Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Limestone Cowboy · 17-03-2016 01:24AM

Parishlad wrote: »

Balls of a day is right! Hope your friends uncle is okay. Easy replace the cow!

He should be ok alright, he was talking away to us before he was brought to hospital, could have been a lot lot worse to be honest. It would give you a fright all the same though.

Limestone Cowboy · 17-03-2016 01:30AM

Jb1989 wrote: »

At least you saved the calf from the first cow
Just one of them days that we all get
All the best LC

Ya the calf is grand, don't think the cow was right anyway. As soon as I stuck a hand in her she was trying to push the whole works out against me and it was coming with the calf aswell which I have never seen before and the auld fella said he didn't either.

Grueller · 17-03-2016 06:07AM

Wes Palmer Lee wrote: »

Anyone know what it costs for a whitethorn hedge supplied and planted?
I put in for the full 200m under Glas1, I've over a grand spent on posts and wire already!

I am planting my own over the weekend. €430 for the hedging and no idea on the cost of planting. School holidays are on now, any good young lad about 17 near you that would do it for €2-300? Maybe I am deluded but I think 2 days and I will have a lot of them in the ground. It is 1200 plants for 200 metres.

orm0nd · 17-03-2016 06:27AM

Username John wrote:

Last time I did it, I got a response back in about 2 weeks, but that was 12 months ago or more...

Username John wrote:

Anyone put in a VAT reclaim lately?

Username John wrote:

Sent in form a month ago now, and nothing back yet...

Varies. Sometimes 6 weeks

I said · 17-03-2016 06:29AM

Grueller wrote: »

I am planting my own over the weekend. €430 for the hedging and no idea on the cost of planting. School holidays are on now, any good young lad about 17 near you that would do it for €2-300? Maybe I am deluded but I think 2 days and I will have a lot of them in the ground. It is 1200 plants for 200 metres.

I've a similar amount to plant

Genghis Cant · 17-03-2016 07:30AM

I said wrote: »

I've a similar amount to plant

It's time to be getting it in. I put in somethat wet Monday we had a couple of weeks ago and I noticed little white roots appearing on them at the time.
I mixed a few beech, Holly, Hazel blackthorn and guelder rose through them too.

Grueller · 17-03-2016 08:06AM

Genghis Cant wrote: »

It's time to be getting it in. I put in somethat wet Monday we had a couple of weeks ago and I noticed little white roots appearing on them at the time.
I mixed a few beech, Holly, Hazel blackthorn and guelder rose through them too.

Tomorrow is the day it starts. Family day today. Cattle all fed until evening now. We are off to an anniversary mass and then a gathering of the family back at the old homestead. Love days like it where you see 15 to 20 kids all outside playing football, hurling, chase, hide and seek and not a playstation or xbox in sight. Happy dirty children.

Genghis Cant · 17-03-2016 08:14AM

Grueller wrote: »

Tomorrow is the day it starts. Family day today. Cattle all fed until evening now. We are off to an anniversary mass and then a gathering of the family back at the old homestead. Love days like it where you see 15 to 20 kids all outside playing football, hurling, chase, hide and seek and not a playstation or xbox in sight. Happy dirty children.

Absolutely. It's great to get the kids involved in planting a hedge too. We'd several family members planting away here, young and old and we were all saying the hedge will outlast us all :-)

I dunno how you're going about planting but the only way to do it is with a mini digger. Prepare a good bed and plant away, you'll get twice as much done too working in a well prepared ground.

Muckit · 17-03-2016 10:18AM

Muggins here equipped with a spade will be the 'mini digger'!! Now the ground has been loosened a few weeks ago and FYM added.

I'm also the human dustbin at family events, hoovering up all the half eaten buns and cake after the kids, the waste!!

Farrell · 17-03-2016 10:27AM

I've excel on the iPhone 5, notice it's taking up allot of memory. Is there to clear off all the recent list to reduce the memory usage?

ganmo · 17-03-2016 10:33AM

Muckit wrote: »

Muggins here equipped with a spade will be the 'mini digger'!! Now the ground has been loosened a few weeks ago and FYM added.

I'm also the human dustbin at family events, hoovering up all the half eaten buns and cake after the kids, the waste!!

how deep are you digging?
I don't have much experience(basically none) on a mini digger but i'd imagine you'd be quicker digging with a spade

Muckit · 17-03-2016 10:37AM

12-15" l reckon. The roots need to start near the surface. Worse thing u could do is stick them down too deep!

MickeyShtyles · 17-03-2016 11:23AM

Farrell wrote: »

I've excel on the iPhone 5, notice it's taking up allot of memory. Is there to clear off all the recent list to reduce the memory usage?

Settings, General, Storage and iCloud usage, Manage Storage,

That should give ya a list like,

Farrell · 17-03-2016 11:29AM

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Settings, General, Storage and iCloud usage, Manage Storage,

That should give ya a list like,

Thanks Mickey, excel is almost 500mb, apart from deleting the app & reloading, I was wondering if there was another way

Kovu · 17-03-2016 11:32AM

Farrell wrote: »

Thanks Mickey, excel is almost 500mb, apart from deleting the app & reloading, I was wondering if there was another way

I use an app called 360 security on Android. It allows me to clean the apps/files without deleting them, also has antivirus.

Reggie. · 17-03-2016 11:34AM

Kovu wrote: »

I use an app called 360 security on Android. It allows me to clean the apps/files without deleting them, also has antivirus.

I found that a pain in the ass

Kovu · 17-03-2016 11:36AM

Reggie. wrote: »

I found that a pain in the ass

Ah things that are too similar in nature never get on

Reggie. · 17-03-2016 11:36AM

Kovu wrote: »

Ah things that are too similar in nature never get on

Ahem......bitch

Kovu · 17-03-2016 11:38AM

Reggie. wrote: »

Ahem......bitch

You got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!

Reggie. · 17-03-2016 11:43AM

Kovu wrote: »

You got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning!

The last few days have me destroyed

MickeyShtyles · 17-03-2016 11:47AM

Reggie. wrote: »

The last few days have me destroyed

Baby number two?
Hahahaha

Kovu · 17-03-2016 11:48AM

Reggie. wrote: »

The last few days have me destroyed

I was grand til the heifers we got out yesterday decided to go awol on the road towards town. Put them in the field with the bull overnight and he thought all his birthdays came at once. Four heifers, all his size!

Heifers were a lot quieter today!

Reggie. · 17-03-2016 12:33PM

Kovu wrote: »

I was grand til the heifers we got out yesterday decided to go awol on the road towards town. Put them in the field with the bull overnight and he thought all his birthdays came at once. Four heifers, all his size!

Heifers were a lot quieter today!

Bit sore are they

Reggie. · 17-03-2016 12:33PM

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Baby number two?
Hahahaha

Think I'm just getting old mick

Kovu · 17-03-2016 01:01PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Bit sore are they

Well he seems to have a better understanding of what area to jump on at least :P

Split them differently again, put one back in the shed and let a cow with sore feet out instead. Two heifers that were together in a pen all winter have also now decided they hate each other and were fighting like mad all morning, one due in a week so split those, now using up the pen I wanted for calving.

Wes Palmer Lee · 17-03-2016 01:16PM

Grueller wrote: »

I am planting my own over the weekend. €430 for the hedging and no idea on the cost of planting. School holidays are on now, any good young lad about 17 near you that would do it for €2-300? Maybe I am deluded but I think 2 days and I will have a lot of them in the ground. It is 1200 plants for 200 metres.

The quicks are 80c plus vat.
I,m thinking 200 would be plenty for sticking in the 1200 plants??
Its a well prepared bank done with a digger and a drain on one side mind you..tricky enough for the planter!

blue5000 · 17-03-2016 02:56PM

Grueller wrote: »

I am planting my own over the weekend. €430 for the hedging and no idea on the cost of planting. School holidays are on now, any good young lad about 17 near you that would do it for €2-300? Maybe I am deluded but I think 2 days and I will have a lot of them in the ground. It is 1200 plants for 200 metres.

Did a bit last year, gave it a run with a 2 furrow plough first, then planted them with a spade. Just jammed the spade in, shoved it forward, then dropped the quick in behind the spade, pulled up the spade, and firmed it with a few stamps of the wellie.

Farrell · 17-03-2016 07:45PM

Is it 2020 or 2021 that GLAS ends?

Muckit · 17-03-2016 07:52PM

blue5000 wrote: »

Did a bit last year, gave it a run with a 2 furrow plough first, then planted them with a spade. Just jammed the spade in, shoved it forward, then dropped the quick in behind the spade, pulled up the spade, and firmed it with a few stamps of the wellie.

Like planting spuds!

Grueller · 17-03-2016 09:04PM

Commitments on now. Better than the snapper to my mind anyhow. Some soundtrack.

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