Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Kevhog1988 · 30-12-2015 08:52PM

ganmo wrote: »

Knock it out of gear!

To be honest it happened so fast but i think i thought it was.

Kevhog1988 · 30-12-2015 08:57PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Don't want to sound preachy but I think everyone should have a quick attach A frame for their 3 point linkage. I got one for the fertiliser spreader as I only have the one tractor/loader. I have a hydraulic toplink for it aswell. I drop the spreader on pallets, pull the covered chain that goes to the handle on the A frame, the A frame drops from the receiver on the spreader and then I just have to unhook the pto and hydraulic pipe. I also have a receiver on the scraper and I don't have to leave the cab to hook up to it. It's a teagle A frame and I wouldn't do without it now. I bought it 5 years ago for I think e240 for the part that hooks on the tractor.
I bought it in o toole's tullow and I've no association with them.

any pics of it?? do you have an atttachment on every 3 point linkage item

pedigree 6 · 30-12-2015 09:08PM

theemigrant wrote: »

any pics of it?? do you have an atttachment on every 3 point linkage item

No just fert spreader and scraper. But got a good man with a welder to make brackets to attach to pins on spreader so I can take attachment off spreader and sell spreader without it. I cut plates on scraper and welded attachment straight to it. I'll try and take pics and post tomorrow.
There is one downside to the A frame in that it puts the weight on the 3 point linkage out further from the tractor but i'd live with that.

Base price · 30-12-2015 09:22PM

KatyMac wrote: »

I came across a program last night on Horse & Country called a Year on the Land. It showed a lad tagging and castrating a calf in the middle of the cows. He was explaining how dangerous a job it was. what the blazes was he doing with the mother and the rest of the cows milling around him - if the calf had bawled in panic what was the mother going to do!
At another stage of the program they interviewed a man that had his skull fractured by a cow while he was tagging a calf. Unbelievable!
I would never put a hand on a calf unless its mother was the other side of at least a gate and ideally a closed door as well. I had a cow in a crush a couple of years ago thinking it would keep her out of the way while I tagged - I saw her from the corner of my eye as she freed her back legs from the end gate. Needless to say I left the calf.

Many years ago I had a lucky escape after one of my pbr cows calved twins. I was attending the first calf while she was pushing out the other. In a second she was up off the ground, turned and her nose was about 4 inches from mine - exit stage left under the barrier.
When it came to dehorning the twins a few weeks later, I did what I always did at the time. Split the calves from the cows behind gates, injected the calves with Lignocaine waited 10 mins and dehorn. When I was doing the second twin it bawled which resulted in 800kgs+ concerned Mammy clearing a 5 bar gate and landing beside me - exit quickly over the gate and hoped the straw didn't catch as I dropped the dehorner.
After that experience I always split the calves into a shed, drove the cows out and closed the doors.

mayota · 30-12-2015 09:54PM

KatyMac wrote: »

I came across a program last night on Horse & Country called a Year on the Land. It showed a lad tagging and castrating a calf in the middle of the cows. He was explaining how dangerous a job it was. what the blazes was he doing with the mother and the rest of the cows milling around him - if the calf had bawled in panic what was the mother going to do!
At another stage of the program they interviewed a man that had his skull fractured by a cow while he was tagging a calf. Unbelievable!
I would never put a hand on a calf unless its mother was the other side of at least a gate and ideally a closed door as well. I had a cow in a crush a couple of years ago thinking it would keep her out of the way while I tagged - I saw her from the corner of my eye as she freed her back legs from the end gate. Needless to say I left the calf.

Saw that when it was on UTV, absolutely shocking. I could hardly watch.

orm0nd · 30-12-2015 10:16PM

Mary Black, her voice is well past it's sell date

Willfarman · 30-12-2015 10:21PM

Nathan should come out tonight and dance by the light of the moon!

Kovu · 30-12-2015 10:57PM

Base price wrote: »

After that experience I always split the calves into a shed, drove the cows out and closed the doors.

I always lasso the calf and push them out through the feeding barrier across to the crush. Get the head stuck in the lockgate and then there's a calving pen in front of that so that gets closed and I dehorn from in there. Be some mammy cow to leap two 5ft gates in succession!

Booked flights to Finland earlier, yay! Have to go one leg on one of those crappy 64 seater planes though, hate those.

Kevhog1988 · 30-12-2015 10:59PM

Kovu wrote: »

I always lasso the calf and push them out through the feeding barrier across to the crush. Get the head stuck in the lockgate and then there's a calving pen in front of that so that gets closed and I dehorn from in there. Be some mammy cow to leap two 5ft gates in succession!

Booked flights to Finland earlier, yay! Have to go one leg on one of those crappy 64 seater planes though, hate those.

Are ya good with the lasso

Kovu · 30-12-2015 11:07PM

theemigrant wrote: »

Are ya good with the lasso

Pretty shít tbh. But I also have a good dive and headlock

Base price · 30-12-2015 11:29PM

Kovu wrote: »

I always lasso the calf and push them out through the feeding barrier across to the crush. Get the head stuck in the lockgate and then there's a calving pen in front of that so that gets closed and I dehorn from in there. Be some mammy cow to leap two 5ft gates in succession!

Booked flights to Finland earlier, yay! Have to go one leg on one of those crappy 64 seater planes though, hate those.

The same cow used to have to be IN the crush before the Vet or AI man arrived otherwise she would clear a 5' block wall and head away up the land.

The ones that you have to pedal it down the runway to get up the speed for it take off and at the same time wind up the elastic band to get the propellers spinning

Kovu · 30-12-2015 11:32PM

Base price wrote: »

The same cow used to have to be IN the crush before the Vet or AI man arrived otherwise she would clear a 5' block wall and head away up the land.

The ones that you have to pedal it down the runway to get up the speed for it take off and at the same time wind up the elastic band to get the propellers spinning

That's the one! The 'aerospatiale/alenia atr 72'. Or so it says on the email. Going through Copenhagen this time for a change.

Base price · 30-12-2015 11:48PM

Kovu wrote: »

That's the one! The 'aerospatiale/alenia atr 72'. Or so it says on the email. Going through Copenhagen this time for a change.

Was on one once a lifetime ago (Dublin to Shannon) for a well known haulage/parcel delivery company that I used to work for at the time. It was a commercial aircraft and I got the jump seat beside all the parcels and packages. Never forgot it, lets just say I preferred my one and only flight on a 747

Kovu · 30-12-2015 11:53PM

Base price wrote: »

Was on one once a lifetime ago (Dublin to Shannon) for a well known haulage/parcel delivery company that I used to work for at the time. It was a commercial aircraft and I got the jump seat beside all the parcels and packages. Never forgot it, lets just say I preferred my one and only flight on a 747

I hit turbulence in them before, was not fun

Username John · 31-12-2015 12:08AM

Base price wrote: »

Was on one once a lifetime ago (Dublin to Shannon) for a well known haulage/parcel delivery company that I used to work for at the time. It was a commercial aircraft and I got the jump seat beside all the parcels and packages. Never forgot it, lets just say I preferred my one and only flight on a 747

Got the jump seat on the Dublin to london flight once... Think I was a 747... Long time ago...
Got to sit in the cockpit with the pilots, great experience...

And I had nothin to do with the airline, just was nice to the air hostess in Dublin and she asked me would I mind a jump seat I said no (mainly cos I didn't even know what it was)

Nekarsulm · 31-12-2015 12:38AM

Kovu wrote: »

That's the one! The 'aerospatiale/alenia atr 72'. Or so it says on the email. Going through Copenhagen this time for a change.

Ah don't worry. The Italians usually build good engines.
Was on one or two of those type planes in NZ, & always worried if I got a seat in line with the engine, could imagine it throwing a prop. blade through the fusilage. .........

Have a great trip, we're mad jealous really.

inthepit · 31-12-2015 12:57AM

And I had nothin to do with the airline, just was nice to the air hostess in Dublin and she asked me would I mind a jump, I said no (mainly cos I didn't even know what it was)

Young and innocent.Older and wiser,bet you would say the same.

Kovu · 31-12-2015 09:40AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Ah don't worry. The Italians usually build good engines.
Was on one or two of those type planes in NZ, & always worried if I got a seat in line with the engine, could imagine it throwing a prop. blade through the fusilage. .........

Have a great trip, we're mad jealous really.

Not going til Feb so I'm planning a couple of things, prob take the train up to Lapland and stay a night or two. I see on AirBnB you can kip in an igloo. Now that would be cool! Literally

whelan2 · 31-12-2015 11:41AM

any one heading out for new years eve?

Grueller · 31-12-2015 12:42PM

whelan2 wrote: »

any one heading out for new years eve?

Indian takeaway and a dvd. Heading up your way there to Dundalk and then 4 seasons in Carlingford for a hanging Whelan.

A cow called Daisy · 31-12-2015 01:00PM

whelan2 wrote: »

any one heading out for new years eve?

No, maybe i I'm boring but i find the whole thing totally overrated

. Stay at home and read stuff on here.

Having said that, HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL ON HERE. Particular inside the house. Thanks for the 'craic and chat' in 2015. Keep it up next year.

Bullocks · 31-12-2015 01:07PM

whelan2 wrote: »

any one heading out for new years eve?

Bringing the kids for dinner about 7 and then home to bed and wake up in the new year , hate the night out part of new years

whelan2 · 31-12-2015 01:07PM

Grueller wrote: »

Indian takeaway and a dvd. Heading up your way there to Dundalk and then 4 seasons in Carlingford for a hanging Whelan.

nice place, enjoy

Reggie. · 31-12-2015 01:09PM

Duty again

Mother asked me out for dinner tomorrow...Score

Can't bate the mammies dinner

whelan2 · 31-12-2015 01:09PM

Bullocks wrote: »

Bringing the kids for dinner about 7 and then home to bed and wake up in the new year , hate the night out part of new years

would be the same, will be in bed by 10:cool: totally over rated night- bit like stephen's night

whelan2 · 31-12-2015 01:10PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Duty again

Mother asked me out for dinner tomorrow...Score

Can't bate the mammies dinner

Are you saying your oh's cooking isnt good

bogman_bass · 31-12-2015 01:13PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Are you saying your oh's cooking isnt good

Grabs Popcorn and waits for reply

blue5000 · 31-12-2015 01:29PM

Reggie has the helmet on,

Happy new year everyone, thanks for all the debates, lols and advice on here over the year, don't take too many chances out there, try not to be a statistic in 2016 folks.

Reggie. · 31-12-2015 02:04PM

whelan2 wrote: »

Are you saying your oh's cooking isnt good

Not at all it still can't bate mammies cooking. Ye lads know I'm right

whelan2 · 31-12-2015 02:07PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Not at all it still can't bate mammies cooking. Ye lads know I'm right

AH, i'm only messing. OH came in there at dinner time and took one look at the pasta dish I made for our dinner and said he would do a rasher sandwich for himself

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