Farming ChitChat Ploughs On To Five

Base price · 15-02-2015 09:33PM

Oh dear, it seems like I have opened "that" can of worms when I posted my pic of 50 Shades of Grey :eek:
I think most people would agree that Ford were responsible for making the "modern tractor".
However, I wouldn't have a Ford around the place, nor a John Deere either.
Give me an old Massey or International any day.
The real test is the fact that most farms in Ireland still have a MF 20, 35, 35x, 135, 165, 168, 188 etc running and on the button. Same cannot be said for Ford, John Deere or IH

Nekarsulm · 15-02-2015 09:40PM

Don't worry Base, people just need reminding about the Gospel according to Deere. Me? I'm looking forward to their 200 year celebrations......

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 10:27PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Don't worry Base, people just need reminding about the Gospel according to Deere. Me? I'm looking forward to their 200 year celebrations......

Boo.....get back into your mud hut :P

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 10:51PM

Hey nek did ya see top gear with the landrover

Base price · 15-02-2015 10:52PM

I remember a story that my eldest brother told me years ago. Don't know if it is true or not.
Apparently during the Depression in the US, John Deere supplied tractors FOC to farmers on the understanding that the farmers would pay for them in full when the depression was over.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-02-2015 10:56PM

Base price wrote: »

I remember a story that my eldest brother told me years ago. Don't know if it is true or not.
Apparently during the Depression in the US, John Deere supplied tractors FOC to farmers on the understanding that the farmers would pay for them in full when the depression was over.

They're probably still paying for the parts to repair them;-)

I said · 15-02-2015 10:58PM

Base price wrote: »

I remember a story that my eldest brother told me years ago. Don't know if it is true or not.
Apparently during the Depression in the US, John Deere supplied tractors FOC to farmers on the understanding that the farmers would pay for them in full when the depression was over.

Still waiting to get paid I hear lol

Connemara Farmer · 15-02-2015 10:59PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Boo.....get back into your mud hut :P

When ya know you've gotten under someones skin :pac:

Kevhog1988 · 15-02-2015 11:02PM

finally home again tomorrow.. its been a mad few weeks work

Base price · 15-02-2015 11:03PM

theemigrant wrote: »

finally home again tomorrow.. its been a mad few weeks work

How long are you home for?

Nekarsulm · 15-02-2015 11:27PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Hey nek did ya see top gear with the landrover

Stomach tubing twins........ did i miss much?

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 11:30PM

Promised id get back into fishing again this year.

Looked through my gear in the shed today. I'd no idea I had so many lures

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 11:34PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Stomach tubing twins........ did i miss much?

Paid tribute to the famous landrover ad where it supposedly winched itself up a dam.

Richard Hammond did it for real with a few mods

Nekarsulm · 15-02-2015 11:39PM

ever gone sea fishing over Donegal/Killybegs way? A few lads here go twice a year, but never got away myself yet........This year.

Kovu · 15-02-2015 11:41PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Promised id get back into fishing again this year.

Looked through my gear in the shed today. I'd no idea I had so many lures

I spy an Original Big S

Genghis Cant · 15-02-2015 11:42PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Promised id get back into fishing again this year.

Looked through my gear in the shed today. I'd no idea I had so many lures

I always said a lot of lures are designed to attract fishermen as much as fish!

Couple of lakes very close to you there fishing well at the moment.

Base price · 15-02-2015 11:43PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Promised id get back into fishing again this year.

Looked through my gear in the shed today. I'd no idea I had so many lures

No worries Reggie.
Between my sons and I, we could open a shop with all the tackle that we have.

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 11:43PM

Kovu wrote: »

I spy an Original Big S

Half hidden

Reggie. · 15-02-2015 11:45PM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I always said a lot of lures are designed to attract fishermen as much as fish!

Couple of lakes very close to you there fishing well at the moment.

Oh I know plenty of hot spots but I let other things get in the way over the years.

Mainly pike and tench fishing. Spent weeks at it over the summer months when I was younger

freedominacup · 16-02-2015 01:08AM

Base price wrote: »

I remember a story that my eldest brother told me years ago. Don't know if it is true or not.
Apparently during the Depression in the US, John Deere supplied tractors FOC to farmers on the understanding that the farmers would pay for them in full when theg depression was over.

I think it was more they didn't repo the machines when farmers couldn't keep the payments made. Apparently it is supposed to be a big factor even today in jd dominance in large parts of the US.

Brown Podzol · 16-02-2015 07:30AM

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.”

From Myles Nagcopaleen, the third policeman. I think this is why farmers are so committed to a tractor brand. I've spent countless days hopping and bouncing over rough ground that now I think I am half Ford tractor.:D

Muckit · 16-02-2015 08:03AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Stomach tubing twins........ did i miss much?

Thought it was vistarro for a minute. .. phew...

CALVES l presume?

A cow called Daisy · 16-02-2015 08:07AM

Well done to the Ireland beat the West Indies in the cricket world cup. I know it only one-day international and maybe not as big a shock as a few years ago but it still nearly like them beating us in hurling.
Think next up is United Arab Emirates. As Miheal O'Muirheaigth (sp) might say 'neither of them cricket strongholds'

Nekarsulm · 16-02-2015 08:18AM

Muckit wrote: »

Thought it was vistarro for a minute. .. phew...

CALVES l presume?

Nope, pair of lambs.

Bullocks · 16-02-2015 09:34AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Nope, pair of lambs.

I had triplets before I went to work this morning, they were all up standing but I hadn't time to tube them . She has big bottle tits , think will they get a drop out of them or should I run out at break and try feed them . I'm well sick of sheep at this stage !

Connemara Farmer · 16-02-2015 09:49AM

Bullocks wrote: »

I had triplets before I went to work this morning, they were all up standing but I hadn't time to tube them . She has big bottle tits , think will they get a drop out of them or should I run out at break and try feed them . I'm well sick of sheep at this stage !

I'd feed them.

Didn't take you long!

Bullocks · 16-02-2015 10:05AM

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

I'd feed them.

Didn't take you long!

I've had a dead lamb out of each set of triplets so far despite alot of minding !

Connemara Farmer · 16-02-2015 10:14AM

Bullocks wrote: »

I've had a dead lamb out of each set of triplets so far despite alot of minding !

Never had trips here, and never want them either. Only end up fostering or making a pet out of one of them I imagine.

simx · 16-02-2015 10:55AM

Could someone tell me is the derogation deadline 1st or 31st March?

Bullocks · 16-02-2015 10:59AM

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Never had trips here, and never want them either. Only end up fostering or making a pet out of one of them I imagine.

Don't know have I terrible luck or what , one of them got sat on , one of them got smothered in cleaning and one died last night , I don't know why !
The old lad rang there to say they still haven't sucked her but they are very lively compared to the rest , I'll probably go out and try get them to latch on

Farming ChitChat Ploughs On To Five

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