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Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

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    #2012
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    gozunda wrote: »
    Anyone with experience of the PTO Macgen 240kW generator?

    Thinking of getting one for power outages

    If you are serious about a 240 kw generator with it's own engine drop us a PM.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #2013
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    240kw, are you running a small housing estate or a factory?

    Lol. That should be 40 not 240. Anyway ...


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    #2014
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭The Rabbi


    gozunda wrote: »
    Lol. That should give resd 40 not 240. Anyway ...

    Have a chat with your electrician,work out your power requirement and how you will connect up.The macgen 40kw is advertised with 125A socket so it should be well capable of running the farm.Beware some generators can only supply half their advertised power through the socket,they can have two 63A outlets.


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    #2015
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    The Rabbi wrote: »
    Have a chat with your electrician,work out your power requirement and how you will connect up.The macgen 40kw is advertised with 125A socket so it should be well capable of running the farm.Beware some generators can only supply half their advertised power through the socket,they can have two 63A outlets.

    Cheers for that. More interested though how reliable / good pieces of kit the macgen generators are. Anyone here got one already?


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    #2016
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,047 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    With the day that's in it, I propose we sacrifice Buford and scatter his blood to the four corners of Boards.

    http://irisharchaeology.ie/2016/11/animal-sacrifice-and-blood-letting-saint-martins-feast-in-ireland/

    We'll have a lottery for next year in case anyone feels left out!


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    #2017
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,363 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Say my name wrote: »
    With the day that's in it, I propose we sacrifice Buford and scatter his blood to the four corners of Boards.

    http://irisharchaeology.ie/2016/11/animal-sacrifice-and-blood-letting-saint-martins-feast-in-ireland/

    We'll have a lottery for next year in case anyone feels left out!

    I'm all for it


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    #2018
    davidk1394
    Registered Users Posts: 4,043 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Would any of ye have a link to what's on at the dairy day up in Punchestown. Not sure whether I'll go or not


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    #2019
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Say my name wrote: »
    With the day that's in it, I propose we sacrifice Buford and scatter his blood to the four corners of Boards.

    http://irisharchaeology.ie/2016/11/animal-sacrifice-and-blood-letting-saint-martins-feast-in-ireland/

    We'll have a lottery for next year in case anyone feels left out!
    Reggie. wrote: »
    I'm all for it

    *polishes banhammer*


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    #2020
    AgriLad
    Registered Users Posts: 58 ✭✭AgriLad


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Would any of ye have a link to what's on at the dairy day up in Punchestown. Not sure whether I'll go or not

    https://www.dairygoldagri.ie/events/irish-farmers-journal-dairy-day-punchestown-event-centre-co-kildare/


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    #2021
    annfrench
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭annfrench


    This is a very old thread.


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    #2022
    annfrench
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭annfrench


    Hi IM NEW HERE.


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    #2023
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,681 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    annfrench wrote: »
    Hi IM NEW HERE.

    Yes, you sure are.

    'The Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Galway, As they sailed beneath the Swastika to Spain'



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    #2024
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    I was with a neighbour this morning trying to give him a hand to start a tractor, we eventually jump started it off my land cruiser. But at one stage we had 3 pairs of vice grips clamping various cables together:eek: He wouldn't let me take a photo. :(

    Faulty positive clamp on the battery was where the fault was.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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    #2025
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Pretty sobering tweet.
    https://twitter.com/pauldcotter/status/1194185882464608257?s=19


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    #2026
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Pretty sobering tweet.
    https://twitter.com/pauldcotter/status/1194185882464608257?s=19

    I must post a link later, there was a german group investigated 'fake' science publications. basically the publisher was taking papers off everyone, saying they were getting peer reviewed and publishing in a journal without looking at them. That and they were setting up conferences for 5(or more) specialized areas and have them all presented in the same room where nobody else in the room had a notion what was being presented.


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    #2027
    grassroot1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭grassroot1


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Pretty sobering tweet.
    https://twitter.com/pauldcotter/status/1194185882464608257?s=19
    Well we cant produce it for free or at the cost of the environment


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    #2028
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The food specialist in, What Planet Are You On? RTE 1 is giving the dairy and beef in each family diet a hammering. This is the result of poor research and lack of, mainly.
    One family had beef three times in the week and he wanted them to reduce that to one.
    Leo Varadkar has raised this issue also, the allocation of all out farming emissions to this country, this week. Lets allocate all the oil to Saudi Arabia.

    An interesting point raised at the Biological Conf last week, by Christine Jones, was that there was more meat (bison) supported on the grass plains of North America 300 years ago, than is farmed there today. Farming can be used to sequester carbon.


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    #2029
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Pretty sobering tweet.
    https://twitter.com/pauldcotter/status/1194185882464608257?s=19

    Are we all fcuked? Is it now time to crack open heads and feast on the goo inside?


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    #2030
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    One of the best ways to sequester Carbon is to have cattle on permanent grass land, ie, most of Irelands fields.

    Multiple per ha than mature woods.


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    #2031
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,239 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Odelay wrote: »
    Are we all fcuked? Is it now time to crack open heads and feast on the goo inside?

    More fukced than a hooker at a FF Ardfheis.


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    #2032
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Some farming practices may need to change but that will be far better than the message of telling people to drastically reduce dairy and beef consumption.
    Farmers need to take charge of the narrative.


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    #2033
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Water John wrote: »
    The food specialist in, What Planet Are You On? RTE 1 is giving the dairy and beef in each family diet a hammering. This is the result of poor research and lack of, mainly.
    One family had beef three times in the week and he wanted them to reduce that to one.
    Leo Varadkar has raised this issue also, the allocation of all out farming emissions to this country, this week. Lets allocate all the oil to Saudi Arabia.

    An interesting point raised at the Biological Conf last week, by Christine Jones, was that there was more meat (bison) supported on the grass plains of North America 300 years ago, than is farmed there today. Farming can be used to sequester carbon.


    The food specialist on the programme - surprise surprise is Dr Marco Springmann - one of the scientist behind much of the now debunked EAT Lancet and a vegan activist


    https://mobile.twitter.com/ghgguru/status/1088083544314920961?lang=en


    This is the reason you can take much of RTEs current Tabloid TV with a bucket of salt ...

    Nothing like adding a bit of incentive to make compelling tv ...
    The houses that successfully reduce the negative impact that they're having on planet earth will receive €2,000 for their troubles, ...

    This is the **** that RTE is selling its viewers ...


    https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/rte-climate-change-reality-show-677544


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    #2034
    whelan2
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    Anyone got a link to a good head torch please. One that is also suitable for running


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    #2035
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,047 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Water John wrote: »
    Some farming practices may need to change but that will be far better than the message of telling people to drastically reduce dairy and beef consumption.
    Farmers need to take charge of the narrative.

    Listen to RTE radio's Drivetime today's program from 20 minutes in.

    https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/11113418

    Private I'll repeat private, not linked to government or government policies, ..company Devenish had a contribution to today's program.


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    #2036
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Anyone got a link to a good head torch please. One that is also suitable for running

    Cattle break out again...?

    *runs for cover*:pac:


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    #2037
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,078 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Cattle break out again...?

    *runs for cover*:pac:

    No, eldest lad is running in the evenings and needs a torch. It's either that or do 50 laps of the track....


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    #2038
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Make sure you check the carbon footprint of said torch...


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    #2039
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,113 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Hadn't spotted his name but was wondering why one of the four panellists had to be brought from the UK to tell us about food carbon footprint. Yes, programme is very tabloidy.
    Thanks for enlightening me.

    Funny, when BBC want expertise in food science, they often come to UCC.


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    #2040
    Birdnuts
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    Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »
    Pretty sobering tweet.
    https://twitter.com/pauldcotter/status/1194185882464608257?s=19

    Maybe we should focus more on waste(up to 50% of food produced) and the obesity epidemic before going down the road of more unsustaineable intensive farming?? It would be interesting to know who is sponsoring this event??


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    #2041
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,632 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Water John wrote: »
    The food specialist in, What Planet Are You On? RTE 1 is giving the dairy and beef in each family diet a hammering. This is the result of poor research and lack of, mainly.
    One family had beef three times in the week and he wanted them to reduce that to one.
    Leo Varadkar has raised this issue also, the allocation of all out farming emissions to this country, this week. Lets allocate all the oil to Saudi Arabia.

    An interesting point raised at the Biological Conf last week, by Christine Jones, was that there was more meat (bison) supported on the grass plains of North America 300 years ago, than is farmed there today. Farming can be used to sequester carbon.

    I'm not watching RTE this week as its mostly George Lee inspired BS and Hysteria


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