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just do it · 04-02-2014 09:02AM

onyerbikepat wrote: »

I notice the For Sale sign.

I wonder what the auctioneer's description is? Top quality summer grazing

ABlur · 04-02-2014 09:35AM

just do it wrote: »

I wonder what the auctioneer's description is? Top quality summer grazing

Is that the place in Ennis where they had plans to move the GAA grounds to during the boom?

towzer2010 · 04-02-2014 09:57AM

just do it wrote: »

I wonder what the auctioneer's description is? Top quality summer grazing

Funnily enough I saw a similar sign on the Sligo road to Ballina last week. Big sign in the middle of a flood "Top Quality Land for Sale".

I would have taken a pic but the lads in the cop car behind me probably wouldn't have approved.

Greengrass1 · 04-02-2014 10:44AM

biddy2013 wrote: »

until the neighbours get a lend and ya never see it again

Neighbour that helped us put it on the other day said they have one but no one knows they do. Best way I suppose

Conmaicne Mara · 04-02-2014 01:53PM

This is starting to look like a big job. Seems to be more wall in the ground than there is standing, a lot of smaller stones, not easy built.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/111758162@N02/12305429046/

GrandSoftDay · 04-02-2014 04:32PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

This is starting to look like a big job. Seems to be more wall in the ground than there is standing, a lot of smaller stones, not easy built.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/111758162@N02/12305429046/

Those round stones are a pig to build with anyway. They would all want a crack of the sledge to have a flat side on them.

mikefoxo · 04-02-2014 05:09PM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

This is starting to look like a big job. Seems to be more wall in the ground than there is standing, a lot of smaller stones, not easy built.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/111758162@N02/12305429046/

Plenty of spud stones if ever ye need them:D

just do it · 04-02-2014 06:07PM

ABlur wrote: »

Is that the place in Ennis where they had plans to move the GAA grounds to during the boom?

That's right, to the side of the dual carriageway between the clarecastle roundabout and the motorway. Sold for big money during the good times:rolleyes:

Drive that road regularly but only this week spotted the sign. Must have been put up before Christmas before the rain.

just do it · 04-02-2014 06:12PM

Have 1-2 acres under seawater currently. Must take a photo although its not much good without a before and after. Will probably get it back this year but I currently value it at €0 as with the rising tide level it surely hasn't great long term prospects.

Anyone have a good app for measuring altitude? Would love to know how much above sea level it is.

ABlur · 04-02-2014 06:14PM

just do it wrote: »

That's right, to the side of the dual carriageway between the clarecastle roundabout and the motorway. Sold for big money during the good times:rolleyes:

Drive that road regularly but only this week spotted the sign. Must have been put up before Christmas before the rain.

The sign is up since late last year, another distressed asset. Don't know how they could have built anything on it except on stilts it always floods.

Bodacious · 07-02-2014 06:56PM

298 days KIlmoney Bruce heifer calf unassisted .. Glad of my calving bay tonight ...threw calf up on quad and away up the field with cow in hot pursuit
.. Horrible night here

Genghis Cant · 07-02-2014 07:06PM

^^^^^^^^^^ BA x Ch . My favorite cross. Bet she'll be a smasher!

Kovu · 07-02-2014 07:10PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^ BA x Ch . My favorite cross. Bet she'll be a smasher!

I definitely did not read that as BAxCh and I was wondering what he did to you :eek::D

Bodacious · 07-02-2014 07:22PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^ BA x Ch . My favorite cross. Bet she'll be a smasher!

She will be nice alright as I have a white char 2012 heifer kept out of this lady already and she is very fancy but I will not be keeping any calves this year.. I am fully stocked and need a winter off from keeping heifer calves! im always keeping them and have enough now :-)

Kovu · 07-02-2014 07:23PM

^^ I CALL DIBS!

just do it · 07-02-2014 07:40PM

.Kovu. wrote: »

^^ I CALL DIBS!

Let the bidding begin

Kovu · 07-02-2014 07:53PM

just do it wrote: »

Let the bidding begin

She'll be sold before she's even registered

Genghis Cant · 07-02-2014 08:43PM

Bodacious wrote: »

She will be nice alright as I have a white char 2012 heifer kept out of this lady already and she is very fancy but I will not be keeping any calves this year.. I am fully stocked and need a winter off from keeping heifer calves! im always keeping them and have enough now :-)

Shur isn't most of the winter behind us now. What age do you normally sell heifers at?

Muckit · 07-02-2014 09:05PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Shur isn't most of the winter behind us now.....

Famous last words!!!

Bodacious · 07-02-2014 09:21PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Shur isn't most of the winter behind us now. What age do you normally sell heifers at?

Hope to sell all calves Oct/Nov but past few years ive been buying in the odd nice local heifer weanling and keeping my own as was building numbers

severeoversteer · 07-02-2014 11:43PM

took this picture this week

aiming for silage in march and closing it again for silage in may

and im in the same county as Connemara ! hard to believe

will top it up with nitrogen in weeks time

f140 · 07-02-2014 11:47PM

severeoversteer wrote: »

took this picture this week

aiming for silage in march and closing it again for silage in may

and im in the same county as Connemara ! hard to believe

will top it up with nitrogen in weeks time

wow whens it growing since.

Reggie. · 07-02-2014 11:48PM

severeoversteer wrote: »

took this picture this week

aiming for silage in march and closing it again for silage in may

and im in the same county as Connemara ! hard to believe

will top it up with nitrogen in weeks time

Hard to believe it was taken this week. Looks like a good crop all the same

severeoversteer · 08-02-2014 12:04AM

f140 wrote: »

wow whens it growing since.

mid October

got some p and k that time

should be good crop in march if we get a dry spell

the subsequent crop in may will be super, nice and clean

Conmaicne Mara · 08-02-2014 12:06AM

severeoversteer wrote: »

and im in the same county as Connemara ! hard to believe

Theres bog in Meath and half of Co Tipperary receives Disadvantaged area payment.

If we had the soil under that grass there's no doubt we'd have that grass

severeoversteer · 08-02-2014 12:19AM

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Theres bog in Meath and half of Co Tipperary receives Disadvantaged area payment.

If we had the soil under that grass there's no doubt we'd have that grass

ahh ya, but its credit for the farmers management too !

I wont argue about the soil in my place its top notch and it would want to be for what i paid for the land:pac:

theres a guy 2 miles away that stripped over 1 foot of soil off all his land and sold it for top dollar, it amazes me the condition that it is in at the moment, he left just enough soil to till a crop of grass in it, I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing though

Conmaicne Mara · 08-02-2014 12:22AM

severeoversteer wrote: »

ahh ya, but its credit for the farmers management too !

I wont argue about the soil in my place its top notch and it would want to be for what i paid for the land:pac:

theres a guy 2 miles away that stripped over 1 foot of soil off all his land and sold it for top dollar, it amazes me the condition that it is in at the moment, he left just enough soil to till a crop of grass in it, I wouldn't dream of doing such a thing though

Self praise is no praise

Ah no, tis a lovely field of grass to be fair. I have a bit coming along but it's nothing like that, have it saved since early December and will get a little fert in late Feb or early March before lambing.

darragh_haven · 08-02-2014 01:54PM

25 years feed our silage here

And coming to the end of the first pit

Timmaay · 08-02-2014 02:33PM

Darragh thats one hell of a clean silage pit face!

darragh_haven · 08-02-2014 02:49PM

Timmaay wrote: »

Darragh thats one hell of a clean silage pit face!

Not bad for a 25 year old shear grab. My dad would be a great man for general maintenance.

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