Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

Water John

By your measure the UK is in recession too.
It requires two successive quarters of negative growth.

davidk1394

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Pipe going into shed is 1/2” HG with mains pressure
Would that be good enough?
Like to clean floor on livestock trailer, wash tools, weighing scales etc

It’d clean them once the dirt is wet if you get me

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

I wish brexit would just fook off at this stage

Should we move the Brexit chat to the Brexit for farmers thread that was around a while back and people can post there if they want to discuss it and leave this thread free from Brexit?

Because we'll have nothing but Brexit for the next few weeks at least, I'd say?

patsy_mccabe

https://twitter.com/hashtag/brexitmehole?src=hash

whelan2

One of those mornings here today. Some days you wonder why do you bother at all

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

One of those mornings here today. Some days you wonder why do you bother at all

Same here...

148multi

whelan2 wrote: »

One of those mornings here today. Some days you wonder why do you bother at all

Its just a bad day, not a bad life.

Muckit

whelan2 wrote: »

One of those mornings here today. Some days you wonder why do you bother at all

1. for to put food on the table
2. for the love of it

whelan2

Looking at the dairy cattle section on done deal this last few weeks. More ads on it that are not dairy cattle than those that are. Easy fix stuff, Himalayan rock salt, concrete troughs, automatic farm gates, bord bia compliance ads ... .

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

Looking at the dairy cattle section on done deal this last few weeks. More ads on it that are not dairy cattle than those that are. Easy fix stuff, Himalayan rock salt, concrete troughs, automatic farm gates, bord bia compliance ads ... .

If you look on the left hand side of the screen under seller type and click on private ads - you will cut out the majority of commercial advertisements.

Muckit

https://youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs.

The manics sum it all up for me.

whelan2

Went for the cows early this morning. I have a lad spreading lime today. Lorry load of lime arrived at 5.40 am. From about an hour away from here. He had brought 4 loads yesterday. He must have been up early

Lady Haywire

Daddy dearest stood on a nail Monday morning & between the farm & house stuff I forgot to pay my internet bill & was cut off til this evening bar using the phone.
So what have I missed

Had to practically force him into the doctors to get a tetanus jab. Only for I reminded him about the auld 15yr old cow which died of it a few years ago he'd probably not have gone either!!

roosterman71

Strange sign I seen on Sunday



Something about the Japanese Knotweed

Odelay

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Daddy dearest stood on a nail Monday morning & between the farm & house stuff I forgot to pay my internet bill & was cut off til this evening bar using the phone.
So what have I missed

Had to practically force him into the doctors to get a tetanus jab. Only for I reminded him about the auld 15yr old cow which died of it a few years ago he'd probably not have gone either!!

Get him a pair of safety boots. Was he wearing his boat shoes?

Lady Haywire

Odelay wrote: »

Get him a pair of safety boots. Was he wearing his boat shoes?

Wellies! Where he got stuck on it is muddy so wouldn't be terrain for boots.
So.....recommendations for decent wellies also needed

ganmo

And a metal detector

kollegeknight

roosterman71 wrote: »

Strange sign I seen on Sunday



Something about the Japanese Knotweed

Yeah passed a Jeep locally with the same signage- it’s exactly that- Japanese knotweed.

kollegeknight

A new tv show on the history channel- the “butcher” where 4 contestants butcher various carcasses. They had an alligator for the final last week.

wrangler

roosterman71 wrote: »

Strange sign I seen on Sunday



Something about the Japanese Knotweed

Kilbeggan, were you there for a protest

Say my name

There's some amount of 'large' blocks of farmland for sale in this country this year.

Just on the journal this week.
180 acres Kildare.
277 acres Kildare.
184 acres Galway.

5 pages taken up with property in the journal this week.

216 acre farm near Bunclody sold a few days ago too.

If one had money. One could buy half the country in this last while.

Reggie.

Say my name wrote: »

There's some amount of 'large' blocks of farmland for sale in this country this year.

Just on the journal this week.
180 acres Kildare.
277 acres Kildare.
184 acres Galway.

5 pages taken up with property in the journal this week.

216 acre farm near Bunclody sold a few days ago too.

If one had money. One could buy half the country in this last while.

Dont tell larry

Water John

No, his sons only get hold of it, the cheap way.

Say my name

Reggie. wrote: »

Dont tell larry

Them farms would be too small for Larry.
Larry be looking for something like this.

30,000 acres of a farm.
https://twitter.com/FarmersWeekly/status/1167469529347383296?s=20

The farm near to Bunclody was sold in lots I believe to the GAA, a hotelier and a tillage farmer.

Mooooo

Say my name wrote: »

There's some amount of 'large' blocks of farmland for sale in this country this year.

Just on the journal this week.
180 acres Kildare.
277 acres Kildare.
184 acres Galway.

5 pages taken up with property in the journal this week.

216 acre farm near Bunclody sold a few days ago too.

If one had money. One could buy half the country in this last while.

There was a sale in cork a few weeks back, same story add in the paper but it was 3 lads that were renting it for years bought it between them, elderly owners had passed so an executers sale. There will be land come up due to demographics of the farming community but a share I reckon may not change who is actually farming it
Dropped the mother into the bus in cork there, was in for 6.45 no traffic, on the way out traffic was building away. If working in town you'd nearly want a job where you could start at that time, sitting in traffic to be in for 8 or 9 would drive you cracked, well me anyway

roosterman71

What is this on the radiator? Never seen anything like it before and it's only on one side. I've tried turning the plastic bit and it turns, but appears to do nothing

148multi

roosterman71 wrote: »

What is this on the radiator? Never seen anything like it before and it's only on one side. I've tried turning the plastic bit and it turns, but appears to do nothing

It's a bleeder for letting trapped air out, u turn the center bit with a flat screwdriver

Lime Tree Farm

148multi wrote: »

It's a bleeder for letting trapped air out, u turn the center bit with a flat screwdriver

Have a cloth and a basin underneath, turn the screw slowly until water start to flow. A lot of air escaping could be a sign of a leak in the heating system. Rusty coloured water could indicate that gun barrel pipes were used instead of copper.(in old systems).

Tie up the ball cock in the expansion tank in the attic, leave for a few days to see if the water level drops

You could expect air in the system if it had recently been drained down and refilled following repairs.

Muckit

Then a bit of cillit bang should get rid of the rust stain

Waffletraktor

Say my name wrote: »

Reggie. wrote: »

Dont tell larry

Them farms would be too small for Larry.
Larry be looking for something like this.

30,000 acres of a farm.
https://twitter.com/FarmersWeekly/status/1167469529347383296?s=20

The farm near to Bunclody was sold in lots I believe to the GAA, a hotelier and a tillage farmer.

That was split across 4 or5 estates, bought cheap when death dues were on the go. Set up as a buisiness and as moved down through generations the kids/grandkids couldnt be paid off when some wanted to cash in.
Frederic hiam would be another such example. Was for sale a few years and the money saved by exchange rates changes would pay to kit it out fairly well. The list of parrasites wanting their slice will cost a few years income though