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delaval

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I turn down full length ones

Telescopic

delaval

Muckit wrote: »

Get up this far JDI/vander and we'I squeeze ye in!!

Wht about little old me?

reilig

Just in from dropping pipes.

What did I miss?

Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

mf240

just do it wrote: »

Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job

Shores are working well, when you can shorten the wellies:pac::pac:

Conmaicne Mara

reilig wrote: »

Just in from dropping pipes.

What did I miss?

Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

Ara sure we'll be waiting for you at the airport when you get back. Them pipes will need a good dash of rain to work properly anyhow

darragh_haven

just do it wrote: »

Half length welles. I've them a week now and they're a great job.

Do they say muckit on them..... did you steal them from muckit......ah now fess up

hugo29

reilig wrote: »

Just in from dropping pipes.

What did I miss?

Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

Just leave the keys, kovu knows where you live, we will help ourselves,

just do it

delaval wrote: »

Wht about little old me?

The offer is still there to switch farms and then you can be a Banner Man,



.......and then you'll also know about proper hard weather and impossible grazing conditions;):D

just do it

darragh_haven wrote: »

Do they say muckit on them..... did you steal them from muckit......ah now fess up

Yeah, while he was mascarading as someone else up in Roscommon;)

just do it

reilig wrote: »

Just in from dropping pipes.

What did I miss?

Did I mention that I'm going on holidays tomorrow for a long time :P

Kovu, have you the loan of a a trailer? I've to pick up a few pipes off a lad up your direction....

Conmaicne Mara

delaval wrote: »

Telescopic

I often wished they were, usually when my foot disappears into a boghole and I wished I had waders

Conmaicne Mara

just do it wrote: »

The offer is still there to switch farms and then you can be a Banner Man,



.......and then you'll also know about proper hard weather and impossible grazing conditions;):D

And never be short of water ever, ever again :pac:

Kovu

hugo29 wrote: »

Just leave the keys, kovu knows where you live, we will help ourselves,

Now the big question, is it Barrys or Lyons teabags that he has:P

just do it wrote: »

Kovu, have you the loan of a a trailer? I've to pick up a few pipes off a lad up your direction....

You can borrow my van and look like a tinker on the way back:rolleyes:

delaval

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

And never be short of water ever, ever again :pac:

Look CM to be clear water ain't the issue lack if rain and grass

just do it

delaval wrote: »

Look CM to be clear water ain't the issue lack if rain and grass

You've surely got a decent drop of rain over the last while. My land is getting wet again, utilisation is going to drop through the floor:rolleyes:

delaval

just do it wrote: »

You've surely got a decent drop of rain over the last while. My land is getting wet again, utilisation is going to drop through the floor:rolleyes:

Today was the first good days rain

bogman_bass

Muckit wrote: »

OK well it looks like we'I have a car load from Galway and one coming from Meath! :pac: Stick the kettle on for the tae Reilig!

you'll be passing my way stan. any chance of a lift?:D

naughto

great weather for tomorrow
thats rain not heat

just do it

delaval wrote: »

Today was the first good days rain

The difference is amazing really, given the little size of the country

Dampintheattic

There needs to be an organised roundup of all those fellas, who were looking for rain all along:o
Saw a bird land in a paddock this morning. He was flapping for five minutes before a got to take off again, with the way he had sunk in on landing:eek:

reilig

Dampintheattic wrote: »

There needs to be an organised roundup of all those fellas, who were looking for rain all along:o

Up against a wall in the middle of a field, one shot, "Bang Bang"

Username John

Dampintheattic wrote: »

There needs to be an organised roundup of all those fellas, who were looking for rain all along:o
Saw a bird land in a paddock this morning. He was flapping for five minutes before a got to take off again, with the way he had sunk in on landing:eek:

That field sounds like a grand spot for planting a few tress Dampintheattic

:P

redzerologhlen

just do it wrote: »

You've surely got a decent drop of rain over the last while. My land is getting wet again, utilisation is going to drop through the floor:rolleyes:

I think I have myself better equipped than you for this weather jd, no place for half length wellies around here

Figerty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zakdzo09E3s

Feckin rain....Sminky shorts camel

Bizzum

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I think I have myself better equipped than you for this weather jd, no place for half length wellies around here

Very fancy Kayak trailer there Redser. :-)

Midlandsman80

reilig wrote: »

You just couldn't get access to that type of ground with stone. Contractor has a stoning cart on a track dumper and it would struggle! We saw land drained with these pipes before we bought them and it was just as wet as ours before draining and dried really well - they could cross it with the tractor in the wettest part of winter. He had put the drains every 10 to 12 meters. We have the drains in every 5 to 6 meters.

We talked about it for a long time - we could buy land @ 5000 per acre. But we have this land and €1000 per acre will drain it. We have other black ground beside it which is the best ground we have. It's dry all year around. It has early grass and is grazed into December. If we had enough of that type of ground, we'd be away with it. hopefully we will have a bit more after this!

What do you reckon ground like that is worth (undrained)? A lot of variables - so ill give you mine...There is about 5 acres like this up the road from our home place (2k off main rd on single car road on westmeath/offaly border). Its surrounded by my uncles farm on three sides and the bog bank and raised bog on the other side. There is no fencing, no water, no power. Its 800m up a bog road (dead end). I think our elderly neighbour has a right of way through it but its no use any more because cant cut turf on the bank.
It was offered to my uncle years ago for €8k pa! he has no interest in it now at all, its fairly well raised so draining it would not be a problem and if done right it would be of benefit to by uncles place as would be some shared drains.
I was considering offering about €2k pa and like you spending €1pa would have it right?
The owner is not a farmer, was left this and a few other bits elsewhere 15+ years ago.
Thanks for your opinions...

reilig

Midlandsman80 wrote: »

What do you reckon ground like that is worth (undrained)? A lot of variables - so ill give you mine...There is about 5 acres like this up the road from our home place (2k off main rd on single car road on westmeath/offaly border). Its surrounded by my uncles farm on three sides and the bog bank and raised bog on the other side. There is no fencing, no water, no power. Its 800m up a bog road (dead end). I think our elderly neighbour has a right of way through it but its no use any more because cant cut turf on the bank.
It was offered to my uncle years ago for €8k pa! he has no interest in it now at all, its fairly well raised so draining it would not be a problem and if done right it would be of benefit to by uncles place as would be some shared drains.
I was considering offering about €2k pa and like you spending €1pa would have it right?
The owner is not a farmer, was left this and a few other bits elsewhere 15+ years ago.
Thanks for your opinions...

I honestly cannot answer that for you. The 7 or 8 acres that we are draining is bog that we reclaimed in 1986. We stone shored it and it worked well for about 10 years. Then it gradually got wetter until the last 3 or 4 years when we couldn't cross it with a tractor and could only graze it with weinlings.

Now don't get me wrong, the land wasn't or isn't worthless, in fact it is one of the best grass growing pieces of ground that we own. Last summer, in the knowledge that it didn't matter if we poached it or not, we fed 8 replacement heifers on it from April to October - and they were well fed. However, it was so wet that we couldn't walk through it to look at them. They lay on the drier banks and made their way across the wetter pieces to graze. One thing we didn't have to worry about for them was water.

What's it worth to us? I don't know. There is no way in the world that we could buy 8 acres of land adjoining our yards - so that makes it worth double the value of 8 acres 5 miles away IYKWIM?

It'll never win a prize for the best land in Ireland. However, if we could get it dry enough that we could reseed it and be in a position to take 1 or 2 cuts of silage off it on a yearly basis and let weinlings graze any aftergrass, we'll be happy.

just do it

If you get 10 years out of the new drainage job it will have been worth it?

Midlandsman80

That was kinda my thinking in that's its worth more too me or my uncle than anyone else for miles around, it would make no sense for anyone else to buy it, its wet but there would have been no time in the last few years that the tractor would have got stuck in it, would have made a mess but would have got out...
I grazed two ID Geldings in it last winter...they broke into it and couldn't get back for a few months...(and its looking far better now for it) they got on fine, one large dry hill on the way into it of about half an acre that I fed them a bit on..
If I got it for €2k pa and spent €1k getting it decent I cant see how it would not be a good buy.. ill chat him in the coming weeks, I know his financial position would not be great at the moment so he may be open to an offer.

just do it

MM80

Normally I've say only buy good land but this particular scenario is different. You bounds it and it is cheap. €1k for a 10yr drainage job is €100 pa.

If you already have a good bit of dry land having some wet land like this provides a balance for dry years like this. I bet it still grew grass when elsewhere had stopped growing.

Manoffeeling

redzerologhlen wrote: »

I think I have myself better equipped than you for this weather jd, no place for half length wellies around here

Lovely job. How much are they?

Conmaicne Mara

would love one of them kayaks, can't swim though! be good for a bit of fishing around the bay.

Kovu

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

would love one of them kayaks, can't swim though! be good for a bit of fishing around the bay.

Neither can I but I still love it when I get the chance. Teaching yourself to get the skirt off when you roll over is a bit tricky when you don't want to roll it over to practice first!

GY A1

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

would love one of them kayaks, can't swim though! be good for a bit of fishing around the bay.

get a good life jacket, their the business,
you'll float and just need to waddle

Conmaicne Mara

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Neither can I but I still love it when I get the chance. Teaching yourself to get the skirt off when you roll over is a bit tricky when you don't want to roll it over to practice first!

ah skirts were only a problem when I was young

bob charles

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Teaching yourself to get the skirt off when you roll over is a bit tricky when you don't want to roll it over to practice first!

your luck your not a fellow, tis bra's that are a bastard for us:rolleyes:

Conmaicne Mara

GY A1 wrote: »

get a good life jacket, their the business,
you'll float and just need to waddle

I'll float off to America lol

Kovu

redzerologhlen wrote: »

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This is my one, couldn't find one without me in it so sorry! What make is yours?

This one is currently in Dublin so thinking about getting a shorter one for the lake here.

delaval

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Neither can I but I still love it when I get the chance. Teaching yourself to get the skirt off when you roll over is a bit tricky when you don't want to roll it over to practice first!

I'd say if you were in Galway tonight you would have no bother finding someone to show you;);););)

Kovu

delaval wrote: »

I'd say if you were in Galway tonight you would have no bother finding someone to show you;);););)

:eek:

bob charles

up, not off, is handier.

Kovu

bob charles wrote: »

up, not off, is handier.

I was on about the wetsuit thingy that stops water getting into the kayak!!!!

hoseman

bob charles wrote: »

up, not off, is handier.

up,in is better:P

vanderbadger

little MBP heifer born today, only my 3rd or 4th limo, trying to get a bit more into them, she is only a handy little thing


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Kovu

vanderbadger wrote: »

little MBP heifer born today, only my 3rd or 4th limo, trying to get a bit more into them, she is only a handy little thing

Vander she'll be a lovely heifer judging by her tail end. I love a heifer with her tail set low & back like that.
Have 2 cows here very similar to that one and they breed consistent every year, have a very good ERE bull off one of them this year, same white tail on the cow too! Best of luck with her:)

redzerologhlen

Manoffeeling wrote: »

Lovely job. How much are they?

850 new i think I gave for it.

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

would love one of them kayaks, can't swim though! be good for a bit of fishing around the bay.

Kovu Murr wrote: »

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/18/6uk5.jpg/

This is my one, couldn't find one without me in it so sorry! What make is yours?

This one is currently in Dublin so thinking about getting a shorter one for the lake here.

Its an Ocean Kayak trident 13. Sit on top so no need for me to wear a skirt

hugo29

Sit on top so no need for me to wear a skirt :

:eek:

Bizzum

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Its an Ocean Kayak trident 13. Sit on top so no need for me to wear a skirt

It's a super Kayak. Very stable. I was out yesterday on the coast, it was rough, but good fun. It's not simple to get back onto the sit-on-tops on a rough sea, even in 5' of water.

Bizzum

hugo29 wrote: »

Sit on top so no need for me to wear a skirt :

:eek:

We need to give the "skirt" it's correct title and avoid all the mental images of Redser in a mini skirt.
I suppose calling it a spray deck ain't as much fun though :-)

redzerologhlen

Bizzum wrote: »

It's a super Kayak. Very stable. I was out yesterday on the coast, it was rough, but good fun. It's not simple to get back onto the sit-on-tops on a rough sea, even in 5' of water.

I havent got tipped yet anyway. Did plenty of practice getting back on it before I headed out to sea in it. A fellow in Donegal hooked a porbeagle shark in one a few weeks ago and it pulled him 1.2 miles with the anchor down. Thats as good a test of stability as you could get id say!!