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Silage thread

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  • #302
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Knocking another 8 acres now- hope to 50 more bales


  • #303
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Mulumpy wrote: »
    My lad always refuses to take money til October when he hands in all is cheques together. Wish there was more like him

    Thats fine if your writing a cheque for thousands but if you are paying for 20 bales just do it on the day its beer money and the contractor knows when you ring he will have a few quid at the weekend. Used to do hay for one farmer he always paid when the fields were baled without fail he never lost hay.


  • #304
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Mower on route. Picking up tomorrow evening


  • #305
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Knocking 10 acres this evening might try for hay, Fu#k the leaving cert!


  • #306
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Knocking 10 acres this evening might try for hay, Fu#k the leaving cert!

    do the leaving cert my friend, u can make hay anytime


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  • #307
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    hugo29 wrote: »
    do the leaving cert my friend, u can make hay anytime

    Dont worry ill be doing it alright, just typical all year years I was doing tests the weather was good, junior cert in 2010 and now this, i will suffer on for ye all and the weather will hold, make sure yer silage is done by thursday fortnight cause thats when im finished! Ye can thank me later! :rolleyes:


  • #308
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    hugo29 wrote: »
    do the leaving cert my friend, u can make hay anytime

    When I was doing the leaving I was working at silage every evening after doing my exams till 1 or 2 in the morning. In hindsight it probably wasnt the best thing to do!!


  • #309
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    When I was doing the leaving I was working at silage every evening after doing my exams till 1 or 2 in the morning. In hindsight it probably wasnt the best thing to do!!

    ah but you were always a hard man:D. I would advocate letting the hay rot instead of jeopardizing grades


  • #310
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    bob charles wrote: »
    ah but you were always a hard man:D. I would advocate letting the hay rot instead of jeopardizing grades

    Hardy breed down from the mountain :D my leaving cert results fully reflected 2 years of doing nothing in school though, don't think knuckling down for a few days around the exams would have made any difference. Wouldn't mind but I got all a's, b,s and a few c's doing all honours subjects for the junior cert :rolleyes:


  • #311
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Wouldn't mind but I got all a's, b,s and a few c's doing all honours subjects for the junior cert :rolleyes:

    was it women or the drink that was your downfall?:D


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  • #312
    red bull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭red bull


    Usually cut late May, looks like it will be late June this year


  • #313
    dasheriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭dasheriff


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    When I was doing the leaving I was working at silage every evening after doing my exams till 1 or 2 in the morning. In hindsight it probably wasnt the best thing to do!!

    Ill never forget the morning of my irish exam, started at 9.30, 5 of us tore out the door at 10 to face the irish teacher outside all she got was a chorus of grass to knock miss, needles to say she was delighted for us..:)
    But I would now be an advocate like you Bob to stick them out till they are over, It was just the look of god in those days they got us to do it atall.


  • #314
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    bob charles wrote: »
    was it women or the drink that was your downfall?:D

    I was one of the few that had my own car going to school and a bit of cheek where the teacher's were concerned, I often headed off to Ennis mart of a Tuesday when i wasnt in the form for school :p Never took to the drink at all so it must be the women :D


  • #315
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Knocking 10 acres this evening might try for hay, Fu#k the leaving cert!

    Leave yourself as many options as posible lad.

    Farm because you want to not because it's the only avenue open to you. Nothing worse than feeling trapped in a job


  • #316
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Conor556 wrote: »
    Knocking 10 acres this evening might try for hay, Fu#k the leaving cert!

    Pay someone to do the hay and go get a good leaving cer. Nothing like options when your older. Imagine being a dept vet or teacher and a farm on the side. A good result in the leaving is no load to carry


  • #317
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    When are you doing the leaving? When are you cutting the hay?

    Ah hem... when are you cutting the silage ! :D

    Mowing tomorrow evening so hopefully will have few photos to throw up of my 'Southfork' :p :pac::pac:


  • #318
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Imagine being a dept vet or teacher

    dont be giving the kid nightmares:D, he should be aspiring to a proper job


  • #319
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Pay someone to do the hay and go get a good leaving cer. Nothing like options when your older. Imagine being a dept vet or teacher and a farm on the side. A good result in the leaving is no load to carry

    where were you 21 years ago, i wish someone had told me that, :D


  • #320
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    hugo29 wrote: »
    where were you 21 years ago, i wish someone had told me that, :D

    Flunking me own.:mad:


  • #321
    Dozer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Dozer1


    with all this sun why don't we change the name on this thread to when are you cutting the hay???

    hope to chance a few small fields for hay today or tomorrow


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  • #322
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Dozer1 wrote: »
    with all this sun why don't we change the name on this thread to when are you cutting the hay???

    hope to chance a few small fields for hay today or tomorrow

    Around here they say that you should plant cabbage the day you knock hay 'cause if you lose the hay you'll have the cabbage and vice versa


  • #323
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    20130605_103544.jpg

    Contractor busy at the minute, the real fun starts tomorrow putting the covers on!


  • #324
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Timmaay wrote: »
    20130605_103544.jpg

    Contractor busy at the minute, the real fun starts tomorrow putting the covers on!

    id nearly eat that meself


  • #325
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    I counted five local dairy boys that have what seems to be lovely fescue ready to cut about 3 weeks ago:D, the other 4 have just cut. cant understand what the wait is for


  • #326
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    I counted five local dairy boys that have what seems to be lovely fescue ready to cut about 3 weeks ago:D, the other 4 have just cut. cant understand what the wait is for

    Fescue??????


  • #327
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    Fescue??????

    http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3652/3542304350_b57a4f8ab7_o.jpg


  • #328
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3652/3542304350_b57a4f8ab7_o.jpg
    Oh! you mean crap!!


  • #329
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    What sort of dm would yous expect from the silage at the minute, ours wasn't tethered/raked etc, wilted for about 12-24hrs. Last yr in the wet we only fit 30acres in the pit for the milkers, this yr all 40acres of the 1st cut went in, I don't think there was much difference in volume of grass in the feild. Only got one pit to cover in the morning at least!


  • #330
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Mower finishing off in the field as the mo. Out of nowhere we got 2 heavy thundershowers in the last hour! Light crop. Contractor stopped mowing after one round of the field to ask me should he pull out! "Plough on" I said;). Looking at baling tomorrow probably around 4pm.


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  • #331
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Mower coming in the next couple of days and then a decent wilt. gone a week stronger than i would like but still 2 weeks earlier than the old man wanted.


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