Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

what's the best thing you learnt on boards.ie Farming

2»

Comments

  • #32
    Farmer Pudsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Farmer Pudsey


    AP2014 wrote: »
    By re-reading your own posts pudsey ;)

    Sometimes by that too you can make a right eegit of yourself at times


  • #33
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,731 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Love dropping in here every day to see what's going on and look for guidance or offer some on anything I can.theres a really good diverse group here and without wanting to insult anyone guys like Stan,frazzled ,dwag ,gg freedom etc interest me most as they usually post something dairy fsrming releated which is my background .other lads like Pudsey who's great with the figures!!learnt loads ,implemented loads and failed a few times as well by trying things suggested here!!


  • #34
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    There's too much to even list. Has kept my knowledge growing since I finished in kildalton. Great to have such a variety of experienced lads who have seen it all and you can rely on getting good advice off. Even if we don't agree on everything. ....mj :D

    Single biggest thing? is vert hard to think off because I've learnt a lot And kept the most important things I learned at front of my mind.

    Thanks everyone


  • #35
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,731 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    There's too much to even list. Has kept my knowledge growing since I finished in kildalton. Great to have such a variety of experienced lads who have seen it all and you can rely on getting good advice off. Even if we don't agree on everything. ....mj :D

    Single biggest thing? is vert hard to think off because I've learnt a lot And kept the most important things I learned at front of my mind.

    Thanks everyone

    Sure it'd be boring as fook if we all agreed on everything!!


  • #36
    kelslat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 186 ✭✭kelslat


    Learning more here than I did in agri college.


  • Advertisement
  • #37
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    The biggest thing for me is, it's not so much what I've learned as, it great to have a place to simply talk about farming. I come from a big family and not one of them have the slightest iota of an interest in farming.
    It really stuck me about a year ago when we had the reading of the annual TB test. There was a family gathering at the time and when I came back into the house, not one of them even mentioned the test. When my Dad was alive he would be walking around checking the necks for lumps.


  • #38
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    I'm often amazed by the depth of knowledge of some individual posters. The great strength of the forum though is the variety and range of expertise. You couldn't buy it!


  • #39
    High bike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭High bike


    As someone else said every day's a school day and this place is 3rd level when it comes to learning.No matter what the problem is someone here has experienced it and in fairness they don't mind sharing the info.Unfortunately I just learned about Crypto but got lots of helpful advise here and learned that prevention is better than cure


  • #40
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,870 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    I enjoy coming on here every day, learnt too much for 1 post! I suppose to sum up what's so good about this forum is that 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. A lot of us work on our own, are alone all day, and it's great to click on here at 1 o'clock over lunch.

    Most important thing I learnt here recently is that mineral lick buckets are a fookin disaster for badgers.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #41
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,685 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    High bike wrote: »
    As someone else said every day's a school day and this place is 3rd level when it comes to learning.No matter what the problem is someone here has experienced it and in fairness they don't mind sharing the info.Unfortunately I just learned about Crypto but got lots of helpful advise here and learned that prevention is better than cure
    Thankfully we have never came across crypto but a unfortunately neighbour has and they lost 12 calves due to buying in infected stock :mad:
    In my opinion it should be classified as a notifiable disease.


  • Advertisement
  • #42
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,605 ✭✭✭MfMan


    bonaparte2 wrote: »
    the geared electric reel

    Can you / have you used this as a means of rounding up stubborn cattle who do not like to be moved or coaxed towards / through a gateway?

    Occasionally I use a loose bit to push out a few giddy ones but they aren't always afraid of it and some can be skittish enough not to allow themselves even to be rounded up by it.


  • #43
    fanadman1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭fanadman1


    I have to say as a young fella starting out (only 21)
    I have learned so much here and by extensison i try and pass as much as i can onto others.
    Atm only sheep here so i will learn more as i move into cattle


  • #44
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,173 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    MfMan wrote: »
    Can you / have you used this as a means of rounding up stubborn cattle who do not like to be moved or coaxed towards / through a gateway?

    Occasionally I use a loose bit to push out a few giddy ones but they aren't always afraid of it

    If by a 'loose bit' you mean a length of unelectricrified white tape, you're fooling no one, least of all the cattle.

    The wire always has to be live whether you are using a reel or not. A reel just allows you to erect a temp electric fence QUICKLY. If you have no current going through it all you have is a fancy builders line!


  • #45
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Muckit wrote: »
    If by a 'loose bit' you mean a length of unelectricrified white tape, you're fooling no one, least of all the cattle.

    The wire always has to be live whether you are using a reel or not. A reel just allows you to erect a temp electric fence QUICKLY. If you have no current going through it all you have is a fancy builders line!
    Ya still get the odd mad bastard that'll plough through whether it's live or not.


  • #46
    keep going
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,551 ✭✭✭keep going


    Ive learnt that you can waste alot of time on it, but sher it cant be all work and no play


  • #47
    Connemara Farmer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,975 ✭✭✭Connemara Farmer


    I've been thinking about this for a while and the best thing I've learned is not every comment (here or elsewhere) deserves a reply ;)

    Other than that, there's a good deal of knowledge and laughs to be had along the way :)

    Every day is a school day.


  • #48
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    Have picked up countless tips here over the last yr or two. But have to agree with keep going, it can be v time consuming, almost addictive at times. Found myself reading it way too much during quite times of the yr, thankfully have pulled back a lot lately. Or maybe that's just my addictive personality!


  • #49
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭ABlur


    That a grass harrow is useful
    That gran lime or any lime is worthwhile
    Rushes can be killed
    Money can be made from buying friesian bullocks
    MF 390's are expensive and probably overrated

    and most of all I learned how to use my Jarmet sprayer because the polish manual translated to english that came with it is rubbish!


  • #50
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    ABlur wrote: »
    That a grass harrow is useful
    That gran lime or any lime is worthwhile
    Rushes can be killed
    Money can be made from buying friesian bullocks
    MF 390's are expensive and probably overrated

    and most of all I learned how to use my Jarmet sprayer because the polish manual translated to english that came with it is rubbish!

    Your fifth statement sacrilegious


  • #51
    Feckthis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Feckthis


    ABlur wrote: »
    That a grass harrow is useful
    That gran lime or any lime is worthwhile
    Rushes can be killed
    ??????😂Money can be made from buying friesian bullocks😂????
    MF 390's are expensive and probably overrated

    and most of all I learned how to use my Jarmet sprayer because the polish manual translated to english that came with it is rubbish!
    What have you been smoking :D


  • Advertisement
  • #52
    MayoAreMagic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,946 ✭✭✭MayoAreMagic


    I have learned that the best way to learn anything is to talk to your peers. Down the years farmers have generally been very private about their business, and probably still are in many respects. I think the forum shows that a lot of us are in the same boat. Going it alone all the time means you always have to reinvent the wheel. In truth there is a lot to be gained from speaking to each other. You are getting a lot of info here that someone else would try to charge you for.
    Something like battling with the factories on prices for example. The more you know, the less you can be fooled. Long may it continue.


Advertisement