Farming ChitChat Ploughs On To Five

davidk1394 wrote: »

Sold heifers on dd friday. Lad came down paid cash and a 3rd party cheque. Should have copped it ! Went in today to lodge it said id check to see if there was money to meet it and there wasn't. Rang your man. Said he'll sort it out he rang me back an hour later saying it sorted. So went ahead and lodged the cheque. At least i didn't transfer the cattle. Tis gas how some people can't stick to their word and couldn't give a fuqk !

I am not surprised. I had a ad on DD last month selling cattle. Within a few mins of the ad going up a man phoned and said he would be with us in the next hour to look at the cattle. He arrived, looked at the cattle and bid us a fair price. At the time he did say that his son was applying for a herd number that had not been granted but if there was a problem he had a friend who was a dealer and he would move the cattle into the dealers herd number. I took €500 cash deposit from him.
2 weeks later and numerous phone calls/texts from me and excuses from him we still didn't have a herd number to move them into. He ignored/didn't answer calls or texts from me or OH in the latter days.
Finally I sent him a text (followed with a voice mail to his phone number) saying that as far as I was concerned he had not honoured the agreement, he had forfeited his deposit of €500, the deal was off and I was re advertising the cattle.
We re advertised the cattle that afternoon and they were sold that evening to a man from the West for a bit more.
The original man phoned me later that day to apologise for messing us about as it was not his intention. I felt sorry for the man as I believe he was genuine. I told him that the cattle were sold but when his son got his herd number sorted and if he was still interested we had a selection of slightly younger bulls (that he had seen) to pick from and that we would go easy on price or throw in delivery to his place.
Never heard from him since.

We have a neighbour (john for names sake) over the road who's a famous man for not paying people and now has to go off up the mid lands to catch lads out. A few years ago he hired a lad to cut maize for him (paul for names sake). The contractor went in to cut the maize. The contractor who cut the maize the year previous (sean for names sake) was passing along the road when he saw the maize being cut. He went into the field to warn this lad about what his getting himself in for. The driver of the harvester (paul) demanded to be paid before he'd cut anymore. The farmer (john) came along and said he'd call the gards. When the guards arrived sean ran into the field of maize which was roughly 20 acres. All harvesting stopped and the guards went in to find him. After 2 hours sean started shouting out to the guards the that john owes him money from the previous year and he'll come out when his paid in cash. john and paul went into the bank and took out money to pay both contractors on the day. When they went back to the field john gave the money to the guard and they went in to give the money to sean. Once he got the money he came out and harvesting resumed. All was fine. Anyway the next year john rang paul asking him to cut maize and he did. When paul went to get paid john asked him how did he pay him the year previously and paul said "cash". John then replied "did you declare that to revenue" paul said no. So john only paid him half what he was owed for the maize. just shows how low some lads but they'll be caught out in the end. By the way this store is true to the word

Reggie. wrote: »

We usually just go to the relations in England. It's usually cheaper to fly and hire a car over there than to get the ferry but would love to get the ferry. If only I wasn't such a tight arse

Ya must have great relations Reggie.. I can't stand seeing most of mine round home, never mind seeing the cnuts on me holidays :cool: