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  • #722
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Muckit wrote: »
    Do you not use sandbags delaval around the edges??

    No those tyre mats will seal very well as it settles


  • #723
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    I hope there are no mice and rats reading this forum. They will be up to go winter camping with you if they see those nice fluffy bales of straw spread on the pit for them

    All the mice around here are blind.
    This is an out farm and the bales were out in the yard annoying me and I threw them up out of the way


  • #724
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    moy83 wrote: »
    Why is there such a big lump on the right hand side delaval ?
    Will you be opening it again soon or would you be afraid of the air getting in where the grass is peeping out ?

    Don't know if you can see in pic but there is a roof on this pit and I ran out of head room.

    Bit peeping at the bottom not too bothered it will settle


  • #725
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    delaval wrote: »
    Jesus, ye're a critical shower. Here was me delighted to be finished

    :D:D We're Irish, so of course we're going to be knockin' the lad that seems to be doing well for himself!! :D:D

    Yes I should have started by saying I like your tyre mats!! Well done!!


  • #726
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    delaval wrote: »
    Don't know if you can see in pic but there is a roof on this pit and I ran out of head room.

    Bit peeping at the bottom not too bothered it will settle

    Ill accept the roof as an excuse I suppose ! :-)
    I tried to put up a pic of my beautifully level pit but it wont up load why ever


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  • #727
    hoseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭hoseman


    moy83 wrote: »
    Ill accept the roof as an excuse I suppose ! :-)
    I tried to put up a pic of my beautifully level pit but it wont up load why ever
    Had the same could not load picture,made it smaller then it worked


  • #728
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    moy83 wrote: »
    Ill accept the roof as an excuse I suppose ! :-)
    I tried to put up a pic of my beautifully level pit but it wont up load why ever

    Well Moy, it was a choice between loader roof or shed roof and I chose neither


  • #729
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Muckit wrote: »
    :D:D We're Irish, so of course we're going to be knockin' the lad that seems to be doing well for himself!! :D:D

    Yes I should have started by saying I like your tyre mats!! Well done!!

    I'm sure this will qualify me for dumb post of the day but what's a "tyre mat". I've zoomed in and everything and all I can see are small tyres which BTW wouldn't last pi**ing time around here before the cover was doing a grand job covering some un-cut silage in a neighbours field.


  • #730
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I'm sure this will qualify me for dumb post of the day but what's a "tyre mat". I've zoomed in and everything and all I can see are small tyres which BTW wouldn't last pi**ing time around here before the cover was doing a grand job covering some un-cut silage in a neighbours field.

    Look closely and see how they are bolted together. Easy horse them up with loader or two horses of men!!


  • #731
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    delaval wrote: »
    Well Moy, it was a choice between loader roof or shed roof and I chose neither
    An hour sweating with the fork would have taken the worst out of that lump and made it respectable :P:P:D


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  • #732
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Muckit wrote: »
    Look closely and see how they are bolted together. Easy horse them up with loader or two horses of men!!

    I was wondering.

    Must be a lot of work making them.

    Truck tyres all the way here. Throw them up 10 at a time with the loader, easy to lay them around then.


  • #733
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I was wondering.

    Must be a lot of work making them.

    Truck tyres all the way here. Throw them up 10 at a time with the loader, easy to lay them around then.

    We have used them in the past but were a pain in the h*le to roll up and stretched sheets too much and held too much water and a pig to move and dangerous on icy polythene. Still use on sides though


  • #734
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    freedominacup wrote: »
    I was wondering.

    Must be a lot of work making them.

    Truck tyres all the way here. Throw them up 10 at a time with the loader, easy to lay them around then.

    A lot if work and expensive to boot. They came with the farm, supplied by the landlord!!!!


  • #735
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    A lot if work and expensive to boot. They came with the farm, supplied by the landlord!!!!

    You must be giving that landlord one, he is so nice to you, same guy that gave you the free grass? You wouldnt get flea's of landlords around here


  • #736
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    bob charles wrote: »
    You must be giving that landlord one, he is so nice to you, same guy that gave you the free grass? You wouldnt get flea's of landlords around here

    Ah you might Bob, but they'd charge you rent for them!


  • #737
    Injuryprone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭Injuryprone


    moy83 wrote: »
    An hour sweating with the fork would have taken the worst out of that lump and made it respectable :P:P:D
    sure any half-daycent loaderman would tell you that you should always have the sides of the pit higher than the centre so that it's easier/safer to pack it right to the edge! Isn't that right Delaval??;):p


  • #738
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Injuryprone wrote: »
    sure any half-daycent loaderman would tell you that you should always have the sides of the pit higher than the centre so that it's easier/safer to pack it right to the edge! Isn't that right Delaval??;):p

    You are my hero


  • #739
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    bob charles wrote: »
    You must be giving that landlord one, he is so nice to you, same guy that gave you the free grass? You wouldnt get flea's of landlords around here

    And lime, Bob


  • #740
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    delaval wrote: »
    And lime, Bob

    If I ever find that landlord, you will be out on your ear :)

    his not good friends with your missus by any chance


  • #741
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Well someone's bangin something .... and it's not a drum


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  • #742
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,979 ✭✭✭dzer2


    bob charles wrote: »
    If I ever find that landlord, you will be out on your ear :)

    his not good friends with your missus by any chance

    Who said it was a he.:D


  • #743
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Injuryprone wrote: »
    sure any half-daycent loaderman would tell you that you should always have the sides of the pit higher than the centre so that it's easier/safer to pack it right to the edge! Isn't that right Delaval??;):p

    Tru dat I think it lets the water runoff down the middle too and keeps it from soaking down the walls


  • #744
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Muckit wrote: »
    Well someone's bangin something .... and it's not a drum

    It's me, I seem to get saddled every deal I do!!


  • #745
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    64 bales made yesterday. exact same number as I got of the first cut


  • #746
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,909 ✭✭✭stanflt


    Made 36 bales off the grazing block- 121 so far this year with a stocking rate of 4.24

    rdfu.jpg


  • #747
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    God great shape to those stan, even the edges, off short stuff. What's the secret... are they chopped?


  • #748
    Juniorhurler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Juniorhurler


    54 acres in the pit now between both cuts. Temporary cover on for the night. Assault on the covering starts in the AM. All in dry and in great order. Grass covers have got a bit ahead so hope to gather about 40 bales as well, maybe in about a fortnight.


  • #749
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    Broke my bale lifter this evening!! Things were going so well too! Aah well it was only about 20 years old! Have a good neighbour so I'll get the rest of the bales in tomorrow.


  • #750
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    KatyMac wrote: »
    Broke my bale lifter this evening!! Things were going so well too! Aah well it was only about 20 years old! Have a good neighbour so I'll get the rest of the bales in tomorrow.

    Same happened me last year! Those handlers made 15-20 years ago just weren't made strong enough for chopped bales!!


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  • #751
    WellKiiid??
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭WellKiiid??


    How many peoples pits / stack of bales looks a lot smaller than last year?


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