Looks like plenty of early silage this year

_Brian

Great going there lads..
Fingers crossed ye all get the weather that's deserved..

49801

Finally knocked today pick up tomorrow. Sorry was not walking it regularly as it looks 10 days past it's best. Hope the wilt will be better than I expect it to be.

Greengrass1

John_F wrote: »

walked field this am wringing wet. was not grazed so dmd wont be the best, may go tomorrow depending on weather and even more so the contractor at this stage. not massive drying start to the day and around 4pm misty rain fell leaving everything damp. walked it again while ago and still wet. seen stuff that was 'wilting' today also and tbh its as wet as it was after cutting.

hopefully blue skies tomorrow!

Going to knock ours Thursday. Good weather from Thursday till saturday

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Going to knock ours Thursday. Good weather from Thursday till saturday

Ya might calm down then

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Ya might calm down then

Ah I'll be tired. Will have 300 bales plus to draw and stack

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ah I'll be tired. Will have 300 bales plus to draw and stack

At least you'll have lost that urge to cut grass. You'll be able to chase the girlie's in Kilkenny again

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

At least you'll have lost that urge to cut grass. You'll be able to chase the girlie's in Kilkenny again

Not a hope. After applying for a summer college course in DCU. So I'll be busy if I get it

Reggie.

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Not a hope. After applying for a summer college course in DCU. So I'll be busy if I get it

Good stuff out of you green. Good head on that shoulders of ye

sheebadog

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Not a hope. After applying for a summer college course in DCU. So I'll be busy if I get it

Fair to ask, what's the course?

Greengrass1

Reggie. wrote: »

Good stuff out of you green. Good head on that shoulders of ye

Ah its a business course. Be a tough few weeks . ye need all this stuff now if your going to be farming full time

Greengrass1

sheebadog wrote: »

Fair to ask, what's the course?

Farm entrepreneurship and leadership programme

sheebadog

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Farm entrepreneurship and leadership programme

Good man!

darragh_haven

Looks like the Massey Ferguson is the weapon of choice going by all the pictures put up today

Reggie.

darragh_haven wrote: »

Looks like the Massey Ferguson is the weapon of choice going by all the pictures put up today

Mmmmmm

Timmaay

dar31 wrote: »

Hmm which one of the lads is that in the tractor ha? I can't zoom in quite far enough to tell!

Timmaay

darragh_haven wrote: »

Looks like the Massey Ferguson is the weapon of choice going by all the pictures put up today

May getup a few photos of the JDs here so!

frazzledhome

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Ah its a business course. Be a tough few weeks . ye need all this stuff now if your going to be farming full time

Ryan Achedemy?

darragh_haven

Timmaay wrote: »

May getup a few photos of the JDs here so!

Ah shur, don't bother, it'd only be a disappointment. ....... ;-)

mahoney_j

I'll join u with my new holland crew,put then little red tractors to shame!!

sea12

A good few neighbours dropped meadows this evening. I'd say after weather forecast a good few more will drop on Thursday I'd say after tonight weather. Seems fairly promising thurs to sat.

RightTurnClyde

Just in, that's it now all down. Long day. Fingers crossed.

Deepsouthwest

Is it better to mow late into the night or early in the morning if under pressure? I was told there's a better chance of the sugars still being high in the grass at night, plus morning grass tends to be wetter from the dew

Muckit

frazzledhome wrote: »

Does this answer you?

Ah.... no not really.

how many hours wilt in numbers?

Muckit

A few stringy paddocks

paddysdream

Just in after drawing a bit for local contractor.About 40 acres mowed this morning.
To be honest it was as wet as sh..e.
This was ungrazed ground for a dairy man and if it was mine it would have been left for 3 days on the ground.
Grass was wringing wet.It was like soup when harvester metal detector tripped and you had to pull a bit out.Lots of run off from the pit even tonight.

yellow50HX

Just finished, averaged about 11 bales of good chopped bales from a new mchale. Fairly solid too front of the tractor was lifting when I was drawing in from the paddock next to the yard. Only took the loader off about 2 weeks ago and was missing the ballast. Would have liked to leave it till tomorrow to get more of a wilt but with the weather as it is and the contractor having other work lined up it probably the best I can get. It ll still be good though from the look of it.

Easy to say about leaving it down for longer but unless you have your own gear and the time and labour to do it all it does come down to when your contractor can get to you.

keep going

Not panicking here yet as it was all grazed but will give contractor a ring to get my name on list early, thinking of the end of next week but we'll tell him wea re on for monday

John_F

for people who have it in the pit what was estimated DM at cutting and when it was in the pit. and is there much effluent coming out of the pit?? looking like fri or sat now as showers in the afternoon

sheebadog

keep going wrote: »

Not panicking here yet as it was all grazed but will give contractor a ring to get my name on list early, thinking of the end of next week but we'll tell him wea re on for monday

There is a man that can speak the contractors lingo!

mahoney_j

John_F wrote: »

for people who have it in the pit what was estimated DM at cutting and when it was in the pit. and is there much effluent coming out of the pit?? looking like fri or sat now as showers in the afternoon

I'd say anything gone in yesterday can't be much more than 20.just had a look at mine after tedding it out yesterday afternoon andvit was quite wet but dried very well with sun and hopefully again this morning.goingvtobturn mine again now and the circus is arriving to pick up around 2.hopingvto get dm between 25 and 30%

frazzledhome

mahoney_j wrote: »

I'd say anything gone in yesterday can't be much more than 20.just had a look at mine after tedding it out yesterday afternoon andvit was quite wet but dried very well with sun and hopefully again this morning.goingvtobturn mine again now and the circus is arriving to pick up around 2.hopingvto get dm between 25 and 30%

Brought in a long draw yesterday, mowed at lunch and tedded straight away. Raked at 6 and brought in, wheels if loader dry in pit. All other grass being tedded again this am with two wagons coming back at 3 pm. Today's stuff should by at 30 I hope

Greengrass1

frazzledhome wrote: »

Brought in a long draw yesterday, mowed at lunch and tedded straight away. Raked at 6 and brought in, wheels if loader dry in pit. All other grass being tedded again this am with two wagons coming back at 3 pm. Today's stuff should by at 30 I hope

Going to knock ours today.

joe man utd

Any of ye going cutting for bales today..im in limerick hoping to knock 25 acres.. weather is lovely here but forecast sayn chance of showers tonight and tomorrow.. would i be mad to vhance it?

A cow called Daisy

frazzledhome wrote: »

For a minute I thought it was going to be a pic of you having a crap in the ditch!!

mahoney_j wrote: »

First swarth knocked.nice looking stuff but not as nice as it would of been a week ago.still hoping for 72/73 dmd.all grazed bare up to paddys weekend.stopped tedding for call of nature .Now back to work.still no rain ,sunny intervals and a nice breeze after picking up

What would worry me more is that you still looked:D

bogman_bass

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Is it better to mow late into the night or early in the morning if under pressure? I was told there's a better chance of the sugars still being high in the grass at night, plus morning grass tends to be wetter from the dew

If I had choose I'd do for late at night. Sugars will drop over the course of the night

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

If I had choose I'd do for late at night. Sugars will drop over the course of the night

How's that field looking

bogman_bass

Not bad. Drying nicely. The other feild was a lighter cut so will bale that first and leave the reseed in the pic till after even though it was cut first. Baler due around 2

restive

Cutting this afternoon. Anyone know Friday's forecast for Connaught?

dharn

Pretty good

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

Not bad. Drying nicely. The other feild was a lighter cut so will bale that first and leave the reseed in the pic till after even though it was cut first. Baler due around 2

Ya got the weather anyways

I said

Cutting today

whelan2

was just up silage fields, serious heavy crop and seriously wet, hope to cut at weekend

grizzlyadams

I said wrote: »

Cutting today

Same here , even though
showers forecast for afternoon it's a case of "carpe diem " :-)

bogman_bass

Reggie. wrote: »

Ya got the weather anyways

Yeah for all the worrying it came right in the end

Sami23

restive wrote: »

Cutting this afternoon. Anyone know Friday's forecast for Connaught?

Hoping to bale on Saturday, would ye advise cutting tomorrow or leaving till Friday going by the forecasts. MT cranium saying heavy showers possible ????
In Galway BTW

darragh_haven

I'm in Birmingham. Was here yesterday too. There is no one cutting around here. Sh1t weather

Reggie.

bogman_bass wrote: »

Yeah for all the worrying it came right in the end

It that always the way

frazzledhome

Just spent 2 hours fixing a Tedder that a fcuking eejit struck off a strainer

dharn

I hate that gave a loan of a tedder to a cousin last year, spent the winter straightening it

mahoney_j

frazzledhome wrote: »

Just spent 2 hours fixing a Tedder that a fcuking eejit struck off a strainer

Oh oh