Farm Sayings

Mossie1975 · 18-09-2020 9:41pm #1

Have ye any farm related sayings like this one I heard a lot growing up?:

The hay saved and Cork bet ... not a bad start to the Summer

Unfortunately, beating Cork was easier said than done.

degetme · 18-09-2020 9:46pm

Tipp bate, the hay saved and the munster final won

whelan2 · 18-09-2020 9:49pm

One swallow never a summer made

trixi2011 · 18-09-2020 10:08pm

Hindsight is the foresight of a gob****e

NcdJd · 18-09-2020 10:29pm

He's a plougher like ourselves. Neighbour of mine used to say this.

patsy_mccabe · 18-09-2020 11:24pm

No point being mad unless you can prove it. Applies to all farming activities.

Dakota Dan · 19-09-2020 12:16am

A fine looking woman, I rather have her down than a field of hay and she’d be saved a lot quicker.

Another one was I’d rather be feeling her than feeling the cold.

foxy farmer · 19-09-2020 6:16am

As dry as Beamish's bull.

Finty Lemon · 19-09-2020 6:48am

Sheep money only buys more sheep

curiousinvestor · 19-09-2020 7:07am

The day you buy is the day you sell.
( I've learned that lesson once and wont be caught again)

kerryjack · 19-09-2020 8:16am

As tight as a ducks arse, No fool like an old fool, he would break a crowbar in a bog, you would want 2 dicks on you to keep that one happy.

Mossie1975 · 19-09-2020 8:28am

I don’t follow this saying as it works brilliantly for me & my neighbours but I know many that would agree with it:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Danzy · 19-09-2020 8:30am

Tighter than a bulls hole walking up a hill.

_Brian · 19-09-2020 8:38am

He’s like an asses tool, a big fella when he’s out.

the hedgeman · 19-09-2020 8:49am

"you can make a small fortune in farming....provided you start with a large one"

50HX · 19-09-2020 2:16pm

A johndoe of turf/hay........a small load

Father use to always say it when he'd see a neighbour passing with an 8x4 trailer of turf

There's Timmy heading home with a johndoe of turf

NcdJd · 19-09-2020 5:06pm

Ya can't teach pork.
Rough as a bag of cats. Description can apply to man, woman or machine.

The Continental Op · 19-09-2020 5:17pm

From a Cornish farmer (father in law) referring to someone that was making a mess of a job....

Like a cow handling a musket

_Brian · 19-09-2020 7:03pm

For a clumsy worker.

“every finger is just a bigger thumb”

gozunda · 19-09-2020 7:32pm

For a horse that was worked and not cared for after

"looks like he/ she's been ridden hard and put away wet"

Sugarbowl · 19-09-2020 8:39pm

Mossie1975 wrote: »

I don’t follow this saying as it works brilliantly for me & my neighbours but I know many that would agree with it:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be

I agree with you - it’s what builds a friendship with a neighbor being able to do something back and forth.

kerry cow · 19-09-2020 8:46pm

Good fences make good neighbours.

he's a horse of a man ,if , he can **** walking .

if ,if ,if
if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle ,

birds of a feather flock together ,

Purple Mountain · 19-09-2020 8:48pm

'You can't bate breeding.'

ie good genes and not necessarily referring to the stock!

kerry cow · 19-09-2020 8:50pm

I bought a pig in a bag ,

buying without seeing

kerry cow · 19-09-2020 8:52pm

bird in the hand is better than 2 in the bush .

realise a good deal

I Am The Law · 19-09-2020 8:52pm

Where you have livestock you'll have dead stock.

kk.man · 19-09-2020 8:52pm

The Continental Op wrote: »

From a Cornish farmer (father in law) referring to someone that was making a mess of a job....

Like a cow handling a musket

Making a pigs tail of it...

Telling lies... If you said that to a ass he'd kick you.

NcdJd · 19-09-2020 8:53pm

kerry cow wrote: »

Good fences make good neighbours.

That's so true.

mfceiling · 19-09-2020 8:55pm

If a son is like the father...

"Scuttery cow scuttery calf"

Or...

"Bad ram bad lamb"

NcdJd · 19-09-2020 8:56pm

Never trust someone that talks out of the side of their mouth.

PoorFarmer · 19-09-2020 8:57pm

mfceiling wrote: »

If a son is like the father...

"Scuttery cow scuttery calf"

Or...

"Bad ram bad lamb"

We'd say "Black cat, black kitten" or
"Kicky mare, kicky foal"

19-09-2020 9:05pm

An ounce of breeding,is worth a ton of feeding

kerry cow · 19-09-2020 9:10pm

he/she is like the cat that got the cream .

keepalive213 · 19-09-2020 9:11pm

'If you want bad neighbours, buy sheep'
'Ceannaigh sean rud is beidh gan aon rud'
'the curse a f**k to ya'

It's a strange place

kerry cow · 19-09-2020 9:27pm

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

Say my name · 19-09-2020 9:56pm

April showers bring May flowers.
A wet and windy May fills the barns with corn and hay.

The ash before the oak, we're in for a soak.
The oak before the ash, we're in for a splash.

Cuckoo corn - barley, wheat, oats, sown in May.

Little Miss Fairy · 19-09-2020 9:59pm

Around here it's often said that someone "fell in for some land" when they are gifted it. The first time I heard the phrase I took it up wrongly and asked were they okay thinking that they'd had an accident!