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    #122
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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


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    #123
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    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!!


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    #124
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    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?


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    #125
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    Muckit wrote: »
    Which is heavier a tonne of stone or a tonne of feathers?

    :rolleyes:


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    #126
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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


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    #127
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    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


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    #128
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    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.


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    #129
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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


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    #130
    mickdw
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    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.


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    #131
    6541
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭6541


    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


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    #132
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Aravo


    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.


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    #133
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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 .


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    #134
    Aravo
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Aravo


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


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    #135
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    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!!


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    #136
    Avns1s
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    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:D


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    #137
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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


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    #138
    Graces7
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    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


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    #139
    Graces7
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    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.


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    #140
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    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


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    #141
    selectamatic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭selectamatic


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


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    #142
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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..


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    #143
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    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 ;)


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    #144
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users Posts: 7,506 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Graces7 wrote: »
    As long as it burns well the colour does not matter ;)

    There is a huge difference though


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    #145
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    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......


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    #146
    selectamatic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,896 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    There is black turf in mayo erm......

    Lies...


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    #147
    Genghis Cant
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,980 Mod ✭✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    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.


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    #148
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    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 😀


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    #149
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    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


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    #150
    kerryjack
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    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.


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    #151
    keepalive213
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭keepalive213


    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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