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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #4922
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    whelan1 wrote: »
    fair play to him for giving so much notice, he might train in the new person for you

    He's a sound guy and is looking for us also


  • #4923
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Plenty good guys out there delaval. You are in Wicklow if I remember right. If you are in south Wicklow I know a guy who might be interested. Blocklayer by trade but is a qualified farm manager also and even during the boom relief milked for lads that he had been with to give them a dig out. Real sound and reliable bloke.


  • #4924
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Juniorhurler wrote: »
    Plenty good guys out there delaval. You are in Wicklow if I remember right. If you are in south Wicklow I know a guy who might be interested. Blocklayer by trade but is a qualified farm manager also and even during the boom relief milked for lads that he had been with to give them a dig out. Real sound and reliable bloke.

    North KK


  • #4925
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Geography was never my strong point.


  • #4926
    kevthegaff
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    best of luck in the hurling delaval;)


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  • #4927
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    Don't say that. As a Wexford man they have inflicted more pain on us than any other county. Let Tipp beat them now as they will gather momentum as the summer continues and injuries heal. Tipp might be easier beaten later, not that we will be beating anybody else. Unfortunately Carlow and Antrim are the height of our summer now and that is not meant as any direspect to those two, just that I remember a time when we were the equal of the Tipps and Kilkennys a of the hurling world.


  • #4928
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    best of luck in the hurling delaval;)

    I ain't no KK man only a blow in as I'm constantly reminded.
    I would be ABKK


  • #4929
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Of all days for the bloody rad to go in our old Zetor it's today. Just got one meadow cut and boom, water pouring out everywhere. :mad::(:mad:


  • #4930
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    Our milker who is here 10 years has handed in his notice. He is finishing at end of Dec.
    This is one guy who will be hard to replace!!!

    Don't know where to start looking but at least we have time.

    you lads up there must be right pussies, a few days with a cold wind blowing and you's are handing in your walking papers , Starve you would, if you's were on bad land:D:D


  • #4931
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Right it going to be a long one, 80 bales sitting in the fields, 1 and half mile draw, and a 5 year old who wants to help


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  • #4932
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Right it going to be a long one, 80 bales sitting in the fields, 1 and half mile draw, and a 5 year old who wants to help

    one by one? Good night and god bless


  • #4933
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    bob charles wrote: »
    one by one? Good night and god bless

    Hook up the DVD player in the tractor and watch a bit of "Debbie does Dallas ";)

    No just me and headphones, this always the long one


  • #4934
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    you lads up there must be right pussies, a few days with a cold wind blowing and you's are handing in your walking papers , Starve you would, if you's were on bad land:D:D

    Anyone with beet met in the drills in mid June knows bad land from good!!!


  • #4935
    whelan1
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    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=553963501334878&set=a.160123287385570.43642.144961662235066&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
    i remember my dad made up a slurry tanker for my brother to go on to the back of his pedal tractor using a 5 gallon drum, it had a tap at the bottom, he spent ages spreading slurry, if ya wanted him you just followed the trail of water round the yard


  • #4936
    saltandpepper10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭saltandpepper10


    whelan1 wrote: »
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=553963501334878&set=a.160123287385570.43642.144961662235066&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf
    i remember my dad made up a slurry tanker for my brother to go on to the back of his pedal tractor using a 5 gallon drum, it had a tap at the bottom, he spent ages spreading slurry, if ya wanted him you just followed the trail of water round the yard

    did your brother not have an interest in farming as he grew older.you seem to be very passionite about it and im sure your parents are very proud of you even though its not maybe what they imagined would happen as there kids grew up.anyways enjoy reading your posts very much,do you envisage your daughter following in your footsteps or would you advise her against


  • #4937
    whelan1
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    i was always into farming, have 2 brothers eldest lad helped out but was never going to be a farmer, other brother worked for me for a while but was never going to stay at home, both have good jobs now . 1 lives in dublin and other is in drogheda .would have no bother if she wanted to be a farmer but shes more of a footballer than a farmer


  • #4938
    saltandpepper10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭saltandpepper10


    whelan1 wrote: »
    i was always into farming, have 2 brothers eldest lad helped out but was never going to be a farmer, other brother worked for me for a while but was never going to stay at home, both have good jobs now . 1 lives in dublin and other is in drogheda .would have no bother if she wanted to be a farmer but shes more of a footballer than a farmer

    i worked on a dairyfarm for five years part time from 1989 to 1994 from age 14.loved it and still keep an interest through the farmers journel farmers weekly and here.it gives you a serious work ethic i think but to this day i almost feel guilty if i am not doing somthing even if its sunday,i am also terrible at taking any holidays days off etc which i also put down to my farming past. oH often asks me would i like to farm now and laughs when i say i could not think of anything worse :)i still believe its a good and relativly lucrative life that dairy farmers have though you all wont agree i suppose.that farm i worked on has an 80k sfp in simple terms 1600 euros a week before they sell a saurser of milk and to speak to them you would think they hadnt a washer


  • #4939
    whelan1
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    my sfp wouldnt be near that at all.... most of it goes on tax , insurance and contracor.... ye you are right dairy farming gives you a great work ethic, 2 brothers work all hours all days, took a while for their partners to get used to them not doing a 9-5 job...


  • #4940
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    I was through the highways and byeways of Meath today, and never have I seen as many lads on the go with haybobs. Saw one lad baling away, small square bales. Hard to beat a bit of good weather!


  • #4941
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Bizzum wrote: »
    I was through the highways and byeways of Meath today, and never have I seen as many lads on the go with haybobs. Saw one lad baling away, small square bales. Hard to beat a bit of good weather!
    I saw a lad turning hay today with a fine fastrac and a right bet up hay bob , its actually misting here all evening . Its a growthy sort of evening though


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  • #4942
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ABlur


    Bizzum wrote: »
    I was through the highways and byeways of Meath today, and never have I seen as many lads on the go with haybobs. Saw one lad baling away, small square bales. Hard to beat a bit of good weather!

    Never seen so many haybobs for sale on Donedeal! Suppose if you dont sell this year you might have to wait another 7 years for the next heatwave.


  • #4943
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    5acres of strong but poor quality grass on the rented land, I walked it the other day and told my dad that if we were to make silages bales off it I'd be flogging them on ha, (aka defo not worth feeding to ourown milkers!), anyways he's suggested making hay out of it now, I told him do as he pleases, I don't know what they will turnout like, and how good it will be for calves etc, which are about the only animals that would get fed hay here.


  • #4944
    whelan1
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    hay is great for calves, we dont make hay , buy in 12 round bales each year off my friendly neighbour


  • #4945
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Timmaay wrote: »
    5acres of strong but poor quality grass on the rented land, I walked it the other day and told my dad that if we were to make silages bales off it I'd be flogging them on ha, (aka defo not worth feeding to ourown milkers!), anyways he's suggested making hay out of it now, I told him do as he pleases, I don't know what they will turnout like, and how good it will be for calves etc, which are about the only animals that would get fed hay here.

    If you've a shed to store hay in, why not make it. It's cheaper then wrapping it, keeps longer,and every bit as saleable.


  • #4946
    newholland mad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭newholland mad


    around here (se) hay far more saleable, not a lot of stock in a 10 mile radius and wrappies of a normal year are a local trade where even with the oldfashened 4x4 of hay 64 can go on a truck


  • #4947
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,684 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    whelan1 wrote: »
    hay is great for calves, we dont make hay , buy in 12 round bales each year off my friendly neighbour
    Not a fan of giving hay to calves,Find it gives them pot bellies and slows them down eating ration/Nut.Good wheaten or oaten straw is what i use and they go mad for it


  • #4948
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    mahoney_j wrote: »
    Not a fan of giving hay to calves,Find it gives them pot bellies and slows them down eating ration/Nut.Good wheaten or oaten straw is what i use and they go mad for it

    ditto


  • #4949
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Bizzum wrote: »
    If you've a shed to store hay in, why not make it. It's cheaper then wrapping it, keeps longer,and every bit as saleable.

    Ha, I guess I'm being lazy, making silage bales means ringing up the contractor and buying abit of plastic, job done, hay means finding someone with a haybob to turn it afew times! We'll hopefully get it knocked Mon or Tue, and take it from there! I'm not majorly pushed about feeding it to calves myself, I usually only give it to them for the 1st few weeks, when they are shifted to bigger pins they get silage, or late (april/may) calves are put out to grass asap.

    But hmm, not going to have much free shedspace this winter at all, we outwintered some stock last yr, in a lovely sandy dry field, which was grand, but access to that meant ploughing up 3 other fields, so that's a no no this winter.


  • #4950
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Right that's me beat, 62 bales in, 18 left,
    God I'd murder a pint,
    Nothing like walking a silage field after its finished


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  • #4951
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Are U not afraid they will sag?


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