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Feeding silage while maintaining good OH relations!

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  • #32
    severeoversteer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭severeoversteer


    sh1tstirrer wrote: »
    milking the woman of the house :D

    jesus ye must have been really short of milk for that carry on :eek:


  • #33
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,310 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    they have litle to be complaining about if they are complaining about the smell of silage, week old cleanings i could understand, but if they are married to a farmer they should just get used to it


  • #34
    Dawggone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,506 ✭✭✭Dawggone


    Lads, silage smells fine when it's 40%+ DM.
    Wilt it well.


  • #35
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    whelan2 wrote: »
    they have litle to be complaining about if they are complaining about the smell of silage, week old cleanings i could understand, but if they are married to a farmer they should just get used to it

    The times are a changin! Most wives are working now, and feel their job is on a par with their farming hubbies! Would we tolerate them coming home from work stinking up the whole house while we're trying to watch tv!


  • #36
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,310 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    The times are a changin! Most wives are working now, and feel their job is on a par with their farming hubbies! Would we tolerate them coming home from work stinking up the whole house while we're trying to watch tv!

    A bit of give and take maybe! Silage/slurry smells its a fact of life.


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  • #37
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Milking gloves here at all times spare pairs in jeep and pocket. New boiler suit every am. At calving and feeding or milking wet gear.

    I equate dirty hands with a messer. Clean shoes and hands I consider most important. OCD


  • #38
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,819 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Dawggone wrote: »
    Lads, silage smells fine when it's 40%+ DM.
    Wilt it well.
    Bought some haylage type silage from a neighbour during the week. OH arrived into the house after feeding it to the cattle. I couldn't get over how nice it smelled, sorta like bananas. Had to go up to the yard myself to check it out, mmmm :D


  • #39
    farmerjj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭farmerjj


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Milking gloves here at all times spare pairs in jeep and pocket. New boiler suit every am. At calving and feeding or milking wet gear.

    I equate dirty hands with a messer. Clean shoes and hands I consider most important. OCD
    You wash your boiler suit every day,even quiet times of the year like now!!?


  • #40
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    farmerjj wrote: »
    You wash your boiler suit every day,even quiet times of the year like now!!?

    Farm smells are like BO. You can't smell your own.


  • #41
    farmersfriend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭farmersfriend


    farmerjj wrote: »
    You wash your boiler suit every day,even quiet times of the year like now!!?

    Couldn't be washing them everyday, the good would be washed out of them and they take an age to dry. We're both out on the farm here, so don't notice the smell. Maybe we are both smelly and no one told us!!!!!
    We have a car port outside back door for boots and hanging coats. There's always hats and gloves beside the cooker so we'll be cosy in the morning.


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  • #42
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    It's true about well wilted silage, lovely sweat smell. I was told by someone years ago that there should be no smell from really good silage. Don't know how true that is.
    The only smell that really gets to me is the smell from your clothes after a mart in the summer time. That bad ammonia smell.


  • #43
    Mulumpy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    My OH used to give out about the smell at first but takes no notice now once the gear is left at the back door.


  • #44
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    farmerjj wrote: »
    You wash your boiler suit every day,even quiet times of the year like now!!?

    I've never washed a boiler suit. New one on peg every morning with penknife transferred. I see them drying over the Aga. Would you not put on a fresh shirt every day as well


  • #45
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Would you not put on a fresh shirt every day as well
    I would , and a tie if I'm going to the mart !


  • #46
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    I've never washed a boiler suit. New one on peg every morning with penknife transferred. I see them drying over the Aga. Would you not put on a fresh shirt every day as well

    I'd use 2 pair socks a day.
    I'd get new overalss here too most days. Mother says there easiest things to dry on top if aga.
    No smelly clothes for dinner either or in evening time


  • #47
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Have none of ye left a set if yard clothes in bedroom and head off for the day doing what ever shopping or something and came back and got the pong off your clothes?? .I smell it. Clothes look clean but there's still a smell


  • #48
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Have none of ye left a set if yard clothes in bedroom and head off for the day doing what ever shopping or something and came back and got the pong off your clothes?? .I smell it. Clothes look clean but there's still a smell

    I smell nothing anymore , about 60 camel a day has my sense of smell shagged .


  • #49
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,677 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Bullocks wrote: »
    I smell nothing anymore , about 60 camel a day has my sense of smell shagged .

    That'll do that to ya


  • #50
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    I used to stink after working 12-14 hour days in the mart :D

    Even worse were the nights I'd travel straight back to Dublin for college the next morning. Foreign housemates didn't like that!


  • #51
    sh1tstirrer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭sh1tstirrer


    severeoversteer wrote: »
    jesus ye must have been really short of milk for that carry on :eek:
    :D I knew when writing that post some fecker would twist it :D That's why I wrote ointment instead of cream :(


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  • #52
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,819 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    I remember years ago when we used to put the bags on bales most of them smelled pretty sour when opened and the smell would stick to you for days, no matter how many showers you had :o
    I suppose in those days we were only learning and didn't wilt the grass enough.


  • #53
    Bodacious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Bodacious


    my GF is non farmer and she can smell bale a mile off.. plenty of gloves and I rewash them and keep farm jackets if dry in jeep and if wet in the shed to dry


    my haylage is dry anyway but when we had wet stuff I used to slip disposable glove under regular glove to handle seepage


    I was away one weekend with her and ran into couple of lads that went to ag college with me .. she had the dairy lad clocked straight away.. strong kinda chemical/detergenty smell off of him for sure!!


  • #54
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,899 ✭✭✭mf240


    A little joke for ye.

    A bachelor farmer was having no luck with the ladies and his friend advised him it was the smell of silage and farming that was putting them off.

    So that saturday night he had a shower and covered himself in brute before himself and the friend headed out.

    Sure enough his luck improved and while he was dancing with a nice lady he asked "can you smell the brute"

    " No " she replied " but I can feel him"


  • #55
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    One thing about netting I'm after noticing thus yr.
    We always used to use tama net in baler switched to other cheaper net later in in season this yrs. Much much easier to unwind netting off silage or straw. Compared to the tama. The tams kind if locks together and then ye get the silage juices splashing at you


  • #56
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    just do it wrote: »
    Farm smells are like BO. You can't smell your own.

    I definitely dont do fresh clothes everyday but the gas thing is my daughters favourite thing at the moment is smelling my collar


  • #57
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    I remember being on a bus back to college yrs ago, sitting with a friend who had just fed out a shot of bales right before changing and getting on the bus. Two and half hrs into a three hr trip I asked him why had he kept his hands in his cost pockets all the way, so he told about his predicament, to which I replied along the lines of relax, no one would take any notice. So he did, and literally within seconds of taking his hands out, two girls sitting in front stood up looking back demanding to know what was the awful smell?!! Cue my mates hands straight back into his pockets for the remainder of the trip!


  • #58
    KatyMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    One of the bales I was opening Stephen's Day was, to my nose/mind, not the greatest so decided to drag it out into the middle of a field to go back to and flatten with a fork at my leisure. Missing a couple of cows this morning, found them settled around the 'bad' bale and have most of it gone - so much for my nose!


  • #59
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Only do the five day week but I'll tell ya what, ye'd would get the smell of leeks a mile away.
    Gf hates the stuff!!


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