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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #8222
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Stuck in a&e in Galway. Dislocated my baby finger at football training and local doctor couldn't put it back in :(


  • #8223
    Grueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    Stuck in a&e in Galway. Dislocated my baby finger at football training and local doctor couldn't put it back in :(

    Was stuck there last week with a lad concussed after a football training. Some dose. Having said that the gibberish he was talking was entertaining despite the seriousness of the situation.


  • #8224
    MF290
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    We bought a few bundles of fencing posts there recently. It's supposedly scandinavian timber and coated in more of a tar than creosote. We were fed up of the cheaper ones breaking and rotting after a few years. A fella outside the pub and the man who was delivering oil were both wondering where we bought them, we mustn't be the only ones suffering with crap fencing posts so!


  • #8225
    Grazon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Grazon


    How ye gettin on just wondering is a bull with 7% calving difficulty hard or easey calving. Thanks


  • #8226
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    I'd say average.lowish for charolais and blue and highish for a limo.I have put that % on heifers before tho


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  • #8227
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,726 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Grueller wrote: »
    Was stuck there last week with a lad concussed after a football training. Some dose. Having said that the gibberish he was talking was entertaining despite the seriousness of the situation.

    That happened me 6 weeks ago aswell. I'll have to get out of it I'm thinking!


  • #8228
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Username John wrote: »
    This crowd?
    http://www.balcas.com/products/fencing/

    They don't have prices on the website, but they seem to indicate you need to buy 100+ stakes... Which is more than I want at the minute...

    I have a some larch trees, debating using some of them, untreated... Anyone know how long they might last?


    I got them from a local merchant, two bundles of 63 in each, might've got them cheaper direct, don't plan ahead here so don't go looking for them until the day i want them, larch is good, had it in a trailer floor for about thirty years and it wasn't always in, can you get them sawed locally.
    We used to have oak trees here that we used for stakes, but wild trees are rubbish for sawing up as they're all crooked etc


  • #8229
    CloughCasey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,747 ✭✭✭CloughCasey1


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    That happened me 6 weeks ago aswell. I'll have to get out of it I'm thinking!

    Don't be mad!!! That's the bang on the head talking. ;-)


  • #8230
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,984 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    That happened me 6 weeks ago aswell. I'll have to get out of it I'm thinking!

    Maybe take up golf, I hear donald has a good course near ya:p You could get a job free lifetime membership drawing rock to it too.

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



  • #8231
    bogman_bass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,493 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Grazon wrote: »
    How ye gettin on just wondering is a bull with 7% calving difficulty hard or easey calving. Thanks

    I personally wouldn't use that on heifers or indeed second calvers


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  • #8232
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Was rolling silage ground from half 9 until half 3, could hardly walk when I got out of the tractor, dont know how ye lads can sit in tractors for days at silage time etc


  • #8233
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was rolling silage ground from half 9 until half 3, could hardly walk when I got out of the tractor, dont know how ye lads can sit in tractors for days at silage time etc

    I've that to do this weekend


  • #8234
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Boards is different on IPhone from 1 till now, anyone else experiencing this


  • #8235
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Odelay


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was rolling silage ground from half 9 until half 3, could hardly walk when I got out of the tractor, dont know how ye lads can sit in tractors for days at silage time etc

    Was that the tractor with a football under the seat for suspension??


  • #8236
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Was rolling silage ground from half 9 until half 3, could hardly walk when I got out of the tractor, dont know how ye lads can sit in tractors for days at silage time etc

    You're a bit young for that sort of trouble. I hate driving tractors for that reason, it's weird, it crocks me up more than a days manual work


  • #8237
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Odelay wrote: »
    Was that the tractor with a football under the seat for suspension??
    yes, my arse is fine , its my kness that were giving me trouble, dislocated one a few years ago


  • #8238
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Tagged a calf this morning, put sample in the pocket of my hoodie, fecked hoodie off in porch of house, cleaner came to day. No sign of bvd sample this evening, emptied the bin bag and there was the sample at the bottom, result:)


  • #8239
    visatorro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,123 ✭✭✭visatorro


    Poor auld Prince, he's officially the artist formerly known as Prince now.


  • #8240
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    rangler1 wrote: »
    I got them from a local merchant, two bundles of 63 in each, might've got them cheaper direct, don't plan ahead here so don't go looking for them until the day i want them, larch is good, had it in a trailer floor for about thirty years and it wasn't always in, can you get them sawed locally.
    We used to have oak trees here that we used for stakes, but wild trees are rubbish for sawing up as they're all crooked etc

    No - wouldn't get em sawed, would just knock the trees and cut em into lengths.

    The bottom of the trees would be heavy all right, but if they did the job - they'd be a lot cheaper than paying FRS about €6 a stake too... ;)


  • #8241
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,422 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Eldest lad is doing his homework, would agriculture be an income or an expenditure for the government?


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  • #8242
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lad is doing his homework, would agriculture be an income or an expenditure for the government?
    Expenditure.


  • #8243
    pedigree 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭pedigree 6


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lad is doing his homework, would agriculture be an income or an expenditure for the government?

    Income - all the other industries higher up depend on it.:pac:


  • #8244
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The Kingston thread is after turning into a political debate


  • #8245
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    The Kingston thread is after turning into a political debate

    Nice few of them could do with a slap of a wet fish.....


  • #8246
    MF290
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Eldest lad is doing his homework, would agriculture be an income or an expenditure for the government?

    In what context. I'd say income, as subsidies come from EU.


  • #8247
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    MF290 wrote: »
    In what context. I'd say income, as subsidies come from EU.

    If it's a national budget, it's expenditure.


  • #8248
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Its expenditure taxes are income


  • #8249
    MF290
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭MF290


    The lads are correct there :o


  • #8250
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    its income , they take a slice of the money coming from Europe to cover administration and inspections etc.


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  • #8251
    einn32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭einn32


    Have to use this new look Boards as I'm not in Eire. Seems to be working ok and bit more flashy. The site did need a revamp I think.


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