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Muckit

Say my name wrote: »

2019 will be the first year that May finishes in June.

Now that there is very witty

Say my name

Muckit wrote: »

Now that there is very witty

I can't claim it as my own. It was on the radio this morning.

kk.man

Say my name wrote: »

2019 will be the first year that May finishes in June.

It's the last days of May, alright.

patsy_mccabe

Grueller wrote: »

Clear herd test after being locked up. Sell sell sell

Waiting on the vet here for the reading. Spotted some lumps so getting kinda anxious. Two lumps on a couple but look like the same size.
Deep breaths Patsy, deep breaths.........

Lady Haywire

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Waiting on the vet here for the reading. Spotted some lumps so getting kinda anxious. Two lumps on a couple but look like the same size.
Deep breaths Patsy, deep breaths.........

Fingers crossed for you Patsy.

whelan2

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Waiting on the vet here for the reading. Spotted some lumps so getting kinda anxious. Two lumps on a couple but look like the same size.
Deep breaths Patsy, deep breaths.........

Don't even look at the lumps, best of luck

patsy_mccabe

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Waiting on the vet here for the reading. Spotted some lumps so getting kinda anxious. Two lumps on a couple but look like the same size.
Deep breaths Patsy, deep breaths.........

Passed !!! Some relief, as I'm kinda overstocked as it is. At least 5 of them had double lumps.

whelan2

See yer one has withdrawn her injuries claim for not being able to use a swing properly

Nekarsulm

whelan2 wrote: »

See yer one has withdrawn her injuries claim for not being able to use a swing properly

With a bit of luck she won't get elected either....

Odelay

Nekarsulm wrote: »

With a bit of luck she won't get elected either....

She already is, she’s a TD, unbelievable.


Great timing to announce dropping the case. By the time the counting is done it will be Monday and this will be old news.

whelan2

Odelay wrote: »

She already is, she’s a TD, unbelievable.

I'd say she'll be voted out next time. What a clown

Lady Haywire

whelan2 wrote: »

See yer one has withdrawn her injuries claim for not being able to use a swing properly

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/td-bailey-ran-10km-race-three-weeks-after-swing-fall-38146778.html

What an arsehole. And a TD & all. Though I suppose they're fairly good at telling lies anyway.
Cases like this should be used as an example for others. Try & fake stupid injuries, you'll get found out eventually & we'll all laugh at you having made a holy show of yourself.

whelan2

You'd wonder what people do be thinking. Obviously she was thinking easy money but now her political career will be in jeopardy

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

You'd wonder what people do be thinking. Obviously she was thinking easy money but now her political career will be in jeopardy

How can she hold any public office after this.

Bullocks

_Brian wrote: »

whelan2 wrote: »

You'd wonder what people do be thinking. Obviously she was thinking easy money but now her political career will be in jeopardy

How can she hold any public office after this.

She is a disgrace . Even if she was short sighted enough to not  realise what this could do to her reputation I'm wondering did the solicitor almost  walk her into trouble .This is Ireland though so every chance she will thrive on this "misadventure "

whelan2

Referee please blow the final whistle now in the Dublin Louth game...... Total annihilation

ganmo

whelan2 wrote: »

Referee please blow the final whistle now in the Dublin Louth game...... Total annihilation

As my dad said earlier they aren't playing against louth, they are playing with them

whelan2

ganmo wrote: »

As my dad said earlier they aren't playing against louth, they are playing with them

Lmfm coverage just gone but I think we all know the result

zetecescort

Good game in Castlebar, level with 5 min left

whelan2

Sports injury again the other evening for youngest lad. Atm he plays for 5 teams shortage of goalies. He injured his thumb. Minor injuries unit in dundalk. In and out x Ray done strapped up and home within 25 minutes. Back playing today. Outfield. Great service.

Say my name

We've a first today. An Irish born elected official of Chinese heritage.

Standing for the Green Party. Hazel Chu.

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1132342690610384896?s=20


He's got her Twitter handle wrong so it's linked to someone else. :rolleyes:
Still .. welcome to see in little old Ireland.

badtoro

_Brian wrote: »

whelan2 wrote: »

You'd wonder what people do be thinking. Obviously she was thinking easy money but now her political career will be in jeopardy

How can she hold any public office after this.

2 words, Michael Lowry.

MeTheMan

Field 3 weeks ago


Field this morning


Field this evening

Say my name

MeTheMan wrote: »

Field this evening

A dose of slurry on it now would be some job.

MeTheMan

Say my name wrote: »

A dose of slurry on it now would be some job.

It would be! But the slurry is all out since April. Have dung there from bedding during lambing. Would like to spread that but it would be a transport box and pitch fork job. Its quite strawy so would be lieing there for months I'd say. Maybe a touch of 18.6.12 would be handier.

kk.man

whelan2 wrote: »

You'd wonder what people do be thinking. Obviously she was thinking easy money but now her political career will be in jeopardy

Indo says she ran a 10k race 3 weeks after the event. Say if a jury heard that, that would put a stop to her gallop and a dint in her pocket.

Say my name

MeTheMan wrote: »

It would be! But the slurry is all out since April. Have dung there from bedding during lambing. Would like to spread that but it would be a transport box and pitch fork job. Its quite strawy so would be lieing there for months I'd say. Maybe a touch of 18.6.12 would be handier.

If the dung was already out in a heap for a while with a wet core and just strawy on the outside I'd nearly say put a match to it and spread after that. You'd have your own cheapo version of biochar/compost mixture. You'd need a slurry tanker of water or slurry just in case though.

18.6.12 might be just handier though. :pac:

MeTheMan

Say my name wrote: »

If the dung was already out in a heap for a while with a wet core and just strawy on the outside I'd nearly say put a match to it and spread after that. You'd have your own cheapo version of biochar/compost mixture. You'd need a slurry tanker of water or slurry just in case though.

18.6.12 might be just handier though. :pac:

This pile has been there years. Started out as soil, branch's and a few stones after we had digger work done. Now it has 5 years of bedding on it. It's been burnt a few times already. Could be great stuff for the land.
Neighbour has a dung side sling and was going to ask to borrow that. But I seen him out with the pitch fork and box so I presumed it was out of order. That and the fact I'd have to ask to borrow the front loader too, I taught it would be a bit cheeky. He's quite obliging tho, so maybe I'll do that. Could get a better result then the 18.6.12..

Birdnuts

zetecescort wrote: »

Good game in Castlebar, level with 5 min left

Watched the second half in a pub in Hollymount - at least Mayo are consistent, loads of wides and losing a tight game by a point:rolleyes:

Say my name

MeTheMan wrote: »

This pile has been there years. Started out as soil, branch's and a few stones after we had digger work done. Now it has 5 years of bedding on it. It's been burnt a few times already. Could be great stuff for the land.
Neighbour has a dung side sling and was going to ask to borrow that. But I seen him out with the pitch fork and box so I presumed it was out of order. That and the fact I'd have to ask to borrow the front loader too, I taught it would be a bit cheeky. He's quite obliging tho, so maybe I'll do that. Could get a better result then the 18.6.12..

If it was me I'd actually go with both.
Mostly because I'm still chicken.
Go with the fertilizer first the way you won't get mixed up with tracks and then the dungspreader. Watch out for the stones obviously that they don't end up in the spreader.
But yeah it sounds like it'd be great with the char and then the manure soaking in.

Birdnuts

Say my name wrote: »

We've a first today. An Irish born elected official of Chinese heritage.

Standing for the Green Party. Hazel Chu.

https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1132342690610384896?s=20


He's got her Twitter handle wrong so it's linked to someone else. :rolleyes:
Still .. welcome to see in little old Ireland.

The best thing she could do <Mod snip>

Say my name

Birdnuts wrote: »

The best thing she could <Mod snip>

She's Irish.

whelan2

MeTheMan wrote: »

This pile has been there years. Started out as soil, branch's and a few stones after we had digger work done. Now it has 5 years of bedding on it. It's been burnt a few times already. Could be great stuff for the land.
Neighbour has a dung side sling and was going to ask to borrow that. But I seen him out with the pitch fork and box so I presumed it was out of order. That and the fact I'd have to ask to borrow the front loader too, I taught it would be a bit cheeky. He's quite obliging tho, so maybe I'll do that. Could get a better result then the 18.6.12..

Could you not just get a contractor in to spread it. Job done in a few hours

MeTheMan

whelan2 wrote: »

Could you not just get a contractor in to spread it. Job done in a few hours

No contractors around that spread dung. Just baling and slurry around here. Could be an opening in the market there! I'm sure there is one further afield but I wouldn't mind doing it myself.

jimmy G M

MeTheMan wrote: »

This pile has been there years. Started out as soil, branch's and a few stones after we had digger work done. Now it has 5 years of bedding on it. It's been burnt a few times already. Could be great stuff for the land.
Neighbour has a dung side sling and was going to ask to borrow that. But I seen him out with the pitch fork and box so I presumed it was out of order. That and the fact I'd have to ask to borrow the front loader too, I taught it would be a bit cheeky. He's quite obliging tho, so maybe I'll do that. Could get a better result then the 18.6.12..

Ask to help you spreading it... he load it with his tractor you power the spreader with yours and pay him for his time/equipment....

MeTheMan

jimmy G M wrote: »

Ask to help you spreading it... he load it with his tractor you power the spreader with yours and pay him for his time/equipment....

That would be the plan. It's possible he might have some to spread to so could work it that way. I'd imagine an 885 would be able to power the spreader?
It's great to have good neighbours!

Jb1989

MeTheMan wrote: »

Field 3 weeks ago


Field this morning


Field this evening

Did you use the 2.7 maximum dose rate or did you go stronger? Sticking agent?

MeTheMan

Jb1989 wrote: »

Did you use the 2.7 maximum dose rate or did you go stronger? Sticking agent?

50 liter licker with 1 liter of gallop. Good wallop of fairy liquid in it, around 200ml. Done about 20 acres and there is still 15 or more liters in the licker. Went a bit ott in a few places in the beginning. Some grass burnt. Have a variable switch for the licker but it's an on/off job unless your in really heavy stuff.
Was a bit worried after. Didn't do anything for about 2 weeks. Good kill on it all now though. I'll throw up a picture of the other field if I remember tomorrow or the next day.

Say my name

I wonder is limestone cowboy free with that drone of his .. for the craic!

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/donald-trump-protected-nuclear-submarine-16196846

patsy_mccabe

I heard when Reagan visited Ireland in 1984, there were a few guards on a small island doing security. They lit a fire to keep warm and the secret service landed in a helicopter and told them to put it out.

tanko

MeTheMan wrote: »

50 liter licker with 1 liter of gallop. Good wallop of fairy liquid in it, around 200ml. Done about 20 acres and there is still 15 or more liters in the licker. Went a bit ott in a few places in the beginning. Some grass burnt. Have a variable switch for the licker but it's an on/off job unless your in really heavy stuff.
Was a bit worried after. Didn't do anything for about 2 weeks. Good kill on it all now though. I'll throw up a picture of the other field if I remember tomorrow or the next day.

Thats a great job, some amount of ground covered with a small amount of chemical.
What make of a licker have you?
How long did it take to do the 20 acres?

Ard_MC

MeTheMan wrote: »

50 liter licker with 1 liter of gallop. Good wallop of fairy liquid in it, around 200ml. Done about 20 acres and there is still 15 or more liters in the licker. Went a bit ott in a few places in the beginning. Some grass burnt. Have a variable switch for the licker but it's an on/off job unless your in really heavy stuff.
Was a bit worried after. Didn't do anything for about 2 weeks. Good kill on it all now though. I'll throw up a picture of the other field if I remember tomorrow or the next day.

Did you do 1 pass or 2 over them? I always do 2.

MeTheMan

tanko wrote: »

Thats a great job, some amount of ground covered with a small amount of chemical.
What make of a licker have you?
How long did it take to do the 20 acres?

It's a awful small amount of chemical. Something like 50ml of gallop an acre if my maths hold up. That's why I was a bit worried.

The licker is a C-dax Eliminator. I think it's a better design then the carpet roller ones. It gives more surface area, spaced out so the rushes can flick through and the rushes at the back of the clump get hit aswell. I think with the carpet ones there is one straight surface that tends to push the rushes over and the rushes at the back of the clump don't get hit.

As for time I'm not 100% sure. It's slow enough. I was listening to the "Growing a Revolution" audio book for some of it and I'm 3 hours in on that. I'd say around 5 hours in total. Sun was out and I was learning, so happy out. Would have loved cruise control on the quad tho!
I could be fluent in French or Spanish by the time all is licked and topped.

*edit* just the one pass.

Say my name

MeTheMan wrote: »

As for time I'm not 100% sure. It's slow enough. I was listening to the "Growing a Revolution" audio book for some of it and I'm 3 hours in on that. I'd say around 5 hours in total. Sun was out and I was learning, so happy out..

Well what part of the world are you in on that?

Limestone Cowboy

MeTheMan wrote: »

It's a awful small amount of chemical. Something like 50ml of gallop an acre if my maths hold up. That's why I was a bit worried.

The licker is a C-dax Eliminator. I think it's a better design then the carpet roller ones. It gives more surface area, spaced out so the rushes can flick through and the rushes at the back of the clump get hit aswell. I think with the carpet ones there is one straight surface that tends to push the rushes over and the rushes at the back of the clump don't get hit.

As for time I'm not 100% sure. It's slow enough. I was listening to the "Growing a Revolution" audio book for some of it and I'm 3 hours in on that. I'd say around 5 hours in total. Sun was out and I was learning, so happy out. Would have loved cruise control on the quad tho!
I could be fluent in French or Spanish by the time all is licked and topped.

*edit* just the one pass.

Something awful satisfying about killing rushes. This is a bit of ground that had a good few in it last year. Topped them, fertilised and sprayed the regrowth after 5 or 6 weeks and it's like a different bit of ground this year.

MeTheMan

Say my name wrote: »

Well what part of the world are you in on that?

If I remember right I was in the US. Put away the plough! It partly the book that has me wanting to spread dung. Get the organic matter up. Very interesting listen. Need to get back to it the next time the topper or licker is out.

MeTheMan

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Something awful satisfying about killing rushes. This is a bit of ground that had a good few in it last year. Topped them, fertilised and sprayed the regrowth after 5 or 6 weeks and it's like a different bit of ground this year.

Really satisfying! Rushes seem to have gone a bit wild the last few years here. That field in the picture was our meadow ground a few years back. Thistles are also taking over here. We have no sprayer and the licker is no use on them. Going try control with topper. I read the first year of the thistle is the flat on the ground type and then the second year they spear up and seed. So hopefully top the spear off before they get to seed.

_Brian

MeTheMan wrote: »

Really satisfying! Rushes seem to have gone a bit wild the last few years here. That field in the picture was our meadow ground a few years back. Thistles are also taking over here. We have no sprayer and the licker is no use on them. Going try control with topper. I read the first year of the thistle is the flat on the ground type and then the second year they spear up and seed. So hopefully top the spear off before they get to seed.

We’ve got a handle on thistles with regular topping and spot spraying on the worse fields. Same for ragwort

whelan2

We were moving and dosing cattle this morning. There was a beeping noise, was driving me mad. Wasn't all the time. Thought it was my phone, thought it was my dad's phone or neighbours automatic gates or the jeep. Finally realised my dad had the keyring fence tester in his pocket. He couldn't hear it as his hearing isn't great.

MickeyShtyles

whelan2 wrote: »

We were moving and dosing cattle this morning. There was a beeping noise, was driving me mad. Wasn't all the time. Thought it was my phone, thought it was my dad's phone or neighbours automatic gates or the jeep. Finally realised my dad had the keyring fence tester in his pocket. He couldn't hear it as his hearing isn't great.

Got one of those few weeks back. It’s on the same keyring as the car keys, so I’ll always have it with me.
It’ll detect any sort of electric current though, was in visiting my brother in hospital last week and it was beeping away walking through the corridors. :I