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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #5222
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    simx wrote: »
    seen a lad bring 7 cows in a 14 foot tri axle

    What were they. .. dexters?


  • #5223
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    delaval wrote: »
    Nesting, are we?
    More like orders given to be carried out :D


  • #5224
    epfff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭epfff


    Muckit wrote: »
    What were they. .. dexters?

    No prob bringing 6 big cows in 14 ft
    Easier pull than 5 in a 12 ft
    You will put 7 in but they have to go up right and it won't happen very often


  • #5225
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    epfff wrote: »
    No prob bringing 6 big cows in 14 ft
    Easier pull than 5 in a 12 ft
    You will put 7 in but they have to go up right and it won't happen very often

    I brought 6 600kg bullocks last week to the mart for a neighbour. Tis dogging on the jeep to be honest and you would want to be taking your time. There was plenty of space in the trailer alright though.


  • #5226
    fredweena
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭fredweena


    Timmaay wrote: »
    http://www.wicklownews.net/horse-beaten-to-death-in-wicklow-town/

    Utter war in Wicklow at the minute, massive number of horses illegally grazing on nama land were removed last week, now this.

    I work on the weekends with a crowd that take dumped horses off commonage areas and try to fix them up and rehome them and the like. Some certain "groups" have been throwing horses up there for ages with ruined legs from trotting on the roads and most are skin and bones. Some local people got tired of seeing them starving and dying in the winter and decided to do something about it. In my opinion any horse not on private land with the permission of the landowner should be seized and if they don't pay to get them back and can prove they have somewhere to put them, then bang bang. Kinder on the horse anyway. Rant over!!!!!:o


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  • #5227
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Thanks all for the swift replies. I know I often brought 4 bullocks to the factory in a 12" and it was a struggle.
    The trailer is like New and brakes working. Two of the cows are pushing a tonne each and two smaller ones of 750kgs or more.
    It sounds Like a big load to me!


  • #5228
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Thanks all for the swift replies. I know I often brought 4 bullocks to the factory in a 12" and it was a struggle.
    The trailer is like New and brakes working. Two of the cows are pushing a tonne each and two smaller ones of 750kgs or more.
    It sounds Like a big load to me!

    Do like me and dont think about it until they are unloaded !


  • #5229
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    moy83 wrote: »
    Do like me and dont think about it until they are unloaded !

    Nothing like the smell of clutch when your trying to get it rolling :P


  • #5230
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Thanks all for the swift replies. I know I often brought 4 bullocks to the factory in a 12" and it was a struggle.
    The trailer is like New and brakes working. Two of the cows are pushing a tonne each and two smaller ones of 750kgs or more.
    It sounds Like a big load to me!

    Can you not get some one else to do the job for you. Whenever I have a big load to go I get local lad with his lorry. He has insurance and all its well worth it.


  • #5231
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    quick one


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  • #5232
    dzer2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Bodacious wrote: »
    quick one

    Yes


  • #5233
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Nothing like the smell of clutch when your trying to get it rolling :P

    The patrol will pull away and not a bother on the clutch ! A mate borrowed it the last day and when he was dropping it back he was all apologies because he could smell the clutch burning like mad when he parked it . We went out for a look and it was lads next door laying tar that the smell was coming from :-)


  • #5234
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Bodacious wrote: »
    quick one
    the buyer must be in the yard :D


  • #5235
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    I could use the tractor if I was worried I suppose, though it would be slower, particularly on the return trip!


  • #5236
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    moy83 wrote: »
    The patrol will pull away and not a bother on the clutch ! A mate borrowed it the last day and when he was dropping it back he was all apologies because he could smell the clutch burning like mad when he parked it . We went out for a look and it was lads next door laying tar that the smell was coming from :-)

    I often had to go into the low box to come out a crossroad with a small incline with a load on the landcruiser!!


  • #5237
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Bizzum wrote: »
    I could use the tractor if I was worried I suppose, though it would be slower, particularly on the return trip!

    If you take your time you will be grand, Id never go past 30mph with a load like that on incase I got a wobble. The brakes work better in the trailer with a load in it.


  • #5238
    Boaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Boaty


    fredweena wrote: »
    I work on the weekends with a crowd that take dumped horses off commonage areas and try to fix them up and rehome them and the like. Some certain "groups" have been throwing horses up there for ages with ruined legs from trotting on the roads and most are skin and bones. Some local people got tired of seeing them starving and dying in the winter and decided to do something about it. In my opinion any horse not on private land with the permission of the landowner should be seized and if they don't pay to get them back and can prove they have somewhere to put them, then bang bang. Kinder on the horse anyway. Rant over!!!!!:o

    No wonder there was security at the entrances to the field during the week while the field was being ploughed.


  • #5239
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    I often had to go into the low box to come out a crossroad with a small incline with a load on the landcruiser!!

    Credit to the patrol it pulls away in the high box without a bother , but its no harm to use the low box when the pressure is on . Thats what its there for .
    The father had a daihatsu fourtrac and would be pulling in top gear and it dying , there wasnt much clutch left when he sold it !


  • #5240
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Boaty wrote: »
    No wonder there was security at the entrances to the field during the week while the field was being ploughed.

    My dad was wondering how they even ploughed the field ha, its on a fair old slope!


  • #5241
    Boaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭Boaty


    Timmaay wrote: »
    My dad was wondering how they even ploughed the field ha, its on a fair old slope!

    Fendts :) 2 of them.


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  • #5242
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    Timmaay wrote: »
    My dad was wondering how they even ploughed the field ha, its on a fair old slope!
    keep the revs high and plough on ;)


  • #5243
    jomoloney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 859 ✭✭✭jomoloney


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Lads would it be an awful load to bring 4 good suckled cows behind the Trooper? The trailer is good, 14' triaxle. Would she be able for it?


    no bother

    if you have a dividing door, box them up to the front


  • #5244
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Muckit wrote: »
    What were they. .. dexters?

    friesians, twas full now alright, took couple of attempts to run them into it right


  • #5245
    Timmaay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Timmaay


    Boaty wrote: »
    Fendts :) 2 of them.

    Some fun turning on the headlands?


  • #5246
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Bizzum wrote: »
    Thanks all for the swift replies. I know I often brought 4 bullocks to the factory in a 12" and it was a struggle.
    The trailer is like New and brakes working. Two of the cows are pushing a tonne each and two smaller ones of 750kgs or more.
    It sounds Like a big load to me!

    There are cows and there are cows......and you have cows!

    1000x2 + 750x2 = 3500kg. And then weight of trailer........ Your overloaded sir!

    Do any of you guys pulling these know the weight of a tri axle trailer? By law the onus is on the driver to know the weight he is towing. You cannot plead ignorance.

    I see in farmers weekly that ivor Williams in uk have entered the tractor livestock trailer market.


  • #5247
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Muckit wrote: »
    There are cows and there are cows......and you have cows!

    1000x2 + 750x2 = 3500kg. And then weight of trailer........ Your overloaded sir!

    Do any of you guys pulling these know the weight of a tri axle trailer? By law the onus is on the driver to know the weight he is towing. You cannot plead ignorance.

    I see in farmers weekly that ivor Williams in uk have entered the tractor livestock trailer market.

    That's why I'm nervous! I wouldn't think twice about 3 big cows, and I have pulled 4 proper bullocks. But this more that we'd usually draw.


  • #5248
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    Bodacious wrote: »
    quick one



    Dept have issue with registering twins(again) / wrote out to neighbour who didn't reply to letter... calves now over six weeks.. I brought them to his vet for tb test for movement and he has no cards back yet.. can vet test them on tag no.s until cards come?! messy I know


  • #5249
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Muckit wrote: »
    There are cows and there are cows......and you have cows!

    1000x2 + 750x2 = 3500kg. And then weight of trailer........ Your overloaded sir!

    Do any of you guys pulling these know the weight of a tri axle trailer? By law the onus is on the driver to know the weight he is towing. You cannot plead ignorance.

    I see in farmers weekly that ivor Williams in uk have entered the tractor livestock trailer market.

    I'd say nearly anyone who has ever used a tri axle box has been overweight if the only had it half loaded muckit. I see where your coming from though. I remember a few years back you posted about an accident you had with the cowbox and you might be airing more on the side of caution.


  • #5250
    redzerologhlen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭redzerologhlen


    Bodacious wrote: »
    Dept have issue with registering twins(again) / wrote out to neighbour who didn't reply to letter... calves now over six weeks.. I brought them to his vet for tb test for movement and he has no cards back yet.. can vet test them on tag no.s until cards come?! messy I know

    We often tested calves that the cards weren't back for so I don't see why not!


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  • #5251
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,313 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    Bizzum wrote: »
    That's why I'm nervous! I wouldn't think twice about 3 big cows, and I have pulled 4 proper ballcocks. But this more that we'd usually draw.

    If you can get um into it, You can tow it.
    Take her handy and there'll b no bother.


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