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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #6032
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    reilig wrote: »
    Awful disheartening to drive through the countryside and still see bales of hay in meadows with nearly a foot of grass growing around them - changed from green or yellow to rusty brown. There's nothing to be gained from it and the quality is just reducing with every thunder shower that they get. After last years fodder crisis I thought people would be trying to have everything home and dry rather than losing the few outer inches to mould.

    They'I be sound as a pound. Reckon a lot of lads might have let the sun go to their heads and have made round bales of hay and not have their own ways of stacking it.

    Out for a drive today and couldn't get over the amount of stock let into 'aftergrass'..... accept you could nearly count the blades of grass. More crazy sh*t:rolleyes:


  • #6033
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    reilig wrote: »
    Awful disheartening to drive through the countryside and still see bales of hay in meadows with nearly a foot of grass growing around them - changed from green or yellow to rusty brown. There's nothing to be gained from it and the quality is just reducing with every thunder shower that they get. After last years fodder crisis I thought people would be trying to have everything home and dry rather than losing the few outer inches to mould.

    They would be perfect. Remember I think 2 years ago where I buy hay out of was reclaimed from the shannon so super land when dry but can get very wet. Hay baled the first of July and I couldnt get into shift until the 28th of September. Some of it was even standing in a couple of inches of water for a period. Bales were absolutely perfect


  • #6034
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,032 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Going to add "pulling ragworth" as one of my hobbies:-)


  • #6035
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    AntrimGlens wrote: »
    I was working down at my house today to look up when I heard the telehandler going and watched the oul fella drive around to the front of his house with a pallet on the forks. I came up and asked him what he was for doing, ah sure i'm going paint those barge boards on the gable of the house. I said not a chance are you getting on a pallet balanced on the toes when theres a cradle built for the yoke sitting in the yard. Ugh i'm not that stiff says he that I need to stand in one of them and him that can barely get outa bed in the morning for his arthritis.
    so off I went and hooked on the cradle and he's telling my wife ah that boys got wile safety conscious... Seriously WFT. Oul boys are their own worst enemy


    ah here! That could be here! auld lads love being difficult!

    Came home from holidays to find out that Kitchen presses fell down under the weight of years of trophies from himself myself and the brother that were sitting on top of it.

    instead of getting somebody in who knows what they're doing he has them propped up with lumps of 2by4:rolleyes:

    This is the same fella that wore the sole of his cast out twice instead of resting it when he broke it:mad:
    Swear to God, he's the most stubborn old fool some times!


  • #6036
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Many of you lads /ladies that are Bord Bia approved get signs issued for farm gates... I've seen them on people's gates but when I asked they told me they don't do them?!

    You'd imagine if they spending millions on marketing... Tv adverts, YouTube videos .. That free advertising on various road facing farm gates would be grabbed with both hands ?!


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  • #6037
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Odelay wrote: »
    Going to add "pulling ragworth" as one of my hobbies:-)
    AT least you can see something for what you are doing


  • #6038
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Many of you lads /ladies that are Bord Bia approved get signs issued for farm gates... I've seen them on people's gates but when I asked they told me they don't do them?!

    Ah here....there will be done of that 'showing off!!' :pac: Seriously though, I take your point, good idea.


  • #6039
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Any advice on what to put on calved suckler cows with sore teats? Right pain in the elder for them and me!!!! Thanks.


  • #6040
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Spent the last hour scanning through beef cattle on donedeal, crikeys but some lads really value their animals!!!. There's one add looking for over 3k for a commercial heifer and her calf. I suppose you can always come down much harder to go up!


  • #6041
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Any advice on what to put on calved suckler cows with sore teats? Right pain in the elder for them and me!!!! Thanks.

    I'd like to know as well if anyone has any tips.
    Looks like some of the feckin' calves are using cows teats as chew toys:pac:


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  • #6042
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    I'd like to know as well if anyone has any tips.
    Looks like some of the feckin' calves are using cows teats as chew toys:pac:
    Same here and its the same cows every year. I have a few pb lims and they seem to be the worst.


  • #6043
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Same here and its the same cows every year. I have a few pb lims and they seem to be the worst.

    Could be on to something there.......we have 3 main culprits every year and they're all Pb lims too:eek:


  • #6044
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Any advice on what to put on calved suckler cows with sore teats? Right pain in the elder for them and me!!!! Thanks.

    I always rub cheno unction ... Rub it in well ... I know they suck it off but it still gets into cracks and soothes her...I think anyway !


  • #6045
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Any advice on what to put on calved suckler cows with sore teats? Right pain in the elder for them and me!!!! Thanks.
    We use coopers dairy ointment on any cows with sore or chapped teats - the wife will love your hands also so bonus.


  • #6046
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    We found cheno unction great stuff when we were milking. Or just a big tub of petrolium jelly. Used to get liture tubs of the stuff and put it on every cow after milking


  • #6047
    Suckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Suckler


    :mad: Does anyone know where i could get a new handle put on a hunting knife? Had a nice Martinii finland hunting knife that I picked up at the ploughing about ten years ago, great size/weight and edge on it but the aul fella left it out in a shed over winter and the rats had a right go chewing the rubber off the handle


  • #6048
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    only 1 product for sore teats in my book and its sudocrem instant results ,good enough for a ass ,good enough for a tit.oh were we talking about cows teats sorry


  • #6049
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    leg wax wrote: »
    only 1 product for sore teats in my book and its sudocrem instant results ,good enough for a ass ,good enough for a tit.

    Did you get that pm?


  • #6050
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    leg wax wrote: »
    only 1 product for sore teats in my book and its sudocrem instant results ,good enough for a ass ,good enough for a tit.

    :D:D:D:D


  • #6051
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Suckler wrote: »
    :mad: Does anyone know where i could get a new handle put on a hunting knife? Had a nice Martinii finland hunting knife that I picked up at the ploughing about ten years ago, great size/weight and edge on it but the aul fella left it out in a shed over winter and the rats had a right go chewing the rubber off the handle

    Santa:D

    Seriously though, send them off an email http://www.marttiini.fi/epages/MarttiiniShop.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/MarttiiniShop/Categories/Yhteystiedot/Henkiloekunta

    Try - Marttiini Factory Shops

    Shopping Centre Rinteenkulma, Rovaniemi
    Mrs. Minna Peuna-Kilic
    Koskikatu 25, 96200 Rovaniemi
    Tel.+358 (0)403 110 606
    E-mail: rinteenkulma@marttiini.fi

    I find the Finnish a very eager to please people and no harm in explaining your situation to them.
    They look like great knives, must get my brother to bring one back for my birthday in a couple of weeks:p


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  • #6052
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Did you get that pm?
    yes thank you forgot all about him, still trying to figure out who you are,any hints.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #6053
    quadboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 472 ✭✭quadboy


    How do i go about charging a quad battery with a 12 volt charger


  • #6054
    Suckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Suckler


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Santa:D

    Seriously though, send them off an email http://www.marttiini.fi/epages/MarttiiniShop.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/MarttiiniShop/Categories/Yhteystiedot/Henkiloekunta

    Try - Marttiini Factory Shops

    I find the Finnish a very eager to please people and no harm in explaining your situation to them.
    They look like great knives, must get my brother to bring one back for my birthday in a couple of weeks:p

    Thanks for the links, just afraid that the cost of sending it off to them etc. might just cost more than ordering a new one altogether! New one could just be ordered but I'm a hoarder of these things, I know I won't throw away the old one.


  • #6055
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    leg wax wrote: »
    yes thank you forgot all about him, still trying to figure out who you are,any hints.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Ya know me alright. I give enough away, pay attention and you'll figure it out. What I want to know is who viewtodiefor is?


  • #6056
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Suckler wrote: »
    Thanks for the links, just afraid that the cost of sending it off to them etc. might just cost more than ordering a new one altogether! New one could just be ordered but I'm a hoarder of these things, I know I won't throw away the old one.

    I send boxes over there all the time, just sent a box of Irish things over a week ago:D It shouldn't be any more than 5 or 6 euro. Or try your hand at molding your own!


  • #6057
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    knackery man reckons cow just dropped dead, i was busy so sent eldest lad up with him to show him where she was , when he saw her he said holy fook:D he said she still had grass in her mouth, so most likely not tetany


  • #6058
    gazahayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭gazahayes


    whelan1 wrote: »
    knackery man reckons cow just dropped dead, i was busy so sent eldest lad up with him to show him where she was , when he saw her he said holy fook:D he said she still had grass in her mouth, so most likely not tetany

    Nice smell from her so. Have a sow to throw into a skip here today that's dead since Saturday its some dose!


  • #6059
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    ye big bunch of girls, I never take any notice of the smell of dead animals as I always stockpile so there is a few here when the knacker comes. the oldest one he took away last saturday was nearly back walking


  • #6060
    Going forward...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭Going forward...


    bob charles wrote: »
    ye big bunch of girls, I never take any notice of the smell of dead animals as I always stockpile so there is a few here when the knacker comes. the oldest one he took away last saturday was nearly back walking

    Charming. On average, how many die on you to say you've adopted that policy?


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  • #6061
    Manoffeeling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭Manoffeeling


    bob charles wrote: »
    ye big bunch of girls, I never take any notice of the smell of dead animals as I always stockpile so there is a few here when the knacker comes. the oldest one he took away last saturday was nearly back walking

    Is your knacker on speed dial?


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