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  • #4832
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Lads never try cross barbed wire with a full knap sack on your back. I did it today and fell over and ripped my hand to shreds where I was holding on.
    Won't make that mistake again

    Not good green...seen something like that before with an engineer overseas but it was razor wire not barbed wire..... now that was nasty


  • #4833
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Lads never try cross barbed wire with a full knap sack on your back. I did it today and fell over and ripped my hand to shreds where I was holding on.
    Won't make that mistake again


    Could have been worse if u hadnt been holding down the wire with ur hand the crown could b the ones in shreds now...


  • #4834
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Charliebull wrote: »
    Ud want to upgrade to the real thing, :D

    Country full of small impostors

    You hardly want to move on a few ;)


  • #4835
    Charliebull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭Charliebull


    sea12 wrote: »
    What did u buy Charlie. Need one aswell. Still have the push mower. Buts it's getting banjaxed and do sm I from doing it every week.

    Castlegarden 17.5 BHP
    Reggie. wrote: »
    Bet charlies one has a Honda engine

    Nope see above, stay clear honda
    ellewood wrote: »
    Ha was just at the same down in the sunny south east no rain last few days near drought really - cud do with a drop on fact
    What u buy?
    I taught ud need a 4x4 mower up ir country
    Castlegarden
    Tis bone dry up here, rain havin fcuk all affect after dry spell,


  • #4836
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Charliebull wrote: »
    Castlegarden 17.5 BHP


    Nope see above, stay clear honda


    Castlegarden
    Tis bone dry up here, rain havin fcuk all affect after dry spell,

    Castle garden wouldn't be any good around here. Can't take the heavy grass believe it or not. Tried one here before


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  • #4837
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Lads never try cross barbed wire with a full knap sack on your back. I did it today and fell over and ripped my xxxx to shreds

    Indeed. I bet you won't do it again! :D


  • #4838
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Castle garden wouldn't be any good around here. Can't take the heavy grass believe it or not. Tried one here before

    you needed a bigger HP engine. those 18.5hp B&s engines would blow grass further that a jaguar 890


  • #4839
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Lads never try cross barbed wire with a full knap sack on your back. I did it today and fell over and ripped my hand to shreds where I was holding on.
    Won't make that mistake again

    It's sore alright. I once was putting a post in an existing fence drove the bar down about a foot and didn't look where my hand had finished. I went to widen the hole and made ribbons of the back of my hand.


  • #4840
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    you needed a bigger HP engine. those 18.5hp B&s engines would blow grass further that a jaguar 890

    Not the engine it was the blades and table underneath. It kept clogging no good for heavy thick grass


  • #4841
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    you needed a bigger HP engine. those 18.5hp B&s engines would blow grass further that a jaguar 890

    Yea 19.5 hp and id bag left off it will blow it 50 feet


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  • #4842
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Not the engine it was the blades and table underneath. It kept clogging no good for heavy thick grass

    Stop rubbing it in. Yeah yeah yeah, you have grass. Good for you!:p


  • #4843
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Castle garden wouldn't be any good around here. Can't take the heavy grass believe it or not. Tried one here before

    Yep have a castle garden. Only dung. Timing belt slips whole time. She has a Honda engine and all.
    Those stiga mowers look the job. No collecting grass


  • #4844
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Yep have a castle garden. Only dung. Timing belt slips whole time. She has a Honda engine and all.
    Those stiga mowers look the job. No collecting grass

    just put in the mulcher kit so

    I know 5 lads with castlegarden varying in age from 1 month to 12 years old and no problems. The odd battery and a belt in 12 years is all my dads got. he services it himself yearly and drains petrol every winter


  • #4845
    Charliebull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭Charliebull


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    you needed a bigger HP engine. those 18.5hp B&s engines would blow grass further that a jaguar 890
    ellewood wrote: »
    Yea 19.5 hp and id bag left off it will blow it 50 feet

    Too much blowing going on


  • #4846
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    .Kovu. wrote: »
    Stop rubbing it in. Yeah yeah yeah, you have grass. Good for you!:p

    And the worst part is I ain't allowed put the calves on the lawn.... the kitchen commander says no :mad:


  • #4847
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Lads never try cross barbed wire with a full knap sack on your back. I did it today and fell over and ripped my hand to shreds where I was holding on.
    Won't make that mistake again

    Be thankful twas just your hand and not your purse you caught


  • #4848
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7f7Hk1mf54

    Cool ad for the Giro.


  • #4849
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    just put in the mulcher kit so

    I know 5 lads with castlegarden varying in age from 1 month to 12 years old and no problems. The odd battery and a belt in 12 years is all my dads got. he services it himself yearly and drains petrol every winter

    I suppose they work with certain lawns but even with mulcher on I still had no joy. Was told I'd have to mow the lawn a min of every 3 days before it got too strong for it. It's a beast on fuel too


  • #4850
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Muckit wrote: »
    Be thankful twas just your hand and not your purse you caught

    All the young ones in Kilkenny would be devastated then :p


  • #4851
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    Charliebull wrote: »
    Too much blowing going on


    Ah u have just relised u have bought too small...


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  • #4852
    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Muckit wrote: »
    Be thankful twas just your hand and not your purse you caught

    I think a few lads need to invest in trousers or have savage barbed wire.


  • #4853
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Reggie. wrote: »
    And the worst part is I ain't allowed put the calves on the lawn.... the kitchen commander says no :mad:

    What about a ewe and lamb for the lawn?


  • #4854
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    simx wrote: »
    What about a ewe and lamb for the lawn?

    Its off limits I'm told. Calves would look the part out there too. Nice bit of timber fencing....oh I can see it now :(


  • #4855
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Its off limits I'm told. Calves would look the part out there too. Nice bit of timber fencing....oh I can see it now :(

    Going to put a ewe and lamb on mine, sick of cutting it thing ha


  • #4856
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    simx wrote: »
    Going to put a ewe and lamb on mine, sick of cutting it thing ha

    Its your funeral :D


  • #4857
    Charliebull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭Charliebull


    ellewood wrote: »
    Ah u have just relised u have bought too small...

    :D no need to compensate ;)


  • #4858
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    Charliebull wrote: »
    :D no need to compensate ;)

    reverse psycology


  • #4859
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,636 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ellewood wrote: »
    reverse psycology

    I agree :D


  • #4860
    simx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,556 ✭✭✭simx


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Its your funeral :D

    No one going to give me a hiding over it be grand


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  • #4861
    Charliebull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭Charliebull


    ellewood wrote: »
    reverse psycology

    Don't use reverse, forward gear only,


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