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Farming Chit Chat sticks it to six.

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  • #9002
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Base price wrote: »
    Haven't touched ours yet. Should have had it footed last week but too busy getting ground ready for the wild bird cover. Hope to get it done this week and will probably put it into wind rows.

    Both banks footed here. Grand total of 64 hoppers


  • #9003
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Both banks footed here. Grand total of 64 hoppers

    You need help.....


  • #9004
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Black turf will be inclined to get scrappy. You could heap in on the bog or wind row it and it'll help.

    Its in now . bits kinda fresh but they'll season in the shed


  • #9005
    charolais0153
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Both banks footed here. Grand total of 64 hoppers

    What's that I yards


  • #9006
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    What's that I yards

    4 sods wide. 90 yards long


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  • #9007
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    MickeyShtyles wrote: »
    You need help.....

    You never offered....


  • #9008
    Waffletraktor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    Reggie. wrote: »
    4 sods wide. 90 yards long

    Per hopper or in total?




    And here ends my entire knowledge of the art of turf.


  • #9009
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Reggie. wrote: »
    4 sods wide. 90 yards long

    That's odd, ours are 65ish yards long and have 7 sods.


  • #9010
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Kovu wrote: »
    That's odd, ours are 65ish yards long and have 7 sods.

    Ours are 75 and 6 sods.
    I hear of a lad with a ten sod hopper on the go.

    I think 6 is the usual around here.


  • #9011
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Bollox to turf


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  • #9012
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Well said. I'm buying it all in this year. Haven't the time to be honest. Even at that my back'll be broke hauling it in next winter and f**kin emptyin the ash pit


  • #9013
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,979 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    I said wrote: »
    Bollox to turf

    If oil keeps as low as it was last winter I'd be inclined to agree with ya.
    But I like to rear a small bit of turf as a punishment :-)


  • #9014
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Muckit wrote: »
    Well said. I'm buying it all in this year. Haven't the time to be honest. Even at that my back'll be broke hauling it in next winter and f**kin emptyin the ash pit

    By the time ya have it reared its cheaper to buy it on done deal


  • #9015
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Ours are 75 and 6 sods.
    I hear of a lad with a ten sod hopper on the go.

    I think 6 is the usual around here.

    Yeah one bank has 10 sod hoppers on it


  • #9016
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    I said wrote: »
    By the time ya have it reared its cheaper to buy it on done deal

    Ah not really. The two banks cost us approx 1000 to cut and 4 days rears it usually and there will be approx to 10 14x8 tipper trailers out of it. With approx same volume of turf in trailer that could be in 10 to 12 ton bags. Sure a ton bag of turf is roughly €50 on DD


  • #9017
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    There's some mist out there this morning, will be a hot one!


  • #9018
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Ah not really. The two banks cost us approx 1000 to cut and 4 days rears it usually and there will be approx to 10 14x8 tipper trailers out of it. With approx same volume of turf in trailer that could be in 10 to 12 ton bags. Sure a ton bag of turf is roughly €50 on DD

    Yes but what is your time worth per hour to you for rearing it that's what I always think of


  • #9019
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    I said wrote: »
    Yes but what is your time worth per hour to you for rearing it that's what I always think of

    Well took two of us a grand total of 8 hours so far. So €20 an hour so €160


  • #9020
    I said
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭I said


    What about this turf


  • #9021
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,699 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    I said wrote: »
    What about this turf

    Lorry load is about the same as my trailer. It ain't a 22 ton. That turf there would cos me 5000 for dame volume


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  • #9022
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,828 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Ours are 75 and 6 sods.
    I hear of a lad with a ten sod hopper on the go.

    I think 6 is the usual around here.
    Ours is 10 sods by 90 yds I think.


  • #9023
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,416 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Is it early to be doing turf or can it be done anytime? Thought it would normally be July?


  • #9024
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Is it early to be doing turf or can it be done anytime? Thought it would normally be July?

    Around here it depends on when he turfcutting machine arrives in, so could be June/July before he used to arrive down our way. The good weather early on meant they could traverse the wetter patches earlier than usual, plus it puts a skin on them. If heavy rain arrived before the sun baked them a bit they'd be ruined into mush again, July would normally be the hottest month so that's generally when the turf gets good drying and is fit for lifting/turning.


  • #9025
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Finished planting!
    Pumpkins, courgettes, white cabbage, savoy, broccoli, york and caulis.
    Thought it was never going to end!!


  • #9026
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,416 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Spoke with a farmer yesterday he lost a cow with fog fever, what is fog fever and is it caused by fog?


  • #9027
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭ganmo


    http://www.thecattlesite.com/diseaseinfo/213/fog-fever/
    seems like a cross between bloat and pneumonia


  • #9028
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,416 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    :eek:http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/man-charged-with-theft-of-e100000-worth-of-cattle-from-westmeath-farm/


  • #9029
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    whelan2 wrote: »
    :eek:http://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/man-charged-with-theft-of-e100000-worth-of-cattle-from-westmeath-farm/

    Great to see someone charged


  • #9030
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,416 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Great to see someone charged
    Are you away on your holidays?


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  • #9031
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Are you away on your holidays?

    I am .Its going grand


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