except its Guinness. He gives up for Lent every year and goes on Smithwicks. He doesn't. count in pints but gallons ' hey young lad had a gallon and a half yesterday'

    He is so full that his knickname is The Ballcock
    This lad is on the guinness mostly aswell but he had two days done on it when he got the second wind and switched to cider . Big Bucket is his nickname , I dont know is it because of him drinking buckets or the fact that he starts telling everyone about the size of the bucket on the his digger when he is loaded .


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