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  • #8432
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Timmaay wrote: »
    6.50/ton for quarry stuff if you can find it locally , you'd want graded stuff for the top though.

    Keep meaning to call into local lad to see his stuff. Seen in used to put in a roadway on a piece of land locally that was reclaimed. Looking at it I reckon it would be good enough for finished surface too


  • #8433
    just do it
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭just do it


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Forgot to say its topless :):)
    Has to say before DarraghHaven

    LOL - and built over slats :)


  • #8434
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Forgot to say its topless :):)
    Has to say before DarraghHaven

    hey frazz, most things are better topless


  • #8435
    jaymla627
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,128 ✭✭✭jaymla627


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Keep meaning to call into local lad to see his stuff. Seen in used to put in a roadway on a piece of land locally that was reclaimed. Looking at it I reckon it would be good enough for finished surface too

    Shale if you can source it locally is the only Job for finishing of roadways, 804 is grand for awhile till it gets wore and the pebbles start coming up


  • #8436
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭degetme


    Have grass to cut for bales. Clear of nitrogen and three percent sugars. Planned on cutting after dinner today and Bale after cows tomorrow evening. All plans put to a stop from the old fella cause it's too early and the weather isn't there. I give up!


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  • #8437
    mayota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭mayota


    stanflt wrote: »
    Yes oldest brother

    Well done to him, came across good on the radio, very driven.


  • #8438
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    jaymla627 wrote: »
    Shale if you can source it locally is the only Job for finishing of roadways, 804 is grand for awhile till it gets wore and the pebbles start coming up

    Good to know. Dad is on about getting 2" to down but might be no good if what you say will happen. Dearer too buying stone like that that has gone through a grader


  • #8439
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    degetme wrote: »
    Have grass to cut for bales. Clear of nitrogen and three percent sugars. Planned on cutting after dinner today and Bale after cows tomorrow evening. All plans put to a stop from the old fella cause it's too early and the weather isn't there. I give up!

    Tell me about it. And we have the gear. Won't get a chance to knock ours till Thursday I reckon


  • #8440
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭degetme


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Tell me about it. And we have the gear. Won't get a chance to knock ours till Thursday I reckon

    Will its to lash rain Thursday so it don't look good in our area.


  • #8441
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    degetme wrote: »
    Will its to lash rain Thursday so it don't look good in our area.

    sorry yes your right. Tomorrow to be fine Thursday and Friday looking like rain alright.
    not stuck for grass either way. Stocked at 4 and grass still getting away from us


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  • #8442
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭degetme


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    sorry yes your right. Tomorrow to be fine Thursday and Friday looking like rain alright.
    not stuck for grass either way. Stocked at 4 and grass still getting away from us

    Just over three to the hectare here. Wanted to Bale those paddocks to make better quality stuff and not have more bulk when we've plenty silage leftover. Wanted to cut the meal down too over few weeks


  • #8443
    delaney001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 431 ✭✭delaney001


    How many here have plate coolers? Are they a good job, what temp does milk exit them at? What ratio of flow of water do you need for them, I've heard 1:1.5 milk : water. Do you use the hot water to preheat the boiler or how do you make use of it?


  • #8444
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    sorry yes your right. Tomorrow to be fine Thursday and Friday looking like rain alright.
    not stuck for grass either way. Stocked at 4 and grass still getting away from us

    In or around 40 acres pitted since three this evening. Another bit to be finished off in the morning. Should be pulling on covers after lunch tomorrow. Three bags 10-10-20 going out on Friday after rain Thursday. Was going to put out urea as well but reading blackgrass' s posts splitting would seem to give a better return so will probably wait a fortnight to put that out with the June blanket spread. Stocked at 5 and have baled 15% of grazing area in the past three weeks. Just about on top of growth rates. First of the aftergrass will be grazed after the weekend.


  • #8445
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭degetme


    freedominacup wrote: »
    In or around 40 acres pitted since three this evening. Another bit to be finished off in the morning. Should be pulling on covers after lunch tomorrow. Three bags 10-10-20 going out on Friday after rain Thursday. Was going to put out urea as well but reading blackgrass' s posts splitting would seem to give a better return so will probably wait a fortnight to put that out with the June blanket spread. Stocked at 5 and have baled 15% of grazing area in the past three weeks. Just about on top of growth rates. First of the aftergrass will be grazed after the weekend.

    Did you graze that forty acres? Did you use a additive?


  • #8446
    mf240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,890 ✭✭✭mf240


    degetme wrote: »
    Have grass to cut for bales. Clear of nitrogen and three percent sugars. Planned on cutting after dinner today and Bale after cows tomorrow evening. All plans put to a stop from the old fella cause it's too early and the weather isn't there. I give up!

    Tell him its not fit to cut. He will have you out cutting it:D


  • #8447
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    degetme wrote: »
    Did you graze that forty acres? Did you use a additive?

    Haven't used additives since the nineties. The forty was all grazed once. What is left to pick up was grazed twice.


  • #8448
    darragh_haven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,433 ✭✭✭darragh_haven


    Got 40% of the first cut pitted by 9:30 this evening. All grazed once. The rest will come in around the end of next week


  • #8449
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Baled this evening. 3 bales per acre. Mowed and tedded after lunch yesterday and again before lunch today. Rowed up a 3 today and baled at 5, gorgeous stuff really dry


  • #8450
    degetme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭degetme


    mf240 wrote: »
    Tell him its not fit to cut. He will have you out cutting it:D

    The funny thing is he admitted it was fit to cut.


  • #8451
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Jaysus I must be a ****e farmer.......no silage made yet :D:D


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  • #8452
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    cow down in cubicle shed this morning, got her out with scraper and lifted her to paddock


  • #8453
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Jaysus I must be a ****e farmer.......no silage made yet :D:D

    Just finished.


  • #8454
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Just finished.
    fair play, is this later than other years?


  • #8455
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    Great piece on farm fragmentation in teagascs magazine.
    man in laois gettingserious money out of the business


  • #8456
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    whelan2 wrote: »
    fair play, is this later than other years?

    About normal.


  • #8457
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Just finished.

    Completely finished now.


  • #8458
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    fair play, is this later than other years?

    Saw micheal doran writing about six degrees soil temperature in waterford in early feb, we didn't get it till mid march.....be hard to have it as early here...I presume you're the same


  • #8459
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,792 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Saw micheal doran writing about six degrees soil temperature in waterford in early feb, we didn't get it till mid march.....be hard to have it as early here...I presume you're the same
    will take 2 weeks for the ground to dry out here, normally cut first cut on june bank holiday weekend


  • #8460
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    freedominacup wrote: »
    Completely finished now.
    Your lucky there's rain on the way and next week is to be fairly broken.


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  • #8461
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Your lucky there's rain on the way and next week is to be fairly broken.

    That's why we mowed on Monday. Expected cutting date anyway. There was the possibility of a small amount of rain on Monday evening but we decided to chance it. There were a few drops around 8o'clock but that was it. One other customer of our contractor cut but I think a couple of others bottled it. They'd have got away clean if they'd gone ahead.


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