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Farming Chit Chat II

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  • #7112
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    hugo29 wrote: »
    jayus every morning, they must be looking for someone or something, never been stopped in the morning,
    Pity they wouldn't go and catch some real criminals,but that might actually involve work!


  • #7113
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Western Pomise wrote: »
    Pity they wouldn't go and catch some real criminals,but that might actually involve work![/quote
    Tongue in cheek of course!


  • #7114
    AntrimGlens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    whelan1 wrote: »
    going off now again to look again

    Whelan1 - the parable of the shepherd and the lost sheep comes to mind with this one..


  • #7115
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    rang dept, said to register him and to ring back monday... she was saying the poor crater, asked me had i looked for it:cool:


  • #7116
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    cow that had the calf damaged her spine, never rains but it pours , had her walking round the fields last night to try and find calf she was grand then


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  • #7117
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    whelan1 wrote: »
    cow that had the calf damaged her spine, never rains but it pours , had her walking round the fields last night to try and find calf she was grand then

    Jeez thats a dose whelan hopefully she will come good though . Every now and then we have a calf that cant be found for a couple of weeks but the cow would be giving it a drink when we weren't around .


  • #7118
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    Tagged a calf this morning. The damn BVD sample fell out of my hand and down through the slats:mad::mad:
    What do I do now? Register the calf and then reorder a tag??


  • #7119
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,992 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    Tagged a calf this morning. The damn BVD sample fell out of my hand and down through the slats:mad::mad:
    What do I do now? Register the calf and then reorder a tag??

    Are you selling it or keeping it. If you are keeping it dont worry if the rest of your herd is clear.


  • #7120
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    found calf.. in ditch, alls well and he's in a calf pen now:D:D:D


  • #7121
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    whelan1 wrote: »
    found calf.. in ditch, alls well and he's in a calf pen now:D:D:D

    the poor lad, lead astray by some hussy no doubt:D


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  • #7122
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    What's good for wasp sting, young lad got stung by a fcuker


  • #7123
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    hugo29 wrote: »
    What's good for wasp sting, young lad got stung by a fcuker

    Vinegar or a penny taped to the area.


  • #7124
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Vinegar or a penny taped to the area.

    Thanks, white wine vinegar is all I could find, seems to have worked


  • #7125
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Are you selling it or keeping it. If you are keeping it dont worry if the rest of your herd is clear.
    :confused: you will have to order another tag, every animal that is born in your herd has to be tested


  • #7126
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Muckit wrote: »
    That was your chance to upgrade the yoke. I've any amount of old CD headunits I'd have given you here for free, but why bother?? For €100 (incl postage) on ebay I've a sony headunit that has bluetooth handfree calling, will play music off my phone through bluetooth, will even (I sh*t you not) read out my feckin text messages (once phone is set on 'driving mode'). Also No CD player, which isn't practical anyway in a tractor, but has a USB slot so can put a load of my fav albums on a stick and bring it with me. It would suit you down to the ground when your bringing in all those bales (all 500 of them....+ the neighbours!!) or drawing slurry!!!!! It even came with a remote! Get with the times Reilig, your New Holland deserves no less!!!! :p:p

    I loved it so much I put one in the wife's auris (bought the adaptor surround and wire harness). oh my God you'd want to feel the weight of the double din headunit that I ripped out of it, I'd say it'I save her a tenner a week on petrol (now I'm exaggerating:pac:) Also put one in my own yoke.... and it had a blaukpunt as standard. Basic heap of crap, never liked it.

    Now road legal and never miss a call or a text again ;) What would €300 get me if I had a crash?? It'd just about cover the excess!

    any chance of a link to that radio muckit?


  • #7127
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,737 ✭✭✭flutered


    hugo29 wrote: »
    What's good for wasp sting, young lad got stung by a fcuker

    the best way is, add some viniger to the affected area, then place an ice cube in a light cloth against the sting for about five minutes, this draws the sting to the surface, use a tweezers or a nail clippers to extract the sting, this is an old and tried remedy.


  • #7128
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    simx wrote: »
    any chance of a link to that radio muckit?

    Every chance. Out for a few now. I'l pm u tomorrow with link.


  • #7129
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Muckit wrote: »
    Every chance. Out for a few now. I'l pm u tomorrow with link.

    I'll have one too


  • #7130
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    Was talking to my mechanic today about any chance of a second hand power steering kit for my 165. He says tons of them left the country ~5 years ago with kits in them but very few are moving now. Any that are left are been kept.

    With heavier bales the 165 is starting to struggle a bit. He reckons the 168 or 188 is what you need but steer clear of the 178.


  • #7131
    flutered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,737 ✭✭✭flutered


    hugo29 wrote: »
    I'll have one too

    me as well please.


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  • #7132
    grizzlyadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 116 ✭✭grizzlyadams


    hugo29 wrote: »
    I'll have one too

    Link for me too ,please


  • #7133
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    just do it wrote: »
    Was talking to my mechanic today about any chance of a second hand power steering kit for my 165. He says tons of them left the country ~5 years ago with kits in them but very few are moving now. Any that are left are been kept.

    With heavier bales the 165 is starting to struggle a bit. He reckons the 168 or 188 is what you need but steer clear of the 178.

    local mechanic does a conversion to hydrostatic steering for around 500 quid I think. but that sounds too cheap for the work involved so maybe my figure is wrong. it feather light after the work he does though


  • #7134
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    just do it wrote: »
    Was talking to my mechanic today about any chance of a second hand power steering kit for my 165. He says tons of them left the country ~5 years ago with kits in them but very few are moving now. Any that are left are been kept.

    With heavier bales the 165 is starting to struggle a bit. He reckons the 168 or 188 is what you need but steer clear of the 178.

    we sold the 165 too few years back.. steering was a disaster... 4inches of play in steering.. was lethal on the road.. good mf mechanic got the power steering adjusted but only when turning to the right .. he gave up in the end


  • #7135
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    If the steering was the only issue I'd fix it. However bales are getting heavier and last summer I was helping a neighbour line them up. The last ~25% got an average enough shower and the 165 couldn't manage them:rolleyes:

    I'll probably knock another year our if it but if a 168 or 188 came up I'd probably go for it. It will be my only tractor so which would be better?


  • #7136
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    just do it wrote: »
    Was talking to my mechanic today about any chance of a second hand power steering kit for my 165. He says tons of them left the country ~5 years ago with kits in them but very few are moving now. Any that are left are been kept.

    With heavier bales the 165 is starting to struggle a bit. He reckons the 168 or 188 is what you need but steer clear of the 178.
    I wouldnt rule out a 178 , I drove one with a 4wd kit on it when I was a young lad making roads in through bogs and forestry . Absolutely tried to murder it between swamps and steep hills with a pig of a trailer and I dont think anything broke on it . What did he reckon was wrong with them ?


  • #7137
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    moy83 wrote: »
    I wouldnt rule out a 178 , I drove one with a 4wd kit on it when I was a young lad making roads in through bogs and forestry . Absolutely tried to murder it between swamps and steep hills with a pig of a trailer and I dont think anything broke on it . What did he reckon was wrong with them ?
    No better than the 165 for lifting heavy bales


  • #7138
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    just do it wrote: »
    No better than the 165 for lifting heavy bales

    I used to have a 178 , got rid of it as it struggled with heavy bales, get a 4w drive JDI and never look back


  • #7139
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    get a lie on every second saturday til 7.15, drainage man rang me at 6.30 this morning to say he wasnt coming in today, ffs, the one morning i didnt have to get up:mad:


  • #7140
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    A few heifers sold today, all off our own Charolais bull, from 14 to 17 myths old.
    370kg €850 (wild), 460kgs €1135 (wild), 520kgs €1240, 530kgs €1230, 550kgs €1220, 580kgs €1340, 630kgs €1410.

    Two of the lightest heifers were stone mad, good to see the back of them.


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  • #7141
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Bizzum wrote: »
    A few heifers sold today, all off our own Charolais bull, from 14 to 17 myths old.
    370kg €850 (wild), 460kgs €1135 (wild), 520kgs €1240, 530kgs €1230, 550kgs €1220, 580kgs €1340, 630kgs €1410.

    Two of the lightest heifers were stone mad, good to see the back of them.
    WHY where they wild? just wondering is it breeding , what are there mothers like?


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