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Farming Chit Chat III

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  • #5942
    biddy2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭biddy2013


    ellewood wrote: »
    loading a mad bitch of a heifer this morning and the nothing do her only break her fecking leg vet coming to her -
    is she going to be for the gun as well??

    My one is gone to cow heaven


  • #5943
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    hugo29 wrote: »
    nice, and maybe a new grape as well

    Got her one for her birthday hasnt it worn out yet.


  • #5944
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Had a bit of luck, won a Teagasc Drainage manual, very appropriate, I may make a submission to next years eidition :D Delighted with that and the Ploughing tickets earlier in the year :)


  • #5945
    td5man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭td5man


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Had a bit of luck, won a Teagasc Drainage manual, very appropriate, I may make a submission to next years eidition :D Delighted with that and the Ploughing tickets earlier in the year :)

    What use would you have for a drainage manual, sure you could write one.


  • #5946
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    td5man wrote: »
    What use would you have for a drainage manual, sure you could write one.

    I like to see how the other half live :D


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  • #5947
    Sharpshooter82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭Sharpshooter82


    I see gerald potterton is giving out about christmas again in the journal. He took some flak for that this time last year :D


  • #5948
    TITANIUM.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭TITANIUM.


    reilig wrote: »
    There were pikes around here in the 1700's

    SuperStock_1889R-29376.jpg

    not much need for them since - they're not great for pushing up silage

    A two r a four prong pike is wat everyone down this neck of the woods calls um.
    And you never know when they're gonna in handy. They haven't gone away you know. A fork? Well la di da


  • #5949
    Brown Podzol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Brown Podzol


    Sharpshooter82 wrote: »
    I see gerald potterton is giving out about christmas again in the journal. He took some flak for that this time last year :D

    And dairy farmers and cows and Athy and jobs in IFA if I remember properly.:eek:


  • #5950
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    TITANIUM. wrote: »
    A two r a four prong pike is wat everyone down this neck of the woods calls um.
    And you never know when they're gonna in handy. They haven't gone away you know. A fork? Well la di da

    It's a fork around us. A 2 grain or Pitchfork and a 4 grain or Dungfork.

    A grape is the fruit of a vine and a Pike is a Coarse Fish. :)


  • #5951
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    Bizzum wrote: »
    It's a fork around us. A 2 grain or Pitchfork and a 4 grain or Dungfork.

    A grape is the fruit of a vine and a Pike is a Coarse Fish. :)

    We have no vines in Leitrim - never had! :D


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  • #5952
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    reilig wrote: »
    We have no vines in Leitrim - never had! :D
    Well around here the women are di vine;);)


  • #5953
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    delaval wrote: »
    Well around here the women are di vine;);)

    And you are da cheese......



    So so cheesy


  • #5954
    delaval
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭delaval


    darragh_haven wrote: »
    And you are da cheese......



    So so cheesy

    Smelly too:D


  • #5955
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭simx


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    A two prong is a fork around here and a four prong is a grape.

    Fork is great to stick people in the ar....

    Fork is great for moving unchopped hay.

    What's a 3 prong then? :)


  • #5956
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    simx wrote: »
    What's a 3 prong then? :)

    Broken ;)


  • #5957
    reilig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭reilig


    simx wrote: »
    What's a 3 prong then? :)

    They're known as a silage fork - came about the place in the 1970's. It was figured that too much silage fell through a pitch fork which was initially invented for pitching hay into cocks or reeks or later sheds. It was figured that a grape (shortened version of grapple - called a grapple because of the 4 prongs ability to hold onto material like manure covered bedding when lifting it) held on to the silage too well and was more difficult to push up silage with. So out of evolution came the 3 prong fork or the silage fork (some people call it a sprong which is short for silage prong)!


  • #5958
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    biddy2013 wrote: »
    My one is gone to cow heaven


    Yea same as that

    one shot, bang bang


  • #5959
    Marooned75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Marooned75


    reilig wrote: »
    They're known as a silage fork - came about the place in the 1970's. It was figured that too much silage fell through a pitch fork which was initially invented for pitching hay into cocks or reeks or later sheds. It was figured that a grape (shortened version of grapple - called a grapple because of the 4 prongs ability to hold onto material like manure covered bedding when lifting it) held on to the silage too well and was more difficult to push up silage with. So out of evolution came the 3 prong fork or the silage fork (some people call it a sprong which is short for silage prong)!

    Have four prong here boss man got a three prong couple of weeks ago way handier for silage a lot lighter to use


  • #5960
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    delaval wrote: »
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    Smelly too:D

    :D give him a wash next time ur in the shower


  • #5961
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Marooned75 wrote: »
    Have four prong here boss man got a three prong couple of weeks ago way handier for silage a lot lighter to use

    Never seen one around these parts. Good sort of job for part of a Christmas present for the auld lad?


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  • #5962
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    christmas party tonight:pac::pac::pac:


  • #5963
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Never seen one around these parts. Good sort of job for part of a Christmas present for the auld lad?

    Aurivo has em


  • #5964
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Aurivo has em

    Interesting......may have to send the brother to find one in Galway:D
    Although I don't think he'd have a clue what to look for. He's still not figured out which cow is his in the shed.

    (cow is out the field hardy harharhar:P)

    Kayak has just arrived. Met the dude at the lake and it has 2ft high waves at the moment:eek::eek:


  • #5965
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    House to myself tonight, weather fit for doing nothing. Got a quiche in the oven and finally there's something on the box worth watching!


  • #5966
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 837 ✭✭✭ABlur


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    House to myself tonight, weather fit for doing nothing. Got a quiche in the oven and finally there's something on the box worth watching!

    Real men don't eat quiche!!!


  • #5967
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    ABlur wrote: »
    Real men don't eat quiche!!!

    Real men have a quiche with the other half! ;):D


  • #5968
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    ABlur wrote: »
    Real men don't eat quiche!!!

    I like it better than hunger :D
    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Real men have a quiche with the other half! ;):D

    She bought it, does that count?


  • #5969
    hugo29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭hugo29


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    House to myself tonight, weather fit for doing nothing. Got a quiche in the oven and finally there's something on the box worth watching!

    Will it be a hay or silage fork you will use to eat it, and I suppose a hedge knife to cut the fcuking thing:D


  • #5970
    jersey101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭jersey101


    Kovu Murr wrote: »
    Real men have a quicke with the other half! ;):D

    fixed that for ye :D


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  • #5971
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    hugo29 wrote: »
    Will it be a hay or silage fork you will use to eat it, and I suppose a hedge knife to cut the fcuking thing:D

    I was thinking of asking Bob for a loan of the diet feeder.


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