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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #3692
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    had a lad came up here yesterday from kinsale to buy my fertiliser spreader, i thought that was a hell of a distance to come, he had a jeep and trailer.

    did ya tell him i have a sprayer for sale, :D


  • #3693
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    jomoloney wrote: »
    if she has a white head or white area around the eye, it could be the onset of cancer, hopefully not perhaps a prod or a puck maybe

    no white at all, ch/sim x cow, looks like a prod from chewing bushes


  • #3694
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭naughto


    Sorry to hear it td5man.
    i lost both of my parents a yr apart from each other
    my dad was sick before my mam died and she went suddenly
    so he just followered her as he coulent life with out her
    time is a great healer but its bloody hard with out them.


  • #3695
    kowtow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭kowtow


    delaval wrote: »
    If in high tax band why reclaim would it be better write off against income tax?
    Am I totally wrong here?

    Having said that we reclaim all we can.

    Not unless you're in a > 100% tax band.

    Reclaim the VAT

    charge the (non VAT) element to tax.


  • #3696
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Have 12 acres to spray for a neighbour and the sun is beating down here, would it be a waste of time doing it now or shoudl I wait until evening when the sun dies down a bit?


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  • #3697
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Have 12 acres to spray for a neighbour and the sun is beating down here, would it be a waste of time doing it now or shoudl I wait until evening when the sun dies down a bit?

    temp never bothers me unless im spraying delicate crops


  • #3698
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    What's the story with Boards fert spreaders. Mine just went BOOM.dead


  • #3699
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    maxxuumman wrote: »
    What's the story with Boards fert spreaders. Mine just went BOOM.dead
    hope you didnt buy my one yesterday:D


  • #3700
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    naughto wrote: »
    Sorry to hear it td5man.
    i lost both of my parents a yr apart from each other
    my dad was sick before my mam died and she went suddenly
    so he just followered her as he coulent life with out her
    time is a great healer but its bloody hard with out them.

    Mum was in hospital for 6 months before she died so it wasn't a shock when she died, she died 2 years ago a week after my twins were born.
    Dad went into a nursing home last Thu for a weeks respite and died suddenly on Mon


  • #3701
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    maxxuumman wrote: »
    What's the story with Boards fert spreaders. Mine just went BOOM.dead

    I cod recommend a second hand one. My new one ready for collection


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  • #3702
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    td5man wrote: »
    Mum was in hospital for 6 months before she died so it wasn't a shock when she died, she died 2 years ago a week after my twins were born.
    Dad went into a nursing home last Thu for a weeks respite and died suddenly on Mon

    I'm sorry for your loss td5man. I was away for a few days so only catching up now. Very hard to know what to say to someone in your position other than to offer my condolences.


  • #3703
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    delaval wrote: »
    I cod recommend a second hand one. My new one ready for collection

    Ah, All that Urea probably has your one nearly see through at this stage.


  • #3704
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Spent 4 hours in the bog and forgot my sun cream, oops!


  • #3705
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    whelan1 wrote: »
    hope you didnt buy my one yesterday:D

    No, but a guy passed our way yesterday, with a spreader up on a trailer, he was looking very very happy. Must have got a good deal.


  • #3706
    maxxuumman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 592 ✭✭✭maxxuumman


    quadboy wrote: »
    Spent 4 hours in the bog and forgot my sun cream, oops!

    4 hours in the bog!!!! Curry last night???


  • #3707
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Savage day for Athenry, thought I'd melt at the first presentation.


  • #3708
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    Smashing days.
    But lost youngest calf yesterday from sunstroke. They have shade and drink.
    Found him lying but alert. Gave electrolyte and he was up walking about after. Dead this morning.

    How should I have treated him??

    Lad on lorry had collected 8 already, all same :(


  • #3709
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    bbam wrote: »
    Smashing days.
    But lost youngest calf yesterday from sunstroke. They have shade and drink.
    Found him lying but alert. Gave electrolyte and he was up walking about after. Dead this morning.

    How should I have treated him??

    Lad on lorry had collected 8 already, all same :(

    Nights are cold enough I would bring in any under a month at the moment. Had 2 that looked great yesterday but had streams of gunk coming out their noses this morning out with the nuflor.


  • #3710
    Dupont
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Dupont


    Going to bog for couple of hours in morning. First time ever saving turf m. Was told to just stack it its lying as wad cut at minute. Do ya turn it so wet side is at side or facing straight up!????


  • #3711
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    td5man wrote: »
    Mum was in hospital for 6 months before she died so it wasn't a shock when she died, she died 2 years ago a week after my twins were born.
    Dad went into a nursing home last Thu for a weeks respite and died suddenly on Mon

    Another one catching up here. I'm sorry for your loss. Sad times. It's a real passing of the guard, one of those milestones in life. It's never easy.


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  • #3712
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Dupont wrote: »
    Going to bog for couple of hours in morning. First time ever saving turf m. Was told to just stack it its lying as wad cut at minute. Do ya turn it so wet side is at side or facing straight up!????

    Conventional footings would be wet side up, in pairs across each other, 8 or 10 sods in a footing, and a single across the top.
    A barrel footing would have 3 sods on the ground, dry side down, and each course after the first crossing the angles.
    If the spreadbank is dry, you may get away with just turning it and then windrowing it or rough heaps.
    I'm sure there are regional variations but we in Offaly know our way around turf :-)


  • #3713
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Dupont wrote: »
    Going to bog for couple of hours in morning. First time ever saving turf m. Was told to just stack it its lying as wad cut at minute. Do ya turn it so wet side is at side or facing straight up!????

    Yeah you need to turn it first then foot it, finished footing mine today must try get it home before the rain next week next few days will really dry it out


  • #3714
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    bob charles wrote: »
    temp never bothers me unless im spraying delicate crops

    There'd never be any spraying done outside of this country if guys were as obsessed about a bit of heat as a lot of us are elsewhere.


  • #3715
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    quadboy wrote: »
    Yeah you need to turn it first then foot it,

    Not at all. You must like work! just foot it ..... up with it! ;)


  • #3716
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    quadboy wrote: »
    Yeah you need to turn it first then foot it, finished footing mine today must try get it home before the rain next week next few days will really dry it out

    I'd say you're like Noah's Ark bringing home the turf with the quad, two by two, must take an age :pac:


  • #3717
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Ah you have to do it right give both sides a good drying then foot then home. Ill never get the tractor down there so ill prob have to bag it draw it out with the quad to the road then into the tractor trailer


  • #3718
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Whats the story with blasting rocks, outlawed a long time ago i suppose


  • #3719
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    quadboy wrote: »
    Whats the story with blasting rocks, outlawed a long time ago i suppose

    You're mad for stuff to be drawing with that quad. :-)


  • #3720
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Ah havnt used it in a while im waiting for my weed licker to get finished, oh dont forget euromillions tomorrow nyt


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  • #3721
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    another cracker. nearly bright already:)


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