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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #572
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    Whelan how is there any water left in your area:D
    have done feck all powerwashing this week a few days will finish it


  • #573
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Motor went on milking machine this am. Oul boy just back with replacement. Cows on OAD today. Club in Waterford IHC final, up against the Prendergasts so nothing soft. Two gentlemen but fierce warriors at the same time.

    Milking machine was labouring last night roll on sunday morning o_O


  • #574
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    sea12 wrote: »
    Good few people here knocked silage this week also. One field looked like lawn clippings.

    Must be catching see one field of docks baled this week.


  • #575
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Motor went on milking machine this am. Oul boy just back with replacement. Cows on OAD today. Club in Waterford IHC final, up against the Prendergasts so nothing soft. Two gentlemen but fierce warriors at the same time.
    i hate the unpredictability of things like that, had to get new motor for compressor a few weeks ago, also had to replace motor on one of the sets of scrapers earlier in the year, pulsation box blew up whilst milking a few years ago...


  • #576
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Its days like this spreding slurry i really want a 2000 gallon slurry tank


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  • #577
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    sea12 wrote: »
    Good few people here knocked silage this week also. One field looked like lawn clippings.

    This grass is beside the yard


  • #578
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Just noticed two neighbours at silage .
    Saw a few cutting silage in the burren last weekend, some nice farms in valleys down. Couldnt help but think could some of the stones be gathered out of the fields ;-)


  • #579
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    td5man wrote: »
    Just noticed two neighbours at silage .
    Saw a few cutting silage in the burren last weekend, some nice farms in valleys down. Couldnt help but think could some of the stones be gathered out of the fields ;-)

    There would be nothing left if we did that :D


  • #580
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    There would be nothing left if we did that :D

    Thought that but some of the smaller ones look to be just sitting there waiting to be picked up.
    We took 30 dumptrailer loads of rock out of ten acres this year and none of these were showing above the ground before ploughing its no wonder we could spread slurry on this field any winter!!


  • #581
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    td5man wrote: »
    Just noticed two neighbours at silage .
    Saw a few cutting silage in the burren last weekend, some nice farms in valleys down. Couldnt help but think could some of the stones be gathered out of the fields ;-)

    thats some of the best land in the country;), would love a shot of it.

    Rumour has it that there is no silage wrap to be gotten locally :eek:


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  • #582
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,391 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Out to get the cows milked soon, then straight out on the sauce early this evening. Tomorrows milking will be fun, OAD like freedom today would be nice but the old man wouldn't hear of the likes of it!


  • #583
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Timmaay wrote: »
    then straight out on the sauce early this evening.

    Bet ya to it. Guinness and heiny left at home. Nastro Assurro/ peroni all the way this side :-) oh and hugo and whelan.....wine @ 2.50/bottle


  • #584
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    Timmaay wrote: »
    Out to get the cows milked soon, then straight out on the sauce early this evening. Tomorrows milking will be fun, OAD like freedom today would be nice but the old man wouldn't hear of the likes of it!

    Ask him which milking he'd like to do?


  • #585
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    the slurry deadline is oct 15th does that mean you can spread on the 15th or you have to stop spreading before the 15th?


  • #586
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan1 wrote: »
    the slurry deadline is oct 15th does that mean you can spread on the 15th or you have to stop spreading before the 15th?

    All depends how smelly it is and who's looking over the ditch. Have you high hedges??! :-)


  • #587
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Muckit wrote: »
    All depends how smelly it is and who's looking over the ditch. Have you high hedges??! :-)
    seen a bit of FYM going out a few weeks before christmas last year :D


  • #588
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Muckit wrote: »
    Bet ya to it. Guinness and heiny left at home. Nastro Assurro/ peroni all the way this side :-) oh and hugo and whelan.....wine @ 2.50/bottle
    Any cheap bulmers?? magners would do at a push :D
    Water is very scarce here in the northeast not a drop to drink, supposed to be something to do with an excessive amount of powerwashing


  • #589
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    td5man wrote: »
    Any cheap bulmers?? magners would do at a push :D
    aldi do a cheaper version of bulmers and i can verify it is nice


  • #590
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    whelan1 wrote: »
    aldi do a cheaper version of bulmers and i can verify it is nice

    Green can, begins with T? Nice enough stuff actually.


  • #591
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    then centra do one called devils bit i think which is nice too, half the price of bulmers, going off cider for a while now though


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  • #592
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    whelan1 wrote: »
    aldi do a cheaper version of bulmers and i can verify it is nice

    Bulmers actually make it.

    They won an award for it last year.

    Nice with half a pint glass of ice.


  • #593
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    whelan1 wrote: »
    then centra do one called devils bit i think which is nice too, half the price of bulmers, going off cider for a while now though
    you must have went on a taste testing tour of all the shops whelan :P


  • #594
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Nicest cider I ever had, besides the stuff I make myself :D, was called The Orchard Pig.


  • #595
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    you must have went on a taste testing tour of all the shops whelan :P
    ah sure during the warm weather i didnt mind where i was buying the cider, interesting that bulmers make them... saves a few euro


  • #596
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    whelan1 wrote: »
    then centra do one called devils bit i think which is nice too, half the price of bulmers, going off cider for a while now though
    ah i had devils bit last year and ill never drink it again. Was sick as a dog the day after it. Never again ha


  • #597
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    jersey101 wrote: »
    ah i had devils bit last year and ill never drink it again. Was sick as a dog the day after it. Never again ha
    5 cans would be well enough for me, or ya can buy the 2 litre bottle, then a cup of tea and lights out:D


  • #598
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    ah i had devils bit last year and ill never drink it again. Was sick as a dog the day after it. Never again ha
    famous last words :D


  • #599
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    You need to try some of the locally made ciders in the pubs in the uk, after a pint or 2 you start to see things in a different way. :P


  • #600
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    famous last words :D

    well never have devils bit again. Drink bulmers all night. All this talk of cider is getting me thirsty :D


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  • #601
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    jersey101 wrote: »
    well never have devils bit again. Drink bulmers all night. All this talk of cider is getting me thirsty :D
    i told ya :D:D


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