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Username John · 02-04-2014 09:43AM

Muckit wrote: »

I wonder is there an app (or will there be soon) that could give you the green/red light bar on your screen? Just place it in a holder on top of the dash in middle of cab.

There's already speedometer apps that are very accurate, so I can't see how it could be beyond the bounds of possibility. Be a good young scientists project for a couple of whiz kids!

I think the GPS positioning wouldn't be accurate enough.
The ones in your phone are to within a few metres now I think, but thats too much error for fertiliser apreading or spraying ...

So I was told anyways, but like you say - things are always improving, so maybe soon enough...

case 956 · 02-04-2014 09:55AM

anyone have gps on thre phone for laying out paddocks?

Muckit · 02-04-2014 10:18AM

Username John wrote: »

I think the GPS positioning wouldn't be accurate enough.
The ones in your phone are to within a few metres now I think, but thats too much error for fertiliser apreading or spraying ...

So I was told anyways, but like you say - things are always improving, so maybe soon enough...

You know l think your right. Accuracy probably wouldn't be good enough. Seen a programme on it before. The gps needs to be working off 3 satellites to be 100%accurate and phone gps is probably working off 2

Muckit · 02-04-2014 10:22AM

Going a long way from gps fertiliser spreading and spraying now, but how come they can't locate the blackbox of that plane if it's giving out a signal? I just can't understand it. Surely that would have the latest most accurate technology in it.

reilig · 02-04-2014 10:30AM

Speaking of accurate spraying, I have rushes to spray on land which is new to me this year. Access is poor and the fields are soft in spots so I am going to do it with the quad and 100 litre sprayer. It's hard to be 100% accurate with teh quad because you are so close to the ground. Been looking at the blue spray marker that is sold in co-ops but it's very expensive for the amount that you get from 1 pack. I saw on several of the US forums that people recommend pond dye for marking grass - it is an industrial food dye which is non toxic. So I got in touch with a lad who is selling it on ebay from the Uk. He is adamant that it will do the job perfectly and that it is 100% safe for sprayer pumps and nozzels. €33 to him through ebay and he will post 250g of blue powder to me which will turn 1.5 million litres of water a nice shade of blue. 1/4 of a teaspoon in each 100l sprayer will be generous for it.

Looking forward to testing this out as I will be spraying over easter. I just want it to be visible for an hour after spraying. the seller says that it should be visible for 2 weeks if there isn't too much rainfall.

Greengrass1 · 02-04-2014 10:58AM

reilig wrote: »

Speaking of accurate spraying, I have rushes to spray on land which is new to me this year. Access is poor and the fields are soft in spots so I am going to do it with the quad and 100 litre sprayer. It's hard to be 100% accurate with teh quad because you are so close to the ground. Been looking at the blue spray marker that is sold in co-ops but it's very expensive for the amount that you get from 1 pack. I saw on several of the US forums that people recommend pond dye for marking grass - it is an industrial food dye which is non toxic. So I got in touch with a lad who is selling it on ebay from the Uk. He is adamant that it will do the job perfectly and that it is 100% safe for sprayer pumps and nozzels. €33 to him through ebay and he will post 250g of blue powder to me which will turn 1.5 million litres of water a nice shade of blue. 1/4 of a teaspoon in each 100l sprayer will be generous for it.

Looking forward to testing this out as I will be spraying over easter. I just want it to be visible for an hour after spraying. the seller says that it should be visible for 2 weeks if there isn't too much rainfall.

That sounds like good stuff.
The neighbours on the hill above me will wondering what the hek I'm at and I'll be getting calls night and day

4 of them rang me last year when I disced up the silage field after we took silage to find out what I was at.
Nosey beggar's

Greengrass1 · 02-04-2014 11:00AM

case 956 wrote: »

anyone have gps on thre phone for laying out paddocks?

Planimeter.
Friend uses it to set up paddocks in a field he bought last year

Muckit · 02-04-2014 11:15AM

JDI must be flat out with calving at the moment. Haven't seen him post in a while which is a pity. Would be good to hear about his reseed and plans for grazing for this year.

Nekarsulm · 02-04-2014 11:43AM

Muckit wrote: »

Going a long way from gps fertiliser spreading and spraying now, but how come they can't locate the blackbox of that plane if it's giving out a signal? I just can't understand it. Surely that would have the latest most accurate technology in it.

Perhaps not set up to transmit at a low enough frequency? I remember reading that whales can transmit sound so low, it can travel hundreds of miles. So you would imagine its not beyond the wit of man to adopt this to black boxes.

Nekarsulm · 02-04-2014 11:48AM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

That sounds like good stuff.
The neighbours on the hill above me will wondering what the hek I'm at and I'll be getting calls night and day

4 of them rang me last year when I disced up the silage field after we took silage to find out what I was at.
Nosey beggar's

Well worth buying then, even if you didn't actually need it to see where you were going!

:D

I had a dozen old silage bales in a corner of a field, which had rotted. Mentioned to a lad with a dumper that I would perhaps get a loan of the dumper to move them, and he replied that "X" was giving out about them all over the parish. ( X is a top class farmer, but he is inclined to remind you of the fact) So I left them there till the next year.:D

Greengrass1 · 02-04-2014 12:08PM

Milk lorry just left the yard. Owner has a polish lad driving.
I seen him coming down the road when I was down the field so I said I'd head back up and open the gate for him.
Well the bollox started laying on the horn because the gate was closed.
Wasn't locked now just closed. And he hadnt even reached the gate before he stated laying on the horn.

So I said fcuk that I'm not being beeped at in my own place so I left it closed even though I walked passed and i could have opened it.
This lad then kicked the gate open and hopped it off the wall.
I don't bother with him at all because he is a sirly sort of a person and never happy.
He left then and has the tanks left on.

have2flushtwice · 02-04-2014 12:12PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

That sounds like good stuff.
The neighbours on the hill above me will wondering what the hek I'm at and I'll be getting calls night and day

4 of them rang me last year when I disced up the silage field after we took silage to find out what I was at.
Nosey beggar's

and am, well, why did you disc them?!

have2flushtwice · 02-04-2014 12:25PM

Muckit wrote: »

You know l think your right. Accuracy probably wouldn't be good enough. Seen a programme on it before. The gps needs to be working off 3 satellites to be 100%accurate and phone gps is probably working off 2

The accuracy is there, the technology is there, but the technology is not on your phone yet. Theres nothing they cant do at this stage. If a GPS can do it, then your phone will eventually do it - ut not until we have all been milked for the GPS units first.

as for the comments on the plane, my opinion is that they must know(and every keeps saying it) where it is. whoevers spy satellites have it wont share the information because they don't want other countries to know what levels of monitoring they have.
slightly off topic: don't forget, the US recorded all their own calls and texts, as well as Angela Markel's phone (this came out last year). While the US operation was covert, Germany didn't know their phone was being monitored, however when they did, the US didn't know their tapping operation was being unravelled.
What im trying to say is that we are only at the periphery of the available technology.

Base price · 02-04-2014 12:48PM

Anyone know how much a 4ft McConnell shear grab is worth. It is sitting here in a shed unused for the last 8 or 9 years. It has the levers but is missing one small pipe. The last time it was used it was working perfectly. Blades are sharp and not bent. Also have a three point rear loader for it.
May a well turn it into cash as I doubt it is ever going to be needed here.

whelan2 · 02-04-2014 12:59PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Milk lorry just left the yard. Owner has a polish lad driving.
I seen him coming down the road when I was down the field so I said I'd head back up and open the gate for him.
Well the bollox started laying on the horn because the gate was closed.
Wasn't locked now just closed. And he hadnt even reached the gate before he stated laying on the horn.

So I said fcuk that I'm not being beeped at in my own place so I left it closed even though I walked passed and i could have opened it.
This lad then kicked the gate open and hopped it off the wall.
I don't bother with him at all because he is a sirly sort of a person and never happy.
He left then and has the tanks left on.

let the dairies know

Reggie. · 02-04-2014 01:14PM

have2flushtwice wrote: »

The accuracy is there, the technology is there, but the technology is not on your phone yet. Theres nothing they cant do at this stage. If a GPS can do it, then your phone will eventually do it - ut not until we have all been milked for the GPS units first.

as for the comments on the plane, my opinion is that they must know(and every keeps saying it) where it is. whoevers spy satellites have it wont share the information because they don't want other countries to know what levels of monitoring they have.
slightly off topic: don't forget, the US recorded all their own calls and texts, as well as Angela Markel's phone (this came out last year). While the US operation was covert, Germany didn't know their phone was being monitored, however when they did, the US didn't know their tapping operation was being unravelled.
What im trying to say is that we are only at the periphery of the available technology.

We are 10 years behind as in the technology available today was in use by the American military ten years ago so what they are using now we will have in ten years time

darragh_haven · 02-04-2014 01:34PM

Reggie. wrote: »

We are 10 years behind as in the technology available today was in use by the American military ten years ago so what they are using now we will have in ten years time

you mean i'll be shooting my neighbor in a friendly fire incident soon, instead of shooting the fox i was aiming at

whelan2 · 02-04-2014 01:36PM

darragh_haven wrote: »

you mean i'll be shooting my neighbor in a friendly fire incident soon, instead of shooting the fox i was aiming at

saw a fox yesterday morning walking through the yard , hadnt seen one in years

mf240 · 02-04-2014 01:37PM

Reggie. wrote: »

We are 10 years behind as in the technology available today was in use by the American military ten years ago so what they are using now we will have in ten years time

Ya but we don't go looking to start conflicts all over the world so we don't need all sorts of weapons and such.

Reggie. · 02-04-2014 01:38PM

darragh_haven wrote: »

you mean i'll be shooting my neighbor in a friendly fire incident soon, instead of shooting the fox i was aiming at

Nope that was the 60s

Greengrass1 · 02-04-2014 01:50PM

whelan2 wrote: »

saw a fox yesterday morning walking through the yard , hadnt seen one in years

Yep seen one a week ago eating the cleanings a cow left behind in a paddock.
Have a wood here that gas a family in it

Reggie. · 02-04-2014 01:51PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yep seen one a week ago eating the cleanings a cow left behind in a paddock.
Have a wood here that gas a family in it

Place is overrun with them here

whelan2 · 02-04-2014 01:51PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yep seen one a week ago eating the cleanings a cow left behind in a paddock.
Have a wood here that gas a family in it

would like to get rid of it as they could spread neospora

Greengrass1 · 02-04-2014 01:52PM

whelan2 wrote: »

would like to get rid of it as they could spread neospora

Never thought of that.

GrandSoftDay · 02-04-2014 02:38PM

whelan2 wrote: »

would like to get rid of it as they could spread neospora

Not to be smart whelan but if we got rid of everything that could possibly harbour a disease there wouldn't be much left.

Reggie. · 02-04-2014 02:41PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Not to be smart whelan but if we got rid of everything that could possibly harbour a disease there wouldn't be much left.

This is true but one less thing around and all that

whelan2 · 02-04-2014 03:14PM

GrandSoftDay wrote: »

Not to be smart whelan but if we got rid of everything that could possibly harbour a disease there wouldn't be much left.

sure if i hadnt of seen him, i wouldnt have known he was there

frazzledhome · 02-04-2014 04:45PM

Reggie. wrote: »

We are 10 years behind as in the technology available today was in use by the American military ten years ago so what they are using now we will have in ten years time

When the Allies fired the Gerrys ducked when the Gerrys fired the Allies ducked but when the Yanks fired everyone ducked

have2flushtwice · 02-04-2014 05:17PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Place is overrun with them here

should be no shortage of lads in the hunting forum looking to help you out.
they are feeding cubs now, every march they take a few hens on us, we usually get one of them in retaliation. No sign of them this year. I walk the dog along the ditches where the dens are, he's an old dog and has little interest, but I think the smell of him around the ditches might have kept them away from the dens this year, who knows.

simx · 02-04-2014 07:08PM

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Milk lorry just left the yard. Owner has a polish lad driving.
I seen him coming down the road when I was down the field so I said I'd head back up and open the gate for him.
Well the bollox started laying on the horn because the gate was closed.
Wasn't locked now just closed. And he hadnt even reached the gate before he stated laying on the horn.

So I said fcuk that I'm not being beeped at in my own place so I left it closed even though I walked passed and i could have opened it.
This lad then kicked the gate open and hopped it off the wall.
I don't bother with him at all because he is a sirly sort of a person and never happy.
He left then and has the tanks left on.

Yeah your neighbour was telling me about that lad that drives lorry, didn't have loads of good to say about him either if it's the same lad your on about

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