Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Grueller

Say my name wrote: »

Was that the enniscorthy crew?
Breens.

Ya. Seriously talented men

Grueller

Say my name wrote: »

Was that the enniscorthy crew?
Breens.

Ya. Seriously talented men

I says

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Is it only my father that loves doing stuff the hard way?. I try to do things in a way thats as easy as possible even if it takes a few minutes longer but hes mad to just bull in but half kill both of us in the process. I got a small lorry of bales last night and i wanted to roll them off and move around with bale lifter but he wanted to move them completely by hand.

No they’re all like that. There’s a lad beside me always out rooting and bolloxing with a shovel/spade or pick putting in shores into a drain wouldn’t use a digger. Loves hardship . One of these days I’ll stop the car get out and give him a boot up the hole, for being an idiot.

Base price

Grueller wrote: »

Have the full box set here. The one on carriage making was unreal.

Does the box set include the earlier b&w videos. Reason I ask is because a neighbour (Longford) was filmed by Hands sometime in the late '60's/early 70's hand weaving. I think he wove a turf basket/creel.

Grueller

Base price wrote: »

Does the box set include the earlier b&w videos. Reason I ask is because a neighbour (Longford) was filmed by Hands sometime in the late '60's/early 70's hand weaving. I think he wove a turf basket/creel.

There is one in there on basket weaving Base. I am not sure if it is black and white or not though. I haven't watched them in a while now.

TITANIUM.

Albert Johnson wrote: »

It's a bit late now asking for advice but I took the plunge today and bought a Stihl MS211? What's people's opinions on the saw? I only tried it out for a few minutes tonight but it's miles ahead of my previous saw in the power department.

There a grand saw, Tbh tho I'd recommend any fella who does abit of saw work to buy a professional saw, allot less problems down the road aswell as increased performance. Obviously there more money first day but if you look after um, they easily pay for themselves over time.

Limestone Cowboy

Hard Knocks wrote: »

That’s a mighty job

Its ok, a pity he made us reuse the old rusty pillars and sculling gate.

AntrimGlens

Base price wrote: »

Bless him. I hope you followed him into the field so you learned to broadcast seed by hand

Oh Base, I learnt that skill a long time ago, thus why i was putting on the sower...

AntrimGlens

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Its ok, a pity he made us reuse the old rusty pillars and sculling gate.

I saw that, takes the shine off the effort of putting up such a good unit. Is that gate just held by two welds and a bolt? Surely he could have bought a head gate and have it concreted in, giving himself peace of mind. I'd be feared every time I ran an animal into that race that it would continue on through with the gate over its head.

Limestone Cowboy

AntrimGlens wrote: »

I saw that, takes the shine off the effort of putting up such a good unit. Is that gate just held by two welds and a bolt? Surely he could have bought a head gate and have it concreted in, giving himself peace of mind. I'd be feared every time I ran an animal into that race that it would continue on through with the gate over its head.

Ya that's all. Can buy a new semi auto for 270 and get the vat back aswell on it. Another €700 would have made a great job out of it, no telling him though and it wasn't for a lack of trying. Only put a 5ft wall in it too, no way would he put a 6ft one in, would have been an extra 2m of concrete and the pans were high enough. It's a miracle it turned out as well as it did. Didn't want to put steel in the wall either but we put the foot down with that. A job you'd be delighted to be finished in.

Kevhog1988

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-people-to-be-allowed-to-travel-anywhere-in-their-county-from-monday-as-ireland-moves-to-exit-lockdown-1.4271422?fbclid=IwAR3QbJN96Fb3M816_lV8zCLgkP3c9WWkdo_42xzz6MbRKn9rOagY32hRFtQ

Seems a bit stupid as i live in a corner of north kildare within 10 mins of offaly, meath and westmeath.

roosterman71

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-people-to-be-allowed-to-travel-anywhere-in-their-county-from-monday-as-ireland-moves-to-exit-lockdown-1.4271422?fbclid=IwAR3QbJN96Fb3M816_lV8zCLgkP3c9WWkdo_42xzz6MbRKn9rOagY32hRFtQ

Seems a bit stupid as i live in a corner of north kildare within 10 mins of offaly, meath and westmeath.

Ya can go anywhere within 20km of home, plus now you can go anywhere in Kildare too. It's to give bit more freedom within the county for people. You're restricted to 20k from home once you leave the county border

Kevhog1988

roosterman71 wrote: »

Ya can go anywhere within 20km of home, plus now you can go anywhere in Kildare too. It's to give bit more freedom within the county for people. You're restricted to 20k from home once you leave the county border

I cycle with the 905's from edenderry. They are able to small group cycle now anywhere in offaly but i cant join them

roosterman71

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

I cycle with the 905's from edenderry. They are able to small group cycle now anywhere in offaly but i cant join them

Be grateful for small wins

Base price

I see the CCPC (Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) have come out and stated that there is no cartel or breaches of competition law within the beef industry after their extensive research. Unfortunately the article is subscriber only. It makes my blood boil reading it - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/no-cartel-in-the-beef-industry-competition-watchdog-550294

bonaparte2

https://www.independent.ie/business/farming/beef/no-evidence-of-pricing-cartel-in-beef-industry-competition-authority-39263201.html

It's good that there's such cutthroat competition between factories for beef. I'll sleep soundly knowing all is well in our industry.

Hard Knocks

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

Ya that's all. Can buy a new semi auto for 270 and get the vat back aswell on it. Another €700 would have made a great job out of it, no telling him though and it wasn't for a lack of trying. Only put a 5ft wall in it too, no way would he put a 6ft one in, would have been an extra 2m of concrete and the pans were high enough. It's a miracle it turned out as well as it did. Didn't want to put steel in the wall either but we put the foot down with that. A job you'd be delighted to be finished in.

Putting in a crush with 37” 4 bar gates between posts
How much should we leave from concrete to bottom of gate?

wrangler

Base price wrote: »

I see the CCPC (Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) have come out and stated that there is no cartel or breaches of competition law within the beef industry after their extensive research. Unfortunately the article is subscriber only. It makes my blood boil reading it - https://www.farmersjournal.ie/no-cartel-in-the-beef-industry-competition-watchdog-550294

These new farm organisations are just going over the same ground as we did ten to twenty years ago with the same results.
It's hilarious, 200 complaints to CPPC ,each complaint a copy of the previous one, complaining about collusion.
Unless they show some initiative now they might as well give up.

Limestone Cowboy

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Putting in a crush with 37” 4 bar gates between posts
How much should we leave from concrete to bottom of gate?

Are you putting a step in it? I like to have the top bar around 4'6". 12-14" gap I'd say, I wouldn't like to be going any bigger with calves. 4" step would close it up enough, I know some fellas don't like a step on the chute though.

Nekarsulm

wrangler wrote: »

These new farm organisations are just going over the same ground as we did ten to twenty years ago with the same results.
It's hilarious, 200 complaints to CPPC ,each complaint a copy of the previous one, complaining about collusion.
Unless they show some initiative now they might as well give up.

Next clusterf**k will be meat & bonemeal.
We export 1000 tons a week to the uk.
If they actually leave the EU, we can no longer do so.
That's about 40 artic loads a week..
Factories will surely use it as a way to cut prices further.

kevthegaff

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Next clusterf**k will be meat & bonemeal.
We export 1000 tons a week to the uk.
If they actually leave the EU, we can no longer do so.
That's about 40 artic loads a week..
Factories will surely use it as a way to cut prices further.

What do they do with it

Nekarsulm

wrangler wrote: »

These new farm organisations are just going over the same ground as we did ten to twenty years ago with the same results.
It's hilarious, 200 complaints to CPPC ,each complaint a copy of the previous one, complaining about collusion.
Unless they show some initiative now they might as well give up.

kevthegaff wrote: »

What do they do with it

Burn it.
It's considered dangerous waste, and seemingly you can't export dangerous waste out of the EU.

Nekarsulm

This evenings messing.
Hopefully be concreted in by this time tomorrow.

kevthegaff

Bunker?

Nekarsulm

Yeah, chemical warfare ...

wrangler

kevthegaff wrote: »

Bunker?

Sheep dipping tank, great job if you can have it under the race,
with a dummy sheep up front and a spring loaded trapdoor they just fall in

Danzy

Is it easy to get fleeces from lads, need them for hive roof insulation.

They don't have to be washed or anything special, straight off the back.

Obviously I'd pay.

Is wool still hard to sell.

Hard Knocks

Danzy wrote: »

Is it easy to get fleeces from lads, need them for hive roof insulation.

They don't have to be washed or anything special, straight off the back.

Obviously I'd pay.

Is wool still hard to sell.

Where you based?
I’ll be shearing next week

Nekarsulm

wrangler wrote: »

Sheep dipping tank, great job if you can have it under the race,
with a dummy sheep up front and a spring loaded trapdoor they just fall in

Yes, hope to get a sideways slide, with a curtain or something.
Not too bad a job if you can confine groups of 5 or so right beside it.

Danzy

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Where you based?
I’ll be shearing next week

North cork.

wrangler

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Yes, hope to get a sideways slide, with a curtain or something.
Not too bad a job if you can confine groups of 5 or so right beside it.

They never forget dipping from one year to the next, My sheep wouldn't go within 5 ft of the tank at any time of the year

whelan2

Lovely moon out tonight

Nekarsulm

wrangler wrote: »

They never forget dipping from one year to the next, My sheep wouldn't go within 5 ft of the tank at any time of the year

Hope it doesn't rain tonight....
Left a ton bag of concrete mix sitting in it in case it decided to float.
Learned that the hard way once....

Castlekeeper

Say my name wrote: »

And in other news we haven't got a government yet because.. wait for it.

The Greens have a sizeable number of secondary school students (with no life experience) as members. They have the same vote as the adults in the Green Party. And the GP have a system where the party can't decide on what actions they take without it going to a vote from their members.
So the 17 year olds want the GP to remain in opposition for now and to be a majority party in the future and the adults want to go into government now.

That's gas, have you a link or source for this?

Say my name

Castlekeeper wrote: »

That's gas, have you a link or source for this?

Morning Ireland a few days ago.

ganmo

Say my name wrote: »

Morning Ireland a few days ago.

The kids didnt really know what they were on about, one said they should stay in opposition so they could make meaningful changes rather than go into government and have their changes watered down.

Say my name

ganmo wrote: »

The kids didnt really know what they were on about, one said they should stay in opposition so they could make meaningful changes rather than go into government and have their changes watered down.

It'll be a case of whoever teaches the students or whatever they were taught rules the country in the next government.

_Brian

https://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=113633416#post113633416

Portaloo in the field and one in the yard 😂

whelan2

Say my name wrote: »

It'll be a case of whoever teaches the students or whatever they were taught rules the country in the next government.

Sure aren't parents teaching their kids atm

Waffletraktor

_Brian wrote: »

https://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=113633416#post113633416

Portaloo in the field and one in the yard 😂

Spud/veg boys have to do it now for their supermarket contracts assurance schemes, farm assurance requires on site facilities and shower for employees aswel.

MickeyShtyles

We’ve a Dublin Eircode and a Meath address, so from 2mora we have two counties to drive in.
What sort of codology rule is this?

Danzy

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

We’ve a Dublin Eircode and a Meath address, so from 2mora we have two counties to drive in.
What sort of codology rule is this?

Pedantic.

_Brian

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

We’ve a Dublin Eircode and a Meath address, so from 2mora we have two counties to drive in.
What sort of codology rule is this?

Ahh it’s just to give some freedom and yet not having people running the length and breadth of the country just yet.

Yea there’s anomaly’s but sher isn’t it better than nothing.

I don’t think it was intended to be mathematically scrutinised, just a bit more freedom.

whelan2

I think it would have been better say a 30km distance rather than your county.

ganmo

whelan2 wrote: »

I think it would have been better say a 30km distance rather than your county.

Theres no one rule that will suit everyone

jimmy G M

Decided to try to incorporate some white clover into grass sward of a 5 acre field as an experiment yesterday... 5kg of clover and 3 bags of granlime into the spreader and away. Field was cut for bales aprox 10 days ago but slow regrowth.
Field got slurry earlier in the year and P&K would be ok. A bit of rain over the past few days also
Going to harrow with grass harrow today or tomorrow....
Any thoughts/experiences?
Would I need to roll as well.... yes I imagine...

Reggie.

jimmy G M wrote: »

Decided to try to incorporate some white clover into grass sward of a 5 acre field as an experiment yesterday... 5kg of clover and 3 bags of granlime into the spreader and away. Field was cut for bales aprox 10 days ago but slow regrowth.
Field got slurry earlier in the year and P&K would be ok. A bit of rain over the past few days also
Going to harrow with grass harrow today or tomorrow....
Any thoughts/experiences?
Would I need to roll as well.... yes I imagine...

Usually add clover from sept onwards due to grass possibly smothering it out and wetter time of the year.
Clover could take a good month or two to establish in the swarth so be patient.
No harm to give it rub of the harrow and roll to get soil contact.
Are ya sure it would have gone out even as its prone to take over if sown too heavy

Buford T. Justice XIX

jimmy G M wrote: »

Decided to try to incorporate some white clover into grass sward of a 5 acre field as an experiment yesterday... 5kg of clover and 3 bags of granlime into the spreader and away. Field was cut for bales aprox 10 days ago but slow regrowth.
Field got slurry earlier in the year and P&K would be ok. A bit of rain over the past few days also
Going to harrow with grass harrow today or tomorrow....
Any thoughts/experiences?
Would I need to roll as well.... yes I imagine...

You need to graze the grass regularly at low covers to let light down to the bottom of the sward so the clover can get established.

And no N for the rest of the year, or till September at least. Any N will get the grass growing stronger than the clover and shade it out.

Lady Haywire

Thanks for getting me back in Buford. Now don't be locking me out again! :P

Buford T. Justice XIX

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Thanks for getting me back in Buford. Now don't be locking me out again! :P

I only suspended the ban, any more of those pics and I'll bring it back:eek: