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I think I'll be a typical farmer and go.....meh:o
I got over fifty in one day last year on an island in Lough Derg.
The hills I was on is a hot spot too. No heifer we buy in can go there. Best land we have too:(
Just off for a dip in the lake now, washing off last nights tan!!!
If you get a bulls eye type bruise around the site of where you've been bitten don't come crying meh to me
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johngalway wrote: »If you get a bulls eye type bruise around the site of where you've been bitten don't come crying meh to me
I will not, I'll go crying to the doctor! Just picked another red-back off my leg. This is unreal, have not seen this amount in years.0 -
I will not, I'll go crying to the doctor! Just picked another red-back off my leg. This is unreal, have not seen this amount in years.
Tell the doctor what it is, they likely won't have a clue
Strange, we were going through some lambs today and thought there's less ticks around this year than last.0 -
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putting in 14 acres in a pit after lunch,must be10 years since i had a pit of my own silage:rolleyes:.
Is it a heavy crop? You'I have a nice sized pit You can't beat a pit to keep costs down. Not making one this year and kinda half regretting it now, but tis good to change things around now and again.
What will you be using to feed it out, have you anything planned?0 -
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bogman_bass wrote: »I dont know about that! I'm pretty glad I wont have to come home from work this winter to face into rolling back a pit cover that had collapsed down the face of the pit
Simple answer to that one - stanley knife Roll the bottom sheet on its own and the top sheets together. Cut the top sheets and leave the one bottom one intact if they fall down like that. It's easy horse back up one.
I'm really not looking forward to all the wet net and wraps we'I have around the yard this winter... and having to pay to dispose of it
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contractors came back at 7.15 amand covered the pit while i was milking.... raining now:D
I'm jealous!!
God that's some service. But I suppose when your giving them 90 acres worth of business, that's a job they want to keep
Do they do it every year for you? Will they come back in two weeks time and tighten down the covers? 0 -
I'm jealous!!
God that's some service. But I suppose when your giving them 90 acres worth of business, that's a job they want to keep
Do they do it every year for you? Will they come back in two weeks time and tighten down the covers?
+1 on that. Not only does our contractor not cover the pit but he was short of drivers on Monday evening so I put it into the pit on his loading shovel and the auld lad was drawing away all evening on one of his tractors. He is a neighbour who has a self propel for his own 120 acres and we are the only paying job he does.0 -
they are sound out... they have benn doing mine for about 5 years, will do my wholecrop and a very small second cut, also put out my dung aswell... when you have a good service like that its hard to justify doing it yourselfI'm jealous!!
God that's some service. But I suppose when your giving them 90 acres worth of business, that's a job they want to keep
Do they do it every year for you? Will they come back in two weeks time and tighten down the covers?0 -
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done right it should take very little time.
lay your sheets however it is you want them then roll them back 3/4 ways as one sheet.
loader drives up with tyres on the fork and dumps them, few lads up top to spread them out.
unroll a bit more, another load of tyres, rinse and repeat.
in a perfect world you'd have a teleporter for it I suppose, would make it a very handy job then.
I remember as a kid myself and my father used go to my aunts farm to help cover the pit.
twas a days work, even though they had a digger. my auld lad and his sister would fight like kids over the right way to do it, while her husband would tip along in the digger at idle putting tyres over the side wall of the pit for us to lay out.
That was a feckin big pit too, especially when you're 10
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done right it should take very little time.
lay your sheets however it is you want them then roll them back 3/4 ways as one sheet.
loader drives up with tyres on the fork and dumps them, few lads up top to spread them out.
unroll a bit more, another load of tyres, rinse and repeat.
in a perfect world you'd have a teleporter for it I suppose, would make it a very handy job then.
I remember as a kid myself and my father used go to my aunts farm to help cover the pit.
twas a days work, even though they had a digger. my auld lad and his sister would fight like kids over the right way to do it, while her husband would tip along in the digger at idle putting tyres over the side wall of the pit for us to lay out.
That was a feckin big pit too, especially when you're 10
Yeah, that takes me back John - we used to have pit silage at home when I was young. Covering the silage was one of those jobs I fecking hated.
I'm jealous!!
God that's some service. But I suppose when your giving them 90 acres worth of business, that's a job they want to keep
Do they do it every year for you? Will they come back in two weeks time and tighten down the covers?
We never tightened the covers down after it was covered.
What we used to do (not saying its right, just what we did) was put the silage cover down about 6 inches or more between the wall and the pit, then put sandbags on top all along the wall. Then put heavy lorry covers (or ship covers maybe) on top again...
So you had to kinda make a small 'V' trench of sorts with a shovel, or with your hands (wearing gloves, or else you rip the knuckles off yerself) between the wall and the pit, and then stuff the cover in there... going along on yer knees...
I assume this was just us, and not really how its done
Having said that, we never had any waste at all, so I guess we must have done something right... 0 -
We use the track machine,the tyres are stacked either side of the pit we pick them up and place them with the digger.done right it should take very little time.
lay your sheets however it is you want them then roll them back 3/4 ways as one sheet.
loader drives up with tyres on the fork and dumps them, few lads up top to spread them out.
unroll a bit more, another load of tyres, rinse and repeat.
in a perfect world you'd have a teleporter for it I suppose, would make it a very handy job then.
I remember as a kid myself and my father used go to my aunts farm to help cover the pit.
twas a days work, even though they had a digger. my auld lad and his sister would fight like kids over the right way to do it, while her husband would tip along in the digger at idle putting tyres over the side wall of the pit for us to lay out.
That was a feckin big pit too, especially when you're 100 -
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last cow calved yesterday, she had milk fever this morning, but wasnt too bad.Couldnt get a bottle in to her in field so brought her in, refused to go down crush as there was a little pool of water at the back of it so put some straw on the water, she went in to the crush and tried to climb the side of it, she went down:( got the 2 bottles in to her and had to pull her out of the crush, left her sitting in the yard and she got up after half an hour... glad to see the end of calving now.... starting again in august:cool: 0
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done right it should take very little time.
lay your sheets however it is you want them then roll them back 3/4 ways as one sheet.
loader drives up with tyres on the fork and dumps them, few lads up top to spread them out.
unroll a bit more, another load of tyres, rinse and repeat.
in a perfect world you'd have a teleporter for it I suppose, would make it a very handy job then.
I remember as a kid myself and my father used go to my aunts farm to help cover the pit.
twas a days work, even though they had a digger. my auld lad and his sister would fight like kids over the right way to do it, while her husband would tip along in the digger at idle putting tyres over the side wall of the pit for us to lay out.
That was a feckin big pit too, especially when you're 10
When i was younger we used to cover our pit with dung .dual spreader along front all the way to the back.did not have that much waste as we would spread grass seed to make it easier to take off in the winter .neighbour used to set onions in the dung and a few late spuds .i reckon the car tires aren t heavy enough.
Now all bales less drama.0 -
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When i was younger we used to cover our pit with dung ......I reckon the car tires aren t heavy enough.
Now all bales less drama.
Yes when we made the pits out the field (when I was a nipper), we used dung and dug a trench along the side with spade and turned over the sod to seal the edge. Dung was very handy to peel off as you said once grass grew on it. But big problems with birds picking holes when rooting for worms :mad::mad:
Re car tires not being heavy enough..... I used to think it was the weight thing too. Thought the heavier the tyre the better. We don't have a F loader so would kill myself rolling lorry tyres up on top of the pit. But sure I was doing more harm than good stretching the polythene with the heels of my boots/wellies
Now use nearly all car tyres. Throw up as many as possible, then take off the wellies, up on hands and knees and spread them out, or walk on the tyres already laid. lorry tyres left for around the sides.
I personally think the biggest aid to preserving good precision chop silage is cutting date. Cut on or before the June bank holiday. Cutting date doesn't seem as critical with baled silage for some reason.
Also tightening down the cover after pit has sagged is very important.0 -
lakill Farm wrote: »Sure will we organise a bus and a flask
Never mind the bus. A session the night before and the number of a local b&b will do. Farming and forestry social outing:P.0 -
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