No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119379335#Comment_119379335

Oh im not sure about that either.

would help of I wasn’t distracted by other stuff and let it get a bit out of control 🙄

Suckler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119370327#Comment_119370327

Look up the history to Billy Joels song "We didn't start the fire".

DBK1

I had a strange incident happen yesterday. I was spreading slurry and travelling along a narrow road. I came around a bend and there was a man walking towards me maybe 100 metres away. The roads not wide enough to pass someone walking without them stepping into the grass verge so I slowed down and was waiting for him to see me. He never looked up. I slowed down more and still he never looked up. I stopped completely when he was still 10-15 metres away from me. I just sat and watched then. He had his headphones in and his phone in his hand looking at it. He kept walking until he walked into the front wheel of the tractor! He looked up with a sheepish smile and an apologetic wave, walked up into the grass verge and around the tractor and continued on with his head still stuck in the phone! I just laughed at him and continued on.

I’ve been saying it for a long time but that incident has confirmed my thoughts, under no circumstances should someone walking or cycling be allowed to have headphones in. If you can’t go out for a walk without some sort of s**te music blowing the head off you and you completely isolated from the world around you then you’re better off to stay at home.

What came to my mind last night was what if a batch of mad cattle broke out of a field and were coming running down the road at him? He never would have heard or seen them until it was too late. Or if he was closer to the turn and a speeding car or tractor came and he in the middle of the road oblivious to his surroundings.

patsy_mccabe

I was on the LUAS in Dublin a few years back. I was up front watching the driving at work, when a cyclist came flying in from a side road and smashed straight into the front side of the front carriage. He was wearing headphones and in a world of his own. I thought he was dead.

The cops came on board and myself and another guy put our hands up as having seen it happen. I was sure the driver had blown the horn well before the cyclist hit us. Guards rang me after to confirm my statement. I felt really sorry for the driver, as they always tend to get blamed in situations like this.

Say my name

Nearly got caught with a pedestrian myself a few days ago.

A man walked out on the road with a leaf blower cleaning out his drive across to the ditch on the far side. Put on the indicators to go around him and just about to pass when he turns around with the head down and starts to come back across the road. I know he got some fright. I did myself. He only barely copped me at the last second. Too concentrated on the ground and blowing dirt.

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119379181#Comment_119379181

Slash hook...im waiting for the young lad to get a few more years into him...then hes going to be given the job....great to toughen him up...

TheFarrier

If I topped a a few acres with a share of ragwort in it, could I spray it and make bales safely in 4/5 weeks or would it take longer to rot away?

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119381120#Comment_119381120

Pulling ragwort is the only solution...

Its not what you want to hear....

TheFarrier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119381155#Comment_119381155

Yeah I know cutting it now won’t control it in future, just wondering how long it takes to rot down that it won’t affect a crop of bales.

Thanks for replying

White Clover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119381120#Comment_119381120

If you need the field for bales later on you could cut, rake and bale them to gather them quickly. Years ago I used often see lads with a single chop harvester cutting them. A trailer or 2 would catch most fields.

TheFarrier

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119381399#Comment_119381399

Yeah that’s looking like the job alright thanks

Waffletraktor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119380508#Comment_119380508

Seen the results pictures of a cyclist plow straight into weight block of a tractor the driver had pulled up in the middle of a single track side road with the engine off due to getting keys out of the ignition to open the gate but had ALL the lights on.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119380508#Comment_119380508

Driving home this evening, young wan out jogging, ran right out onto the main street in the village without looking, ear plugs in naturally. Proceeded to run up the village in the middle of the road, oblivious to the van behind her. When she did see me, she barely moved over, which was when I reached the point of regret in not blowing her out of it in the first place 😄

ruwithme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119379181#Comment_119379181

Is it the hand held finger bar type trimmer your using?you would do a nice run of a fence line in a hour now & again with one. Quicker i find than the traditional trimmer with the cord

Say my name

Twitter is mental atm with irish vegan environmentalists.

Call me wicked but I can't wait for the day when we've more tillage and our water quality is in a worse state than at present. They'll be happy drinking pesticides and nitrates.

Of course emission targets will be met.

Except the bloody one in soil carbon which is not counted at present because it'd give the plant lobby a bad look.

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383015#Comment_119383015

the push by vegans has little to do with climate or biodiversity and lots to do with enforcing their emotionally crippled idealism on everyone.

the vast scale of mono cropping required to support 9bln vegans of we all converted would do more damage to tue environment and climate than mixed farming does.

farmertipp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383015#Comment_119383015

there is a concentrated effort by the few to make as much noise as possible. I often read the comments on journal. ie and people are alot more balanced. vegans well outnumbered. also I think it was a HSBC banker who said most replacement meat companies won't last as sales dropping and it tastes like ****

Gillespy

So Kerry win a world record 38th All Ireland and none of ye could be bothered to congratulate us.

straight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383643#Comment_119383643

Another handy one for ye. Keep everyone happy in the animal Kingdom for another bit. 🤣

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383643#Comment_119383643

Clifford is unreal. Best player ive had the luck to see.

farawaygrass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383643#Comment_119383643

Congrats from a Galway man! Was a great game to watch, ye were the better team. Referee played a blinder too, no excuses about him.

if we can sort out the keeper and get a bench with more experience we should improve for next year. Onwards and upwards!

patsy_mccabe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383643#Comment_119383643

I was going to wait till the 3 in a row. 😎

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383787#Comment_119383787

He’s a great player but Shane Walsh was better yesterday and it’s a bit of a joke he didn’t get Man of the match.

orm0nd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119384008#Comment_119384008

Shane Walsh is some player, nothing against KY but was rooting for ye, hope the supporters show yer appreciation for the team at their homecoming.

farawaygrass

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119384220#Comment_119384220

He played an absolute blinder yesterday. I wouldn’t be great on the Tactical side of the game but comer was absolute really. Jack Glynn played a stormer in the backs too, in fact I though our backs did very well. But look Kerry for 7 wides In the first half that were pretty much all scorable so if they had got even half those it was a different game.

as a football game, like the hurling final, it was great to see two teams go at it and play football. Sure is good for the game in general

tanko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119384075#Comment_119384075

Clare will beat Kerry next year.

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119384216#Comment_119384216

i thought walsh faded somewhat when the chips were down in the final quarter. Clifford shaded it as the better player for me but agree shane walsh was excellent. Comer was very poor.

AntrimGlens

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119383643#Comment_119383643

I wouldn't be a big football follower but I got two tickets through the club for Row A of the Cusack yesterday so myself and the young lad (9) headed down to watch it. I'll be honest I thought as a neutral it was a great game of football, just watching the scores from Walsh and Clifford were unreal. Delighted to be able to say that I've seen Clifford play and been to an AI football final. I took the young lad down to watch Antrim Vs Kerry in the Joe McDonagh cup final and I think he was blown away yesterday when he saw and heard what a packed Croke Park is like. Tis some experience as a young lad and made me think of the lengthy journeys I made with uncles in years past to go to Leinster finals and All Irelands. Young lad was wearing his Galway shirt and I'd a Kerry top on that I bought at a fleadh in Listowel about 20 years ago!! So I was supporting ye Gillespy.

zetecescort

Clifford and Walsh were brilliant yesterday but the fawning over Clifford by the RTE commentators would make you want to mute the tv.

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119386465#Comment_119386465

TBF when you hear analysts from different counties giving him plaudits, some of them really skillful footballers in there day it is probably deserved. He has been triple marked all year long in both league and championship and yet finishes up as leading scorer for Kerry nearly every day. He has been immense since he first appeared on the scene as a 16 year old playing minor and went from that onto the senior team straight away and won an all start that year and every year since I think.

I have been to nearly every Kerry match this year. I missed the League game against Armagh. Even opposition supporters are in awe of some of the points he scores. Shane Walsh is excellent but he has his poor days. Clifford is like the postman he always delivers.

Great game yesterday. Good few pints after the match in Dublin. it was not just the scores but the defensive play by defends. One of the highlights of the match for me was the two block downs that Stephen O'Brien made in the first half. One of them saved a probable goal.