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Sligoronan · 06-09-2015 7:37am

Handy for throwing up.

Base price · 03-10-2015 11:36pm

We have most of the turf home. We drew 5 loads today and 4 yesterday and my back and legs know it.
Reckon we have another 4 or 5 tomorrow including 2 for neighbors.
Fair play to the owner of the right of way he leveled in a temporary pass over cutaway so we could get out. I never thought of taking pictures but I will take one tomorrow morning.
Here are some pics of the damage the young lad & his friend (with a sow of a JD) did a few weeks ago to the temporary pass that was a replacement for the permanent pass that he fecked up last year.

CloughCasey1 · 04-10-2015 9:28am

Base price wrote: »

We have most of the turf home. We drew 5 loads today and 4 yesterday and my back and legs know it.
Reckon we have another 4 or 5 tomorrow including 2 for neighbors.
Fair play to the owner of the right of way he leveled in a temporary pass over cutaway so we could get out. I never thought of taking pictures but I will take one tomorrow morning.
Here are some pics of the damage the young lad & his friend (with a sow of a JD) did a few weeks ago to the temporary pass that was a replacement for the permanent pass that he fecked up last year.

Only wagon that should be let out that road is 135 with twins and 10x6 with just the boxes to fill a lager trailer from. No cop on at all.

mickdw · 04-10-2015 9:42am

Jesus, those tracks look pretty good to me.
Anywhere you could travel with single wheels, we would regard are being out of the bog already.
Unless we get a great summer, a 2wd hasn't a chance, it's 4 wd with twins all round and 3 on the trailer bringing small loads.
They will travel on stuff you cannot walk on though.

Base price · 04-10-2015 8:47pm

All turf is home including the bags for two elderly neighbours

We normally have no problems drawing turf with a 4wd 880 and a double wheeled tipping trailer unfortunately the young lad has made it difficult in the last two years. Anyway all is not lost and its in the shed now waiting for a cold night

Pic of part of the temporary pass from this morning.

O.A.P · 04-10-2015 11:05pm

Base price wrote: »

We have most of the turf home. We drew 5 loads today and 4 yesterday and my back and legs know it.
Reckon we have another 4 or 5 tomorrow including 2 for neighbors.
Fair play to the owner of the right of way he leveled in a temporary pass over cutaway so we could get out. I never thought of taking pictures but I will take one tomorrow morning.
Here are some pics of the damage the young lad & his friend (with a sow of a JD) did a few weeks ago to the temporary pass that was a replacement for the permanent pass that he fecked up last year.

I think your pic don't do you any favours (its a lot worse in real life?)
My road looks like that on a good year (no water though) and I have gone in with a defender and a 5.5 x 10 foot trailer every year bar one.

Mycroft H · 04-10-2015 11:08pm

I think I must be the only one in the midlands who managed to bring it out with the Discovery and a box trailer. 14 loads, it was hard work in the heat.

Muckit · 05-10-2015 4:56am

The 880 is like a snail on the road l'd say. We'd a 680 years ago. You'd keep into it walking.

djmc · 05-10-2015 6:29pm

Now that bord na Mona have said that they will stop harvesting peat within 15 years
How long do you think before they stop the rest of us.

Capercaillie · 05-10-2015 6:42pm

djmc wrote: »

Now that bord na Mona have said that they will stop harvesting peat within 15 years
How long do you think before they stop the rest of us.

In 15 years time most of their bogs (non-SAC bogs) will be spent. As regards domestic turfcutters, the government lacks the will to even stop people cutting on the SAC raised/blanket bogs. Raised bog SACs constitute only 2% of the raised bogs present. In 1997 turfcutting was banned on the SACs but people are still cutting in the vast majority of those bogs.

Muckit · 05-10-2015 7:16pm

With the advances in renewable energy, turf and other solud fuels will be unnecessary in all new builds. Water only needs to be 40º for underfloor and that is easily achievable with modern solar panels and heat exchangers.

Odelay · 05-10-2015 7:50pm

Muckit wrote: »

With the advances in renewable energy, turf and other solud fuels will be unnecessary in all new builds. Water only needs to be 40º for underfloor and that is easily achievable with modern solar panels and heat exchangers.

I know its not very "ECO" but I hope to be tanning my arse by a real fire for many years to come.

mickdw · 05-10-2015 7:59pm

Odelay wrote: »

I know its not very "ECO" but I hope to be tanning my arse by a real fire for many years to come.

Turf in a room sealed stove yes but the open fire is not a runner when it comes to a new build since part L 2011.
We find it very hard to convince house builders of the requirements of the regulations but if you are installing heat recovery and ventilation systems, open chimneys do not work.

CloughCasey1 · 05-10-2015 8:13pm

mickdw wrote: »

Turf in a room sealed stove yes but the open fire is not a runner when it comes to a new build since part L 2011.
We find it very hard to convince house builders of the requirements of the regulations but if you are installing heat recovery and ventilation systems, open chimneys do not work.

Just leave the chimney out of the part L. Sure a gyproc slab and a bit of skim and sure "what openfire" . Very eaey to open it up again when final mortgage draw down is made when all signed off for bank.

Bullocks · 05-10-2015 9:37pm

Odelay wrote: »

I know its not very "ECO" but I hope to be tanning my arse by a real fire for many years to come.

I'll second that!

mickdw · 08-10-2015 10:29pm

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Just leave the chimney out of the part L. Sure a gyproc slab and a bit of skim and sure "what openfire" . Very eaey to open it up again when final mortgage draw down is made when all signed off for bank.

Thats all well and good and was done a fair bit under 2008 regs.
Since part L 2011 and the near mandatory use of HRV, You would be only fooling yourself by introducing an open chimney after your hrv has been commissioned.

CloughCasey1 · 09-10-2015 4:06pm

mickdw wrote: »

Thats all well and good and was done a fair bit under 2008 regs.
Since part L 2011 and the near mandatory use of HRV, You would be only fooling yourself by introducing an open chimney after your hrv has been commissioned.

I agree but ya know what people are like. Stove with air piped in under the floor is only job but fecks up the ber

Capercaillie · 09-10-2015 4:39pm

Odelay wrote: »

I know its not very "ECO" but I hope to be tanning my arse by a real fire for many years to come.

People should be allowed to cut and use turf, but the last fragment of relatively intact raised /blanket bogs should be preserved. They should not be destroyed for short term gain. That applies to domestic turfcutters and Bord na Móna.

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