Turf

the_pen_turner · 10-06-2018 12:29am

charolais0153 wrote: »

Pickking stones is far worse. At least in the bog your not bending up and down but just staying in same position and moving forward

id rather pick stones.

charolais0153 · 10-06-2018 12:32am

Aravo wrote: »

Shearing sheep. Pulling, dragging, knocking, shearing, rolling wool. I think this is the toughest task.

Best left to the professionals with many using a chute system to make life a bit easier. It's still tough and money is def hard earned.

Going to learn how to shear over summer hopefully. Spent last summer in bog half the time so itll make a change

Reggie. · 10-06-2018 12:35am

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

You might be surprised.

I read this forum a lot, but never post on it.

I'm only one generation back from the land (auld lad had no interest & the idiot brother took over & ran it into the ground).

Farmers do themselves no favours having the attitude that there some kind of 'special breed' & that they are the only ones that can manage land.

I dont hate Farmers but sometimes ,by God I sometimes hate their attitudes.

Id like to hear where exactly you got "attitude" directed towards you in my post?

And also how rearing turf on the bog is connected to managing land?

Aravo · 10-06-2018 12:55am

Reggie. wrote:

And also how rearing turf on the bog is connected to managing land?

Very true. I know of non farmers who take turf sections off others and after it's cut they do all the work.

Aravo · 10-06-2018 12:58am

charolais0153 wrote:

Going to learn how to shear over summer hopefully. Spent last summer in bog half the time so itll make a change

Mind your back would be my advice. It's not the shearing that's the issue but more the catching, turning and getting in the right position is the hard work. I don't know how they hand sheared years ago. I know there were less sheep per holding but still very tough people about.

Tell me how · 10-06-2018 8:34am

the_pen_turner wrote:

the bog is a horrible place to work . its hot, sweety, back breaking and full of midges.

Disagree completely.
Everyone has their own experience of it. I find it cathartic and rewarding. I understand where the poster is coming from.

Of course. I enjoy it because it's about 30 hours work a year. If it was 9 to 5 in all weather, then it would be a different story.

Mulumpy · 10-06-2018 8:52am

Love the bog too. Something very peaceful about it. Bit of hard work once a year no harm. Timber lot more hardship between maintaining a saw and splitting it its a lot more time consuming.

the_pen_turner · 10-06-2018 11:39am

Tell me how wrote: »

Disagree completely.
Everyone has their own experience of it. I find it cathartic and rewarding. I understand where the poster is coming from.

Of course. I enjoy it because it's about 30 hours work a year. If it was 9 to 5 in all weather, then it would be a different story.

thts the diference. im often outside working . being stuck in an office is horrible in good weather .

i love the bog . its peacfull and relaxing. its the turf i hate.
sometimes after a realy stressfull day i will bring a chair and sit in the bog for an hour and get away from the stress.
i dont mind bringing it home. turning and footing cripples me .

i would rather spend a week cutting timber than a day in the bog footing turf

Reggie. · 10-06-2018 12:25pm

the_pen_turner wrote: »

thts the diference. im often outside working . being stuck in an office is horrible in good weather .

i love the bog . its peacfull and relaxing. its the turf i hate.
sometimes after a realy stressfull day i will bring a chair and sit in the bog for an hour and get away from the stress.
i dont mind bringing it home. turning and footing cripples me .

i would rather spend a week cutting timber than a day in the bog footing turf

Yeah the bog is a very peaceful place to go

Aravo · 10-06-2018 3:10pm

Reggie. wrote:

Yeah the bog is a very peaceful place to go

+1

Aravo · 28-06-2018 10:29pm

Turf home. Best turf weather I've ever seen. The beet grape is great for throwing off a load.

mfceiling · 28-06-2018 10:36pm

Would the midges not eat you alive in the bog?

I remember spending weekends in it as a young lad but I never remember good weather!!

Aravo · 29-06-2018 10:52pm

mfceiling wrote:

Would the midges not eat you alive in the bog?

If it got later enough in the evening, they would. Best to think of calling it a day when they start. I find the midges are worse when turning or footing as your moving more slowly when compared to bringing it home.

Genghis Cant · 02-07-2018 8:43pm

Neighbour clamping his turf.

Reggie. · 02-07-2018 9:04pm

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Neighbour clamping his turf.

Too much time on his hands

Genghis Cant · 02-07-2018 9:10pm

Reggie. wrote: »

Too much time on his hands

I asked him had he them counted. He said he'd a number on every sod in case some fell out he'd know where they go back in :-)

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 9:44am

have 2 x 8/9ton loads home. 2 more to come home and 3 x 4ton loads sold so deliver them in the next week

03-07-2018 10:09am

Looking for turf in Mayo, if anyone knows anyone selling. Thanks. BTW what is a good / Fair price for a load of turf ?

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 10:14am

6541 wrote: »

Looking for turf in Mayo, if anyone knows anyone selling. Thanks. BTW what is a good / Fair price for a load of turf ?

dump trailer 3/4t of turf €350
grain trailer 8/9ton €650

Delivered within 20 mile

03-07-2018 10:18am

lakill Farm wrote: »

dump trailer 3/4t of turf €350
grain trailer 8/9ton €650

Delivered within 20 mile

How many hoppers in a dump trailer (guess) ?
How many hoppers in a grain trailer (guess) ?

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 10:20am

6541 wrote: »

How many hoppers in a dump trailer (guess) ?
How many hoppers in a grain trailer (guess) ?

sure a hopper could be 2 sods x 60 yards or 10 sods x 120 yards

I gave tonnage

grain trailer is 14ft x 7.5ft x 4ft sides and good heaped load over it

dump trailer is 12 ton capacity and well heaped on it

Muckit · 03-07-2018 1:55pm

lakill Farm wrote: »

dump trailer 3/4t of turf €350
grain trailer 8/9ton €650

Delivered within 20 mile

20 mile wouldn't get you within an asses roar of Mayo!!

Muckit · 03-07-2018 1:56pm

lakill Farm wrote: »

sure a hopper could be 2 sods x 60 yards or 10 sods x 120 yards

I gave tonnage

grain trailer is 14ft x 7.5ft x 4ft sides and good heaped load over it

dump trailer is 12 ton capacity and well heaped on it

Which is heavier a tonne of stone or a tonne of feathers?

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 2:41pm

Muckit wrote: »

Which is heavier a tonne of stone or a tonne of feathers?

:rolleyes:

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 2:42pm

Muckit wrote: »

20 mile wouldn't get you within an asses roar of Mayo!!

no but I was giving indication of prices up here .

sure wasn't 3500 of them passing me last weekend from newbridge could have took the turf home with them

Reggie. · 03-07-2018 2:42pm

Muckit wrote: »

20 mile wouldn't get you within an asses roar of Mayo!!

It's alright muckit he ain't good with numbers anyways

Muckit · 03-07-2018 2:47pm

lakill Farm wrote: »

:rolleyes:

My point is unless you are going over weighbridge or have weigh cells on tractor loader you cant be selling by the tonne rather selling by volume. Which is fine.

lakill Farm · 03-07-2018 2:49pm

Muckit wrote: »

My point is unless you are going over weighbridge or have weigh cells on tractor loader you cant be selling by the tonne rather selling by volume. Which is fine.

I weighted both trailers before with turf so I wount be far off

mickdw · 03-07-2018 4:25pm

6541 wrote: »

Looking for turf in Mayo, if anyone knows anyone selling. Thanks. BTW what is a good / Fair price for a load of turf ?

Depends on location. Saying mayo is not accurate enough.
The standard trailer in these parts is 10' X 6 X 4' 6''

Now in a areas close to bogs, 250 delivered is the price however move 30 miles and it's 400 plus.

03-07-2018 4:34pm

mickdw wrote: »

Depends on location. Saying mayo is not accurate enough.
The standard trailer in these parts is 10' X 6 X 4' 6''

Now in a areas close to bogs, 250 delivered is the price however move 30 miles and it's 400 plus.

Castlebar

Aravo · 03-07-2018 9:23pm

It's 11 sods per hopper here with each hopper approx. 80 yards long. Our trailer takes 1 hopper per load. No freeing the loads as it's not a massive draw home.

lakill Farm · 06-07-2018 10:40am

1 load of turf for home and 4 left then to sell

Tipped up a few loads of the dump trailer at the shed door and then pushed the turf in real slow with the loader and beet bucket

Reggie engineering at its finest .

Aravo · 06-07-2018 3:26pm

That's just taking the hardship out of it. Turf is meant to be punishment from start to finish.

Muckit · 06-07-2018 8:38pm

lakill Farm wrote: »

Tipped up a few loads at the shed door and then pushed the turf in real slow with the loader and beet bucket

Lad near here pushed put the back wall of his garage doing that. I don't know whether it was great turf or sh*t blockwork!!

Avns1s · 06-07-2018 11:58pm

Muckit wrote: »

Lad near here pushed put the back wall of his garage doing that. I don't know whether it was great turf or sh*t blockwork!!

Or Sh!t driving!!

:D

lakill Farm · 09-07-2018 12:29pm

Muckit wrote: »

Lad near here pushed put the back wall of his garage doing that. I don't know whether it was great turf or sh*t blockwork!!

shed was built in 1950/60s to house the then owners brand new Massey tractor his wife bought him

its 10/11ft wide x 40ft long. so hitting the back wall would be some achievement.

I was going to knock it when we bought here, but put new windows into it and door and full new roof. turf in 1 half, oil tank the other and few bits. and got it plastered and any natural stone repointed

Graces7 · 09-07-2018 2:15pm

Would dearly love a load of turf but cannot afford up front.

In deepest Mayo, offshore and seeking to avoid the mess of my first winter here , bringing coal back on the ferry every week,, The thought of a whole load at the back is.... .. Pensioner and too much to pay out in one lump sum

Graces7 · 09-07-2018 2:24pm

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Something I was wondering in the bog this evening while being ate by bastid midges is it a solely Irish thing to cut turf or is there any part of the U.K. at it.what about the Isle of Man.surely there’s bog out them parts.are they cut does anyone know

i lived years on a small offshore North Sea island that was PEAT as they called it there. You could get a lorry load straight off the bog of 100 sterling. I burned nothing but turf all the 9 years, one load a year and miss it appallingly now. SIGH!!!!! Priced a load this week and there is no way on a pension for that outlay.

Enjoy ! Turf is bliss.

Muckit · 09-07-2018 2:30pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Would dearly love a load of turf but cannot afford up front.

In deepest Mayo, offshore and seeking to avoid the mess of my first winter here , bringing coal back on the ferry every week,, The thought of a whole load at the back is.... .. Pensioner and too much to pay out in one lump sum

Would you not be better off use electricity? Easier on the back and your pocket

selectamatic · 09-07-2018 3:00pm

Especially since mayo people wouldn't know what a good sod of black stone turf looked like :P

Graces7 · 09-07-2018 4:05pm

Muckit wrote: »

Would you not be better off use electricity? Easier on the back and your pocket[/QUOTE]

You must be joking... Electric heating costs a bomb... The solid fuel stove heats the water and is the heart of the house... In every way.

Need turf! Must be a way..

Graces7 · 09-07-2018 4:05pm

selectamatic wrote: »

Especially since mayo people wouldn't know what a good sod of black stone turf looked like :P

As long as it burns well the colour does not matter

the_pen_turner · 09-07-2018 6:31pm

Graces7 wrote: »

As long as it burns well the colour does not matter

There is a huge difference though

charolais0153 · 09-07-2018 6:32pm

selectamatic wrote: »

Especially since mayo people wouldn't know what a good sod of black stone turf looked like :P

There is black turf in mayo erm......

selectamatic · 09-07-2018 7:08pm

charolais0153 wrote: »

There is black turf in mayo erm......

Lies...

Genghis Cant · 09-07-2018 8:51pm

I brought home our turf today.
It was late cut, near the middle of June, I don't believe I've ever reared turf and got it home without a drop of rain. It it was bone dry, black turf turning scrappy. Could have brought it home a week ago if it was footed earlier. It was only footed last Saturday week.
Exceptional weather.

keepalive213 · 09-07-2018 9:00pm

selectamatic wrote: »

Especially since mayo people wouldn't know what a good sod of black stone turf looked like :P

Id guess that mayo has more bog than any other county in Ireland, some of it has to be black....

All I can say for sure is it definitely hurt when as a kid ya got a sod in the middle of the back from your mother for not going fast enough, or for messin around ðŸ˜€

lakill Farm · 10-07-2018 9:41am

Genghis Cant wrote: »

I brought home our turf today.
It was late cut, near the middle of June, I don't believe I've ever reared turf and got it home without a drop of rain. It it was bone dry, black turf turning scrappy. Could have brought it home a week ago if it was footed earlier. It was only footed last Saturday week.
Exceptional weather.

lad beside me in the bog yesterday drawing turf he only turned/tossed

see another lad clamping it on pallets :rolleyes:. the arc of the bog . he will be the lad next april heading for the turf

kerryjack · 23-07-2018 8:23pm

Lads how many yards of turf is in one of those 10 by 6 trailers with rail that are for sale for for 400 quid and how much a yard is it to buy on the flat , just doing my maths here for next year thanks lads.

keepalive213 · 23-07-2018 8:42pm

kerryjack wrote: »

Lads how many yards of turf is in one of those 10 by 6 trailers with rail that are for sale for for 400 quid and how much a yard is it to buy on the flat , just doing my maths here for next year thanks lads.

It depends on the hopper because it can vary, how many lines of turf in each row , what kind of turf and how dry.

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