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Mooooo wrote: »

Galway Dublin train hit a herd of cattle, 8 animals hurt and train damaged apparently

Ya just heard on the news there. Outside tullamore apparently

Check on your elderly neighbours. This weather is nearly harder on them than the snow and ice

Poor Engerland are a goal down against Belguim....

_Brian wrote: »

Maybe football is going away rather than home ?

They have qualified for the next round any way

_Brian wrote: »

Spent the last 5 nights up in Antrim and I must say it’s a beautiful county.

We stayed in a campsite right on the edge of Bushmills town, fantastic place.

Some savage tracts of land to be seen.

Beautiful coastline.

Along with the usual things we did “The Gobbins” cliff walk. It’s a Victorian attraction that was rebuilt and reopened in 2014, it’s an attraction to rival the Causeway or Carrick a Rede Rooe bridge, just less heard of.

http://www.thegobbinscliffpath.com/

You wouldn’t have been far from McNaughtens estate Brian. Savage ground, makes close on £500 /acre a year for rent for spuds. Jalex tried to buy it few years ago but Randox bought it at about £3mill.

whelan2 wrote: »

Young lad up the road is helping out at home while we are away. His driving test was booked for 3pm yesterday. He sat in the room waiting to be called. After a while he enquired what the story was. The tester called in sick yesterday morning and he wasn't notified that his test was cancelled. He now has to reapply. That's a load of crap

Some load of sh1te that.why didn’t someone else test him or have the decency to ring him.if you failed to turn up they wouldn’t be long with making a big deal of it and going down in your pocket for money.not fair on a young lad

Lovely evening for a bbq or beer garden
Enjoy

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Found a rather outgoing grasshopper who didn't jump away immediately. Beautiful little things.

Not a bad looking finger either.

Rows Grower wrote: »

Not a bad looking finger either.

I've had some strange chat up lines in my time but that one takes the biscuit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

If it's the clutch slave piston, replace the whole piston. You can get seals and just change them but the reason the seals go is there is some damage on the inner surface of the piston. Replace seals only and it will go again in a year or two. New cylinder an dit will last twice as long at least. Speaking from experience on that one.

Yea, that's the one. New piston then, guess Brogans would have it. Would they cost much? Debating just leaving it til after the main contractor work is all done round here, mechanics flat out.

Made a grand clamp of turf outside this week.pulled some plastic covers out on the lawns to square them off and make them easy to pull over the turf.they weren’t 20 minutes left out on the lawns and they burnt big fukn squares their own shape into the grass.big squares now like they were sprayed off with roundup.hindsight I should have unraveled them on the tarmac.if I had brains I’d be dangerous

carrollsno1 wrote: »

https://www.ruraldelivery.net.nz/stories/Shortlands-Station-Biological-Farming-2017-03-29-00-41-22Z

Might be of interest to some.

There was a big hoo ha in the European parliament earlier this year about the amounts of chromium in phosphate being used as fertilizer.
The phosphate that had high levels comes from morroco. Russian phosphate has very low levels.
Naturally the Russians were exuding the harm that high levels of chromium does to soil life and human/animal health.

After much consideration in the parliament and taking into account the Eu would now be cutting off one supply and giving a monopoly to the Russians.
The Eu ruled that there was no harm from having chromium coming into the diet from phosphate.

The biological approach to farming is gradually gaining ground but with generations of farmers having grown up with in a npk world in institutions sponsored by chem, fert and kill that worm dose cultures, it'll be 50 years for it to become mainstream if it ever does.

The big exponents of biochar use fish byproducts in inoculating the char.
The real clever ones use it treated with seaweed before feeding to cattle.

The more diverse life you can get into the soil the less artificial nitrogen needs to be applied.
All life is nitrogen. Bacteria up to ourselves. We absorb nitrogen through the food we eat and the air we breathe. Then that becomes plant available as we die and decompose or get eaten by something else and comes out our waste pipe.
That's the practice of biological farming.

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Jeez, you'd want the patience of Job at this farming lark. Bought 2 purebred limousin heifers about 6 to 8 weeks ago. Saw one bulling but wasn't sure so let her go. She never came bulling since. No sign of any bulling with the other.
Got an injection of Estrumate yesterday and headed out this morning to inject them. Yep, one of them mad bulling, standing and all. The one I never saw bulling and I watching them 3 times a day.

Ah your fcuked up bad Patsy boy, you should have been watching them 4 times a day!

emaherx wrote: »

Bit hungover this morning and the sun was very bright and possibly a little loud

Anyway went out to check cattle and they ran around mad with their tails in the air, didn't know what the hell was wrong with them. But as soon as I took off my sunglasses they calmed down straight away and went back to grazing!

They really hate a red pair I have, drives one cow crackers. But the wagon also hates headtorches so she's just an idiot. I reckon cattle like to see your eyes anyway, wouldn't it be part of their natural instinct to watch a predators eyes in the wild? Or maybe I'm talking shíte :pac::p
But I know I'd be freaked out if someone who used to look normal showed up with no visible eyes one day!

emaherx wrote: »

Think you are on the money there. But I was a bit slow this morning.

Monty Roberts teachings about horse join up is all about the eyes.

https://youtu.be/jOn_6Y5EJKk

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Took a pic on iPhone which is 4.4mb, too big to add as attachment
Went into google photos but don’t see how to change size
Does anyone know how

You could upload it to imgur or postimage and copy the link and post the link here.

Farm death in mayo

ganmo wrote: »

Farm death in mayo

Baler involved according to Facebook

Contractor gave me the use of MF398 today to draw in bales. He'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands when he wants it back

Some great football in this world cup

whelan2 wrote: »

Some great football in this world cup

Two great games today, im hoping spme of the knockout games go to penalties.

tanko wrote: »

Two great games today, im hoping spme of the knockout games go to penalties.

In France for the France game today. We were more excited about the game than a good few French here

The Rabbi wrote: »

Ah jasus,that other lad has just been weaned off his 398 and now you start.Get back to your Zetor.:rolleyes:

But....but this tractor has BRAKES! And a back window! And the lift isn't broken so it doesn't keep dropping and lifting! :eek: