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Say my name · 07-07-2019 12:29pm

This "lad" business creeping in everywhere now on social media.
Almost entirely from farmers replying to other farmers just irks me.
If you're going to reply to someone use their name or even an initial. Using lad just makes you look like a pr1ck trying to degrade that person.

Genghis Cant · 07-07-2019 1:04pm

kollegeknight wrote: »

Saw my first pine marten in the wild today. I’d say he was a young one.

Some increase in the amount of wildlife in our bog area in the last few years.

I reckon because there isn’t much or any spray being used

Some population explosion with the pine martens. They're a savage predator, if you get to see them up close they've some set of chops on them.

patsy_mccabe · 07-07-2019 1:05pm

Serious money in hay alright, but in this country, for every good year, 3 out of 4 years it will rot in the field.
I got a load of hay this year from a neighbour. Bought it home straight away. Guy that helped me load it said I was mad, there was no rain forecast for a week. It was raining the next day.

"Remember 19176" - must get the teeshirt.:D

kollegeknight · 07-07-2019 1:26pm

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Some population explosion with the pine martens. They're a savage predator, if you get to see them up close they've some set of chops on them.

Well I saw one in primary school. A local barber used catch wildlife and visit the schools with them. When he had the school round done, he would release again. It was a great experience as a child. Sparrow hawks, owls, he brought a rat one day.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 07-07-2019 1:34pm

I saw some young pine martins on a road in Kilmeedy in Limerick a few years ago. Mother and 3 youngsters ambling along the road as far as a field gate and into the field with them. My first and last time seeing them.

Limestone Cowboy · 07-07-2019 1:47pm

kollegeknight wrote: »

Saw my first pine marten in the wild today. I’d say he was a young one.

Some increase in the amount of wildlife in our bog area in the last few years.

I reckon because there isn’t much or any spray being used

They must be fairly common up here because I would see them a couple of times a years.

carrollsno1 · 07-07-2019 2:02pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

I saw some young pine martins on a road in Kilmeedy in Limerick a few years ago. Mother and 3 youngsters ambling along the road as far as a field gate and into the field with them. My first and last time seeing them.

Saw a platypus cross the road in front of me one evening on the road to a town called Hay, first and probably the last time ill ever see one.

kollegeknight · 07-07-2019 2:37pm

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Saw a platypus cross the road in front of me one evening on the road to a town called Hay, first and probably the last time ill ever see one.

I thought they were rare enough to see alright.

Muckit · 07-07-2019 4:33pm

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Saw a platypus cross the road in front of me one evening on the road to a town called Hay, first and probably the last time ill ever see one.

Was it duck billed ? That's all l rem learning from national school.... duck billed platypus. Not a clue what the means btw

Lime Tree Farm · 07-07-2019 4:44pm

Pamplona.jpg

A participant is tossed by a heifer bull during the first bullrun of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 7, 2019. - On each day of the festival six bulls are released at 8:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) to run from their corral through the narrow, cobbled streets of the old town over an 850-meter (yard) course. Ahead of them are the runners, who try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP)

Insanity and animal cruelty.

Grueller · 07-07-2019 5:02pm

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Pamplona.jpg

A participant is tossed by a heifer bull during the first bullrun of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain on July 7, 2019. - On each day of the festival six bulls are released at 8:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) to run from their corral through the narrow, cobbled streets of the old town over an 850-meter (yard) course. Ahead of them are the runners, who try to stay close to the bulls without falling over or being gored. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP)
Insanity and animal cruelty.

A heifer bull? Is that the pride bull run?

Limestone Cowboy · 07-07-2019 5:50pm

Hon Laois

Say my name · 07-07-2019 7:23pm

MeTheMan wrote: »

Field 3 weeks ago

Field this morning

Field this evening

How's it going now?

Muckit · 07-07-2019 8:10pm

Good good

whelan2 · 07-07-2019 8:47pm

Just did passport application on line. Very handy altogether

gozunda · 07-07-2019 9:08pm

Grueller wrote: »

A heifer bull? Is that the pride bull run?

. I'm sorry but you owe me a new keyboard after that - its now destroyed with coffee ...

Nekarsulm · 07-07-2019 9:30pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Just did passport application on line. Very handy altogether

What do you have to do for a new photo? Do they reuse the old one?

whelan2 · 07-07-2019 9:33pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

What do you have to do for a new photo? Do they reuse the old one?

Took a photo with my phone and uploaded it. It was for eldest lads passport. Had to take photo about 6 times before they accepted it. Took about 20 minutes to do the whole thing

carrollsno1 · 08-07-2019 1:55am

kollegeknight wrote: »

I thought they were rare enough to see alright.

Fairly rare alright, havent heard anything about them being under threat though. Koalas are the hot topic on extinction at the minute.

Odelay · 08-07-2019 9:33am

carrollsno1 wrote: »

Fairly rare alright, havent heard anything about them being under threat though. Koalas are the hot topic on extinction at the minute.

Can you eat koala? What does it taste like?

carrollsno1 · 08-07-2019 9:53am

Odelay wrote: »

Can you eat koala? What does it taste like?

Never heard of them being eaten but im sure if you horsed on buffalo sauce it would taste like chicken wings, probably wouldnt have the same appeal as crocodile or kangaroo or emu on a butchers counter.

kollegeknight · 08-07-2019 12:13pm

Odelay wrote: »

Can you eat koala? What does it taste like?

Eucalyptus- a meaty fisherman’s friend.

A large percentage of them have syphilis.

blue5000 · 08-07-2019 12:33pm

kollegeknight wrote: »

Saw my first pine marten in the wild today. I’d say he was a young one.

Some increase in the amount of wildlife in our bog area in the last few years.

I reckon because there isn’t much or any spray being used

+1 saw the first wild one here this Spring too. I suppose all the new forestry is helping them. They were getting very in bred about 15 years ago.

carrollsno1 · 08-07-2019 12:34pm

http://www.ladbible.com/community/animals-researchers-have-found-a-group-of-koalas-that-could-save-the-species-20190705?source=lboz

That coincidentally appeared in my newsfeed this evening

Remember seeing this video before, youd hate to see them wiped out there absolutely no harm at all compared to kangaroos whove grown in size and number since the white man landed out here.

https://youtu.be/JfDNkOr0NAs

patsy_mccabe · 08-07-2019 1:21pm

Don't you hate when this happens.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/jp-mcmanuss-private-jet-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-in-shannon-38290774.html

_Brian · 08-07-2019 1:59pm

https://twitter.com/CrummySean/status/1147972614188613632?s=20

Odelay · 08-07-2019 2:03pm

_Brian wrote: »

https://twitter.com/CrummySean/status/1147972614188613632?s=20

Going by the skid marks at 19 seconds that isn’t the first one they did that to, whatever they were at.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 08-07-2019 2:47pm

Odelay wrote: »

Going by the skid marks at 19 seconds that isn’t the first one they did that to, whatever they were at.

Dept inspection for tags, I'm guessing:D

MeTheMan · 08-07-2019 2:54pm

Say my name wrote: »

How's it going now?

Done a good job I think. Small amount of regrowth that I'll run the licker on again when it's high enough.

Licked this mess the other day. It's low input permanent pasture. The bottom part of the field is very heavy sprat(as we'd say) so I didn't lick that because it could just burn all. The top is better grazed so I licked that and I'll top the bottom.

This was a field I licked on the first round. Great kill on the rush but the thistles weren't high enough to hit. I'm trying to get the ole lad to come around to getting a quad sprayer but, eh, let's just say he can be an awkward man. You can see the thistle growing back where the tyres of the tractor flattened them so the weren't topped.

Parishlad · 08-07-2019 3:21pm

Some great views there!

ganmo · 08-07-2019 3:23pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Don't you hate when this happens.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/jp-mcmanuss-private-jet-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-in-shannon-38290774.html

Happened to me twice last week!!

MeTheMan · 08-07-2019 4:02pm

Parishlad wrote: »

Some great views there!

Not the worst place to spend a day topping/licking!

Buford T. Justice XIX · 08-07-2019 4:04pm

@MeTheMan, you won't grow thistles on bad ground. I love cutting them lads, getting scarcer every year

ganmo · 08-07-2019 4:37pm

the worst thing about spraying them tall thistles is their thorns get harder after being sprayed

Parishlad · 08-07-2019 4:55pm

MeTheMan wrote: »

Not the worst place to spend a day topping/licking!

I'd say not! And great satisfaction then when it pays off!

emaherx · 08-07-2019 5:04pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

@MeTheMan, you won't grow thistles on bad ground. I love cutting them lads, getting scarcer every year

I must have great land

MeTheMan · 08-07-2019 5:32pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

@MeTheMan, you won't grow thistles on bad ground. I love cutting them lads, getting scarcer every year

They have been creeping in the last few years but the lime we spread last year seems to have helped them along.

_Brian · 08-07-2019 9:32pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

@MeTheMan, you won't grow thistles on bad ground. I love cutting them lads, getting scarcer every year

Are you sure, we’ve a few whoppers here.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 08-07-2019 9:54pm

_Brian wrote: »

Are you sure, we’ve a few whoppers here.

There was a story my father always told about an elderly blind man who was looking for a match for his daughter. So he went with a friend on an ass and cart around to the farms of the potential matches for his daughter and asked the driver to describe what he saw on each farm.

The friend was trying to talk up each farm to the older man but he was disappointed each time.

Anyway, the last farm was being passed and the driver wasn't impressed at all, all he could see was a sea of thistles and told his companion this, expecting him to be as disappointed with the care of the farm as he himself was.

Great, said the older man, we'll go in here and introduce ourselves. The driver was a bit in shock at this but turned in and before stopping the ass and cart, asked the older man if he was sure about this as the land wasn't well cared for.

I am, he said, if it can grow thistles, it can grow barley as well, we'll make the match here.

Say my name · 08-07-2019 10:14pm

Google "Milk Thistle Tea Fertility".

Edit: Buford I think there's a rendition of that tale about tying the donkey to the thistle.

charolais0153 · 08-07-2019 11:56pm

https://youtu.be/Z6GyT5cV6jw
The lad from AXA was fairly stumped

Base price · 09-07-2019 12:34am

charolais0153 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/Z6GyT5cV6jw
The lad from AXA was fairly stumped

Jeez. Thanks for posting that video and imo it clarifies why we are paying exorbitant renewal fees.

carrollsno1 · 09-07-2019 2:21am

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12247688&fbclid=IwAR3UNsZQAMxykq_qd1ekfl8at3KGR9RBoVEmcSFosNxNIgOsFiTQZITDCk0

whelan2 · 09-07-2019 6:33am

whelan2 wrote: »

Just did passport application on line. Very handy altogether

Passport has been despatched. That's some service.

emaherx · 09-07-2019 8:01am

charolais0153 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/Z6GyT5cV6jw
The lad from AXA was fairly stumped

The wife had an accident a few years ago, was with a neighbor and my wife was at fault. There was no dispute over the accident and both cars insured with the same company. The 2 cars were old and low value and insurance company decided to write them off on that basis. After all was settled the neighbor said she questioned the value the insurance company had put on her car and they told her "you know you haven't put in an injury claim"! And fair play she didn't as there was none.

kollegeknight · 09-07-2019 8:51am

emaherx wrote: »

The wife had an accident a few years ago, was with a neighbor and my wife was at fault. There was no dispute over the accident and both cars insured with the same company. The 2 cars were old and low value and insurance company decided to write them off on that basis. After all was settled the neighbor said she questioned the value the insurance company had put on her car and they told her "you know you haven't put in an injury claim"! And fair play she didn't as there was none.

A long time ago I crashed into a woman and it was my fault- fender bender.

By the time everything was done, it was €4200 of a bill and my insurance company slapped a bill for administration of €900 so the claim would be over €5k so they could up my premium the following year, (that was their limit at the time) I’d say a fiver of a claim would put up a premium now. The following year they tried loading a thousand extra on my premium. Last time dealing with them.

patsy_mccabe · 09-07-2019 12:29pm

charolais0153 wrote: »

https://youtu.be/Z6GyT5cV6jw
The lad from AXA was fairly stumped

You have to read between the lines here. The reality is that a lot of suspected fraudulent claims cannot be proven and the insurance industry have to make a judgement call whether the Garda can proove it or more importantly it is in their interest, costwise to pursue it. They can't say this publicly as every scumbag in the country would cop onto it.
I know someone who had a minor fender bender with someone. Big claim lodged and the insurance company is dealing with it. Guess what she does for a living - yep, a fooking solicitor. I kid you not.

Say my name · 09-07-2019 5:14pm

Ah here..

Nekarsulm · 09-07-2019 6:54pm

If an investigation and subsequent Court case looks like it might cost 15,000 euro (or more, cause the sky's the limit in Court), an Insurance company will happily settle for 10,000.
Even if there is clear evidence that the person claiming is negligent to a degree (like admitting their children were not wearing seatbelts, then making the claim because the child was "shaken") they will just pay out.

Hard Knocks · 09-07-2019 7:54pm

Did any farm in the WHPR program get a letter on Greenbreed?

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