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MickeyShtyles

whelan2 wrote: »

Petrol is 121cpl !

140 in the local today. Some difference

whelan2

Any recommendations for self catering accommodation on a working farm in Ireland? Not for my family

MickeyShtyles

whelan2 wrote: »

Any recommendations for self catering accommodation on a working farm in Ireland? Not for my family

https://www.mountbriscoe.ie/
This place. Only for they were on Irelands Farmers on twitter last week, I’d have never heard of them.

wrangler

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

https://www.mountbriscoe.ie/
This place. Only for they were on Irelands Farmers on twitter last week, I’d have never heard of them.

I was about to say them too, not far from here and gets good reviews, hostess is very nice anyway.
They have a little rare breeds show every year and that happens to be next Sunday.
Organic farm

Hard Knocks

whelan2 wrote: »

Petrol is 121cpl !

Diesel is 130 in local Applegreen here

Keep Sluicing

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Diesel is 130 in local Applegreen here

Thanks Whelan. Itss 133 in my local, so i keep an eye open for value.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Diesel is 130 in local Applegreen here

121 in the local Centra, I think.

Say my name

Some people say there's big differences in petrol and diesel between station brands.
Some brands are putting more biodiesel and bioethanol in their fuels than they're letting on?

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

Some people say there's big differences in petrol and diesel between station brands.
Some brands are putting more biodiesel and bioethanol in their fuels than they're letting on?

Def is. Only one garage I'd go to in mullingar for diesel. Big difference in mileage from different places

I says

Reggie. wrote: »

Def is. Only one garage I'd go to in mullingar for diesel. Big difference in mileage from different places

Jones ????

Reggie.

I says wrote: »

Jones ????

Millie's. Not the cheapest but def the best diesel

Say my name

Reggie. wrote: »

Def is. Only one garage I'd go to in mullingar for diesel. Big difference in mileage from different places

My contact down here in the car fixing trade tells me I should be only going to circle K.

kk.man

The older names are the best and dearest. The one mentioned here I'd walk rather than fill my car in them.

whelan2

I only fill my car or jeep in local shop. I know it's good fuel. Got a 10cpl voucherl off fuel in Tesco the other night and gave it away

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

My contact down here in the car fixing trade tells me I should be only going to circle K.

I find them to have to worst fuel for mileage. And I do plenty of driving

blue5000

And I find Texaco good I think we need to do some research and actually measure what we're getting from various brands.

Keep Sluicing

I probably do more driving than most here. 42,000 to 45,000 miles a year. I'd keep a good eye on my miles per gal,(on the car clock and miles done verses gals filled) and I think there is very little difference in diesel from any of the big names (circle K, applegreen, tesco, etc) There are one or 2 independent garages near Crossmaglen area that id never go back to.

I says

Reggie. wrote: »

Millie's. Not the cheapest but def the best diesel

No don’t use him, jones or Texaco.
Miles per gallon all depends on the heavy foot driving the car.

I says

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

I probably do more driving than most here. 42,000 to 45,000 miles a year. I'd keep a good eye on my miles per gal,(on the car clock and miles done verses gals filled) and I think there is very little difference in diesel from any of the big names (circle K, applegreen, tesco, etc) There are one or 2 independent garages near Crossmaglen area that id never go back to.

You’d want the head examined buying up along there.

Nekarsulm

I says wrote: »

You’d want the head examined buying up along there.

The locals there are buying in the South!

Reggie.

I says wrote: »

No don’t use him, jones or Texaco.
Miles per gallon all depends on the heavy foot driving the car.

Well I drive the same way and same distances most weeks to the same locations and I can tell ya that the diesel there gives the best mileage for me anyways

whelan2

Nekarsulm wrote: »

The locals there are buying in the South!

You'd wonder how they stay open at all.

Nekarsulm

Reggie. wrote: »

Well I drive the same way and same distances most weeks to the same locations and I can tell ya that the diesel there gives the best mileage for me anyways

Got diesel in our local place here in Cavan about 3 years ago.
Car almost didn't make it home the three miles.
Stopped itself at the house and wouldnt start again
PD engined Passat.
Stupidly didnt connect the filling with the stopping, so got 25 euro in the jeep the next day.
After about 15 miles, it wouldn't rev over 1000rpm.
Local garage got the passat going again, but the jeep needed a new injector pump.
Went to the filling station to complain. They wouldn't listen tto my complaint at all.
Dismissed me completely.
Garage had drained the tank of the passat, and it was like brown varnish in colour and smell.
Reported them to Customs and Excise, they mysteriously closed about two days later.
Washed shyte from up along the Monaghan/Armagh border.

Odelay

It’s all from the same source, the same refinery, produced to one standard. Mickey joe can’t phone up and ask for a half
Load of “good stuff” or some else ask for the “cheape stuff”. Not the way it works. Larger brands definitely aren’t going to be interfering with the fuel. They make no money on the fuel but make their money on what is spent in the shop. Imagine if one of the big retailers were messing with the fuel and were caught at it? They’d be closed overnight.

Only difference is the stuff in cowboy country near the border, that stuff I wouldn’t touch.

Say my name

Odelay wrote: »

It’s all from the same source, the same refinery, produced to one standard. Mickey joe can’t phone up and ask for a half
Load of “good stuff” or some else ask for the “cheape stuff”. Not the way it works. Larger brands definitely aren’t going to be interfering with the fuel. They make no money on the fuel but make their money on what is spent in the shop. Imagine if one of the big retailers were messing with the fuel and were caught at it? They’d be closed overnight.

Only difference is the stuff in cowboy country near the border, that stuff I wouldn’t touch.

Circle K is a fairly big player in the world.
With their own depots and tanks in Ireland only serving circle K.

https://www.southcoast.ie/case-studies/circlek/

Circle K and Irving oil are basically the one and own Whitegate refinery.

I says

Odelay wrote: »

It’s all from the same source, the same refinery, produced to one standard. Mickey joe can’t phone up and ask for a half
Load of “good stuff” or some else ask for the “cheape stuff”. Not the way it works. Larger brands definitely aren’t going to be interfering with the fuel. They make no money on the fuel but make their money on what is spent in the shop. Imagine if one of the big retailers were messing with the fuel and were caught at it? They’d be closed overnight.

Only difference is the stuff in cowboy country near the border, that stuff I wouldn’t touch.

The diesel particle filters in cars was causing a lot of grief too sensitive to any bit of impurity’s in the diesel all fuel is the same unless some ahem cat litter finds its way into it

whelan2

Dundalk game going to penalties....

Attie Ross

Filled jeep with diesel today in Dundalk,on jeep computer says 28 odd mpg calculator says 26 odd.
80 lts @ €63 LTD company so cannot afford to mess with it.
Doing business a very long time with him good guy.

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Dundalk game going to penalties....

Good win for them, nice few bob on the way for getting into the next round.

whelan2

Watching a Brendan Grace DVD. He was brilliant.

carrollsno1

whelan2 wrote: »

Watching a Brendan Grace DVD. He was brilliant.

Listening to him on spotify, he was unreal and therell never be one like him again. My grandparents would hsve been fairly old fashioned and hated dirty jokes and bad language but Brendan was the only comedisn where we could all watch it together and hsve a laugh at him.

orm0nd

whelan2 wrote: »

Watching a Brendan Grace DVD. He was brilliant.

a bunch of us were at one of his gigs back in the late '70s , let's say we wern't thirsty and were a tad on the noisy side

he said "will ye shut up over there and quit acting the fool, I'm doing that up here and getting paid for it, youz aren't "

bumped into him years later after he bought the pub in clare and told him about that night , he stayed chatting for ages about all the showbands & artists, etc that were doing cabaret in those years

truly talented and an utter gentleman. rip

roosterman71

A lot of love in here for Mr. Grace. My parents were the same and were big fans and have all the DVDs, etc. So I seen them all too, and some are pretty good to be fair.

However, I must recount the one and only dealing I had with him as part of a committee who organised him to come to the local parish to entertain for a charity event. He was the main attraction. We sold all the tickets, out of which he was getting a sizeable chunk for his time. On the night, he turned up 1hr 45min late, was drunk, told a few jokes, walked off and his management then demanded the full payment. He was only there for max 45 mins, and was a disgrace.

Personally, didn't think much of him after that.

wrangler

roosterman71 wrote: »

A lot of love in here for Mr. Grace. My parents were the same and were big fans and have all the DVDs, etc. So I seen them all too, and some are pretty good to be fair.

However, I must recount the one and only dealing I had with him as part of a committee who organised him to come to the local parish to entertain for a charity event. He was the main attraction. We sold all the tickets, out of which he was getting a sizeable chunk for his time. On the night, he turned up 1hr 45min late, was drunk, told a few jokes, walked off and his management then demanded the full payment. He was only there for max 45 mins, and was a disgrace.

Personally, didn't think much of him after that.

Yea, I lost interest too when he cut his act to about half an hour, 30yrs ago you'd get the full show from him alone and he was brilliant.Latterly half an hour of him with the other hour and a half filled in with poor musicians didn't just cut it.
He did a parish gig here too and wasn't great even though his son in law was from this parish

whelan2

whelan2 wrote: »

Theres 2 I think the one at the waterfront - mc Donalds is 115cpl. There's another in newfoundwell in Drogheda is now 114cpl

Down to 110 cpl now in applegreen and 112 in circle k on the north road!

lakill Farm

Off to the people’s republic for the weekend to a stag. Haven’t been on a session session in almost 2 years let alone 2 night and 2 days on it

could end up on Rip.ie after this

Water John

Ok, I'll warn the Guards you're coming.

ganmo

Water John wrote: »

Ok, I'll warn the Guards you're coming.

Dont forget the a&e

Water John

Have family there, will tell them to watch out for him.

lakill Farm

Water John wrote: »

Have family there, will tell them to watch out for him.

The auld lad and sister have the undertaker priced they even cut a large H in the front lawn so the air ambulance can land there. Lucky I’m easi going

Muckit

lakill Farm wrote: »

Off to the people’s republic for the weekend to a stag. Haven’t been on a session session in almost 2 years let alone 2 night and 2 days on it

could end up on Rip.ie after this

I hope for your own sake you've the training in the few weeks!

lakill Farm

Muckit wrote: »

I hope for your own sake you've the training in the few weeks!

1 bottle of Heineken after I baled hay in May

MickeyShtyles

lakill Farm wrote: »

Off to the people’s republic for the weekend to a stag. Haven’t been on a session session in almost 2 years let alone 2 night and 2 days on it

could end up on Rip.ie after this

Family flowers only... :P

Say my name

I think Die Hard 2 is on e4 in a few minutes if ye want to get in the Christmas spirit.

Muckit

lakill Farm wrote: »

1 bottle of Heineken after I baled hay in May

You are fooked lad!!!

whelan2

Reggie will have to bring the landini down and bring him home on the loader

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

Reggie will have to bring the landini down and bring him home on the loader

I'd only drag him by the ankle

Keep Sluicing

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd only drag him by the ankle

You'd want all the weights on the front. Serious load to drag.

Reggie.

Keep Sluicing wrote: »

You'd want all the weights on the front. Serious load to drag.

And a full tank of diesel

carrollsno1

Just off the phone to friend in New Zealand, by any chance does anyone know anyone thinking of heading out drop me a PM hes looking for someone on the farm. Good farm and good conditions thanks