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Livestock/General Farming photo thread ***READ MOD NOTE IN POST #1***

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  • #4982
    countryjimbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭countryjimbo


    reilig wrote: »
    We talked about it for a long time - we could buy land @ 5000 per acre. But we have this land and €1000 per acre will drain it. We have other black ground beside it which is the best ground we have. It's dry all year around. It has early grass and is grazed into December. If we had enough of that type of ground, we'd be away with it. hopefully we will have a bit more after this!

    Great to see photos of the draining. I have something similar planned for later this year and my contractor advised using the mounding bucket too. I'm considering opening the drain in September, leaving it open all winter and then putting in the pipes and covering in spring. Might have to clean the drain up a bit first but hope to get the benefit of having them open for the winter.

    Can you give some details of the field layout, is their much of a fall? did you go with all straight runs or herring bone layout?

    I like your comparison of the drain versus buy prices, well worth considering!


  • #4983
    Figerty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭Figerty


    reilig wrote: »
    It's more like a scene from Bord Na Mona, but we got 800m of connacht agri pipes in yesterday.

    Water is flowing in the trenches so I presume that when they are backfilled, the water will flow through the pipes.

    Ground was sprayed off 10 days ago and baled up. Hoping to reseed it once the shores are in.

    Backfilling has started this morning. Scraw will be put in on top of the pipes followed by the loose soil. Trenches dug with a mounding bucket and pipe is laid from 20 inches to 28 inches depending on the collector drain depth.


    I did some a while back, it will take couple of months to really work. The ground above the drain will sink because it dries so much. Will be doing more.


  • #4984
    Dr. Sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Dr. Sh1te


    reilig wrote: »



    DSC_0004_zps995a78b9.jpg



    reilig,

    How are the Connaught agri pipes jointed?


  • #4985
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,954 ✭✭✭stanflt


    reilig wrote: »
    Yes, they've been in the shed for nearly 2 years. It's only in the last few weeks that it has been dry enough to lay them!

    Would you be up for a visit in 2 months time to see how it works out-

    I've 20 acre of a rented 60 acre farm that is crying out to be done

    It's fabulous ground if it was drained and I don't mind putting in a few bob if I can get a return
    Long term lease


  • #4986
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    +1


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  • #4987
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Wouldn't mind a look me self have a bit i could do, could have a discussion group, :D


  • #4988
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Let's all head up for a nose :D


  • #4989
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    OK well it looks like we'I have a car load from Galway and one coming from Meath! :pac: Stick the kettle on for the tae Reilig!


  • #4990
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Don't forget the Banner men ;)















    (and for some strange reason rellig was never seen on boards again :))


  • #4991
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Muckit wrote: »
    OK well it looks like we'I have a car load from Galway and one coming from Meath! :pac: Stick the kettle on for the tae Reilig!

    And some daycent ham for the sammichs.


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  • #4992
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    just do it wrote: »
    Don't forget the Banner men ;)

    Get up this far JDI/vander and we'I squeeze ye in!!


  • #4993
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Muckit wrote: »
    OK well it looks like we'I have a car load from Galway and one coming from Meath! :pac: Stick the kettle on for the tae Reilig!

    And I'll walk up the road ;)


  • #4994
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    And I'll walk up the road ;)

    Erra we'I stick ya on the roof, save the legs!:D


  • #4995
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Muckit wrote: »
    Erra we'I stick ya on the roof, save the legs!:D

    Better not wear a skirt that day then:D


  • #4996
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Muckit wrote: »
    Get up this far JDI/vander and we'I squeeze ye in!!

    Don't forget redzer ;):D


  • #4997
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    just do it wrote: »
    Don't forget redzer ;):D

    And paka......

    And there's a few more on here as well....


  • #4998
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    On second thoughts, make yer own way, there's too feckin' many of ye!! :D See ye there ;)


  • #4999
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    So, now that's all organised, who's telling Reilig? :confused:


  • #5000
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job.

    8s1r.jpg


  • #5001
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    just do it wrote: »
    Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job.

    I turn down full length ones :p


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  • #5002
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    I turn down full length ones :p
    Telescopic:confused:


  • #5003
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Muckit wrote: »
    Get up this far JDI/vander and we'I squeeze ye in!!
    Wht about little old me?


  • #5004
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Just in from dropping pipes.

    What did I miss?

    Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P


  • #5005
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,900 ✭✭✭mf240


    just do it wrote: »
    Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job

    Shores are working well, when you can shorten the wellies:pac::pac:


  • #5006
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    reilig wrote: »
    Just in from dropping pipes.

    What did I miss?

    Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

    Ara sure we'll be waiting for you at the airport when you get back. Them pipes will need a good dash of rain to work properly anyhow ;)


  • #5007
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    just do it wrote: »
    Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job.

    8s1r.jpg

    Do they say muckit on them..... did you steal them from muckit......ah now fess up


  • #5008
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    reilig wrote: »
    Just in from dropping pipes.

    What did I miss?

    Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

    Just leave the keys, kovu knows where you live, we will help ourselves,


  • #5009
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    delaval wrote: »
    Wht about little old me?
    The offer is still there to switch farms and then you can be a Banner Man,



    .......and then you'll also know about proper hard weather and impossible grazing conditions;):D


  • #5010
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    Do they say muckit on them..... did you steal them from muckit......ah now fess up
    Yeah, while he was mascarading as someone else up in Roscommon;)


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  • #5011
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    reilig wrote: »
    Just in from dropping pipes.

    What did I miss?

    Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P
    Kovu, have you the loan of a a trailer? I've to pick up a few pipes off a lad up your direction.... :D


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