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renandstimpy

jersey101 wrote: »

ah it is at the start of the year but ye get good at it after a while. Like most things

Would it be possible to knock door through at the other end and drive straight through?

renandstimpy

jersey101 wrote: »

ah it is at the start of the year but ye get good at it after a while. Like most things

Would it be possible to knock door through at the other end and drive straight through?

jersey101

renandstimpy wrote: »

Would it be possible to knock door through at the other end and drive straight through?

ah ye would have ro make a roadway out into the field and travel around the yard. Be no need really tbh.
Were widening out the yard in a few yrs so itll be a bit easier

Bodacious

jersey101 wrote: »

ah ye would have ro make a roadway out into the field and travel around the yard. Be no need really tbh.
Were widening out the yard in a few yrs so itll be a bit easier

hi jersey


is your feeder spout at back or front? just wondering as if at front small bit of waste of feeder space .. im just nosey

jersey101

Bodacious wrote: »

hi jersey


is your feeder spout at back or front? just wondering as if at front small bit of waste of feeder space .. im just nosey

its a keenan so feed out tray is at front. At the back half the barrier has a water trough and we can feed from there down.
Works fine, fit 55 cows in the shed max

freedominacup

jersey101 wrote: »

its a keenan so feed out tray is at front. At the back half the barrier has a water trough and we can feed from there down.
Works fine, fit 55 cows in the shed max

What width is the passage jersey?

J.O. Farmer

towzer2010 wrote: »

Ya the 35 used to have a hard time alright. Was there was some sort of a spring at the top link side of the 35/135 that would stop it from lifting if it was to heavy? I seem to remember a neighbour welded it on ours when I was a young fella so it could lift the bales.

We had a 35 and it had a great lift. If it couldn't lift the weight it would lift front of the tractor. Many a bale of silage I bought with it.

jersey101

freedominacup wrote: »

What width is the passage jersey?

its 12 foot i think. Thats top of my head trying to remember how wide the gate is at the front

delaval

Nice van

Sharpshooter82

delaval wrote: »

Nice van

Def a closet Massey fan

Sharpshooter82

These two seemed very relaxed today, ya would swear i was running a spa retreat

fredweena

They're alive, right?

Sharpshooter82

fredweena wrote: »

They're alive, right?

yeah thats the way they sleep during the day

hugo29

delaval wrote: »

Nice van

Last time I was in waterford I seen a van with that name, started thinking you had a sideline going dev

delaval

hugo29 wrote: »

Last time I was in waterford I seen a van with that name, started thinking you had a sideline going dev

No they just named an international company after me

Conmaicne Mara

delaval wrote: »

No they just named an international company after me

Like a Brazilian footballer, they just game you the one name, twas enough to be known by far and wide.

Damo810

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Like a Brazilian footballer, they just game you the one name, twas enough to be known by far and wide.

Or they just didn't want the family name associated with the hure

moy83

Good thick stuff

Sharpshooter82

moy83 wrote: »

Good thick stuff

you ll be warm splitting that lot

moy83

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

you ll be warm splitting that lot

The hydraulic pump on the tractor might heat up a little bit but I wont !

Sharpshooter82

moy83 wrote: »

The hydraulic pump on the tractor might heat up a little bit but I wont !

Get the axe out man

moy83

Sharpshooter82 wrote: »

Get the axe out man

Oh I do , I pick a few of the cleanest blocks after the splitter and make kindling out of them . Just to keep the eye in so to speak !

Conmaicne Mara

Took a tumble off a wall earlier, starting to get feckin sore now.

moy83

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Took a tumble off a wall earlier, starting to get feckin sore now.

You could do without that , what did you hurt ?

Conmaicne Mara

Oops, thought I was in chitchat

Knee, shoulder, hand, wrist, nothing important

keep going

hugo29 wrote: »

Last time I was in waterford I seen a van with that name, started thinking you had a sideline going dev

he has, its just very"small scale".

Sharpshooter82

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Oops, thought I was in chitchat

Knee, shoulder, hand, wrist, nothing important

Ah sure if thats all :rolleyes:

onyerbikepat

You know that feeling, when the wheels first start spinning.

sea12

onyerbikepat wrote: »

You know that feeling, when the wheels first start spinning.

Now that's what u call hardship

Sharpshooter82

Left a nice hole

Timmaay

Ok I'll putup a photo of a HO for a change from the usual nice big beef animals. 1st heifer calf born of a heifer cow here in many years. No problems calving (even if it was outside in the cold!), lively little calf up sucking without a bother when I spotted them thismorning. Decent ebi on her also, 220. The dam is a FLT with the granddam off a RUU, and great survivability of all the family in our herd. Most of the pure white HOs in our herd have not done great in the last few years, but I'd say that heifer will have no problems!

jersey101

Timmaay wrote: »

Ok I'll putup a photo of a HO for a change from the usual nice big beef animals. 1st heifer calf born of a heifer cow here in many years. No problems calving (even if it was outside in the cold!), lively little calf up sucking without a bother when I spotted them thismorning. Decent ebi on her also, 220. The dam is a FLT with the granddam off a RUU, and great survivability of all the family in our herd. Most of the pure white HOs in our herd have not done great in the last few years, but I'd say that heifer will have no problems!

Ahhh im blinded with all the white, throw a bucket of brown paint on her will ye
Very nice heifer tim. Ive a good few FLT cows here and there super. Have onevatm and she is 13yrs old

Timmaay

Ha wait about 2wks of her being in on the cubicles!

Timmaay

jersey101 wrote: »

Very nice heifer tim. Ive a good few FLT cows here and there super. Have onevatm and she is 13yrs old

Hmmm thats very impressive considering FLT himself is only 5yrs old :P

jersey101

Timmaay wrote: »

Ha wait about 2wks of her being in on the cubicles!

ive two similar looking heifers as your calf there calving in feb, smashing looking heifers. What does your father think of the calf?

Timmaay

He wasn't keen at all on the idea of giving heifers dairy straws last year, 1st few heifers who calved all had bulls and he was moaning that we should have stuck to the AAs, he said nothing at all this morning which is a good sign :P

reilig

I really can't understand why people don't like turbines. I think it's a beautiful and natural image to be able to look at from your front door. Better than a concrete jungle or a factory pumping smoke through a stack anyway!

cosatron

Timmaay wrote: »

Ok I'll putup a photo of a HO for a change from the usual nice big beef animals. 1st heifer calf born of a heifer cow here in many years. No problems calving (even if it was outside in the cold!), lively little calf up sucking without a bother when I spotted them thismorning. Decent ebi on her also, 220. The dam is a FLT with the granddam off a RUU, and great survivability of all the family in our herd. Most of the pure white HOs in our herd have not done great in the last few years, but I'd say that heifer will have no problems!

what bull is she by

Timmaay

HMY

towzer2010

reilig wrote: »

I really can't understand why people don't like turbines. I think it's a beautiful and natural image to be able to look at from your front door. Better than a concrete jungle or a factory pumping smoke through a stack anyway!

I agree but they really shouldn't be near a house. I have land about 500 meters away from some of them and they are fairly loud and repetitive. The noise could drive you crazy if listening to it 24/7. I wouldn't like to live that close to them.

Sharpshooter82

reilig wrote: »

I really can't understand why people don't like turbines. I think it's a beautiful and natural image to be able to look at from your front door. Better than a concrete jungle or a factory pumping smoke through a stack anyway!

I dont mind them once they are that distance away

reilig

towzer2010 wrote: »

I agree but they really shouldn't be near a house. I have land about 500 meters away from some of them and they are fairly loud and repetitive. The noise could drive you crazy if listening to it 24/7. I wouldn't like to live that close to them.

We have property that is no more than 500m away from them and you can never hear any noise from them. Ours is one of the closest properties to them in this area.

naughto

towzer2010 wrote: »

I agree but they really shouldn't be near a house. I have land about 500 meters away from some of them and they are fairly loud and repetitive. The noise could drive you crazy if listening to it 24/7. I wouldn't like to live that close to them.

would it not be like living beside a busy road with a lot of traffic,you would get used to the noise in no time

bob charles

if you saw the lovely factory that is close to me, any reservations about turbines would soon be forgotten about

towzer2010

reilig wrote: »

We have property that is no more than 500m away from them and you can never hear any noise from them. Ours is one of the closest properties to them in this area.

It does depend on the prevailing wind but there is a fairly constant whup noise from the ones near me when there is a SW wind. Its quite loud so much so that you'd hear it in the tractor over the noise of the engine when they are going flat out. I was talking to someone who works in this area and he suggested that not enough research has gone into the sound waves created and how the turbines should be situated not just to catch the wind but also to use the local topography to block these waves as much as possible. He works in maintenance all over Ireland and the UK and he said some of them are really way to loud while others are virtually silent.

naughto wrote: »

would it not be like living beside a busy road with a lot of traffic,you would get used to the noise in no time

The thing about traffic is that the noise varies whereas this noise would be so repetitive it would be like Chinese torture. I think the ones near me are perfect where they are but I wouldn't like to live to closer to them.

towzer2010

bob charles wrote: »

if you saw the lovely factory that is close to me, any reservations about turbines would soon be forgotten about

I don't have reservations about them but make sure they are situated to minimise effects on peoples homes.

I do sympathise with anyone living close to a dirty factory though.

mikeoh

this lady produces my best calf every year , her time is up 7 days ago to creega dice so here's hoping

poor farmer

reilig wrote: »

I really can't understand why people don't like turbines. I think it's a beautiful and natural image to be able to look at from your front door. Better than a concrete jungle or a factory pumping smoke through a stack anyway!

Are the The mighty quinn's ones

onyerbikepat

mikeoh wrote: »

..this lady produces my best calf every year , her time is up 7 days ago to creega dice so here's hoping

What breeding is she? Shorthorn I suppose, but what else?

J.O. Farmer

mikeoh wrote: »

this lady produces my best calf every year , her time is up 7 days ago to creega dice so here's hoping

She's a nice cow alright. She pb when you use the shorthorn bull.