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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #5042
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Heard a story last night about a guy who went north and bought his first baler, a second hand Claas. Got a good deal, checked it out himself and thought it was in good shape - even though he didn't know a lot about them. He brought it home and mowed a small garden to test it out. He went around and around and picked up a load of grass - thinking to himself that he had got a great baler that packed bales very tight with all the grass that it was packing into the first bale. When the chamber was full he tied it and let it out and when he got out to look at his bale, low and behold he had the finest 5x4 bale of silage in Cavan!!


  • #5043
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    was putting in small bales there last night for the dfather in law, been a long time since i did that crack last..alot to said for round bales i say ;)

    ha ha - you cant escape these jobs now Vander...
    Sure he only made the small square bales cos he knew he had 'a new lad' to be handling em...

    :D :P :D


  • #5044
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Username John wrote: »
    ha ha - you cant escape these jobs now Vander...
    Sure he only made the small square bales cos he knew he had 'a new lad' to be handling em...

    :D :P :D
    Big mistake there . Last night was the night to tell the inlaws how bad your back was :p


  • #5045
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    The good weather has improved the humour on here no end. Only a few weeks ago the mods had to remove posts due to frustration boiling over. Long may the good weather continue (interspersed with an appropriate amount of showers at night ;))


  • #5046
    vanderbadger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭vanderbadger


    i even offered to make the round bales for him..lucky enough there wasnt many of the hoors of things, when we were young lads we seems to spend all summer at them, fighting over who moved the tractor around the field and knocking peers of gates everywhere we went.. ah those were the days :P


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  • #5047
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    vanderbadger wrote: »
    fighting over who moved the tractor around the field

    Twas the girls that always got that job in our house and us holding on for dear life as the clutch would be let straight up!!!


  • #5048
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    was going to work this am and met one of the neighbours (retired in his 60s) out sitting on his wall, so stopped for a chat as ya do, fcuk it would have been lovely to sit there for a few hours and have a chat in the sun but had to go to this sticky office, i dont know but sometimes you could sit and listen to the yarns for hours

    maybe the older generation had the right idea,


  • #5049
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Muckit wrote: »
    Twas the girls that always got that job in our house and us holding on for dear life as the clutch would be let straight up!!!

    Reminds me of long time ago a neighbour asked me to help with his straw bales about 2000 of them. Had one daughter driving the tractor and the hefty daughter stacking the bales on the tractor. Always got the impression he was trying to match make one of them. Had about 300 on the trailer when the daughter took off straight across the tram lines heading for the yard by the time I got to the tractor we had about 50 bales left on it and the daughter stacking the bales on the way to hospital with a broken leg. From then on I moved the tractor with the not so hefty daughter. Right good craic but that yr decided that would be getting involved with a farmers daughter.


  • #5050
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Tis a day to be near the water I think, off kayaking for a few hours now and a bit of pier jumping in the evening. Its too warm to be working :p


  • #5051
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Tis a day to be near the water I think, off kayaking for a few hours now and a bit of pier jumping in the evening. Its too warm to be working :p

    Too warm to be stacking bales too - a lad I was wrapping for yesterday evening went stacking them and every one he lifted burst. Plastic on metal just wouldn't work in that heat!


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  • #5052
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    reilig wrote: »
    Too warm to be stacking bales too - a lad I was wrapping for yesterday evening went stacking them and every one he lifted burst. Plastic on metal just wouldn't work in that heat!

    Head off to Keeldra lake & join in the swimming lessons! That's where I'm headed :D


  • #5053
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭naughto


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Head off to Keeldra lake & join in the swimming lessons! That's where I'm headed :D
    quadman is filling the quad with desiel as we speak i heard ya like the skinny dipping:pac::pac:


  • #5054
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Head off to Keeldra lake & join in the swimming lessons! That's where I'm headed :D

    I'm a long way from Keeldra today :mad:


  • #5055
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Head off to Keeldra lake & join in the swimming lessons! That's where I'm headed :D

    i wouldnt go near that place (might be different for a lady) based on the size of the pike you took out of there, :D


  • #5056
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Yeah it would be handy knowing how to swim with weather like this, im on the way


  • #5057
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    D'ya have a six pack? Legal requirement to allow you in.:p


  • #5058
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    D'ya have a six pack? Legal requirement to allow you in.:p

    your persistence is beginning to pay dividends quadboy, id get the next flight out kerry before she changes her mind, land in knock an hour will bring you from there,


  • #5059
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    D'ya have a six pack? Legal requirement to allow you in.:p

    Yeah i'll stop off in an off license and pick one up ;)


  • #5060
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    reilig wrote: »
    Heard a story last night about a guy who went north and bought his first baler, a second hand Claas. Got a good deal, checked it out himself and thought it was in good shape - even though he didn't know a lot about them. He brought it home and mowed a small garden to test it out. He went around and around and picked up a load of grass - thinking to himself that he had got a great baler that packed bales very tight with all the grass that it was packing into the first bale. When the chamber was full he tied it and let it out and when he got out to look at his bale, low and behold he had the finest 5x4 bale of silage in Cavan!!
    :confused:What am I missing?


  • #5061
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭naughto


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    D'ya have a six pack? Legal requirement to allow you in.:p
    is that all it takes these days i had to work hard to be "allow in"


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  • #5062
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    naughto wrote: »
    is that all it takes these days i had to work hard to be "allow in"
    Young lad carry six pack, men carry a barrell:D:D


  • #5063
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    delaval wrote: »
    Young lad carry six pack, men carry a barrell:D:D

    now dev stop that or you will frighten the kids


  • #5064
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    :eek::eek:
    naughto wrote: »
    is that all it takes these days i had to work hard to be "allow in"

    Also have to be able to save damsel in distress after six pack :D


  • #5065
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    delaval wrote: »
    :confused:What am I missing?

    He thought he was buying a 4x4 and only realised it was a 5x4 when he made the first bale.


  • #5066
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    reilig wrote: »
    He thought he was buying a 4x4 and only realised it was a 5x4 when he made the first bale.

    Bonus, no?


  • #5067
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    I would usually have a few gallons here before going out as a kinda warm up lap and stretch


  • #5068
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    hugo29 wrote: »
    i wouldnt go near that place (might be different for a lady) based on the size of the pike you took out of there, :D

    Scared of a nibble on your......toes?:rolleyes:


  • #5069
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Scared of a nibble on your......toes?:rolleyes:

    oh its not the pike im afraid off, if you can catch a pike that size, wtf would ya do to poor quadboy

    anyway me da always warned me about leitrim women


  • #5070
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    delaval wrote: »
    Bonus, no?

    Not really. He couldn't lift them or wrap them!


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  • #5071
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    reilig wrote: »
    Not really. He couldn't lift them or wrap them!

    Ha, ha. Local lad made a silage grab once only problem was his loader wouldn't lift it


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