Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

kollegeknight

The BIL is very sick at moment- it has the mother driven crazy. I just stopped her from burning rubbish near the hay barn. (We don’t burn rubbish normally) lucky I was home from work. She proceeded to half ignore me/half not listen to me.

I had to come away or I’d loose it. Have to work on a retirement speech for a colleague. Let some of the other brothers deal with her today. Had already texted the younger brother to start callin more.

My MIL is coming next week for 7 weeks and OH booked in for skylight job in 10 days and no3 will be here.

_Brian

Say my name wrote: »

There's a field on the other side of a main road here separate from the main block.
To bring a current from the mains electric fence I was running a cable over the road between two trees.
The trouble is I could never get the cable up quite high enough to prevent breakage from high loads on the road and being trees they sway and the cable would break.
So to do a lifetime job, I concreted two steel poles into tractor tyres. It's 25ft high so there should never be any interference.
I've the cable going through a quarter inch water pipe and up and over.
Anyway I just had a neighbour walk underneath it and she remarked how it's a fine job and how she couldn't get over it.

It's the little things that make it all worthwhile.

We used to bale and truck allot of straw, maybe 40k bales a year most years.

So, during the time when Meath & Dublin we’re always slugging out r the football finals Meath was awash with bunting across every town.

It’s all possible we built catcher bales on the top to catch the buntings, very possible.

patsy_mccabe

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

First thought was Patsy as a boy

More like;

Hard Knocks

wrangler wrote: »

We've had our ESB meter pulled outa the porch twice in my lifetime, there's always some bo...cks that'll chance a high load and they usually go at night not to get caught and they have no hope of seeing the wires

Drilling under the road is a good job

Hard Knocks

kollegeknight wrote: »

The BIL is very sick at moment- it has the mother driven crazy. I just stopped her from burning rubbish near the hay barn. (We don’t burn rubbish normally) lucky I was home from work. She proceeded to half ignore me/half not listen to me.

I had to come away or I’d loose it. Have to work on a retirement speech for a colleague. Let some of the other brothers deal with her today. Had already texted the younger brother to start callin more.

My MIL is coming next week for 7 weeks and OH booked in for skylight job in 10 days and no3 will be here.

Will 3 be the limit?

kollegeknight

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Will 3 be the limit?

I’m getting the brake lines cut.

They advise as she had 3 sections to have no more.

tanko

kollegeknight wrote: »

I’m getting the brake lines cut.

They advise as she had 3 sections to have no more.

A neighbour of mine had seven sections.

Hard Knocks

kollegeknight wrote: »

I’m getting the brake lines cut.

They advise as she had 3 sections to have no more.

If she’s having a section they can tie the tubes in the same procedure

kollegeknight

tanko wrote: »

A neighbour of mine had seven sections.

No thanks

Hard Knocks wrote: »

If she’s having a section they can tie the tubes in the same procedure

Originally the plan and it booked in but her GP today said that’s better to snip me. Less side effects.

_Brian

https://twitter.com/ethicalfarmIE/status/1192894759922221057?s=20

https://twitter.com/ethicalfarmIE/status/1192886316452716549?s=20

Not sure if twitter links work for non twitter folks but each time I see these tweets I think “tic toc” time is running out on live shipping being accepted practice.

The in the second someone has tagged a bunch of animal rights and vegan groups both legit and extremists.

Say my name

_Brian wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ethicalfarmIE/status/1192894759922221057?s=20

https://twitter.com/ethicalfarmIE/status/1192886316452716549?s=20

Not sure if twitter links work for non twitter folks but each time I see these tweets I think “tic toc” time is running out on live shipping being accepted practice.

The in the second someone has tagged a bunch of animal rights and vegan groups both legit and extremists.

If you makes you feel any better the same types are outside greyhound races and I believe starting on horse races and no doubt going to be after the hunts next.

I hear the Waterford boys regularly confuse the hell out of em.

Cutting their dole off would cure a lot of their worries.

josephsoap

Any one the Martin O’Connors sale of incalf heifers tonight ?

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/23251571

He used to get great money for his stock - what was the trade like today ?

Danzy

josephsoap wrote: »

Any one the Martin O’Connors sale of incalf heifers tonight ?

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/23251571

He used to get great money for his stock - what was the trade like today ?

Fantastic beasts.

josephsoap

Danzy wrote: »

Fantastic beasts.

Yes they are powerful animals.

I would be weary about such muscle beasts though.....would you have any trouble calving such muscled heifers ?

_Brian

Say my name wrote: »

If you makes you feel any better the same types are outside greyhound races and I believe starting on horse races and no doubt going to be after the hunts next.

I hear the Waterford boys regularly confuse the hell out of em.

Cutting their dole off would cure a lot of their worries.

Why would it make me feel better ?

I think yes, many of the people involved in these protests are layabout extremists with too much tome and trying to have a crusade to give themselves self worth. When the year grow up their lives and the focus will change.

But, be under no disillusion, the vegan movement reach far into places of influence, thus we are seeing policy to teach kids in school to question their consumption of beef and dairy, that wasn’t inserted by someone on the dole, it would be very foolish to think these people have no influence.

tanko

josephsoap wrote: »

Yes they are powerful animals.

I would be weary about such muscle beasts though.....would you have any trouble calving such muscled heifers ?

I wouldn't fancy it anyway, they're all pretty fat.
You'd wonder if a lot of them would have any milk too.

Say my name

_Brian wrote: »

Why would it make me feel better ?

I think yes, many of the people involved in these protests are layabout extremists with too much tome and trying to have a crusade to give themselves self worth. When the year grow up their lives and the focus will change.

But, be under no disillusion, the vegan movement reach far into places of influence, thus we are seeing policy to teach kids in school to question their consumption of beef and dairy, that wasn’t inserted by someone on the dole, it would be very foolish to think these people have no influence.

It reflects more on our ourselves when we do give such time to what they post and come up with.

Sadly there's more of this crap going mainstream.
RTE almost daily have some cute crap about some animal or invertebrate, etc on Twitter to get the views and retweets.
It's sublimely turning people into pansy corporate led dumbasses, a shadow of who we once were and how we knew how to live.

Meanwhile there's more unrest globally with the divide between rich and poor never being as large with the rich funding campaigns and using force by any means to get what they want and nobody gives a toss. But show a bunny getting hurt and there's outrage..

patsy_mccabe

The battery on the tractor has been dodgy for a while. Planned on getting one this evening. Decided to drop in a bale with it first and it ran out of diesel after a few mins. Some job bleeding it with a dodgy battery. Got it going after about 30 mins of messing with small car batteries I had for the fencer. Talk about bad timing.

Odelay

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

The battery on the tractor has been dodgy for a while. Planned on getting one this evening. Decided to drop in a bale with it first and it ran out of diesel after a few mins. Some job bleeding it with a dodgy battery. Got it going after about 30 mins of messing with small car batteries I had for the fencer. Talk about bad timing.

It’s the season to test bad batteries. Change them now before the frost hits them. Trying to stretch out a bad battery for another few months ain’t worth it.

Albert Johnson

josephsoap wrote: »

Any one the Martin O’Connors sale of incalf heifers tonight ?

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/23251571

He used to get great money for his stock - what was the trade like today ?

I've never been as it always clashes with work but it seems to be a sort of circus with the clown's outside the ring. Them heifers seem to get dearer every year and it looks to me like a competition as to who can buy the dearest one. I'm of the opinion that putting O'Connor's name on the board would put a few hundred on any springer simply due to the fact they were his. Fair play to him he puts in the effort and has cornered his market, will we see the 5k barrier broken this year?

orm0nd

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I've never been as it always clashes with work but it seems to be a sort of circus with the clown's outside the ring. Them heifers seem to get dearer every year and it looks to me like a competition as to who can buy the dearest one. I'm of the opinion that putting O'Connor's name on the board would put a few hundred on any springer simply due to the fact they were his. Fair play to him he puts in the effort and has cornered his market, will we see the 5k barrier broken this year?

4750 was got anyhow possibly higher.

josephsoap

Albert Johnson wrote: »

I've never been as it always clashes with work but it seems to be a sort of circus with the clown's outside the ring. Them heifers seem to get dearer every year and it looks to me like a competition as to who can buy the dearest one. I'm of the opinion that putting O'Connor's name on the board would put a few hundred on any springer simply due to the fact they were his. Fair play to him he puts in the effort and has cornered his market, will we see the 5k barrier broken this year?

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Hope this link works - definitely a circus

Limestone Cowboy

orm0nd wrote: »

4750 was got anyhow possibly higher.

He got 5k for one. Madness.

Albert Johnson

It'll take €5,500 next year to get the cheer, even Cox gets excited selling the dearest one. I hope she's very lucky for whoever bought her and that he comes back for more next year. I'd be certain that after the hammer fell some smart arse told him "she's for nothing at it!"

Hard Knocks

Washing the heifer and noticed a bit of a horn
It’s an inch in length
What’s the best and cleanest way to remove it?

gozunda

Anyone with experience of the PTO Macgen 40kW generator?

Thinking of getting one for power outages

Edit: fixed

CloughCasey1

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Washing the heifer and noticed a bit of a horn
It’s an inch in length
What’s the best and cleanest way to remove it?

You sure it's a heifer?:D

Hard Knocks

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

You sure it's a heifer?:D

Sadly the horn is on top of the head
Going to have to change from Caustic gel

Keep Sluicing

Housed the cattle today. Some day if clipping and lice treatment. Grass set up for spring. Hopefully less than 4 months housed if the spring is anyway fair

Nekarsulm

gozunda wrote: »

Anyone with experience of the PTO Macgen 240kW generator?

Thinking of getting one for power outages

240kw, are you running a small housing estate or a factory?