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Silage thread

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  • #392
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Sami23 wrote: »
    How soon after 1st cut wud ye recommend putting out fertiliser for 2nd cut. I don't usually do a 2nd cut so no experience of it.
    I was thinking of leaving it 1-2 weeks to green up a bit as didn't think it wud be great to spread on bare ground ?

    Today I spread 3x18-6-12 on what was cut yesterday and will follow with 1 ASN next week


  • #393
    Conor556
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭Conor556


    Hay baled and I stayed off the tractor until this evening as requested my Muckit!

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  • #394
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Heading off to knock some grass. Is the weather to hold till Tues?
    We hope to pick Mon am, I don't want to start tomorrow afternoon!!


  • #395
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    delaval wrote: »
    Heading off to knock some grass. Is the weather to hold till Tues?
    We hope to pick Mon am, I don't want to start tomorrow afternoon!!
    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/5day-ireland.asp

    You're based in KK right? You'd possibly get away with it but the model is showing some light rain for Monday. I'll give you a heads up when it arrives as we'll have it here in the West a few hours ahead of you;) (as well as having more of it:rolleyes:).


  • #396
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    just do it wrote: »
    http://www.met.ie/forecasts/5day-ireland.asp

    You're based in KK right? You'd possibly get away with it but the model is showing some light rain for Monday. I'll give you a heads up when it arrives as we'll have it here in the West a few hours ahead of you;) (as well as having more of it:rolleyes:).

    Cheers
    Having a cuppa on the headland. One if the longest memories I have is having a bottle of tea with my Dad when I was a little boy. Nothing nicer!!


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  • #397
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Another paddock down this am, will have to bale this evening, contractor don't work Sunday and rain due Monday


  • #398
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    delaval wrote: »
    Cheers
    Having a cuppa on the headland. One if the longest memories I have is having a bottle of tea with my Dad when I was a little boy. Nothing nicer!!

    Yes remember being in hayfields when I was young with brothers an sisters and mum would arrive with tea for us all, fantastic memories


  • #399
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    delaval wrote: »
    Cheers
    Having a cuppa on the headland. One if the longest memories I have is having a bottle of tea with my Dad when I was a little boy. Nothing nicer!!

    The mother and Granny arriving with huge kettle full of tea. Roll of brown paper in spout. Batch loaf cut thick.
    Hay was a very sociable thing


  • #400
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    The mother and Granny arriving with huge kettle full of tea. Roll of brown paper in spout. Batch loaf cut thick.
    Hay was a very sociable thing

    Yea and the homemade buns and Kimberley biscuits after, all neighbours in one field helping out, seems like a lifetime ago now, (suppose its over 25 years ago now)is it me but all I remember is weather like this all summer back then


  • #401
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    FFS lads, put away the flasks, smartphones and sentimentality and get back to work :D:D


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  • #402
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    just do it wrote: »
    FFS lads, put away the flasks, smartphones and sentimentality and get back to work :D:D
    i have to go for afternoon tea with my lady friends this afternoon, far from afternoon tea i am used to i can tell ya, would prefer to be here at silage.... argh:mad:


  • #403
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i have to go for afternoon tea with my lady friends this afternoon, far from afternoon tea i am used to i can tell ya, would prefer to be here at silage.... argh:mad:


    Are these friends now or wans you've had to fall in with because your kids are in school with their kids. Mrs freedom is mad about the former and yet sees them very little and considers the latter a pain in the hole most of the time and can't get away from them:D


  • #404
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Im going to be odd here and say that I hate eating outside , wont even eat in the kitchen if the door or windows are letting a breeze at me . I dont know why but sure we cant all be the same .


  • #405
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    moy83 wrote: »
    Im going to be odd here and say that I hate eating outside , wont even eat in the kitchen if the door or windows are letting a breeze at me . I dont know why but sure we cant all be the same .

    No I am with you 100% Moy

    I absolutely hate eating outdoors and avoid it at all costs


  • #406
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    No I am with you 100% Moy

    I absolutely hate eating outdoors and avoid it at all costs

    What both of ye need, is a bit of starvation! -;)


  • #407
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    What both of ye need, is a bit of starvation! -;)

    Hunger is good sauce :D


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


    Tipp Man wrote: »
    No I am with you 100% Moy

    I absolutely hate eating outdoors and avoid it at all costs

    We got a deck done at the house last year and it gets great use.
    Had me breakfast out there thismorning. Posh or what? Brekie on the veranda :)


  • #409
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bbam wrote: »
    We got a deck done at the house last year and it gets great use.
    Had me breakfast out there thismorning. Posh or what? Brekie on the veranda :)

    Just had lunch on mine, what a country when sun shines, now to sneak off without two young helpers wanting to come


  • #410
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Just had lunch on mine, what a country when sun shines, now to sneak off without two young helpers wanting to come

    The young helpers want to help and the older ones dont here.


  • #411
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    td5man wrote: »
    The young helpers want to help and the older ones dont here.

    Two boys here and all they want is tractor, still not got away mind you not trying to hard at moment, nice to enjoy them too


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  • #412
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    back from my afternoon tea 25 euro per person:eek:, lads are drawing in silage, pit bulking up, will do a barbecue for the silage lads after milking


  • #413
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan1 wrote: »
    back from my afternoon tea 25 euro per person:eek:, lads are drawing in silage, pit bulking up, will do a barbecue for the silage lads after milking

    €25 and you still want barbecue I'd be looking for a refund.


  • #414
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    €25 and you still want barbecue I'd be looking for a refund.
    barbecue is for the silage lads and tbh you didnt get an awful lot for 25 euro


  • #415
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    td5man wrote: »
    The young helpers want to help and the older ones dont here.

    I tell the real young ones that I'm going to move bulls, but the older ones say that they'll drive the bike. Will need to update my story!!
    Mine are twins 4, one 6 and one 8. Wife warns my that in 8 years none will want to come out at all.


  • #416
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Decided to pick up tomorrow as I don't want it wet now. Tedder working behind me as I mow


  • #417
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    delaval wrote: »
    I tell the real young ones that I'm going to move bulls, but the older ones say that they'll drive the bike. Will need to update my story!!
    Mine are twins 4, one 6 and one 8. Wife warns my that in 8 years none will want to come out at all.

    10 year old is let drive everything here ie . tractors track machines etc, but gets fed up after an hour or so, if i got the chance to drive something like that at his age i'd be awake all night in case i'd miss out.
    8 year old has an interest in stock can remember which cow had which calf.
    1 twin is machinery mad while the other likes stock


  • #418
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Weather isn't looking too bad for next bit cooler than this week but not as much rain as previously forecast.


  • #419
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    all done and dusted. covered and all. lads fed chilling with:D a glass of wine


  • #420
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    td5man wrote: »
    10 year old is let drive everything here ie . tractors track machines etc, but gets fed up after an hour or so, if i got the chance to drive something like that at his age i'd be awake all night in case i'd miss out.
    8 year old has an interest in stock can remember which cow had which calf.
    1 twin is machinery mad while the other likes stock

    5 year old is tractor mad, 2 year old is beginning to cop on that a spin on the tractor looks good, oh I can see the fighting starting soon :D


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  • #421
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Mine are a five year old girl and a two year old boy. She loves the livestock and if it burns diesel and makes noise he is all over it like a rash. They really do gave their own personalities.


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