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  • #202
    marathon
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭marathon


    Anyone know what donegal town is like?? Heading there for couple nights at weekend


  • #203
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    The lad with the horn for your fingers last week wouldn't be too impressed now !!:D

    Ahahahaha! :D


  • #204
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    marathon wrote: »
    Anyone know what donegal town is like?? Heading there for couple nights at weekend

    out in it a few years back and killybegs good auld spots and if you get the right place you will not have to worry about closing time

    Friend from college is from Kilcar (one from sex and city lives out there) but sadly he died while at college but a few of us head up to his family and grave every other year


  • #205
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Come to papa!!!


  • #206
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    Muckit wrote: »
    Come to papa!!!

    Oh jesus I'd love one of them now! Will have to swing in somewhere on the way home from work.
    Did a 10k run around Shannon at lunchtime and nearly died with the heat. Thank God for air conditioned offices is all I'll say.


  • #207
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,355 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    I saw a lot of THM freshly mowed yesterday as I was on my travels. I travelled the same route today and most of it is baled, wrapped and gone off the field :eek:


  • #208
    I says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭I says


    Base price wrote: »
    I saw a lot of THM freshly mowed yesterday as I was on my travels. I travelled the same route today and most of it is baled, wrapped and gone off the field :eek:

    Could well be lipp as well ;)


  • #209
    Grueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,262 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Base price wrote: »
    I saw a lot of THM freshly mowed yesterday as I was on my travels. I travelled the same route today and most of it is baled, wrapped and gone off the field :eek:

    Only needs to be turned twice as per rules. Mowed early Sunday. Turned Sunday afternoon. Turned Monday. Rowed up, baled, wrapped and stacked Monday evening is what happened here.


  • #210
    Ard_MC
    Registered Users Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Ard_MC


    Grueller wrote: »
    Only needs to be turned twice as per rules. Mowed early Sunday. Turned Sunday afternoon. Turned Monday. Rowed up, baled, wrapped and stacked Monday evening is what happened here.

    No should only be baled for silage if Hay is not possible to be got.


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  • #211
    TPF2012
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    Ard_MC wrote:
    No should only be baled for silage if Hay is not possible to be got.


    Was very dull overcast Sunday so I wasn't taking any chances. Wrapped pronto.


  • #212
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,720 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Our green grass is even disappearing from the satellite pics

    Y1Nwcc1.jpg

    Some more words on the pic over in the weather forum


  • #213
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Columbia scored!! 1-1


  • #214
    I says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,981 ✭✭✭I says


    Mayo supporters know how England supporters feel


  • #215
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Collected this today, lovely bus.

    3008.jpg


  • #216
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    wrangler wrote: »
    Collected this today, lovely bus.

    3008.jpg

    Well may you wear!

    Looks good.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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  • #217
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,041 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    I drive a Land Cruiser 95 series. The third last model, 01 with the 3.0 TD engine. I sat into the modern version recently................. Major jaw drop...... the seat could have been higher but already my head hadn't much clearance and a sudden jolt forward and I felt I would hit the sun visor a bang. What I could see through the slanting wind screen was 50% bonnet. On my own I sit high behind a reasonably vertical wind screen and have a great view out, like being in front of a TV, great for touring around. I can see the bonnet but it not oppressive and I have plenty of room about my head. I wasn't intending buying a full size 4X4 again but I won't ever be buying that for sure now.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



  • #218
    Grueller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,262 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Ard_MC wrote: »
    No should only be baled for silage if Hay is not possible to be got.

    Recommendation: Where, because of bad weather or for other reasons, hay cannot be saved, silage
    can be made, provided that it is turned at least twice before collecting. This is important for the
    participant to ensure that the seeds are spread and that the meadow continues to have the required
    diversity of species throughout the 5 year contract.

    That quote is directly from Glas specification sheets. Or for other reasons is the important bit. The other reason being that I have no shed space for hay and also that I could not be bothered my hole arsing around with hay even in this good weather.


  • #219
    L1985
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭L1985


    Grueller wrote: »
    Recommendation: Where, because of bad weather or for other reasons, hay cannot be saved, silage
    can be made, provided that it is turned at least twice before collecting. This is important for the
    participant to ensure that the seeds are spread and that the meadow continues to have the required
    diversity of species throughout the 5 year contract.

    That quote is directly from Glas specification sheets. Or for other reasons is the important bit. The other reason being that I have no shed space for hay and also that I could not be bothered my hole arsing around with hay even in this good weather.

    It's unfortunately when you have unsettled weather conditions- that's happened is every time we have had to to cut those meadows and I've a feeling it will happen this year as well. Sudden rain showers can come from anywhere ya know!!


  • #220
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    L1985 wrote: »
    It's unfortunately when you have unsettled weather conditions- that's happened is every time we have had to to cut those meadows and I've a feeling it will happen this year as well. Sudden rain showers can come from anywhere ya know!!

    Unless you have gone full 60's rewind, and cut it with a fingerbar mower, the conditioning flails on a modern mower will have threashed most of the seed off whatever is growing there.
    Just look at what gathers on the front hood of the mower just driving through it.


  • #221
    grassroot1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Dug a grave for a local this evening oh sweet divine it was like being on a chain gang


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  • #222
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Had to do the same last week. We left it til cool of evening but still. The son came down with chilled cans of Cider and Heineken ..... manna from heaven!!


  • #223
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    grassroot1 wrote: »
    Dug a grave for a local this evening oh sweet divine it was like being on a chain gang

    Was it a new grave? We dug my fathers- it was a new grave and a nightmare. My aunts grave was opened a number of times and wasn’t as bad to do.

    The heat must have been killer.


  • #224
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,923 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Was it a new grave? We dug my fathers- it was a new grave and a nightmare. My aunts grave was opened a number of times and wasn’t as bad to do.

    The heat must have been killer.

    A bit morbid, but a handy tip when digging a grave. If you have a grave with only one person buried there and you need to find out which side they are buried on, drive down a bit of 1/2" rebar by hand. It will go down easily on the side where they are buried.

    I can't understand why they don't mark the headstone to show the side the person is buried on. We dug our family grave recently and we got the side wrong. It was over 25 years since last dug, but still.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #225
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,923 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    For those of you like myself that don't read the Dairy Chit Chat thread too often. Have a look in there now. They're bating the heads off each other with hurleys. :D:D

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #226
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,848 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    For those of you like myself that don't read the Dairy Chit Chat thread too often. Have a look in there now. They're bating the heads off each other with hurleys. :D:D

    The heat is getting to some of them. Poor chaps.


  • #227
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Facebook is giving rain!!!


  • #228
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    ganmo wrote: »
    Facebook is giving rain!!!

    Don't jinx/scare away that possibility. :o


  • #229
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    I've a horses, hiking, dairy & photography holiday booked started the 14th. So I'd like it to be dry. So it shall probably rain!


  • #230
    Bullocks
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    I've a horses, hiking, dairy & photography holiday booked started the 14th. So I'd like it to be dry. So it shall probably rain!

    Jesus are you sure that's a holiday? I like to lie down, eat and drink when I get a holiday!


  • #231
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Jesus are you sure that's a holiday? I like to lie down, eat and drink when I get a holiday!

    Different strokes for different folks! Hiking & photography go hand in hand anyway, am off to over near dartmoor park. Be close to a few racecourses so make take in a day there too :D


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  • #232
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,848 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    After rolling out 3 rolls of 3 quarter inch hydrodare. My holidays are a distant memory


  • #233
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    A bit morbid, but a handy tip when digging a grave. If you have a grave with only one person buried there and you need to find out which side they are buried on, drive down a bit of 1/2" rebar by hand. It will go down easily on the side where they are buried.

    I can't understand why they don't mark the headstone to show the side the person is buried on. We dug our family grave recently and we got the side wrong. It was over 25 years since last dug, but still.

    Men are usually to the left as you look at the headstone around our side of the country. I wanted to bury dad 2 foot deeper as we kept meeting remains when we opened the old family gravebut everyone said twas a waste of time and energy- when he was buried Mam announced that she wanted to be buried on top of him and not to his left.


  • #234
    carrollsno1
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    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Different strokes for different folks! Hiking & photography go hand in hand anyway, am off to over near dartmoor park. Be close to a few racecourses so make take in a day there too :D

    Supposed to be lovely part of the world, i drank with a mechanic who worked on a farm beside me where they bought cattle off that moor he said they were the wildest hed ever seen in his life and were never dehorned either. Might be a few around to get a photo of, also the dartmoor ponies would be another feature there too.

    Better living everyone



  • #235
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Different strokes for different folks! Hiking & photography go hand in hand anyway, am off to over near dartmoor park. Be close to a few racecourses so make take in a day there too :D

    Bring back some baisteach with you when you come back.
    It's raining away atm over there now.


  • #236
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Different strokes for different folks! Hiking & photography go hand in hand anyway, am off to over near dartmoor park. Be close to a few racecourses so make take in a day there too :D

    Surely you'll have the making of a winner in one of our photography competitions!


  • #237
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    carrollsno1 wrote: »
    Supposed to be lovely part of the world, i drank with a mechanic who worked on a farm beside me where they bought cattle off that moor he said they were the wildest hed ever seen in his life and were never dehorned either. Might be a few around to get a photo of, also the dartmoor ponies would be another feature there too.

    Tis the ponies I'm aiming for!! But any cattle are good cattle :) I'm going to visit a photographer who just happens to do some work with horses and on a dairy farm so I'll be tagging along.
    Say my name wrote: »
    Bring back some baisteach with you when you come back.
    It's raining away atm over there now.

    I know, started yesterday evening I'm told!
    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    Surely you'll have the making of a winner in one of our photography competitions!

    Naw, am jinxed!


  • #238
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Men are usually to the left as you look at the headstone around our side of the country. I wanted to bury dad 2 foot deeper as we kept meeting remains when we opened the old family gravebut everyone said twas a waste of time and energy- when he was buried Mam announced that she wanted to be buried on top of him and not to his left.

    All mini diggers used around here. 600e to dig the mothers grave in December and my digger doing nothing. I was told I couldn't do it by the undertaker and there is no graves around it.

    when the headstone and kerbs were being done in May, the lad couldn't believe we demanded 2 x rebar sheets were put in with the concrete. but a fresh enough grave and auld lad thinks he is good for another 30 years


  • #239
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    lakill Farm wrote: »
    All mini diggers used around here. 600e to dig the mothers grave in December and my digger doing nothing. I was told I couldn't do it by the undertaker and there is no graves around it.

    when the headstone and kerbs were being done in May, the lad couldn't believe we demanded 2 x rebar sheets were put in with the concrete. but a fresh enough grave and auld lad thinks he is good for another 30 years

    It’s about €100 here with a jcb. But we always had the tradition of digging the neighbours grave and that wasn’t going to change for dad. On the old grave, all it too was The weight of the sledge to break the concrete- there was a lot of settling of soil since it was last opened.

    How is your father after your mother dying?


  • #240
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,923 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    Men are usually to the left as you look at the headstone around our side of the country. I wanted to bury dad 2 foot deeper as we kept meeting remains when we opened the old family gravebut everyone said twas a waste of time and energy- when he was buried Mam announced that she wanted to be buried on top of him and not to his left.
    Same here, men on left. Very old graves like our one can have women on left if previous person had to go on right. He may have been buried soon after another man, say his brother.
    Not nice to see the remains of a person you knew when you're digging. In my case, my Grandmother.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



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  • #241
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Same here, men on left. Very old graves like our one can have women on left if previous person had to go on right. He may have been buried soon after another man, say his brother.
    Not nice to see the remains of a person you knew when you're digging. In my case, my Grandmother.
    Yeah my younger brother met my grandfathers ribs and wouldn’t dig any more. There was infant remains in that grave too I’m glad we didn’t meet.


  • #242
    lakill Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭lakill Farm


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    It’s about €100 here with a jcb. But we always had the tradition of digging the neighbours grave and that wasn’t going to change for dad. On the old grave, all it too was The weight of the sledge to break the concrete- there was a lot of settling of soil since it was last opened.

    How is your father after your mother dying?

    He is doing ok. Keeping busy went back to work fairly soon after and then in the evenings he does the bog or gives me a hand or calls over as im 12 mile away. But good. He was determined to have headstone done for cemetery sunday on June bank holiday and he has the turf home and half the house repainted


  • #243
    Kevhog1988
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    We usually dig the grave ourselves also and then backfill it once buried. Not sure where the tradition came from but we would of all worked on the roads in england and i think the uncles got it from being at other funerals of maybe west of ireland men. We did it for the grandfathers funeral and every family funeral since.


  • #244
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    whelan2 wrote: »
    After rolling out 3 rolls of 3 quarter inch hydrodare. My holidays are a distant memory

    I hope you didnt actially roll and rather pulled out of the middle of roll? Still, tough work in this heat and working out the twists.


  • #245
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Not nice to see the remains of a person you knew when you're digging. In my case, my Grandmother.

    That's why tis always neighbours and not relations that dig graves around here.

    There's something very humbling about it at the same time. As l said to the lads the other evening as we came on some remains and the irons of the coffin, "you can have the fanciest coffin in the land and in the end you're shoved into a beef nut bag!!" Which we preceeded to do. And do you know when it comes my turn l dont see a bit wrong with it. Lord have mercy on the dead.


  • #246
    Bullocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Muckit wrote: »
    That's why tis always neighbours and not relations that dig graves around here.

    There's something very humbling about it at the same time. As l said to the lads the other evening as we came on some remains and the irons of the coffin, "you can have the fanciest coffin in the land and in the end you're shoved into a beef nut bag!!" Which we preceeded to do. And do you know when it comes my turn l dont see a bit wrong with it. Lord have mercy on the dead.
    If you don't mind we could use the beef nut bag at the start and save the price of a coffin! I'm hoping for cremation myself but if I'm dead it won't make much odds


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  • #247
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,923 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    theemigrant wrote: »
    We usually dig the grave ourselves also and then backfill it once buried. Not sure where the tradition came from but we would of all worked on the roads in england and i think the uncles got it from being at other funerals of maybe west of ireland men. We did it for the grandfathers funeral and every family funeral since.

    Very old tradition, I'd say. It's the same here in this parish. Family of deceased produces a bottle of whiskey and tradition says it must not leave the graveyard.
    Muckit wrote: »
    That's why tis always neighbours and not relations that dig graves around here.

    There's something very humbling about it at the same time. As l said to the lads the other evening as we came on some remains and the irons of the coffin, "you can have the fanciest coffin in the land and in the end you're shoved into a beef nut bag!!" Which we preceeded to do. And do you know when it comes my turn l dont see a bit wrong with it. Lord have mercy on the dead.

    Ya very humbling alright. Here the immediate family don't dig, but I dug and filled in my aunt's grave, during the prayers with everyone still there. We had soemone with us then who dug one for the first time (from the City) and he thought it was a very personal thing to do. There's also a few local guys who seem to be at every grave opening. All farmers and do it for free. Fair decent of them.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • #248
    Parishlad
    Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭Parishlad


    It's the same around here too. Neighbours will dig the grave and a bottle will be brought to them. My father used to dig an awful lot of graves. He was pulling out of a field one day and a neighbour pulled up and asked him if he (my father) would dig his grave for him. No problem says the old lad, I'm going for tea now though, can you hold on for another hour or so!


  • #249
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,848 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Muckit wrote: »
    I hope you didnt actially roll and rather pulled out of the middle of roll? Still, tough work in this heat and working out the twists.

    1 roll was fine other 2 were cnuts


  • #250
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    After rolling out 3 rolls of 3 quarter inch hydrodare. My holidays are a distant memory

    If it was for the dairy herd you should have use at least inch.....when you were going to the trouble of changing it


  • #251
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,848 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    wrangler wrote: »
    If it was for the dairy herd you should have use at least inch.....when you were going to the trouble of changing it

    No for youngstock and suckler. Made a massive difference


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