Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

Genghis Cant · 25-04-2016 12:24PM

Base price wrote: »

IMO Rush/Lusk/Skerries has the best productive land in Ireland per square inch along with the majority of land in NCD and a bit over the border in South Meath :rolleyes:

Benefits too from the coast keeping the frost at bay. The woman here said she never saw frost till she moved to Offaly :-)

patsy_mccabe · 25-04-2016 04:52PM

_Brian wrote: »

fed up again thismorning. Over the weekend I was busy, helped on the farm with stuff that was too heavy again, spent yesterday getting caravan out of storage and freshened for next weekend, mowed the grass.
I knew I'd be paying the price today and indeed I'm ****ed with pains in neck, shoulder, arm and lower back.
Am taking a cocktail of drugs to get bye but just feel like I'm 70 and need to be in bed.
I spend hours each week doing excercises to keep moving and just hold the status quo but I'm still basically only fit to be a spectator in life.
That's my Monday Moan over.

Don't laugh but yoga could do you the world of good.

_Brian · 25-04-2016 05:00PM

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Don't laugh but yoga could do you the world of good.

Indeed.. I've a regime of stretching/straightening based on Yoga and Pilates, boring as hell stuff..

visatorro · 26-04-2016 05:57AM

See a lad killed by a bull in the north.

Muckit · 26-04-2016 10:52AM

God bless your eyesight!!

_Brian · 26-04-2016 11:50AM

visatorro wrote: »

See a lad killed by a bull in the north.

Read somewhere that PSNI had to shoot the bull.

Base price · 26-04-2016 03:48PM

visatorro wrote: »

See a lad killed by a bull in the north.

RIP
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/farmer-nigel-murray-killed-by-bull-treated-his-cattle-like-family-and-told-them-all-his-woes-34659336.html

Kovu · 26-04-2016 05:27PM

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/hsa-and-irish-farmers-journal-readers-denounce-vodafone-bull-ad-207027

I seen this ad for the first time yesterday and I turned to Dad and said the exact same thing- it's a really stupid ad, a dog barking would just antagonise the bull further. It also unfortunate that it has been brought out just before that sad incident mentioned above.
So what say ye? I think it could also encourage people to go onto land without checking with the farmer or looking to see if there's stock in it as ''sure can't we scare anything off with the phone like in the ad.''

pedigree 6 · 26-04-2016 07:53PM

Kovu wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/hsa-and-irish-farmers-journal-readers-denounce-vodafone-bull-ad-207027

I seen this ad for the first time yesterday and I turned to Dad and said the exact same thing- it's a really stupid ad, a dog barking would just antagonise the bull further. It also unfortunate that it has been brought out just before that sad incident mentioned above.
So what say ye? I think it could also encourage people to go onto land without checking with the farmer or looking to see if there's stock in it as ''sure can't we scare anything off with the phone like in the ad.''

It's starting to get a bit stupid now.
First you have the Vodafone Pig man who also was on animal a & e.
Showing how they "rescued" a pig and are caring for it at home.
They should show the fully grown pig now tearing up the house and cr#pping in the kitchen.:pac:

Now with this ad they're going to get more than one townie killed.

They're next ad will be someone looking up vegan dinner recipes on their phone while walking out in front of the horses racing in the Curragh.

Kovu · 26-04-2016 07:58PM

Ha! The Vodafone pig fella was on Game of Thrones last night

whelan2 · 26-04-2016 07:59PM

Kovu wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/hsa-and-irish-farmers-journal-readers-denounce-vodafone-bull-ad-207027

I seen this ad for the first time yesterday and I turned to Dad and said the exact same thing- it's a really stupid ad, a dog barking would just antagonise the bull further. It also unfortunate that it has been brought out just before that sad incident mentioned above.
So what say ye? I think it could also encourage people to go onto land without checking with the farmer or looking to see if there's stock in it as ''sure can't we scare anything off with the phone like in the ad.''

I know the ad is stupid but they are getting the result they want as we are talking about it

pedigree 6 · 26-04-2016 08:06PM

Kovu wrote: »

Ha! The Vodafone pig fella was on Game of Thrones last night

And thus Michael Hayes is no more.
His name is now The Vodafone Pig Man.

It's a wonder he didn't bring Sue with him.:D

Kovu · 26-04-2016 08:09PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

And thus Michael Hayes is no more.
His name is now The Vodafone Pig Man.

It's a wonder he didn't bring Sue with him.:D

Sure the watch would have eaten poor Sue. Unfortunately all pig products cooked in this house is now referred to as Sue as well. :pac:

pedigree 6 · 26-04-2016 08:15PM

Kovu wrote: »

Sure the watch would have eaten poor Sue. Unfortunately all pig products cooked in this house is now referred to as Sue as well. :pac:

Ah sure ya wouldn't know who you're eating up in Leitrim.:p

Bullocks · 26-04-2016 08:17PM

Kovu wrote: »

Sure the watch would have eaten poor Sue. Unfortunately all pig products cooked in this house is now referred to as Sue as well. :pac:

I like that , I might have a Sue sandwich now

Kovu · 26-04-2016 08:17PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Ah sure ya wouldn't know who you're eating up in Leitrim.:p

Roast Shergar, with a glass of laundered diesel.

pedigree 6 · 26-04-2016 09:06PM

Kovu wrote: »

Roast Shergar, with a glass of laundered diesel.

I've no comeback. You have me bet.:P
That should be on Fàilte Ireland's promotional video for lovely Leitrim.

Kovu · 26-04-2016 09:16PM

pedigree 6 wrote: »

I've no comeback. You have me bet.:P
That should be on Fàilte Ireland's promotional video for lovely Leitrim.

I'd do fantastic PR, soon have the county all to meself so I would.

Mrs cockett · 26-04-2016 09:19PM

Kovu wrote: »

I'd do fantastic PR, soon have the county all to meself so I would.

Hold it-You've one tough neighbour here

Kovu · 26-04-2016 09:21PM

Mrs cockett wrote: »

Hold it-You've one tough neighbour here

Think I know you now, were you behind me in the vets the other day? Sure we could run the place!

Base price · 26-04-2016 10:33PM

Kovu wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/hsa-and-irish-farmers-journal-readers-denounce-vodafone-bull-ad-207027

I seen this ad for the first time yesterday and I turned to Dad and said the exact same thing- it's a really stupid ad,a dog barking would just antagonise the bull further. It also unfortunate that it has been brought out just before that sad incident mentioned above.
So what say ye? I think it could also encourage people to go onto land without checking with the farmer or looking to see if there's stock in it as ''sure can't we scare anything off with the phone like in the ad.''

Other than your link I have not seen the ad on TV only because I'm flat out busy from late Jan to Oct and seldom see the TV except occasionally on Sunday afternoons to watch Dublin matches.
IMO the ad and those who produced it are extremely naive and have no understanding of a working farm which (as you stated) could encourage non farmers/townies onto land that will probably contain livestock including cows/calves, sheep etc.
Stupid ad and not properly researched.

Suckler · 27-04-2016 05:52AM

Kovu wrote: »

http://www.farmersjournal.ie/hsa-and-irish-farmers-journal-readers-denounce-vodafone-bull-ad-207027

I seen this ad for the first time yesterday and I turned to Dad and said the exact same thing- it's a really stupid ad, a dog barking would just antagonise the bull further. It also unfortunate that it has been brought out just before that sad incident mentioned above.
So what say ye? I think it could also encourage people to go onto land without checking with the farmer or looking to see if there's stock in it as ''sure can't we scare anything off with the phone like in the ad.''

I must have been a very slow day in the journal office for them to have to fill it with that ****e. It's an ad. If people followed TV ads literally I think we'd have bigger problems than a phone making noises at a bull. There was a lotto ad a few years ago with a farmer towing bales with a Ferrari; how many people did you see go out and replicate?

Suckler · 27-04-2016 05:54AM

Base price wrote: »

Other than your link I have not seen the ad on TV only because I'm flat out busy from late Jan to Oct and seldom see the TV except occasionally on Sunday afternoons to watch Dublin matches.
IMO the ad and those who produced it are extremely naive and have no understanding of a working farm which (as you stated) could encourage non farmers/townies onto land that will probably contain livestock including cows/calves, sheep etc.
Stupid ad and not properly researched.

There's a thread on here about farmers being treated with contempt by others; yet its fine for farmers to consider those that don't work in farming as "Townies" and trespassing idiots that take vodafone ads literally. The condescension is astounding.

ganmo · 27-04-2016 06:55AM

Suckler wrote: »

I must have been a very slow day in the journal office for them to have to fill it with that ****e. It's an ad. If people followed TV ads literally I think we'd have bigger problems than a phone making noises at a bull. There was a lotto ad a few years ago with a farmer towing bales with a Ferrari; how many people did you see go out and replicate?

it was a lambo

Suckler · 27-04-2016 07:25AM

ganmo wrote: »

it was a lambo

I went out and bought the Ferrari, I knew people were looking at me funny.
Did you go for the Lambo yourself?!

Mrs cockett · 27-04-2016 08:20AM

I love the wit on this thread

ganmo · 27-04-2016 08:37AM

Suckler wrote: »

I went out and bought the Ferrari, I knew people were looking at me funny.
Did you go for the Lambo yourself?!

No but I remember meeting that lambo on a country lane, it always puzzled me how it managed the trailer with no hitch, they must of roped it to the axel!

Suckler · 27-04-2016 08:42AM

ganmo wrote: »

No but I remember meeting that lambo on a country lane, it always puzzled me how it managed the trailer with no hitch, they must of roped it to the axel!

Must have been this lad -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQltP0eoqg

Kovu · 27-04-2016 09:53AM

Suckler wrote: »

There's a thread on here about farmers being treated with contempt by others; yet its fine for farmers to consider those that don't work in farming as "Townies" and trespassing idiots that take vodafone ads literally. The condescension is astounding.

Oh god don't remind me of that thread! All I'll say is that it's an easy enough way to refer to non-farming people but it's not as derogatory as 'culchies' which is bandied about far more often. Although I don't like or use the term myself, I don't believe it's often used here as a slur, particularly in this case as BP has a Dub background.
And yes! I do believe that some people will take it seriously, there are definitely people out there who are both gullible and naive enough to do something like that.

Anyway.....moving on, we got all our slurry out yesterday with the dribble bar. Interesting thing to see working, although the bigger tanker had a bit of trouble negotiating some of our teeny gaps.

rangler1 · 27-04-2016 09:58AM

Kovu wrote: »

Oh god don't remind me of that thread! All I'll say is that it's an easy enough way to refer to non-farming people but it's not as derogatory as 'culchies' which is bandied about far more often. Although I don't like or use the term myself, I don't believe it's often used here as a slur, particularly in this case as BP has a Dub background.
And yes! I do believe that some people will take it seriously, there are definitely people out there who are both gullible and naive enough to do something like that.

Anyway.....moving on, we got all our slurry out yesterday with the dribble bar. Interesting thing to see working, although the bigger tanker had a bit of trouble negotiating some of our teeny gaps.

Does that reduce the smell...seems to be the case around here any way...i hate the smell of slurry

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