Farming Chit Chat III

i got a quote last week from a broker to insure farm, house, machinery and buildings and accidental loss of animals valued to 100k for e750. we are paying well over double that at the moment with our current insurer and it doesnt even cover accidental loss. i'll have the details in january for more info.

biddy2013 wrote: »

ah i like him too, theres a few quare looking lads on it

Mr November for one:D

Let's do one for next year biddy! Farmerettes;)

Boaty wrote: »

Ambulance, ambulance car and fire engine just after going over the fields, hopefully everyone is ok

Coastguard helicopter there now.

Was it this Boaty? http://www.howthcoastguard.com/1/post/2013/12/medevac-landing.html

Boaty wrote: »

Nope this.

http://www.wicklownews.net/man-airlifted-to-hospital-following-farm-accident/

Hope he's ok.

Timmaay wrote: »

Hope it isn't too bad, terrible day for it to happen.

Emergency services were with him for an hour and a half, then the helicopter came, landed then took off about 15-20 mins later, all over at about 5 o clock.
It was up on a hill so im sure they were being battered.

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Looks like the Fella dressed in red aint too far away now
http://www.noradsanta.org/

Thanks for that link :P
I am flat out peeling spuds, carrots, parsnips and tailing sprouts. Got the stuffing and trifle made
Iam so excited. I always find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve waiting for Santa
Don't forget to leave out some meal for the reindeer

Going to in laws for dinner no painc getting food ready only have to ate and drink for the day

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

thats what its all about, thats on thing i miss from being younger is christmas. You never get the same excitment from it as an adult unless of course you have kids of your own

The excitement is off the meter here.
Young lass is asleep but the 11 year old just can't contain the excient enough to sleep. It's just magic. Probably the older girls last year but with the younger girl we'll get a good few more years yet.

bob charles wrote: »

Its hard to beat a good catholic girl

Yea epically dressed as Santa,

Kids in bed, now to sort out presents,
Brownies look tempting

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

let us know where the manual is wrong

Only one place they went wrong, they did not include enough about drainage in peat soils. They even had the gaul in one instance to say some peats may not be suitable for "farming" :eek: They do have peat soil info in there, just not enough considering 14,000 (I think) hill farmers who I am sure are mostly on or near peat.

I saw mention of an advanced excavation apparatus who's operation I am intimately familiar with. However, Teagasc seem to have the blinkers on in regards to it's applications, merely relegating it to the creation of stepped test pits.

One thing I did learn was the name of a drain I had been thinking of, an interceptor drain. Installed on or at the bottom of a slope to collect the water moving down through that slope and saturating an area of flatter land at the slope base. I have just the situation for that, and as an added bonus it's quite a sheltered area having a wood to one side and that hill to the other. I must get to diverting that flow.

Given that area is one where ewes will be dropping lambs, and in some unusual cases for me the odd weak one, an open drain positioned at the bottom of a slope may be dangerous. I may actually have to use some fill, but I'll need to do some digging and thinking first.

For anyone with land not like mine, the Teagasc Drainage Manual is quite a good read