Farming Chit Chat sallies Fourth

Conmaicne Mara

.Kovu. wrote: »

€80 for a shirt:eek: You'd nearly want the Sistine Chapel ceiling on it for that!

Toned it down and got the bare essential message for €20.

A cow called Daisy

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Toned it down and got the bare essential message for €20.

Good man Con, Once you keep the bare essentials covered no one can complain

weatherbyfoxer

Derby festival up here all weekend,called down to a extremely hungover neighbour dis morning to look at a few lambs to find him sitting in his sheep shed overcome with the smell of foot rot chatting to the pet puck goat that runs with his flock of sheep!....

sea12

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Derby festival up here all weekend,called down to a extremely hungover neighbour dis morning to look at a few lambs to find him sitting in his sheep shed overcome with the smell of foot rot chatting to the pet puck goat that runs with his flock of sheep!....

They are two things that definitely don't go together hangover and foot rot

Greengrass1

Anyone download the new boards app? Bit disappointed tbh

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Anyone download the new boards app? Bit disappointed tbh

Nope


Just downloaded it and removed it just as quick

just do it

Don't see the point in downloading an app for any website that has a good mobile website. They only clog up the phone and are constantly looking to be updated.

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Nope


Just downloaded it and removed it just as quick

Ye no good

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ye no good

You can say that again

blue5000

Parts of Canada have had 200mm of rain over the weekend, ouch

http://www.farms.com/news/severe-flooding-threatens-southern-prairie-crops-78436.aspx

Damo810

blue5000 wrote: »

Parts of Canada have had 200mm of rain over the weekend, ouch

http://www.farms.com/news/severe-flooding-threatens-southern-prairie-crops-78436.aspx

We could do with a bit here, looks like we'll get it Wednesdays too!

A cow called Daisy

Young neighbour was telling me he had been helping an elderly neighbour to put up electric fence for cattle using the white polywire with a pile of knots and joints in it.

They started at gate, went the whole way around the field and back to the gate leaving the width of the gate unfenced. (So not a complete loop) Young lad connected fencer to wire and tested it. Tester showed up 5000 volts where fencer was connected to the wire. He then checks other end of line - no power in fence.
He tells man that there must be some bad joints or the wires must be broken somewhere around the field and that he walk around field to find problem.
The reply - "Ah gasson, would ya hold your horses for a bit, sure it's going to take a good while for the current to get round that fence and back to here. We'll take a mug of tay while we're waiting for it to build up power and get round the field":D

Reggie.

Oh late night dining....Full as a tick

Charliebull

anyone get a lodgement from the dept this morning, havent a clue what its for

Farrell

Charliebull wrote: »

anyone get a lodgement from the dept this morning, havent a clue what its for

Last years suckler welfare (€20/cow calved)

whelan2

minus financial discipline and genotyping

just do it

Charliebull wrote: »

anyone get a lodgement from the dept this morning, havent a clue what its for

2013 beef data programme

weatherbyfoxer

just do it wrote: »

2013 beef data programme

Taught it was a good will gesture from the department for the poor beef prices at the minute!.....HA HA HA

Reggie.

Nothing like a near roll over in the tractor to get the heart racing :eek:

Zr105

Reggie. wrote: »

Nothing like a near roll over in the tractor to get the heart racing :eek:

Pushing it a bit hard with bales were we??

Mad4simmental

Reggie. wrote: »

Nothing like a near roll over in the tractor to get the arse to clinch the seat very tight:eek:

Fixed that for ya! :-)

simx

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

Taught it was a good will gesture from the department for the poor beef prices at the minute!.....HA HA HA

Got a whole €35 off it, to be honest forgot all about it, few more quid for beer I suppose

Reggie.

Mad4simmental wrote: »

Fixed that for ya! :-)

More holding on to the pillars. Was keeping a close eye on a king post that got way too close to the side window

Reggie.

Zr105 wrote: »

Pushing it a bit hard with bales were we??

Yeah...heavy lump on front and never noticed the slight gradient while reversing. Loader never hit the ground as quick or hard

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah...heavy lump on front and never noticed the slight gradient while reversing. Loader never hit the ground as quick or hard

Yep I nearly did that with new Massey. On a bank and I pickef up a bale and started driving down the bank. Turned up the hill then and back left wheel lift.
Nearly **** myself

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yep I nearly did that with new Massey. On a bank and I pickef up a bale and started driving down the bank. Turned up the hill then and back left wheel lift.
Nearly **** myself

Very same thing. Had to give myself a few minutes afterwards

Damo810

Would ye not put a ballast on the back? Another bale or a weight of some sorts?

Greengrass1

Damo810 wrote: »

Would ye not put a ballast on the back? Another bale or a weight of some sorts?

Hard to when I'm picking up the trailer. Only happened once would happen in old tractor too just have to watch out and not fly around the spot

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Hard to when I'm picking up the trailer. Only happened once would happen in old tractor too just have to watch out and not fly around the spot

The auld 5455 is an awful thing for doing it as it's cab is very high up

moy83

Reggie. wrote: »

The auld 5455 is an awful thing for doing it as it's cab is very high up

Is it any help to keep the bale as low to the ground as possible ? At least you could drop it rapid if you thought you were going to topple .
I had a few brown trouser moments loading them with a farmtrac last year

Greengrass1

moy83 wrote: »

Is it any help to keep the bale as low to the ground as possible ? At least you could drop it rapid if you thought you were going to topple .
I had a few brown trouser moments loading them with a farmtrac last year

Prob with me was hydraulics are too quick would ye believe. Bale goes up in a shot

Zr105

Reggie. wrote: »

The auld 5455 is an awful thing for doing it as it's cab is very high up

God there a woeful yoke with a loader IMO.... Had the displeasure of having to load bales one night with one a year or 2 ago... Never have i driven a yoke as twitchy in the back end with a bale, all night going round with the bales 6 inches off the ground and probably half of them hit the ground at one point when the back end lifted....

We'd a ts ourselves at the time with a longer loader and it would lift when you pushed it but i never felt she was going to go any further than 3-4 inches, and i stacked an awful lot of bales with it and pushed it hard at times

moy83

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Prob with me was hydraulics are too quick would ye believe. Bale goes up in a shot

Not a bad complaint . Is there any adjustment to dampen the speed a bit ?

Greengrass1

moy83 wrote: »

Not a bad complaint . Is there any adjustment to dampen the speed a bit ?

Nope. Button on pillar in cab to put it from 55l/min to 110l/min. 55 is too slow thougg

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Nope. Button on pillar in cab to put it from 55l/min to 110l/min. 55 is too slow thougg

Just like ye twin pumps on the 398

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Just like ye twin pumps on the 398

Yep. She got a new pump 2 weeks ago too

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Yep. She got a new pump 2 weeks ago too

What happened to the auld one

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

What happened to the auld one

She decided to chew it up in bits for some reason. Was gone when we got her but gradually got worse

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She decided to chew it up in bits for some reason. Was gone when we got her but gradually got worse

Nasty. Cab and all had to come off I'd say

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Nasty. Cab and all had to come off I'd say

Don't think so tbh. Only took em a few hrs. Didn't see them do it so couldn't tell ye

weatherbyfoxer

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Don't think so tbh. Only took em a few hrs. Didn't see them do it so couldn't tell ye

You scaring me now greengrass!..lol

Greengrass1

weatherbyfoxer wrote: »

You scaring me now greengrass!..lol

Ah I think it was a freak event. Its the same back end as in the 54 series so should be okay

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ah I think it was a freak event. Its the same back end as in the 54 series so should be okay

Interesting enough a mate of mine told me a few years ago that he reckoned that the back end of the 54 series will give trouble in the hydraulic sense. Whatever he knew or noticed about them

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Interesting enough a mate of mine told me a few years ago that he reckoned that the back end of the 54 series will give trouble in the hydraulic sense. Whatever he knew or noticed about them

She does get a fairly hot on back end when doing a lot if loader work alright. Ye would nearly burn your hand if ye touched it some times

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

She does get a fairly hot on back end when doing a lot if loader work alright. Ye would nearly burn your hand if ye touched it some times

This fella would be cute enough. Ya wonder what he noticed as he never explained himself

Kovu

Dehorned the last 3 calves with dad this morning, how am I going to explain cow poop on my cast to the consultant:o:pac:

moy83

.Kovu. wrote: »

Dehorned the last 3 calves with dad this morning, how am I going to explain cow poop on my cast to the consultant:o:pac:

Ran out of loo roll ?

Kovu

:pac::eek:

moy83 wrote: »

Ran out of loo roll ?

moy83

.Kovu. wrote: »

:pac::eek:

I got a card off someone a few years ago , on the outside it said " I couldn't find a a card with a dirty phrase on it " on the inside was a brown stain and " so I just wiped my arse with this one "
That was as dirty a card as I ever got

Nekarsulm

.Kovu. wrote: »

Dehorned the last 3 calves with dad this morning, how am I going to explain cow poop on my cast to the consultant:o:pac:

Spray it olive green and brown camo pattern?